Category: Sports

The Liberty Flames men’s soccer team came home to Osborne Stadium after a month on the road to squeeze past the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers 1-0 Saturday afternoon.  The Flames improved 6-2-1 (2-1 BSC). The Flames opened the season at home with their win over Bluefield Sept. 1, but have been on the road since. “This seven game road swing has […]

Liberty Athletics inducted five alumni in the Athletics Hall of Fame at a banquet on Friday to culminate the Hall of Fame Weekend. Athletics Director Jeff Barber announced in January 2009 that there would be an Athletics Hall of Fame.  The first class was inducted in September 2009. This year’s class of inductees included Theresa Bream, Gina Gibson Richardson, Lee […]

Pageantry is what makes football, football. A record-shattering 19,314 fans found their seats while taking in the enormous new press tower and club deck on the west side of Arthur S. Williams Stadium, were jolted by pre-game pyrotechnics and were thrilled by Sparky 2.0. Flames head coach Danny Rocco’s team were the thespians that delivered and completed the theatre with […]

Sports fans know the infamous debate surrounding cheerleaders. Are cheerleaders athletes, or not athletes? However, most of those engaged in such debates are not aware of the work, preparation and talent it takes to be a Liberty University cheerleader. Contrary to stereotype, the Liberty’s cheerleading squads’ practices do not merely consist of learning and rehearsing dance routines, cheers and chants. […]

The grand re-opening of the newly renovated Williams Stadium ended with a bang Saturday night. A 15-minute display of fireworks was shot off toward the end of the game to celebrate the new addition of the press tower to Liberty Athletics.

The Liberty Flames women’s swimming team began their first season at home against the Campbell University Fighting Camels.  This is one of only two meets being held at Liberty this season, so it was important for the Flames to take advantage of the home field.  Under Coach Jake Shellenberger the Flames hoped to start the inaugural game on a positive […]

The Liberty Flames improved their 2010 playoff campaign by dismantling Savannah State University in a 52-14 landrush Saturday. In an offensive outpouring, Liberty forgot their road-weary woes, suffering losses to Robert Morris and James Madison University and came home to more than 19,000 welcoming fans and a newly-molted mascot under a firework-streaked sky. “A lot of good things happened today,” […]

The Lady Flames Volleyball team split their conference weekend, dropping one to Winthrop and winning against Charleston Southern. The Lady Flames played extremely competitive games against Winthrop. They were in every game and had their chances to put Winthrop away, but fell short. “We have five freshman compared to their five seniors,” coach Shane Pinder said. “We had our chances […]

An eight-run, second-inning explosion by the Liberty University men’s baseball team keyed a 10-7 victory over the Gardner-Webb Runnin’ Bulldogs Sunday afternoon, completing a three-game sweep in which the Flames threw effective pitching, solid defense and relentless offense at a lowly conference rival. With just under a month left in the regular season, the Flames, currently second in the Big […]

When you think of the high jump, long jump and triple jump, not many things come to mind, other than maybe a pole that is set very high, a mat, maybe some sand and a skinny kid in spandex. But outside of that, there is really nothing that identifies it. But at Liberty University that is not the case. Only […]

Sports have been, and always will be, defined by moments. These moments often come as quickly as a flick of a wrist or a tumble into the end zone. As a child, I fell in love with sports because of these acts of grace, skill and, sometimes, luck that come together to culminate into a lasting memory that transcends age […]

After dropping four straight games on the road last week, the Lady Flames softball team picked up a decisive 6-0 victory over the Presbyterian Blue Hose on Sunday. Liberty was defeated in both games of a doubleheader on Saturday against the Blue Hose before regaining their winning form. Sophomore Kaylee West broke the game open in the fifth inning with […]

Family and friends of the late Liberty University professor Jeffery Owen Taylor were treated to front-row accommodations for Friday night’s game against visiting Gardner-Webb University. Taylor was killed this time last year while throwing some extra batting practice to his son, Jeff Jr., after a Lynchburg College baseball practice. Taylor and his son often stayed after practice for a few […]

The Liberty University track and field team not only broke school records, but also qualified three more athletes to the IC4A championships as the Flames hosted its annual Liberty Twilight Qualifier Thursday. Both Liberty records came from the women’s squad.  Sophomore Olivia Charnuski broke the Liberty woman’s 100-meter hurdles record with a time of 13.65 seconds – a record previously […]

California may be 10,000 miles and 10 time zones away from Sam Chelanga’s native Kenya, but he certainly feels at home in the Golden State. The redshirt junior shattered his own NCAA 10K record at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational at Stanford University, trimming 20 seconds off last year’s record set at the Brutus Invitational in Berkeley, Calif. Chelanga’s 27:08.39 […]