Sterling College’s annual homecoming celebration will begin Thursday, October 13, with the homecoming musical Children of Eden starting at 8:00 p.m. Other festivities will include class reunions for the classes of ’56, ’61, ’71, ’81, ’91, ’01 and ’06, pancake breakfast, parade, Homecoming Hangout, campus tours, barbeque, crowning of homecoming royalty, football game against Bethel College, introductions into the Warrior Athletic Hall of Fame, and alumni banquet.
The Sterling College Department of Music will host its 2nd Annual Composer Festival on Monday, October 3, 2011. This year’s festival will feature guest artist Joseph Martin, who is well-known throughout the United States for his choral compositions. There will be three free events open to the public.
Sterling College hosted 16 area school districts along with two Sterling professors and 18 students for national assessment training for PE and Health educators. The health training took place on Wednesday, September 21, followed by the physical education training on Thursday.
On Friday, October 7, Sterling College will have Dale Levering, Sterling’s Associate Professor of Business and McVay Chair of Business, as its 2011 Oscar Schmidt Convocation speaker. The event will be held in Culbertson Auditorium on the Sterling College campus at 10:00 a.m. The event is open to the public. Unknown Object
Sterling College announces the launching of a new athletic department website through SIDHelp. The URL for the new website is www.scwarriors.com. This new website is designed specifically to function in a way to be more interactive for all Warrior sports fans.
Salina, Kan. – A 46 yard field goal by Kansas Wesleyan’s Terry Stecker as time expired gave the Coyotes a 24-21 victory over the Sterling College Warriors on Saturday night in Salina. KWU was able to put up 458 yards of total offense on the Sterling defense while keeping Sterling to 250 yards of offense. Sterling had quite a few miscues, giving up 127 yards on 13 penalties while turning over the ball over once.
Dodge City, Kan. – Both Sterling College Lady Warrior Golfers that competed in the Dodge City Invitational on Monday and Tuesday finished in the top 10. Katelynn Cantrell finished in 5th while Alexa Pelton finished in 7th. Sterling did not field enough golfers to score as a team.
Cantrell finished the tournament with a 182, shooting a 90 in the first round and a 92 in the second round. The 182 was one shot shy of being tied for 3rd and 12 shots shy of the winner.
McPherson, Kan. – The Sterling College Warrior Golf Team competed at the Central Christian Fall Invite in McPherson, Kansas on Monday and Tuesday, finishing with a final team score of 647. Sterling’s score was good enough for the team to finish seventh in the tournament out of ten teams. Stephen Austin was the only Warrior to finish in the top 15 out of the 53 golfer field. Austin finished in 11th.
More scholarships will soon be available to Sterling College students as the College announces that they are the recipient of a bequest giving scholarships to students attending Sterling College. The bequest in the amount of $210,000 comes from the estate of Ervin and Diana (Peters fs66) Gregory.
Sterling, Kan. – In the Gleason Center on Tuesday night, the Sterling College Lady Warrior volleyball team nearly upset raining KCAC Champion Friends University in five sets. Sterling would take the first set, lose sets two and three, battle back to take set four, and narrowly miss a comeback in set five. Friends would be able to pull out the game, but Sterling can take away a lot of positivity from the match.