Women begin season with Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational When Liberty’s women’s track and field team begins its season Dec. 3, the women will be competing with heavy hearts. The Lady Flames will host the Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational in honor of freshman sprinter Darius Dixon, who was killed in a car accident shortly after running in his first race for […]
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All it took was a blocked kick. And a backup quarterback. And a clutch field goal. And beating an undefeated team on the road. OK, so maybe it took a lot. Either way, Liberty football is finally playoff-bound for the first time in school history. Since joining the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) in 1988, the Flames have watched the postseason […]
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Improvements to athletic facilities are just the start of Jeff Barber’s plans For those who have been at Liberty University for any amount of time, it is obvious that the school is growing. This growth has helped the school burst into the national scene not only for its outstanding academics, but in the athletic realm as well. Liberty athletes have […]
Read moreFlames stay alive, head to Pennsylvania for second round in FCS Playoffs The Villanova Wildcats finished second in the Colonial Athletic Association Conference, which produced four of the 24 teams in this year’s Football Championship Subdvision (FCS) playoffs. They entered the tournament as the No. 6 ranked team after a 10-2 season. Villanova boasts a potent running attack and the […]
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Rings, rings, rings. When discussing the greatness of sports legends, everything comes back to the simple question of “how many championships have they won?” This is a silly devolution of years of progress in the fields of reasoning and logic. In other words — rings do not really matter. At least, not too much. In team sports, winning a championship […]
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Flames split home series against University of Delaware Hens It was a tale of two games as Liberty University’s men’s Division I (DI) hockey team split their Nov. 7-8 weekend series against the University of Delaware 1-1. After dropping the first game 6-4 despite an early three-goal lead, neither players nor coaches had much to say. “It feels a bit […]
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Wilson’s score in the 100th minute gives Flames the victory In its final regular-season match of the season Saturday, Nov. 8, it seemed as if the Liberty men’s soccer team (11-5-1, 6-3 Big South) would head into the Big South Tournament with a tie against the visiting High Point Panthers (9-7-2, 6-2-1 Big South). With 100 minutes of scoreless play […]
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Women’s soccer runs through Big South playoffs, lose in the championship The Liberty Lady Flames soccer team — the No. 1 seed in the tournament and regular-season conference champion — ended its season in disappointing fashion when it failed to defend its Big South Conference (BSC) Championship. The Lady Flames fell in a penalty-kick shootout against High Point Panthers Sunday, […]
Read moreA look at this year’s crop of men’s basketball squads 1. Coastal Carolina Chanticleers The reigning Big South tournament champions return virtually every key player from last year’s squad, setting themselves up nicely for a repeat bid. Big-time schools will envy the Chants three-man backcourt of Warren Gillis, Josh Cameron and Elijah Wilson. African-born big men Badou Diagne and Michael […]
Read more2014 team experience a year of success The 2014 Flames fall season served as a teaching tool for a young Liberty golf team. After losing five seniors from the team last year, the Flames were paced much of the year by underclassmen and newcomers to college golf. Led by its sole senior Mathieu Fenasse, Liberty continued to get better and […]
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D.J. Abnar carries the Flames to their fourth-straight victory Two games. That is all the Liberty Flames football team (7-3, 3-0 Big South) currently needs to win in order to reclaim the Big South Championship after defeating the Monmouth Hawks (5-4, 0-3 Big South), 34-24, Nov. 8. After Monmouth deferred the coin toss, Flames quarterback Josh Woodrum took the field […]
Read moreLady Flames win back-to-back titles For the second straight year, a top-10-ranked Stanford team stood between Liberty field hockey and an NCAA Tournament berth, and for the second straight year, the Lady Flames emerged victorious. Sarah Gipe scored the lone goal of the Northern Pacific (NorPac) Championship final just under four minutes into the match, deflecting Natalie Barr’s shot past […]
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By Nate Haywood Alaskan guard sees his dream become reality “Ever since I have been playing basketball, Liberty is where I have wanted to be.” These are the words of the Calvin Hoffman, the recruit who dreamed of playing for the Liberty Flames men’s basketball team. Hoffman, a 6-foot guard from Anchorage, Alaska, has been playing basketball for nearly his […]
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By Dalton Britt Lady Flames eye a Big South title after being ousted from the 2013 tourney The Liberty women’s basketball team is used to winning. Cutting down the nets is nothing new for them. So last year, when they were knocked out of the Big South Tournament in the second round by third-seeded Winthrop, it was unusual. Head Coach […]
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By Nate Haywood Lady Flames keep their title hopes alive as they win in first playoff game The Liberty Lady Flames soccer team (13-4-1, 8-1-1 Big South) kept its Big South title hopes alive as they defeated the No. 8 seed Radford Highlanders (7-10-2, 4-5-1 Big South) 2-0 in the Big South Conference Tournament quarterfinals. Each team began with limited […]
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