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Scots Secure Season Sweep of Foresters With Wednesday Win

The Monmouth College women's basketball team completed a season sweep of Lake Forest with a 69-64 win on Wednesday. The Fighting Scots (8-16, 4-11) will finish their season on Saturday at Illinois College. "I'm proud of how we played and battled throu...

Feb 18, 2026, 11:32pm EST

Brown, Taylor Lead Scots Past Foresters

The Monmouth College men's basketball team withstood a furious comeback to beat Lake Forest 94-85 on Wednesday night. The first-place Fighting Scots (19-5, 14-1) head into Saturday's regular season finale needing a win to clinch at least a share of th...

Feb 18, 2026, 11:04pm EST

Laurilan Reitzammer will present Monmouth's Fox Classics Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 23

Upcoming events at Monmouth College

Lines in the sand: Colorado professor to present annual Fox Classics Lecture Feb. 23 The recent discovery of papyrus unearthed from the sands of Egypt provides the topic for an annual guest lecture at Monmouth College. The papyrus contains previou...

Feb 18, 2026, 1:14pm EST

Scots Post Multiple Wins, PRs at Home Meet

The Monmouth College men's and women's track and field teams hosted the Roger Haynes Invitational with nine teams from junior college to Division I. The Fighting Scots pulled off four individual wins on the day, two top-10 marks in school history and n...

Feb 14, 2026, 6:44pm EST

"Breaking Ground," a festival of new student-written and student-directed plays, will be staged at Monmouth College's Hewes Library Studio Theatre Feb. 20-22.

Monmouth College to present 'Breaking Ground,' Feb. 20-22 in Hewes Library

A festival of new plays will be showcased at Monmouth College Feb. 20-22, as student playwrights and directors are featured in "Breaking Ground." The production, which features four short plays written by Monmouth students, will be staged in the Hewes...

Feb 13, 2026, 4:29pm EST

AT THE WALL: Mann's wife, Beth, who's also a Monmouth grad, poses with her husband at the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Mann '95 to return to campus to speak at next Monmouth Associates

In 1969, before he was even born, eventual Monmouth College graduate Dave Mann lost his father in the Vietnam War. Fifty-six years later, Mann visited the site of his father's death at Dak To through the 2 Sides Project. At the next Monmouth Associat...

Feb 12, 2026, 4:41pm EST

PEGASUS? No, just how a Clydesdale looks when the eagle on its back is about to take flight. Budweiser's "American Icons" ad topped both the rankings of USA Today and Tom's Prince's "Introduction to Marketing" class.

'American Icons' won over Monmouth College marketing students

Monday morning's enewsletter from Marketing Innovation included a poll that asked a simple question: Did you like the Super Bowl 2026 ads? If Monmouth College students in professor Tom Prince's "Introduction to Marketing" class had completed the poll,...

Feb 12, 2026, 8:20am EST

Stearns Scores Career High 27 but Scots Fall 101-72

The Monmouth College women's basketball team fell at home against Knox on Wednesday by the score of 101-72. The Fighting Scots (7-16, 3-11) are off this weekend before their final home game of the season next Wednesday. Allie Hoy (Woodland, Illinois) ...

Feb 11, 2026, 11:37pm EST

Kyle Taylor with Coach Skrivseth and his 1000 point ball. (Nayeli Perez/Monmouth College)

Taylor Scores 1000th Point as Scots Beat Knox Again

The Monmouth College men's basketball team finished off another season sweep of Knox as Kyle Taylor (Moline, Illinois) surpassed the 1000 career point mark in an 82-68 win on Wednesday night. The first-place Fighting Scots (18-5, 13-1) head into Saturd...

Feb 11, 2026, 11:16pm EST

Nahrstadt to address graduates at Monmouth's 169th Commencement

A Monmouth College graduate who's paired an extremely successful legal career with shaping his world through service and leadership will deliver the keynote address at his alma mater's 169th Commencement Exercises. Retired attorney Brad Nahrstadt '89,...

Feb 11, 2026, 9:06am EST

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