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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOGnKhBL5FY&t=1s Jordan Davis is the defending NCAA Division II national javelin champion. Davis, a junior business administration-finance major, set the record on May 28 throwing 72.54 meters at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. Before the national meet, he set a new record at the Northeast-10 Conference Championship meet throwing 69.15 meters, the second-best in program history. Davis...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXYQPp4mPco When faced with a challenge, many people might try to take the easy way out. There are a select few, however, that not only meet these challenges head-on, but also actively seek them out. Diana Adams, an avid rock climber, is one of those select few.  When Adams, senior studio art-graphic design major, isn’t hard at work...

Photo Gadson took wearing his SCSU Football uniform.  During the off season, Southern’s newest wide receiver Luke Gadson is on the field with NFL players. Working for his former football coach, Don Bosco Prep High School in New Jersey, Gadson shoots video and posts to social media—and even occasionally gets to train with the professionals. That coach, Drew...

Men’s Club Lacrosse Team practicing PHOTOS | TYRESE ABDUL-SHAKOOR Major League Lacrosse struggled in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic hit: the Southern Men’s Club Lacrosse Team was no different.   Unlike Major League Lacrosse, which ended up having to sell the league and merge with its competitor, Premier League Lacrosse, the Men’s Club Lacrosse Team showed no signs of...

Seventeen athletes. Ten countries. One goal: to play a collegiate sport.  International students come to Southern in pursuit of athletic opportunities and to experience a culture different from their homeland. One example is Paula Tattari, a senior forward for the women’s basketball team, who left her home in Finland.  “I feel like Southern found me,” Tattari says. “One...

By Kevin Crompton Matt Sanzaro suffered a concussion this season as starting quarterback when his helmet fell off during a game at Bentley University. “It was a rollout pass and the ball got tipped up and it actually came right back to me,” says Sanzaro, a junior. “I tucked and ran and ended up bumping into Dan...

Underneath a feathered, blue jumpsuit and signature caricatured headpiece, beats the heart of school spirit. Constructed of heavy fabric, foam and plastic, mascot gear insulates heat; things get uncomfortably warm, rather quickly. So, when the time comes for Otis the Owl to come out of his nest, who takes the heat? Otis the Owl...

Senior women’s basketball player Allie Smith is also one of the goalkeepers for the women’s soccer team. Allie Smith at Moore Field House. (Steve JeanSimon/Crescent Magazine) “It’s been great being involved in two sports because it allows me to be more involved in athletics as well as learn from both teams and coaching staffs,”...

Sophomore Amanda Murray says when she was in high school she was afraid her diabetes diagnosis would scare away the recruiters of college teams. She had her parents tell the respective college coaches about it, in fear that her recruitments would dry up. Her diagnosis did not scare away former Southern women’s lacrosse head coach Maureen Spellman, who...