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Reilly, Behnke lead Hoosiers at Indiana Open By Sam Beishuizen sbeishui@indiana.edu | @Sam_Beishuizen
Kieran Reilly admits he was a little “soft” last year. IU Coach Ron Helmer said the redshirt freshman’s talent was undeniable. But the one thing holding him back in races was his mental toughness — his ability to push through the pain on long runs. In training leading up to Saturday’s Indiana Open, Helmer said Reilly found what he was missing. After a grueling practice run, Helmer said Reilly emerged “looking like a million bucks.” And in Saturday’s men’s 8-kilometer race at the Indiana Open, Reilly ran like it. His race-winning time of 25:43.5 led the Hoosiers to a victory, narrowly edging out second-place finisher senior Evan Esselink by 0.8 seconds. “I actually predicted that one,” Helmer said. “I felt like given how he’s been training that he probably would be the guy at the end that was still running the hardest, and that proved to be true.” Reilly, a native of Dover, Kent, in the United Kingdom, agreed with Helmer. After redshirting cross country last season, he worked in training to become stronger mentally so he could find an extra gear when he needed it. He said he came into Saturday’s race without any real expectations but left the IU course feeling pleased with the progress he’s made. “I couldn’t make myself hurt in a way that I needed to before,” Reilly said. “Recently, I thought if I want to go places, I’ve just got to really push myself. Definitely last week in training, I just really stuck at it and stuck in and held on today.” The Hoosier men swept the top-five finishing positions to beat
Tennessee Tech 15-57. Senior Nolan Fife rounded out the podium in third followed by freshman Kyle Duvall in fourth and sophomore Jason Crist in fifth. IU was without a number of Helmer’s top returning runners who sat out nursing injuries. Despite a slightly altered lineup, Helmer said he was impressed with the Hoosiers’ competitiveness and ability to pick up where the others had left off. The top five IU finishers were separated by just seven seconds. “I think it’s incredible, the strength of the team right now,” Reilly said. “Every day we’re going out there and fighting for our place. If you have slight off days, it’s obvious, and that’s just the depth of our team. “I think it’s a real exciting time for our program right now. I really think we’re going to go places this season.” Behnke continues 5K success For sophomore Amanda Behnke, there’s just something about 5-kilometer races. The St. Louis native came to Bloomington wanting to run the 1,500-meter in track but said she didn’t have the foot speed to compete at a high level. In training, she discovered her skillset was better suited for the 5K races. She said it was a better balance between needing endurance while still being short enough to take advantage of her sprinting background, so she began focusing more on it. The move paid off. Behnke led the Hoosier women to a sweeping victory in the Indiana Open women’s 5K on Saturday with a race-winning time of 18:27.9.
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Bloomington performers show their support for the GLBT community at the Bloomington Pride Block Party on Saturday afternoon on Fourth Street.
Bloomington group presents 1st Pride Summerfest By Suzanne Grossman spgrossm@indiana.edu | @suzannepaige6
Everything from unicorn costumes to glittery make-up and plain T-shirts adorned those gathered at Fourth Street and College Avenue for Bloomington’s first Pride Summerfest Celebration this weekend. The event was created in hopes of giving Bloomington a chance to celebrate Pride outside in warm weather, said Nicci Boroski, co-owner of the Back Door night club. Although the weather was more than 10 degrees cooler than usual for this time of year, according to the National Weather Service, and rain misted throughout the event, more than 1,600 people and no less than 20 booths were at the inaugural event. Children adorned in multicolored beads ran from booth to booth for free stickers while parents scrambled not to lose them and dined on the Big
Cheese food truck. Meanwhile, teenagers huddled with their friends decked out in rainbow shirts that read “We like you here” with an Indiana state outline. College students frantically tried to finish the scavenger hunt their resident assistants gave them to learn more about diversity and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. “When I heard Bloomington only had the film festival in January, I was disappointed,” IU student Ash Kulak said. “We just huddle outside the Buskirk in the winter because the cold isn’t really great. Bloomington can’t say it’s LGBTQ friendly ... I mean, how can you say you’re the Mecca of queer people if you don’t have a summer Pride?” So, to meet the town’s apparent demand for a warm-weather celebration, the owners of the Back Door and Bloomington Pride directors joined
forces to throw the multi-event celebration. “The film festival is wonderful, but we wanted something where people can get outside and be more engaged and visible, be able to make a little more noise,” Boroski said. One focus of the summer event was to “give things for everyone to get involved with,” Boroski said. “For families with kids, we’ve had trouble because a lot of the films we show have content that isn’t family-friendly,” Bloomington Pride Director Sarah Perfetti said. “For this we made sure we had family activities, like carnival games.” For example, the block party had a photo booth, caricature artist and a ring toss game. The weekend also included a gig by the band Middle Class Fashion for the college and high school audience members, an all-ages drag show and SEE PRIDE, PAGE 6
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Museum mixes it up while introducing art to students By Camille Sarabia csarabia@indiana.edu | @camille_sarabia
The IU Art Museum presented “MIX at the Museum” on Friday evening to welcome new students and introduce them to art and the museum itself. They accompanied their cultural and historical fine art galleries with in-gallery musical performances, a culinary experience from Bivis Tamales and a scavenger hunt for attendees. The MIX was an introductory fall kickoff for the art museum to introduce the IU campus and Bloomington residents to art in a fun and engaging way, said IU Art Museum Manager of Events Anita DeCastro. “It exposes some of the new things we have at the gallery,” DeCastro said. “It says, ‘Welcome back campus, here we are.’” The event displayed the three permanent exhibits at the
museum, including Art of the Western World, Asia and the Ancient Western World, and Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas. “MIX is a new series of events at the art museum,” DeCastro said. “The first one is a welcome back event. It’s really an opportunity for the campus community, as well as the greater Bloomington community, to welcome everyone back and introduce them to the museum if they’re not familiar with it.” Other artistic events put on by the museum throughout September include a thematic tour of “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words,” “Midwest Printmaking in Focus” and a noon talk about “The Politics of Painting in the Divided Germany,” among a variety of lectures, art displays and exhibits to take part in. The MIX focused on supplying its guests with a SEE MIX, PAGE 6
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Freshman Emmaline Terry, left, and sophomore Alex Miller look at a display on the second floor of the IU Art Museum during the MIX at the Museum event Friday.
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