NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Eastern Illinois Panthers

This is the athletic program for Eastern Illinois University. The team is located in Charleston, IL. Eastern Illinois University's colors are blue, black and silver; their nickname is the Panthers. Eastern Illinois sports teams, except for men's soccer and swimming teams, participate in NCAA Division I (I-AA for football) in the Ohio Valley Conference. The men's soccer program competes in the Missouri Valley Conference and the swim team competes in the Mid-Continent Conference. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Eastern Illinois University is a state university located in Charleston, Illinois. ... Eastern Illinois University is a state university located in Charleston, Illinois. ... Charleston is the county seat of Coles County, Illinois6. ... The term Blue may refer any of a number of similar colors. ... Black is a color with several subtle differences in meaning. ... General Name, Symbol, Number silver, Ag, 47 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 5, d Appearance lustrous white metal Atomic mass 107. ... Black jaguar This article is about the big cat. ... Football (soccer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... A college football game between Colorado State University and the Air Force Academy. ... The Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) is a College Athletic Conference which operates in the midwestern and southeastern United States. ... The Missouri Valley Conference (also called MVC or simply The Valley) is a college athletic conference whose members are located in the midwestern United States. ... The Mid-Continent Conference (Mid-Con) is an NCAA Division I college athletic conference which operates primarily in the Midwestern United States, with outlying teams in Louisiana and Utah. ...

Eastern Illinois University is home to one of only two NCAA Division I women's rugby teams in the United States. Rugby football, often just referred to as rugby, refers to sports descended from a common form of football developed at Rugby School in England. ...

History

Men's Basketball NCAA Tournament Appearances (1992 & 2001) Football 1978 Division II National Champion, 1980 National Runner-Up Division I-AA National Football tournament appearances: 1982, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005 Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005. ... NCAA Mens Basketball Division I Championship - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Look up Football in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Division II (or DII) is an intermediate-level division of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Division I is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Notable former athletes

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External

Categories: Articles to be merged since October 2006 | Ohio Valley Conference | Midwestern United States university stubs | Sports clubs established in 1895 | Eastern Illinois University | Coles County, Illinois The Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) is a College Athletic Conference which operates in the midwestern and southeastern United States. ... This article is about the university in Clarksville, Tennessee named for former governor of Tennessee Austin Peay. ... Eastern Illinois University is a state university located in Charleston, Illinois. ... Eastern Kentucky University, commonly referred to as Eastern or by the acronym EKU by local residents, is an undergraduate and graduate teaching and research institution located in Richmond, Kentucky, U.S.A.. EKU is known for its graduate Criminal Justice program. ... Jacksonville State University is a public, coeducational university in Jacksonville, Alabama in the Appalachian foothills of northeast Alabama. ... Morehead State University is a public, co-educational university located in Morehead, Kentucky. ... Murray State University, located in the town of Murray in Kentuckys far-western Jackson Purchase, is an approximately 10,000-student, four-year public university. ... Samford University is an private, coeducational, Baptist-affiliated university located in Homewood, Alabama, (a suburb of Birmingham). ... Southeast Missouri State University, often called SEMO, is a public, accredited university located in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. ... Tennessee State University (TSU) is a comprehensive, urban, coeducational land-grant university founded in 1912. ... Tennessee Technological University, popularly known as Tennessee Tech, is an accredited public university located in Cookeville, Tennessee, a small city approximately seventy miles east of Nashville. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Official language(s) English Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Area Ranked 25th - Total 57,918 sq mi (149,998 kmÂ²) - Width 210 miles (340 km) - Length 390 miles (629 km) - % water 4. ... Chicago State University (CSU) is a state university in Chicago, Illinois. ... Eastern Illinois University is a state university located in Charleston, Illinois. ... Facts Governors State University (GSU) is located in University Park, Illinois. ... The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, also known as UIUC and the U of I (the officially preferred abbreviation), is the flagship campus in the University of Illinois system. ... The University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS) is a small, liberal arts university and the third campus of the University of Illinois. ... Illinois State University (usually abbreviated as ISU), originally named Illinois State Normal University, was founded in 1857 by Jesse W. Fell (1808-1887), and was the first public institution of higher education in the state. ... Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) is a public state university located in the North Park community area of Chicago, Illinois. ... Northern Illinois University was founded on May 22, 1895 by Illinois Governor John P. Altgeld as a training institution for teachers, and was called Northern Illinois State Normal School. ... Southern Illinois University is located in Carbondale in the U.S. state of Illinois. ... Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Bridge over lake on SIUE campus. ... The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is a public, state-supported research university. ... Western Illinois University, founded 1899 as Western Illinois State Teachers College, is a university located in Macomb, Illinois. ...