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Plumer Earns Men's Basketball Elite 20 Award at MWC Tournament
Monmouth College senior Turner Plumer (Canton, Illinois) was honored with the Elite 20 Award before the Fighting Scots Midwest Conference tournament game against Lake Forest. This marks the second year in a row that a Monmouth player has won the MWC El...
Feb 27, 2026, 8:44pm EST
Brown Repeats as Player of Year; Scots Put Three on All-MWC Teams
Monmouth College sophomore Zay Brown (Peoria, Illinois) was named the Midwest Conference men's basketball Player of the Year on Thursday. Brown is the first repeat winner in the MWC since Ripon's Ty Sabin in 2017 and he joins Lance Castle as the only p...
Feb 26, 2026, 11:24am EST
Monmouth alum Hoth's Burlington railway carries everything from bombs to Blue Bunny
Andrew Hoth's company may operate a short line railroad, but they're in it for the long haul. That was one of the messages the 1995 graduate shared as he returned to campus for the second straight year to speak to Monmouth College's "Midwest Entrepren...
Feb 26, 2026, 10:38am EST
Monmouth College's student newspaper has stellar day at ICPA convention
The staff at The Courier, Monmouth College's student newspaper, had their finest year ever in terms of awards from the Illinois College Press Association. Adviser Chris Goble and his students recently returned from the ICPA's annual convention and awa...
Feb 25, 2026, 10:19am EST
Monmouth College Senior Profile: Nate Grull
Both coming and going, Nate Grull was not on campus as long as most Monmouth College students, but he certainly made an impression during his three semesters. A junior transfer from McKendree College, Grull was enrolled for the entire 2024-25 academic...
Feb 24, 2026, 11:26am EST
Godde's travels: Monmouth professor turns the world into his laboratory
For most professors, teaching happens inside four walls. But for Monmouth College biology professor James Godde, teaching happens across continents. When reflecting on his 20 years leading student travel, Godde admitted, "That's a hard question," when...
Feb 24, 2026, 11:21am EST
Scots Women Finish 5th, Men 6th at MWC Championships
The Monmouth College swim teams finished the Midwest Conference Championships on Sunday as the women took fifth place and the men finished in sixth. The Fighting Scots delivered four more Top10 swims in school history. WOMEN A day after swimming the ...
Feb 22, 2026, 11:25pm EST
Sims Wins Both Singles Matches but Scots Drop Both
The Monmouth College men's tennis team started the spring season with a pair of losses on Saturday, indoors at Lakeside Center in Galesburg Monmouth fell 6-1 to Illinois Wesleyan and 5-2 against Principia as freshman Chase Sims (Tiskilwa) went 2-0 in s...
Feb 21, 2026, 11:33pm EST
Monmouth Baseball Drops Pair on Opening Day
The Monmouth College baseball team started the 2026 season with a pair of losses in a double header at Blackburn on Saturday. The Fighting Scots (0-2) dropped the first game 5-3 and the second game 5-1. GAME ONE The game was scoreless into the botto...
Feb 21, 2026, 11:20pm EST
Stewart Delivers Second-Best 400 IM in Monmouth History at MWC Championships
The Monmouth College swim teams delivered more top 10 times in school history on the third day of competition at the Midwest Conference Championships. The Monmouth women also moved up into fifth place on Saturday while the men remain in sixth. WOMEN ...
Feb 21, 2026, 10:56pm EST