Sports

https://youtu.be/gGBCrOxcP9U As the lights dim and the audience erupts in anticipation, Stanislav Rakov prepares to enter a different mentality. The bell dings and the fight starts. He is now locked in. Rakov, a junior elementary education major is a mixed martial arts fighter who has competed in various fighting styles over the years, with his recent passion being...

Sports have long been plagued with a double standard when it comes to coaching positions for men and women. In recent years the culture has begun to shift around the world and on campus as more women are given the opportunity to coach men's sports. Charliana Criscuolo, a senior nursing major, was unsure whether or not football would...

Guðrún Helga Guðfinnsdóttir, sophomore, sport management major. It is a gloomy afternoon on the turf of Jess Dow Field. A light chill is in the air as Guðrún Helga Guðfinnsdóttir pulls on her soccer gear. On the field, she stands firm, pulls back her leg and. slams herfoot into the ball, sending it launching into the goal.  Guðfinnsdóttir,...

https://youtu.be/3rhKVVKZ0GM The crack of cues against billiard balls echo throughout the Adanti Student Center dining area. Pool tables can be found in some residence halls, but the most frequented hub is the Adanti Student Center’s first-floor game room.   Sean Qian, freshman, healthcare studies/nursing major, found his love for pool last year as a freshman when he stumbled upon...

https://youtu.be/butBCpfzRSo Mason Boeger, freshman, studio art major, with his skateboard. They are seen skating down the stairway at Buley Library, zooming past students on the way to classes and hanging around campus with their boards.  It seems as if skaters on campus are on the rise.   Gabriel Blessing, freshman, finance and accounting major, says he has a passion...

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...