Junior midfielder Brittany Aanderud made history as the Lady Flames soccer team (6-3-1, 2-0-1 Big South) defeated the visiting Bulldogs of UNC-Asheville (6-4-1, 1-1-1 Big South) in an 8-0 shutout Wednesday, Oct. 1. With two assists bringing her career total to 21, Aanderud surpassed the program record for most assists by any Liberty women’s soccer player. Nancy Davis (1998-2001) held […]
Read moreThe person many people at Liberty know as Coach Cheromei, children in Kenya know as Coach Zion. David Cheromei was hired to be an assistant coach for Liberty’s track and field and cross country teams earlier this year after five years away from the program. From 2007 to 2009, Cheromei was a graduate assistant for the team. “Everyone on the […]
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Flames lose double-OT heartbreaker in Rocco’s return On a night when Flames quarterback Josh Woodrum played one of the best all-around games of his career, it was his lone miscue that ended the game. Richmond (3-2) sent an all-out blitz at the Liberty (3-3) quarterback on a third-and-four in double overtime and Spiders linebacker blindsided Woodrum, popping the ball into […]
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Flames outscore Wildcats 13-6 over two games, but split series Whoever said numbers never lie did not watch much hockey. Liberty University men’s division I (DI) hockey (5-0-2) and the University of Arizona (2-1-0) proved that this weekend, Oct. 3-4 in a 1-1 series split in which play transcended the scoreboard. The Flames 8-0 game one win, for example, skewed […]
Read moreAmerica loves the NFL. So it makes sense for the NFL to have a game on Thursdays. The more football, the better, right? Wrong. On paper, Thursday Night Football is great. For the consumer, it gives more football to watch during a part of the week that normally is void of it. For CBS and the NFL, it makes extra […]
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There might not be many students who know the names of Abby Ponder, Daniel LaLonde, Josh Rich, and Margo Kollman, but those who have been to a Liberty football game have probably seen them. Since the fall of 2012, these four students have brought creativity to the atmosphere of Flames football […]
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Junior forward Sachem Wilson is playing in his best season with the Flames When the Liberty Flames men’s soccer team matched up against the Howard Bison in September, the Flames were maintaining a 1-0 lead. Then, midfielder Bay Kurtz sent the ball to junior forward Sachem Wilson. Wilson maneuvered past a defender and struck the ball just beyond the outstretched […]
Read moreIt might be fall, but Liberty baseball is still in full swing. The team’s offseason officially started Sept. 13th and will end Oct. 26th. This aspect of the offseason is made up of six practice days and one off day. Of those six practice days, two or three are intra-squad scrimmages. Senior outfielder Nick Paxton did not play due to […]
Read moreChanges to ball should produce more runs There will be some changes this year in college baseball, starting with the ball itself. In an attempt to boost offense in Division I baseball, the NCAA voted unanimously to switch from the raised-seam baseball to the flat-seam ball used in the minor leagues. According to the NCAA, this switch was a result […]
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The Liberty Flames men’s soccer team (5-2-1, 0-1 Big South) shut out the Howard University Bison (0-10-1) 4-0, Sept. 23 at Osborne Stadium.
The Flames began the game with aggressive attacks. They amassed two early corner kicks and multiple shot attempts, none of which were […]
Read moreI do not have kids. I have no wife, full-time job or house. I am not ready to raise a child. But I already know what sport he or she will be playing. So what, I like to plan ahead a little bit. It is not a bad thing for me to be looking out for my future children, right? […]
Read moreLayer’s annual training camp helps squad build conditioning “You have to go through something to be something.” Those words, spoken by Head Coach Dale Layer, are the heart of Liberty men’s basketball’s annual “boot camp” week. It is a tradition that marks the start of preseason each year: seven days of 5:55 — not to be confused with 6 — […]
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Field hockey continues winning ways, extends streak to five Lady Flames field hockey (6-4) continued an impressive homestand with a 5-0 defeat over the Ohio University Bobcats (2-6) Friday, Sept. 26 and a 2-1 upset of the No. 11 University of Louisville Cardinals (8-2), Saturday, Sept. 28. Liberty got off to a bit of a slow start in the first […]
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Lady Flames pass last year’s win total with victories over Virginia, Radford In the first match of Big South Conference play, the Lady Flames volleyball team (13-5, 1-0 Big South) defeated the defending conference champions, the Radford Highlanders (10-5, 0-1 Big South), in four sets (25-21, 23-25, 26-24, 25-13) Sept. 26. “It is always great to come out and start […]
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Liberty University’s Spirit of the Mountain Marching Band has come a long way since its inception in 1977. Dr. Stephen Kerr, director of bands at Liberty, has been a part of the program from the very beginning and has watched it evolve over the past few decades. “(Before 1977) there was a group that did play on the field that […]
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