Tuesday, February 26, 2008
McGuire and Balbach Homecoming King and Queen
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University of Southern Indiana’s Homecoming king and queen for 2008 are Andrew McGuire, Greenwood, IN and Abbie Balbach, Mariah Hill, IN. McGuire and Balbach were crowned February 9 during halftime of the men’s basketball game against University of Indianapolis. King McGuire is a senior and a men’s tennis player. He is majoring in accounting and professional services, and he is the president of Phi Delta Theta. He also serves on the Student Athlete Advisory Committee. Queen Balbach is a junior studying elementary education with a minor in special education. She is involved in the Student Ambassador Association, College Mentors for Kids, Activities Programming Board (APB), Colleges Against Cancer, and AMIGOs. She also volunteers for the Evansville Area Reading Council and is one of the two Archibald the Eagle mascots for USI. “When I was crowned, my friends said they were all screaming, but I couldn’t hear a thing because I was in shock,” said Balbach. My friend Claire Robison (Homecoming chair for APB) crowned me, and it was all such a great experience,” said Balbach. A student who is nominated for Homecoming court has to be a junior or senior, involved in campus, with at least a 2.6 GPA. Members of the court were Norm Bulloch, Sara Browning, Josh Dodd, Maddy Heine, Trent Hetser, Jamie Johnson, Jackie Neumann, Jeff Threlkeld, Shalonda Newcomb, and Justin Ward. |
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