‘We will play anybody’

Illinois State women’s basketball team.

As the phone rang inside the Illinois State women’s basketball offices in the early afternoon of December 9, Director of Operations Katie Bolkema, M.S. ’16, braced for a call she had both sent and received plenty of times throughout the early part of the makeshift college hoops season.

The Redbird behind the 2021 Fear the Bird Shirt

Olivia Meitz '21, wearing the 2021 Bird Shirt

The Bird Shirt is celebrating its 15th anniversary, and Olivia Meitz, a recent 2021 Illinois State University graphic design graduate is the talented artist behind this year’s design. Event Management, Dining, and Hospitality worked with ten graphic design students from the Design Streak Studio under the leadership of their creative director and faculty, Archana Shekara,