Notables
Christa Reisinger, softball center fielder, was named Great Lakes Valley Conference Player of the Week for the fourth time in her career. Overall, the Winfield, Mo., native hit .615 (8-for-13) with six runs scored, three home runs, six RBI, 17 total bases, a 1.308 slugging percentage, two walks, a .667 on-base percentage and three stolen bases in three attempts. Since joining the conference prior to the 2014 season, the Bulldogs have now been accredited with Player of the Week eight times and Pitcher of the Week six times.
Luke Komotos and Sam Reeves were named to the National Wrestling Coaches Association Division II All-Academic team. Komotos was 8-21 competing in the 174-pound weight class, and it is his first NWCA Division II honor. Reeves was a national qualifier at 197 pounds with an overall record of 18-10. This is his second NWCA All-Academic honor.
Two teams of eight students competed at the mid-Missouri DataFest on April 6-7, with the award for “Best Visualization” going to one of the teams. Participants included Caleb Jones, Nabin Karki, Rudy Nartker, Mengqing Zhang, Grant Wallace, Mandi Murphy, Jason Odom and Liting Zhang. Teams were given less than 24 hours to try to find trends and patterns in a corporate data set containing more than 17 million records, bringing in additional information from public sources and applying classroom knowledge learned in statistics classes to real-world data. The American Statistical Association DataFest is a celebration of data in which teams of undergraduates work around the clock to find and share meaning in a large, rich and complex data set. This year, over 2,000 undergraduate students from more than 70 colleges will meet in 35 different locations to celebrate DataFest.
Luke Komotos and Sam Reeves were named to the National Wrestling Coaches Association Division II All-Academic team. Komotos was 8-21 competing in the 174-pound weight class, and it is his first NWCA Division II honor. Reeves was a national qualifier at 197 pounds with an overall record of 18-10. This is his second NWCA All-Academic honor.
Two teams of eight students competed at the mid-Missouri DataFest on April 6-7, with the award for “Best Visualization” going to one of the teams. Participants included Caleb Jones, Nabin Karki, Rudy Nartker, Mengqing Zhang, Grant Wallace, Mandi Murphy, Jason Odom and Liting Zhang. Teams were given less than 24 hours to try to find trends and patterns in a corporate data set containing more than 17 million records, bringing in additional information from public sources and applying classroom knowledge learned in statistics classes to real-world data. The American Statistical Association DataFest is a celebration of data in which teams of undergraduates work around the clock to find and share meaning in a large, rich and complex data set. This year, over 2,000 undergraduate students from more than 70 colleges will meet in 35 different locations to celebrate DataFest.
