After a 2-1 win over Wheaton College, the women’s soccer team won the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin tournament title, earning an automatic NCAA tournament bid. Playing at home in the first round of the NCAA championships, Illinois Wesleyan lost to Hanover College, ending the season with a record of 12-6-3. Four players were selected to the first team of the 2016 all-conference squads. Skyler Tomko ’17, Sarah Trach ’17, and Alison Seger ’17, along with defender Ellie Crabtree ’20, were named to the first team while Dave Barrett won his second-straight (fifth overall) CCIW “Coach of the Year” honor. Later in November Tomko was also elected to the third team of the Division III Women’s Soccer Academic All-America® Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America. It was the second straight year for the honor for Tomko, who has a 3.95 grade-point average as a nursing major. (Photo by Michael Hudson Photography)

Anthropology majors Anna Kerr-Carpenter, Lucy Bullock and Jordan Prats, all seniors, spent Thanksgiving break at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota, where protests against the building of a 1,168-mile Dakota Access Pipeline have made national headlines in the past year. Tribe officials say the pipeline destroys sacred sites and threatens a river that’s a source of water for millions. The students delivered winter clothes, food and other donations at the two largest camps: Sacred Stones and Oceti Sakowin. On Thanksgiving, the three joined a sunset prayer circle at the base of a burial mound the Lakota call Turtle Island, where Kerr-Carpenter took this photo. “The camps, which have had continuously fluid and dynamic leadership since the movement started, are very well organized and fortified in constant, daily ceremony and prayer,” she said. “For now, we are all still processing our experience.”

(Photo by Anna Kerr-Carpenter ’17)

Adam Menendez ’17 (left) provides Hart Career Center Director Warren Kistner ’83 with a recap following the financial services major’s on-campus interview for a full-time position. In 2015-16, the most recent statistics available from the Career Center, 21 employers interviewed 283 students on campus. (Photo by Kim Hill)

Dromio of Ephesus (played by Kenny Tran ’17) figures out why he and his master, Antipholus, have been mistaken for another Antipholus-Dromio duo by gazing into the crystal of the Seeress (Megan Sperger ’18) in the second act of The Boys from Syracuse. The School of Theatre Arts presented the Rodgers and Hart musical farce to enthusiastic patrons.

(Photo by Marc Featherly)

The shared physical space of Arnold Health Services (AHS) and Counseling and Consultation Services (CCS) was renovated this summer to provide space for all CCS clinicians to be together in one building, provide better flow for client visits, and create a shared check-in space for clients seeking assistance from either AHS or CCS. (From left) Resident Advisors Giana Biddle ’18, Dean Khrisat ’19 and Donald Brown ’17 show off the new waiting area providing more seating for CCS clients.

(Photo by Robert Frank III ’14)

More than 260 people – the largest crowd ever – attended the annual Benefactors Dinner, which brings donors and their student recipients together. Newly created scholarships are also announced, which this year included the Joni Williams ’82 Annual Scholarship. Williams (center) is pictured with her student recipients: Ryan Fisher ’17, a theatre arts major from Riverton, Ill., and Megan O’Donnell ’17, a financial services major from Bloomington. Monetary support from alumni and friends allows Illinois Wesleyan to provide more than $36 million in financial aid each year to more than nine out of 10 students.

(Photo by Marc Featherly)

Senior members of the women’s golf team (from left) Jackie Halden ’17, Lizzy Mavrogenes ’17 and Olivia Kief ’17 display the College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin women’s golf title trophy. Mavrogenes noted the end of the fall season with this post on her Instagram account: “7 tournaments, 19 rounds, and 342 holes later, we made it through our final season of college golf.”

(Photo by former head women’s golf coach and current assistant coach Kathy Niepagen)

Accompanied by Mellon Center Senior Administrative Assistant Sharla Brown-Ajayi, the African Students Association spent Fall Break day touring the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago, enjoying a networking dinner with Chicagoland professionals, and visiting Millennial Park, where Brown-Ajayi captured this photo of Emmanuel Ahonkhai ’17, an accounting major from Nigeria.

Running back Maurice Shoemaker-Gilmore ’17 is having an outstanding senior campaign. Twice he’s been named College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin “Offensive Football Player of the Week.” He’s the CCIW rushing leader and also leads the conference in all purpose yards, kickoff return yards and scoring.

(Photo by Claire Hoverson ’17)