CLEVELAND, Ohio - Associate Head Coach Jayson Gee is leaving the Cleveland State men's basketball program after seven seasons. He was named the head coach at Longwood University on Wednesday.

Cleveland State will be represented at the 2013 New Orleans Combine later this week, as women's basketball senior standout Shalonda Winton was recently invited to attend the event. Winton will be one of over 25 players attending this year's Combine which is hosted in conjunction with the NCAA Women's Final Four in New Orleans, La.

Cleveland State sophomore Ali Shabib (Copenhagen, Denmark) and Green Bay senior Craig Cox (Surrey, England) have been named the Horizon League's Co-Players of the Week in men's tennis while UIC junior Mariana Palacios (Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador) takes the women's honor. It is Shabib's second award of the season and the first for both Cox and Palacios.

Punxsutawney Phil had better watch his back. A lot of people are unhappy with the famous groundhog's apparently inaccurate prediction of an early spring, and now several of those malcontents are carrying softball bats as the Horizon League's opening weekend games have been postponed due to the unseasonably cold weather and unplayable field conditions.

INDIANAPOLIS – Cleveland State junior Andrew Bailey has been named Horizon League Men’s Golfer of the Week, while Detroit junior Christina Thorne has been named Horizon League Women’s Golfer of the Week in the first weekly golf awards of the spring season.

 



INDIANAPOLIS – Youngstown State senior Brandi Brown was tabbed the Horizon League Player of the Year highlighting the Horizon League’s 2012-13 Women’s Basketball All-League Teams and specialty award winners in voting of the League’s coaches, sports information directors and media.

Three first round games kickoff the Horizon League Men's Basketball Tournament tonight at campus sites across the conference.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Detroit junior Ray McCallum was tabbed the Horizon League Player of the Year, becoming the first player to earn both preseason and postseason honors since 2001 in voting of the League’s coaches, sports information directors and media.

The Cleveland State men’s swimming and diving team and the Milwaukee women’s swimming and diving team won the 2013 Horizon League Swimming and Diving Championships in Chicago, Ill., after four days of grueling competition.

INDIANAPOLIS -- For the second consecutive season, the road to the Horizon League’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament will go through Valparaiso. The Crusaders will be the No. 1 seed for the 2013 Horizon League Men’s Basketball Tournament and will host the tournament as long as it remains alive.