201217 Cornelius "Chip" Coleman, assistant head football coach/defensive line coach/recruiting coordinator, was selected by the NCAA and the NFL to attend the 2012 NCAA and NFL Coaches Academy May 22-24 in Dallas, Texas. Coleman has been a member of Averett's coaching staff since 2007. The Coaches Academy was developed to provide college coaches with less than eight years of coaching experience with the necessary tools, and networking opportunities, to enhance their chances at success in the football coaching industry. Congratulations! 201216 Sophomores Marina da Silva and Hailey Brown represented Averett during the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA) Zone 5 Finals March 30-31 at Virginia Intermont College. Both riders qualified in February for Zones during the regional competition at Virginia Tech by placing first and second. Zones are considered to be the semi-finals before qualifying to go to the national competition. To read more about the competition click here. 201216 Ashley Brooks Jones '06, Mrs. Sherman Oaks, was crowned Mrs. California United States 2012 on March 25. She will compete for the title of Mrs. United States in July in Los Vegas. 201215 Averett named six of its student teachers as 2012 Virginia Teachers of Promise. The students who received this distinction are: seniors Wendy Bradner, Sara Campbell, Thornton Rowland and Re'Shawn Woodson; and 2011 graduates Cary Lee Cumbo and Olivia Frost. The students attended the Virginia Teachers of Promise Institute in Richmond last month along with 130 other top rated teachers from across the Commonwealth. 201213 Averett's Intercollegiate Dressage Association (IDA) Team competed at their last regional show of the season on March 18 in Laurinburg, N.C. at St. Andrews Presbyterian College. Averett's teams placed second and third overall and one rider was named Reserve High Rider for the day. Click here for details about the competition. 201211 Congratulations to Coach Matt Parke and the Averett Men's Basketball team, who won the USA South Athletic Conference's Sportsmanship Award for Men's Basketball for the 2011-12 winter sports season. This is the fourth time the men's basketball team has received the award. The team previously was the award recipient in 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09. The USA South Athletic Conference Student-Athlete Advisory Committee instituted a Conference-wide Sportsmanship Award in 2004-2005 in recognition of the importance of sportsmanship to college athletics. For each of the 11 Conference-sponsored team sports, all team members vote for the teams he or she deemed to have demonstrated the best overall sportsmanship throughout the season. The team garnering the most votes receives that sports' Sportsmanship Award. 201210 Senior Charles Terrell recently found out he was one of 60 students from around the country who were accepted for participation in the 2012 Institute on Economics and International Affairs. He will spend the summer in Washington D.C., interning during the day and taking classes at night. Full Story 201208 Averett's Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA) Team participated in their final competition Feb. 11 followed by the IHSA Regional Competition Feb. 12. Both events were held at Virginia Tech. Four students represented the University during the Regional Competition - one rider was named champion intermediate over-fences and another rider was reserve champion novice over-fences and on the flat. For the full results from both competitions click here. 0 201204 Nadeshda "Nayda" Balabanova Enachescu '03 will have a paper published in the winter issue of the "International Journal of Mobile Marketing." The paper, which she co-authored with six MBA students at Loyola Marymount University, is titled "Mobile Payments - The Reality on the Ground in Selected Asian Countries and the US." Nayda lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Ramon, and is a business intelligence specialist with Loyola Marymount University. She is formerly of Sofia, Bulgaria. 201151 With a master's degree from Averett under her belt, alumna Margaret Hobbs Phillips '10 has plans to pursue a doctorate at Central Michigan University next fall. Read More 201150 When we're kids we all have dreams of being something big one day - dreams of being a dancer, a singer on Broadway, a doctor, a teacher. As we grow up and our interests change, so do our dreams. But for Andrew Gardner '06 the dream of playing golf was one that never faded. See More 201146 If you're a fan of the NFL you have probably dreamed of one day meeting your favorite team. Or maybe you've gone a bit further and you've dreamed of working for them. For senior Tyler Muench, an athletic training major, it was more than just a dream this summer - it was a reality. Read More 201145 On Oct. 10, Averett's Richmond team hosted their second annual Job Fair at the Watkins Centre Campus. This year, more than 50 employers - 16 more than last year - participated. The event also included four workshops: résumé writing, interview skills, professional image and electronic job searching. More than 650 job seekers attended the Job Fair and 84 of them inquired about Averett degree programs. more... 201145 It was a love of horses that first led Heidi Roach '06 to choose Averett. But once she was here, she discovered another passion - a passion that was greater than the one she had for horses. 201143 Art Director Kenneth Bond had one of his pieces selected for inclusion in the show There's a Story Here, curated by Fred Motley at The Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History, in collaboration with the Lawrence M. Clark Center for African-American Culture and Learning. The exhibit, which opened Sunday, Oct. 23, will remain in the museum's Gallery IV through April 2012. Stop by during opening hours (Tuesday-Friday 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday-Sunday 2-5 p.m.) and check out this exhibit about the rich African-American cultural experience from mid-century to present-day Danville. There is a small admission fee. On the first Saturday and Sunday of each month, admission is free to residents of Danville, Caswell County and Pittsylvania County. 201142 Kenneth Bond, art director, won second place in 2D art at the River District Festival's Juried Show on Saturday, Oct. 8. Congratulations, Kenneth!