Tuesday, November 19, 2024 Good morning, Hilltoppers! Read on to learn about a pottery sale from WKU ceramics, WKU baseball alum coaching the Yankees and The Game Awards. Have a wonderful Tuesday!
Ceramics Club hosts pottery sale WKU’s Ceramics club hosts a sale with pottery made by students in ceramics classes. The sale goes on from Nov. 18 to 20 from eight a.m. to five a.m. in FAC room 15. Photo by Gabriel Milby.
Ceramics Club students are selling their pottery creations this week in Fine Arts Center 151. The annual sale features ceramics of all kinds and is open to the entire WKU community. The club hosts the sale every semester in a tradition stretching back decades. Greg Strange, a ceramics professor and faculty advisor to the club, remembers the sale being held when he was a student in 1985. “It used to be considered a cup sale, there was nothing but cups,” Strange said. Read more by Natalie Freidhof
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From the Hill to the World Series: WKU alum coaches Yankees in Fall Classic Former WKU Baseball player Casey Dykes went from playing baseball on the Hill to coaching for the New York Yankees in the World Series. Dykes graduated with a bachelor’s degree from WKU in 2012 and his baseball career has taken off from there. In 2019, Dykes joined the New York Yankees organization and worked his way up to the title of assistant hitting coach. Before coaching future Hall of Famers in New York, Dykes was a Sport Management Major at WKU while playing baseball for the Hilltoppers from 2009 to 2012. During his playing career at WKU, Dykes posted a .284 batting average with 11 home runs and 95 RBIs. Dykes was a member of the last WKU baseball team to win a conference championship in 2009.