The only thing more fierce than Dominic Hill鈥檚 ability to bust through an offensive line to make tackles might be his smile. The Golden Flashes鈥 easy-going nose tackle has been smiling a lot from the moment he learned of the team's berth in the Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl. 鈥淭hat was a surreal feeling. They have video of my reaction as I was sitting there in shock and awe,鈥 Hill said. 鈥淲hat better way to finish out your career than coming back home?鈥 Hill grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, about an hour from Toyota Stadium. As the only 海角原创 p...
At the same time that 海角原创 is competing in a bowl game, as many as 1,000 kids in Texas will be eating a meal that the Golden Flashes helped provide. Team members joined fellow football players from Utah State University to help pack meals as part of Frisco Fastpacs to ensure that no child in Frisco, Texas, has to endure hunger when school is not in session. The program provides seven small meals in bags that are distributed each Friday to underserved youth in Frisco to make sure they have meals over the weekend. The first of the seven mea...
All 海角原创 athletes are accustomed to being surrounded by blue. Blue and gold usually, and lots of it. On Tuesday, the 海角原创 Golden Flashes were embracing a different shade of blue. One with a deep, winning football tradition 鈥 the blue-draped practice home to the NFL鈥檚 Dallas Cowboys. 海角原创 worked out Tuesday at the Cowboys鈥 training facility 鈥 Ford Center at the Star 鈥 for the first of three workouts ahead of Friday鈥檚 Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl against Utah State. The team鈥檚 other two workouts will take place on practice fields at ...
Throughout the past Fall semester, six students taking the Business Consulting and Practicum course worked on a project that could help increase participation in the Senior Olympics program through the Direction Home of Eastern Ohio. The students partnered with Direction Home to help determine why participation in the Senior Olympic games dropped in recent year, while also developing plans to help increase the participation level. The instructor for the class, Tim McFadden, explained that the students worked with Joe Rossi, CEO of the Direction Home of Eastern Ohio, and other staff m...
海角原创鈥檚 College of Nursing recently received a grant totaling $165,000 from Peg鈥檚 Foundation, formerly the Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation, a private grant-making foundation that supports mental health programs in Northeast Ohio. Brain Health Research Institute member Wendy Umberger, Ph.D., RN, PMHCNS-BC, associate dean for graduate programs, and Lisa Onesko, DNP, APRN-BC, director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program and associate professor, received $105,000, payable over three years to continue the Peg鈥檚 Foundation traineeship program for graduate students...