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January 12, 2012 -- The 2012 Northwestern Oklahoma State University Sports Hall of Fame class will be honored at a luncheon in the Student Center Ballroom at 11:30 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 28, and formally inducted between the women’s and men’s basketball games vs. Oklahoma City University that afternoon in Percefull Fieldhouse. The women’s game will tip off at 2 p.m., and the men’s game is scheduled for 4 p.m. The 2012 inductees include Al Hunt, football; Marlena (Elliott) Johnson, women’s basketball; Lynn Scott, football; and Slade Young, men’s basketball.

Free food, t-shirts, games and prizes will be part of the Ranger Rally, a pep rally to celebrate the fall athletics season at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Wednesday, Aug. 31.

Northwestern Oklahoma State University has announced the hiring of Andy Carter as the school’s Director of Athletics. Carter brings in more than 23 years of experience in intercollegiate athletics, with the last 13 as the leader of an Athletics Department. He has spent more than eight years at a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) institution as the Director of Athletics.

The presidents of the nine member institutions of the Great American Conference have voted unanimously to offer provisional membership to Northwestern Oklahoma State University upon the school’s acceptance into the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The Great American Conference is comprised of nine institutions in Oklahoma and Arkansas competing at the NCAA Division II level. The conference will begin its first year of competition this fall.

(RUSSELLVILLE, AR)---Northwestern Oklahoma State University and Southern Nazarene University have accepted provisional membership invitations into the NCAA Division II Great American Conference.

In 1986, Northwestern Oklahoma State University hired a young men’s basketball coach from Minnesota to try and revive a struggling program. Most figured the young coach would have some quick success and then move on to another program. There’s no doubt Bob Battisti had some success, but he also fell in love with Northwestern and the Alva community, found his wife, and started his family.

Following nearly a year of study regarding its athletic affiliation, officials at Northwestern Oklahoma State University say the school will apply for membership in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Northwestern will seek membership in Division II of the association.

Northwestern Oklahoma State University will move forward with the process of exploring membership in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

Northwestern Oklahoma State University’s Sports Information Office has been honored in the annual publication contests of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and Sports Information Directors Association (NAIA-SIDA).

Members of Northwestern Oklahoma State University’s Ranger men’s basketball team were the guests of Lincoln Elementary School in Alva recently. Team members, along with head coach Andrew Brown, assistant coach Shane Hansen and graduate assistant Kris Johnson, shared with the fourth and fifth graders information about the Champions of Character program within the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).

A task force appointed to review the national affiliation of Northwestern Oklahoma State University’s athletic program has unanimously recommended that the institution begin an exploration of membership with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

The 2010 class of the Northwestern Oklahoma State University Sports Hall of Fame will include Corinn Auld Allen of Yukon, Troy Brown of Clinton, Mike Mitchel of Alva, and Brock Schnebel of Oklahoma City.

Ten people representing a wide range of constituencies have been selected to serve on a task force examining the national athletic affiliation of intercollegiate sports at Northwestern Oklahoma State University.

Former Northwestern Oklahoma State University students, turned doctors were on campus giving incoming student-athlete physicals. Dr. James Keeney, 1979 graduate, and Dr. Brock Schnebel, 1977 graduate, examined student-athletes last week in preparation for the new school year.

Ryan Hintergardt, sports information director for Northwestern Oklahoma State University, won two awards at the annual publication contests of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and Sports Information Directors Association (NAIA-SIDA).