The Shamrocks sixman football squad now is 2-0 on the season. Above, Gabe Allan, #23, crossing the goal line with the game's first score.[UPDATE Sept 7: Michael John Dauphinais, who suffered heat exhaustion after the game, has been discharged in good health by North Collier Hospital where he had been under observation since shortly after the game.]
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Ave Maria University won the first-ever "Ave Cup" co-ed soccer game Friday night, beating the Ave Maria School of Law 2-0. (Above, the AMU team after the game)
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Students at Ave Maria University are lucky to be attending a university that will support their Catholic faith, author and sociologist Anne Hendershot said Friday afternoon at the school's fall convocation. (Above, Mrs. Hendershott with AMU Dean of Faculty Michael Dauphinais.)
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About 40 kids in Ave Maria are having a great time . . . learning Gregorian chant!
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 Catholic sociologist and author Anne Hendershott will give the featured address at the Ave Maria University fall academic convocation Friday, Sept. 3, at 4:30 p.m. in the student union ballroom.
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Freshman Shawna Manchette scored twice and Beth Greve and Eliza Scarnecchia added a goal each as AMU beat Johnson and Wales 4-1 Tuesday in Miami. The women's next game is their home opener Sept. 14 against Palm Beach Atlantic.
The first Ave Maria Founders Club meeting of the new term drew a capacity crowd to The Bean to hear a talk by Dr. Bira Rezende, a politics and business professor at AMU, on the Catholic perspective on socialism. The next founders club will feature literature professor and author Joseph Pearce Sept. 28.
The Karate school in Ave Maria has a new name and a growing number of students to attend its classes on Tuesday and Thursday nights. Above, black belt instructor Pat Hurley with student Michael Joyce.
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 "Let the power of God be visible in your life," Bishop Frank Dewane said Monday at a Mass opening the fall semester at Ave Maria University. (Right, Bishop Dewane greeting students outside the oratory following Mass.)
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Students and residents of Ave Maria turned out Sunday night for the 2nd annual fundraiser to benefit seven-year-old Randall Nychyck who is fighting cancer. Above, Randall strums the guitar given to him at last year's fundraiser as AMU mascot Jax dances.
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Gabe Allan (above, left) scored three touchdowns to lead the Donahue Academy's sixman football squad to a 31-19 win over Canterbury School in Ft. Myers Saturday morning. (photo: Roy Lenardson)
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Books of all types, toys, clothing and more were on sale Saturday as a dozen local Ave Maria residents participated in a garage sale in Hampton Village. Above, buyers peruse a book collection. "Only in Ave Maria," one quipped, "can people sell their old theology and philosophy books so easily."
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Students are arriving at Ave Maria University for the fall semester, which opens Monday with a Mass celebrated by Diocese of Venice Bishop Frank Dewane. (Above, many students gathered for a social event and bonfire Friday evening.)
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Journalists from the French TV organization M6 are in Ave Maria this weekend preparing a feature on the town. Above, videographer Tony Casabianca (center) with Queen Mary Pub proprieter Daniel Dix (left) and reporter Laurent Delhomme (right) at the bar in the Queen Mary.
There will be seminars and lectures open to the public later this year at Ave Maria that will examine moral and other issues raised by the proximity of the proposed Jackson Labs research park, AMU President Nick Healy said Thursday night in his welcoming address to new students.
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 Former Illinois State Rep Becomes AMU "Friend-Raiser"
After seven years in the Illinois State Legislature, Kevin Joyce (right) leaves Chicago and state politics behind to work with the Development Office at Ave Maria University.
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Collier County residents should not expect a referendum on the Jackson Lab project despite the victory in the Tuesday District 2 primary election by Georgia Hiller, who is in favor of one, the Naples Daily News reports. Three other members of the five-member board rejected a referendum at the commissioners' last meeting.
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 Fred Coyle, a leader in the effort to bring a Jackson Lab facility to the area, won a narrow re-election victory Tuesday night over challenger Lavigne Kirkpatrick in the Republican primary for the District 4 seat. Mr. Coyle received about 54 percent of the vote and is commissioner-elect as there is no challenger in the general election. In the election for the District 2 open seat, Georgia Hiller, who has said there should be a referendum on the proposed $130-million county subsidy for Jackson Labs, won handily and faces independent Chuck Roth in the general election.
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 The Shamrocks have a new head coast, new quarterback, and have been working hard to get ready for their second season. Above, the team at a recent practice in Ave Maria. (photo by Roy Lenardson)
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 Mike DeWitt, Ave Maria University's first Track and Cross Country coach, tells the Milwaukee archdiocese Catholic Herald how things in his life "fell into place" with his move to Ave Maria. AMU Athletic Director Brian Scanlan calls Mr. DeWitt "a great role model for all coaches," adding, "We're lucky to have him."
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