NORMAL, Ill. - WZND is counting down the Top-10 redbird sports moments from the 2019-2020 season. Coming in at #3 in our countdown is the Women’s Track & Field team winning the Missouri Valley Conference Indoor Championship for the third consecutive year. The Redbirds set a conference record for points by scoring 190.6 on day 2 of the meet. The team was led by first-place finishes from Charde Golliday (long […]
NORMAL, Ill. - WZND is counting down the Top-10 redbird sports moments from the 2019-2020 season. Coming in at #4 in our countdown is Redbird volleyball upsetting #14 University of Illinois in the Redbird Classic. Redbird volleyball on Friday September 14th winning 3 sets to U of I 1 set. ISU took control of the match right out of the gate with a 25-16 win. They dropped the second set losing 25-21. And […]
NORMAL, Ill. - WZND is counting down the Top-10 redbird sports moments from the 2019-2020 season. Coming in at #5 in our countdown is Kierston Farley-Sepe being named MVC Swimmer of the Year. Illinois State senior Kierston Farley-Sepe was named the Missouri Valley Conference Swimmer of the Year after winning three individual events at the 2020 Missouri Valley Conference Swimming and Diving Championships. Farley-Sepe is the first Redbird to win […]
NORMAL, Ill. - WZND is counting down the Top-10 redbird sports moments from the 2019-2020 season. Coming in at #6 in our countdown is Redbird football's upset over #4 SDSU. On November 9th, 2019 Illinois State’s football team upset the #4 ranked South Dakota State University Jack Rabbits 27-18. The Redbirds scored an unanswered 17 points in the second half to secure the victory. This was the first win for […]
NORMAL, Ill. - WZND is counting down the Top-10 redbird sports moments from the 2019-2020 season. Coming in at #7 in our countdown is Angelica Labat being named the Midwest Independent Conference Newcomer of the Year. Illinois State freshman Angelica Labat had an incredible first season as a Redbird starting off by winning the all-around in her first collegiate meet. Labat held season-high scores of 9.925 on both the vault […]
NORMAL, Ill. – WZND is counting down the Top-10 redbird sports moments from the 2019-2020 season. Coming in at #8 in our countdown is Redbird volleyball's victory in the MVC Championship to the NCAA tournament. Despite coming into the MVC tournament as the #3 seed, Redbird volleyball defeated the #1 seed UNI panthers to claim the MVC tourney crown. This earned them an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament where […]
NORMAL, Ill. - WZND is counting down the Top-10 redbird sports moments from the 2019-2020 season. Coming in at #9 in our countdown is Women's basketball upsetting #21 Missouri State. Head Coach Kristin Gillespie's signature win came on February 27th when the Redbirds took down ranked opponent, the Missouri State Lady Bears 78-66. Overall the Redbirds kept the lead throughout the game. Missouri State got it to be close throughout the game but […]
NORMAL, Ill. - WZND is counting down the Top-10 redbird sports moments from the 2019-2020 season. Coming in at #10 in our countdown is Jack Anstey running a sub-4-minute mile. On February 21st Illinois State track & field standout Jack Anstey ran a sub-4-minute mile for the second time in his career. Running an imposing time of 3:59.93, Anstey joined elite company and was ranked 30th in the NCAA at […]
Photo courtesy: goredbirds.com NORMAL, Ill. - No matter if it's on the field or off the field, Taylor Vanderpool is surrounded by statistics. The Statistics major in the classroom has been playing softball since she was seven years old. She was also a three-sport athlete but wanted to pursue softball at the collegiate level since the sport played a big part in her life growing up. This eventually led her […]
