Tickets on sale now for Tip-Off Luncheon

Illinois State Athletics has announced that tickets are now available for the Tip-Off Luncheon, which features head men’s basketball coach Dan Muller and head women’s basketball coach Kristen Gillespie.

Homecoming 2021 recap: Your best photos, tweets, posts

A mascot with its hands in the air.

If there’s one annual event our Redbirds get pumped for, it’s Homecoming. Illinois State University celebrated its 100 Years of Homecoming with its staple events, from Reggie Day at the Zoo, Homecoming Kickoff, Redbird Rumble, Hoopfest, Hybrid Town and Gown 5K run and walk to the football game against North Dakota State and the ribbon cutting to the Multicultural Center, our Birds came together to show what Redbird Pride is about.

Redbird Athletics to celebrate 50th anniversary of Title IX

Woman in suit talking to two players in volleyball uniform

Events throughout the year will recognize Illinois State trailblazers from the past, educate the current generation of student-athletes, engage fans with memories, and lift up all that has been accomplished to give greater access and opportunity to women.

Pair of Redbirds beat the Olympic odds

Aisha Praught Leer and Jada Stinson.

The odds of becoming an Olympian, according to past president and co-founder of the International Society of Olympic Historians Bill Mallon, is roughly 1 in 500,000.

Where are they now? Kate Del Fava ’20

Kate Del Fava

Former Bone Scholar Kate Del Fava ’20 may attend veterinary school someday, just as she intended to do after graduating in May 2020 as a pre-veterinarian medicine and animal sciences double major. But the new Kansas City team of the National Women’s Soccer League is glad those plans are on hold for now.