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WIU Athletics on Twitter | WIU Signs Top-Rated Kicker | Raffile Named Coach of the Year | Leathernecks Win Carlton Oaks Invitational

WIU Athletics on Twitter

Do you want to receive up-to-the-minute news and information pertaining to Western Illinois Athletics, even when you're away from your computer? Now you can with the official Western Illinois Athletics page on Twitter.

Twitter is a free micro-blogging site that makes it easy to stay connected with WIU Athletics. You can receive scores, breaking news and other information as it happens. And Twitter allows each user to choose how the information is received - text message, instant message, email or on the Web at Twitter.com/WIUAthletics. Fans can also add the WIUAthletics Twitter page to their own Facebook page, blog or other social networking site.

The WIUAthletics community on Twitter is growing and we want you to be a part of it. Sign up today to start following WIU Athletics.

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Western Illinois Signs Nation's Top-Rated High School Kicker

Western Illinois University head football coach Don Patterson announced the signing of PARADE All-American Brian Egan (Prattville, Ala.), the nation’s top high school placekicker, who submitted a National Letter of Intent to play for the Leathernecks.

Of the 58 players named to the 2009 PARADE Magazine All-America Football Team, Egan is the only one to commit to a Football Championship Subdivision school. He is not only the top-rated high school kicker in the country by PARADE Magazine, but also the nation’s number one kicker on Scout.com, MaxPreps.com and Rivals.com. The 6-foot, 205-pound left-footer joins a Leatherneck program that has seen its last four kickers earn all-America recognition.

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Raffile Named Coach of the Year

Western Illinois head swimming/diving coach Sean Raffile was named The Summit League’s Women’s Coach of the Year as he guided the Westerwinds to a second-place finish at the conference championships Saturday evening.

The Westerwinds accumulated 599 points to finish behind team champions Oakland and the Leathernecks finished the championship meet in fourth place, earning 427 points, respectively.

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Photo Courtesy: WIU Visual Productions Center

Leathernecks Win Carlton Oaks Invitational

The Western Illinois University men’s golf team shot a 295 on the final day of the Carlton Oaks Invitational, Tuesday, Feb. 17, to post the team’s first win of the 2008-09 season.

The Leathernecks overcame host Drake’s two-stroke advantage entering the final day to post a team score of 596, edging the second-place Bulldogs by three strokes.

“The weather was really bad on Monday. We played in the rain almost the entire 18 holes,” Western Illinois coach Mel Blasi '87 said. “We got great play despite the weather Monday, and that kind of set us up for Tuesday.”

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Photo Courtesy: WIU Visual Productions Center

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