Gaining titles is nothing new to senior finance major Timo Kilp. The men’s cross country team is about to begin their new season, in which they will defend the NCAA South Region Championship and Sunshine State Conference Championship they won in 2012, and Kilp is ready to take on the new challenges awaiting him. Before […]
Category: Sports
On the Bench
With the NFL season here at last, a large percentage of Americans will be glued to TVs as they take in four months of football. However, there’s already another football that’s taken over the airwaves: soccer. In reality, there’s very little downtime for Americans in terms of soccer coverage. The typical European league season, such […]
Summer sports report
By: Keren Moros & Megan Mortman NSU’s Athletic Department had quite the summer. Here’s what they were up to while you were away. NSU’s women’s rowing team won its first NCAA Division II National Championship on June 2 in Indianapolis, beating Barry University in the Varsity 4 and Varsity 8 grand finals. The Student-Athlete Advisory […]
Fitting in Fitness
College is known for a lot of things, including the infamous “freshman 15” — the 15 pounds students gain during their freshman year. Whether you’re a freshman, senior, graduate student or faculty member it’s important to make time for yourself and make time to exercise. The semester can be stressful but working out and going to the gym can clear your mind and help you become more focused.
On The Bench
We want our sports heroes to be demigods. The stories of Hercules, Persueus and Odysseus have been replaced by those of Usain Bolt, Michael Jordan and Mohammed Ali. We recount with reverence Jordan’s shot in game six of the 1998 NBA Finals to clinch his sixth title. We look on with awe as Bolt […]
Athlete of the week: Jonathan Key
Senior criminal justice major Jonathan Key knows the special pride that comes with being first. He joined the men’s swimming and diving team when it started in 2010.
Fitting in Fitness
College is known for a lot of things, including the infamous “freshman 15” — the 15 pounds students gain during their freshman year. Whether you’re a freshman, senior, graduate student or faculty member it’s important to make time for yourself and make time to exercise. The semester can be stressful but working out and […]
Women’s rowing wins national championship
NSU’s women’s rowing team won its first NCAA Division II National Championship on June 2 in Indianapolis, beating Barry University in the varsity-4 and varsity-8 grand finals. Though the team started strong by winning the varsity-4 race, Assistant Coach Rachel Sander said she went “back into jitters mode” when the varsity-8 race started, as winning […]
NSU swimmer selected for national award
Jonathan Key, a free-stroke and breast-stroke swimmer for the NSU Sharks, has been announced as a recipient of the 2013 N4A Wilma Rudolph Award
Athlete of the week: Alexandra Johansson
Even though tennis player Alexandra Johansson was born in Sweden, she considers herself Australian, because she has lived there since she was 4 years old. She did not start playing tennis until she was 9 years old. The sophomore finance major decided that she wanted to try a new sport and has stuck to it ever since. Along with playing at Menai High School in Illawong, Australia for four years, she also played in several Australian leagues.