Ebenezer Griffith, 20, a USA Boxing boxer from Louisville, Ky., said he has his sights set on the 2024 Paris Olympics. "At the end of my career when I look back, I want to be an Olympic gold medalist, I want to be the undisputed world champion and I want to sell out Diddle Arena," Griffith said.
From left: Western Kentucky University Gatton Academy juniors Lola Norman of Bowling Green, Ky., Jill Patel of Owensboro, Ky. and Aanyaa Arora of Bowling Green, Ky. watch the solar eclipse on Monday, April 8, 2024, outside WKU's Hardin Planetarium in Bowling Green, Ky. The WKU campus experienced 97% of a solar eclipse as students gathered outside to view the moment. "I think a part of it (the solar eclipse) is pretty overwhelming," Norman said. "Just like the vastness of it and the rare occurrence, but I think it's also just beautiful."
Western Kentucky University graduate student forward Olivia Cooke, right, of Ontario, Canada, guards herself as Ohio University junior forward Maia Kaufman kicks the ball at the Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024 women's soccer game, at WKU's Soccer Complex in Bowling Green, Ky. The Western Kentucky Hilltoppers lost their senior night game against the Ohio Bobcats, 2-1.
Grace Roepke of the Louisville Orchestra plays the harp at the Tuesday, March 5, 2024 concert during the orchestra's "In Harmony - The Commonwealth Tour" at the Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center in Bowling Green, Ky. Louisville Orchestra Concertmaster and Resident Conductor Gabriel Lefkowitz said that the orchestra plays music ranging 400 years, from world premieres to the 1600s. "There's nothing quite as exciting as that first moment of making sound and seeing how people react to it," Lefkowitz said. "We want to entertain. We want to move people."
Western Kentucky University National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Juvenile Justice Chair Myricle Gholston, a sophomore from Atlanta, Ga., protests before "The Rittenhouse Recap" event Wednesday, March 27, 2024, held outside WKU's Downing Student Union in Bowling Green, Ky. "The Rittenhouse Recap" had Kyle Rittenhouse, a man who shot and killed three men during a "Black Lives Matter" protest in 2020, speak and answer questions. "Today I decided to come here because if you want change, you have to stand for change yourself," Gholston said. "You can no longer depend on the majority to be the voice for minorities."
University of Illinois junior outside hitter Averie Hernandez, jersey 8, of Bloomington, Ill., hits the ball as Western Kentucky University sophomore middle hitter Izzy Van De Wiele, jersey 25, of Bettendorf, Iowa, and senior right-side hitter Kenadee Coyle, jersey 33, of Bloomington, Ind. block the ball at the Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024 women's volleyball game, at WKU's Diddle Arena in Bowling Green, Ky. The Western Kentucky Hilltoppers lost the game against the Illinois Fighting Illini, 3-1.
Horticulture Technician Jon Parker, 33, waters the geranium annual flowers on Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, at the WKU Agriculture & Research Education Center in Bowling Green, Ky. Parker has been the horticulture technician at the WKU agriculture farm for three weeks. "In my unit, the horticulture unit, a huge emphasis is on the farm-to-campus program," Parker said. "So, we're growing out vegetables that will be harvested on-site, then delivered through Aramark into the eateries on campus."
Philip Woodard, 55, a pottery teacher at The Pots Place in Bowling Green, Ky., said he has been doing pottery for about eight years. "The reason I teach is to pass along my talents and experience making pottery," Woodard said. "Pottery is a passion of mine and I find that teaching is sort of a duty so that others have the same opportunity to enjoy the art of pottery as much as I have."
Front-row fans hold out their arms during a boxing match at Sigma Chi Fight Night on Friday, March 31, 2023, at the National Guard Armory in Lampkin Park in Bowling Green, Ky. The WKU Sigma Chi Fraternity hosted its "Fight Night" to raise money for the Huntsman Cancer Foundation.
