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  • Academy recognizes top 2010 graduates

    The Academy honored the Class of 2010's top graduates for their achievements at the Individual Awards Ceremony May 24 in Clune Arena here. Cadet 1st Class Bradford Waldie is this year's overall top graduate, earning a 3.348 physical performance average, a 3.404 military performance average and a

  • Air Force names women's basketball coach

    Andrea Williams has agreed to become the new women's basketball head coach at the Air Force Academy, according to an announcement today from Director of Athletics Dr. Hans Mueh. Details of the contract are still being worked and are going through the Academy process. "I am delighted to welcome

  • Cadet candidates earn diplomas, Academy appointments

    The Preparatory School Class of 2010, 199 strong, said goodbye to 10 months of academic, military and physical training during commencement exercises in Arnold Hall May 18."It feels amazing," Cadet Candidate Michelle Ivey from Stone Mountain, Ga., said of her graduation "It has been a long ten

  • Cadet candidates complete transition exercise

    Before graduation from the Academy Preparatory School, cadet candidates complete a four-day training event that serves as the pinnacle of their military training over the previous 10 months. Transition Exercise took place at the Prep School and in Jack's Valley May 12-15. "It's the culmination of

  • Class of '10 selects Heiser Award winners

    Kenneth Siegenthaler from the Department of Astronautics and Col. Neal Rappaport from the Department of Economics and Geosciences won the Academy's 2010 Heiser Awards May 6.First-class cadets selected the two instructors from more than 160 eligible senior professors based on contributions to cadets'

  • Schulte award ceremony to be held May 25

    The inaugural 1st Lt. Roslyn L. Schulte Cadet Awards and Recognition Ceremony will be held at the Academy's McDermott Library May 25, at 11:30 a.m.The award commemorates the life and career of Lieutenant Schulte, who was killed outside Kabul, Afghanistan, when the vehicle in which she was traveling

  • Academy takes 2nd place in regional intramural volleyball title

    As many sports teams have come to find out, it's a rather tough task to beat an opponent twice during tournament play.For Team Schriever, the volleyball squad made up of players from various intramural teams on base, that task came Saturday during the semifinals of the Rocky Mountain Volleyball

  • Ceremony in Kabul honors fallen '06 graduate

    At exactly 8:09 a.m. May 20, silence fell over a crowd of people gathered together as they remembered two fallen comrades lost one year ago today. In memorial services, buildings at Camp Eggers and Sia Sang in Kabul were dedicated to 1st Lt. Roslyn Schulte, a 2006 Air Force Academy graduate, and

  • Warrior Games Cyclists brave cold for 20k, 10k races

    Warrior Games cyclists braved snow and near-freezing weather at the Air Force Academy May 13 to take part in a series of 20k and 10k races.Senior Master Sgt. Mitchell Sanders took the Air Force's first gold medal of the inaugural Warrior Games, winning the 10k recumbent cycling event with a time of

  • STS-131 pilot speaks at Academy Astronautics dining-out

    The pilot for the STS-131 Space Shuttle mission and a 1991 Air Force Academy graduate came to the Academy May 7 to speak with Department of Astronautics faculty members and cadets majoring in the astronautics field during a dining-out at the Falcon Club."Col. Jim Dutton is exactly the kind of