Athletics

Spring 2018

Athletics Recap

Women’s Lacrosse Welcomes New Head Coach Meghan Brady, a former star student-athlete at Robert Morris University who went on to rebuild the lacrosse program there, is the new head coach of the Scarlet Hawks women’s lacrosse team. Before undertaking her coaching duties at Robert Morris, Brady served as an assistant...

Fall 2017

Bringing Team Spirit Full Circle

Chicago is a sports mecca, but its fervent fan base isn’t exclusive to pro teams. The Illinois Tech Scarlet Hawks men’s and women’s sports programs have their faithful Scarlet Fever student cheering section, and through the new Coach for a Day (CFAD) engagement program are adding faculty and staff members to the fan squad.

Summer 2017

Block, Bounce, and Bunt

#55 Samuel Rarick (EE/M.S. CE 5th year) During the 2016–17 academic year, two Illinois Tech Scarlet Hawks varsity teams qualified for United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) tournaments for the first time in the history of the university: men’s basketball and women’s volleyball. Men’s basketball finished 22–6 and reached the...

Spring 2017

Athletics

Match Point Bound Erik Scanlan, new coach of the Scarlet Hawks men’s and women’s tennis teams, proudly admits to being a racketeer—and he came to Illinois Tech to recruit new players to his game. After all, he is among the third generation of his family to excel at tennis. Games...

Fall 2016

Upping the Game

After a career coaching student-athletes at both the high school and college levels from the former DuSable High School to North Central College, Todd Kelly became head coach of Illinois Tech’s men’s basketball team. He says that he developed his passion for basketball and academia through his parents. “I have...

Summer 2016

Growing Into Giving

The son of a diplomat, Vignesh Rajagopal (EE 3rd year) learned from his father’s example the importance of having a service-oriented attitude in life. Born in Chennai, India, Rajagopal divided his childhood years between Switzerland and his birth continent, and his adolescent years between Sweden and Ethiopia. His experiences as...

Spring 2016

Preparing to Live the Dream

“Imagine an active volleyball player sitting down and very quietly working with hundreds of tumor microarray samples, each sized at about 1 millimeter in diameter. This is another side of the athletic Irena: calm, patient, and precise,” says Jialing Xiang, professor of biology in the College of Science at Illinois...

Fall 2015

Promoting Playtime

Since first competing in soccer at the age of four, Courtney Budd has channeled her love of sports and fitness into her educational and career pursuits. Today she brings that dedication to her position as IIT’s director of intramurals and recreation. This spring Budd joined the Illinois Tech Department of...

Summer 2015

If You See the Hawk, You Know It’s Home

“Everyone just loves the big hawk’s head,” says Athletic Director Joe Hakes about the giant window decal of the IIT Scarlet Hawk that overlooks the basketball/volleyball court’s west window panels. There’s just no missing the screaming red and gold hawk’s head window decal, with a beak raised skyward as if...

Spring 2015

Still in the Game

Taylor Duman (ARCH 4th year) may have spiked her final ball as captain of the 2014 IIT Scarlet Hawks women’s volleyball team last October, but she’s found a way to inspire student-athletes using an off-court strategy—by taking the spring Interprofessional Projects (IPRO) Program course IIT Pride: Improving Student and University...

Fall 2014

Success Beyond the Sports Center

That Illinois Tech’s director of athletics, Joe Hakes, is qualified to provide athletic vision and lead the university’s efforts toward NCAA Division III membership is unquestionable. Joe Hakes Photo by: Bonnie Robinson Apart from his brief career layover as a residential realtor in the Washington, D.C., area, Hakes has spent...

Spring 2008

Psychology in the Workplace

The quest to understand and measure the complexities of human personality has long fascinated both scientists and philosophers alike. By the late eighteenth century these efforts had coalesced into a branch of medicine called phrenology , in which practitioners sought to quantify personality traits and mental acuity by measuring bumps...