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Loyola Marymount appoints Kyle Schmid as men’s soccer head coach
After his playing days and prior to joining the Lions, Schmid was an assistant coach at Cal State Fullerton, UC Riverside, and Cal State Northridge. -- Soccer Wire
Gauthier's walk off home run lifts cowboys in extra innings
Lake Charles, LA (KPLC) - Antonio Gauthier’s walk-off home run capped off the McNeese Cowboy’s (9-6) 4-3 win over Cal State Northridge (8-6) in 10 innings on Saturday afternoon at Joe Miller Ballpark. McNeese trailed, 3-2, with one out in the bottom of the ninth, before Brad Burckel hit a game-tying home run to right field paving way for Gauthier’s heroics. The Lake Charles native completed the comeback with his clutch hit, sending the Cowboys back into the win column. -- KPLC
Cowboys Drop Game 1 to CSUN, 9-6.
LAKE CHARLES- Notwithstanding a 14 hit effort by the offense, the McNeese Cowboys (8-6) dropped game one of the weekend series to Cal State Northridge (8-5), 9-6. -- KPLC
President Biden Announces Key Appointments to the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Santa Perez is a published author, mother, and self-advocate living with cerebral palsy in Las Vegas, Nevada. She currently serves as Chair of the Nevada Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities and sits on numerous councils and committees, including the Executive Board of National Association of Council on Developmental Disabilities. Perez is also the Founding Member and President Emeritus of People First Nevada. She recently published her first book, Sitting at Eye Level: My Life as an Advocate, a Professional, a Woman, a Mom and a Person with a Significant Disability. She earned her B.A. in Psychology from Cal State Northridge. She is a proud mother to her son, Noah. -- Hampton Roads Messenger
The Wichita Eagle selects senior reporter Dion Lefler as new opinion editor
In college, Lefler was a member of the national championship debate team at California State University, Northridge, and said strong arguments build a case through evidence. Opinions are secondary. -- Wichita Eagle
Tina King Named Next San Diego College of Continuing Education President
King earned a doctorate of education in educational leadership from Cal State Fullerton, where her dissertation focused on the role of community college faculty and staff in creating academic achievement for Black men. She also has a master’s degree in education from the University of Southern California and a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies from Cal State Northridge. -- Times of San Diego
The True Life Companies Appoints Chris Crawford As CFO And COO
Crawford obtained his CPA after working for Arthur Anderson in Los Angeles, his Juris Doctorate (JD) from Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, OR, and a B.A. in Business Administration and Accounting from California State University, Northridge. -- CityBiz
LOS ANGELES MAYORAL CANDIDATE MEL WILSON EASILY MAKES THE CUT; FORMER NFL PLAYER’S NAME WILL APPEAR ON THE JUNE 2022 BALLOT
Wilson is a Cal State Northridge (CSUN) business graduate and All-America football player, moved to the San Fernando Valley from Alabama when he was 10 years old. Raised by a single mother and grandmother in the San Fernando Valley, he attended church weekly in Los Angeles and married his bride 48-years ago in a church on the corner of Manchester and Broadway. -- LA Post
Project Rebound is developing new toolkit to help formerly incarcerated students find housing
CSUN is hoping to make it easier for formerly incarcerated students to find affordable housing with a new toolkit. -- ABC 7, Los Angeles
CSUN's Daniela Gerson: Putin’s diaspora will echo 1939’s, but going in the opposite direction
My wife and I share a past that spans continents and tracks back to the Polish-Ukrainian border. Eighty-two years ago, during a frigid winter, both sets of our grandparents made the same escape from eastern Poland, ahead of the Nazis’ occupation. They crossed the River Bug, and found their way to what is today Lviv, Ukraine. -- Olean Times Herald