MapQuest for Eastern sports
Cameron Blair
Issue date: 8/28/08 Section: Sports
Dear Freshmen,
Now I know in the early days of your first year as a college student, you have more on your mind than sports. Questions like these are probably floating around in your mind: "Why are textbooks so $#@#&^% expensive?"
"What are these brown splotches on the ceiling of my dorm room?"
"How did I end up on I-75 when I was looking for the parking lot off of Lancaster?"
(Okay. Maybe the last one was just me).
However, once you get your new life on track, I would like to do you a favor. I am going to be your tour guide to all of the essential sporting venues around campus. You must familiarize yourself with these places as soon as possible.
As a freshman, you probably live in either Palmer or Commonwealth. So, just hop into my figurative car and we'll start the tour.
Stop #1: Roy Kidd Stadium
After turning right out of Commonwealth's parking lot, we will drive about a quarter of a mile until we arrive at Eastern's football stadium. But it's not enough for me to merely show you the stadium.
Any good tour guide would give some background of what he is displaying, and I'm a history minor so I tend to geek out about the historical-ness of places.
Roy Kidd Stadium is the site of some of Eastern's finest sporting moments. The Colonels went to four consecutive FCS title games from 1979-1982 and were victorious in '79 and '82.
The aforementioned Kidd coached the Colonels from 1964-2002 and won 16 conference titles and made an NCAA-record 17 playoff appearances. Basically, if one were to equate Eastern football to The Godfather, Roy Kidd would play the part of "Don" Vito Corleone and new coach Dean Hood would be cast as Al Pacino's Michael Corleone.
Oh, yeah. And there's that tailgating thing you may have heard about.
Stop #2: EKU Soccer Field
After leaving the football stadium, we will take a left onto the bypass and make our way to EKU's soccer field, the home of the women's soccer team. While the program only began in 2005 and doesn't have a lot of history, the team has improved its record each season since its inception and Coach Lindsay Basalyga will push to continue this trend.
Now I know in the early days of your first year as a college student, you have more on your mind than sports. Questions like these are probably floating around in your mind: "Why are textbooks so $#@#&^% expensive?"
"What are these brown splotches on the ceiling of my dorm room?"
"How did I end up on I-75 when I was looking for the parking lot off of Lancaster?"
(Okay. Maybe the last one was just me).
However, once you get your new life on track, I would like to do you a favor. I am going to be your tour guide to all of the essential sporting venues around campus. You must familiarize yourself with these places as soon as possible.
As a freshman, you probably live in either Palmer or Commonwealth. So, just hop into my figurative car and we'll start the tour.
Stop #1: Roy Kidd Stadium
After turning right out of Commonwealth's parking lot, we will drive about a quarter of a mile until we arrive at Eastern's football stadium. But it's not enough for me to merely show you the stadium.
Any good tour guide would give some background of what he is displaying, and I'm a history minor so I tend to geek out about the historical-ness of places.
Roy Kidd Stadium is the site of some of Eastern's finest sporting moments. The Colonels went to four consecutive FCS title games from 1979-1982 and were victorious in '79 and '82.
The aforementioned Kidd coached the Colonels from 1964-2002 and won 16 conference titles and made an NCAA-record 17 playoff appearances. Basically, if one were to equate Eastern football to The Godfather, Roy Kidd would play the part of "Don" Vito Corleone and new coach Dean Hood would be cast as Al Pacino's Michael Corleone.
Oh, yeah. And there's that tailgating thing you may have heard about.
Stop #2: EKU Soccer Field
After leaving the football stadium, we will take a left onto the bypass and make our way to EKU's soccer field, the home of the women's soccer team. While the program only began in 2005 and doesn't have a lot of history, the team has improved its record each season since its inception and Coach Lindsay Basalyga will push to continue this trend.
