Yes, football is returning to Roanoke College in the near future, but Roanoke graduate James Rowe ‘23 and anticipated December graduate Cyrus Pace ‘23 are already making their impact on the college football world. If you watch NBC’s Sunday Night Football, you are accustomed to hearing statistics and player ratings generated by Pro Football Focus…
Lilly Blair has told her women’s lacrosse teammates that they are not allowed to wear her number 7 next year. In 2022, Lilly scored 71 goals and was named ODAC Offensive Player of the Year and a national All-American. In sports, such performances often result in a number being retired (not worn by future players).…
The Roanoke College team of James Rowe, Selam Mekonnen, and Cyrus Pace earned second place at the National Collegiate Sports Analytics Championship in Dallas, Texas, on February 1-2! Syracuse University won the team championship and Jacob Kauffman of Rice University won the individual national championship. The event was organized by Baylor University and hosted by…
Three Roanoke College students placed in the top twenty in the qualifying round of the National Collegiate Sports Analytics Championship hosted by Baylor University. The competition is only open to seniors. James Rowe (Health and Human Performance), Lilly Blair (Actuarial Science), Cyrus Pace (Health and Human Performance), and Selam Mekonnen (Data Science) of Roanoke College…
Depending on your age and musical tastes, you may remember the great ZZ Top music videos from the 1980s. ZZ Top, a three-piece blues band from Texas, created a sensation with fast-paced videos featuring a hot rod, hot actors, hot songs, and spinning guitars. The two guitarists in ZZ Top featured long-flowing beards. The drummer,…
Growing up, one of my friends was the son of a mortician. He’s now the leader of The Ted Vaughn Blues Band. We were trumpet buddies in the band, and made jokes about everything, including his Dad’s ghoulish profession. Years later, I was sitting in on an Honors Math and Art class listening to film…
Eric Lee is graduating as Roanoke College valedictorian with a major in Actuarial Science (Honors in the Major), and a minor in Economics. Impressive, yes, but that only begins to scratch the surface of what Eric has accomplished at Roanoke. He sang in the choir, going to France with the choir to sing at Normandy…
Megan Wheeler is the first person to graduate Roanoke College with a concentration in Sports Analytics. The concentration is an interdisciplinary mix of sports management (Megan’s major), statistics (another concentration for Megan), and computer science. The concentration provides a background for students who might want to pursue a career in sports analytics. For more information…
Roanoke College mathematics professors Karin Saoub and Hannah Robbins have each had textbooks released in April! The books, published by CRC Press, join a long line of textbooks from RC mathematics faculty. Karin’s Graph Theory: An Introduction to Proofs, Algorithms, and Applications was tested in her MATH 268 (Combinatorics and Graph Theory) course, and introduces…
Congratulation to Dr. Karin Saoub, who was recently named the Dr. M. Paul Capp & Constance Whitehead Professor of Mathematics. A prestigious honor, this 5-year award provides funding for a physics or mathematics professor in order to supplement their efforts of furthering their research and of providing students with meaningful research experiences. Once a purely…
