While visiting Liberty University during his son’s move-in last summer, club shooting head coach Dave Hartman noticed a lack of adequate shooting ranges for his son to train at. Hartman sent emails asking when Liberty would be getting a shooting team, but his questions seemed to get nowhere. That is, until he sent another email saying he was going to […]
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With just a few months left before the start of fall camp, Liberty’s inaugural season in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) is now in sight. College football is a year-long process. Fans only get to see a glimpse of what life is like for players and coaches. In reality, games are just the culmination of all the hard […]
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Heading into the Collegiate Club Swimming and Diving National Championships, the Liberty Flames men’s swimming and diving team had endured an up and down season filled with a fair share of growing pains. But when the Liberty Flames men’s swimming and diving team entered the Georgia Tech arena for the Collegiate Club Swimming and Diving National Championships, none of it […]
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As he jumped over the boards for his first shift as a member of the Norfolk Admirals March 16, defenseman Zane Schartz quelled any nerves brought about by a whirlwind week. A few days earlier, he finished a season with the Liberty University Flames in which he was the highest scoring defenseman and sixth-leading scorer in the American Collegiate Hockey […]
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The Lady Flames hockey team (25-1) completed their near-perfect 2017-2018 season by securing the American Collegiate Hockey Association national championship title, despite facing several new challenges. The ACHA championship victory was Liberty’s second national title for the women’s hockey program. Their first title was won in 2015 when the Lady Flames defeated the Miami University Redhawks. “It is exciting. It […]
Read moreIt’s been just under a month since my last column so I’d like to acknowledge some of the major events that have occurred in the sports world in the last few weeks: The Rams are building a dream team. The 76ers have won a franchise record 14 straight games, including a 132-130 win over LeBron James and the Cavaliers. JuJu […]
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During the 2015-2016 track & field season, Natalee Cole, who was Bowling Green State University’s only 800-meter runner, often felt alone during practice, especially after she found out that she was suffering from low iron and anemia. As if these were not enough stressors, Cole felt the frustration of being poorly coached and having to stand alone morally in a […]
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Liberty’s top defender Lukas Tophoven is taking his talents to the German National Lacrosse Team this summer to compete in the Federation of International Lacrosse World Championship in Israel. Tophoven, who is both a German and American citizen, was the youngest player to ever play on the German national team at age 17 and will be the youngest again for […]
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It was a cold and rainy Saturday morning, but that did not stop the fans from cheering and the Flames from scoring. Liberty Men’s Lacrosse won their matchup with Pittsburgh 15-12 in a back-and-forth battle. “Absolutely no disrespect to Pitt, but I thought that we didn’t play with a lot of passion, especially in that second half,” head coach Kyle […]
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In the summer of 2013, a wide-eyed freshman walked on the campus of Liberty University as a student-athlete for the first time. Feeling fortunate enough just to be playing college basketball, Ryan Kemrite could have never predicted the impact he would make on Liberty’s basketball program over the next five years. Kemrite, a fifth-year senior, is originally from Conroe, […]
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Sunday, March 18, marked the day that junior western equestrian team member Erin Mays made history, becoming Liberty University’s first western rider to qualify for the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association National Championships. Mays did so by placing top two in her division at regionals to advance on to semifinals, where she made top four at the competition to be ranked […]
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“I just want to take a moment to thank you for your amazing support this season, particularly your showing at the Big South Championship game. While the outcome was not what we had hoped for, I could not have been more proud of our team and our students. Our guys played with heart and determination, and you the students made the […]
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The final game of the Liberty Softball Classic Saturday, March 10, proved to be a close one as Liberty and Ohio University went neck and neck until the Lady Flames were able to clinch the 2-1 win by pulling ahead in the fifth inning. The tournament began Thursday, March 8, and the Lady Flames played five games in three days, […]
Read moreMarch Madness has begun. No, I’m not talking about the buzzer-beating shots, bracket-busting upsets, or thousands of hours of work that will be neglected as a result of tuning in to games. Not that I don’t love the dance – I’ll be filling out my own brackets and religiously cheering for teams that I couldn’t even tell you where they’re […]
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More than halfway through the first quarter of the Big South Women’s Basketball Championship, the Lady Flames trailed UNC Asheville 2-10, which was their largest deficit in a tournament game since the 2015 championship vs. High Point. The Bulldogs fans unapologetically cheered on their team as they held an eight-point lead and looked to be on track to upset the […]
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