The Mulerider baseball team honored long-time head coach Steve Goodheart following the 2011 homecoming football game on October 15 when the name of Mulerider Field was officially changed to Goodheart Field. Goodheart, who built the Southern Arkansas baseball program into a national power, retired in 2003 after serving 23 years
Southern Arkansas University President Dr. David Rankin has appointed Steve Browning as interim director of athletics. The appointment comes four months after SAU Director of Athletics Jay Adcox passed away after battling cancer. Rankin has been serving as interim director of athletics. “Steve Browning has been a very successful coach
Southern Arkansas volleyball standout Maggie Glover reached the pinnacle of the Gulf South Conference when she received the league’s top award in being named the winner of the 2010-11 Commissioner’s Trophy on Monday, June 20. The Commissioner’s Trophy is the highest honor bestowed by the conference and one of the
Southern Arkansas Mulerider golf team member Travis Chrietzberg and Lady Mulerider Whitley Patterson made school history when they were announced as first team All-Gulf South Conference selections by the league office, the first-ever first team picks from SAU since joining the conference in 1995-96. Chrietzberg, a junior transfer from Texarkana
Southern Arkansas Head Athletic Trainer Ken Cole has been appointed by Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe to the state Board of Athletic Training for a three-year term expiring January 14, 2014. The Arkansas State Board of Athletic Training is a licensing and regulatory organization created to issue license for athletic training
Southern Arkansas didn’t achieve its ultimate goal of reaching the NCAA Division II World Series this spring, but the Muleriders capped off another successful season in claiming its third Gulf South Conference championship and fourth consecutive appearance in the NCAA regional tournament. Under first-year Coach Steve Browning, the long-time assistant
Alumni and friends of the University gathered at the Magnolia Country Club on March 17 to honor the memory of long-time Mulerider football coach Rip Powell with the Rip Powell Invitational Golf Tournament. The event was sponsored by the SAU Foundation with proceeds benefiting the “Rip Powell Society.” Funds from
New members were inducted into the Southern Arkansas University Hall of Fame on October 29. New inductees are seated in the above photo and are (left to right) Dan Veach, Vince Holyfield, Billie Ross who accepted the award on behalf of her late husband Delwyn Ross, Shelly Fletcher who accepted
Members of the Southern Arkansas University Muleriders football team partnered with staff from Talbot residence hall during the fall 2010 semester to promote physical education in Magnolia’s elementary schools. The group was dubbed “Muleriders for Movement.” The student-athletes took weekly trips to the schools during the semester. Four to five
Southern Arkansas University is now a member of the Great American Conference. The Muleriders join a nine-member league that includes six NCAA Division II universities from Arkansas and three from Oklahoma. The universities include SAU, Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, East Central University in Ada, Okla., Harding University in Searcy,
