Category: Sports

After leading Liberty to a 6-6 record during the team’s inaugural FBS season in 2018, Turner Gill retired from coaching, expressing a desire to spend more time with his family. He returned to Liberty Mountain one year later, this time in a brand-new role. On Aug. 4, Liberty announced Gill’s homecoming as the university’s new Executive Vice President of Diversity […]

For fans of my generation all over the world, Lionel Messi defines soccer.  Soccer fans have argued through the past decade over who the greatest player of our generation is: Ronaldo, Zidane, the list goes on. But in my mind, Messi stands head and shoulders above the rest – a 5-foot-7 soccer giant. He plays with the ball like a […]

William Byron followed up an eventful week, including his first career win and the announcement of his contract extension at Hendrick Motorsports through 2022, with an uneventful Cook Out Southern 500 Sunday night – finishing fifth in the race with zero laps led. Byron started the race from the third position by virtue of NASCAR’s temporary metric-based qualifying system. He […]

First impressions are important, even in sports. For casual spectators who may not know much about an athlete as a game starts, a first impression often draws heavily on team uniforms.  Certain jerseys make a statement with flashy and unorthodox designs such as the Miami Heat’s Vice Nights Swingman jerseys, while others stir up admiration based on a franchise’s tradition […]

Despite the postponement of the 2020 fall season, the Liberty Flames men’s soccer team is looking for the silver linings in a tumultuous year, striving to move forward stronger than ever. When the ASUN conference announced its decision to postpone all of its fall sports games to the spring semester, athletes and coaches were disappointed. However, Head Coach Kelly Findley […]

As a freshman hailing from the United Kingdom, Deji Thomas-Smith expected his new environment to be a challenge. But his first season playing tennis in the United States was even more unpredictable than he expected. Moving to the U.S. to play tennis for Liberty University was a leap of faith for Thomas-Smith, an already-successful player in the U.K with a […]

When the ASUN announced Aug. 14 that fall competitions would not take place, Calli Doan, a junior on Liberty’s cross-country team, was prepared for the shock. Doan, like many athletes across America, lost her spring season to COVID-19, but she worked hard throughout the spring and summer to stay in shape for the fall season, as her fiancée timed her […]

Early in August, when the Big Ten and Pac-12 cancelled their fall football seasons, Liberty’s 2020 season hung in the balance. Fortunately for the Flames, the ACC decided to push forward, along with smaller conferences like the Sun Belt and Conference-USA, meaning Liberty would have the chance to play if they could put together a competitive schedule. Athletic Director Ian […]

Liberty golfers grappled with disappointment after all LU sports associated with the ASUN conference were postponed until the spring semester. However, motivated by Head Coach Jeff Thomas, the team is using the extra time to remain consistent and retain momentum as they prepare for a spring season. “We need to get into a routine and strive to become better golfers,” […]

LU online student William Byron claimed his first NASCAR Cup Series win in his 98th start Saturday night, after clinching the crucial closing laps of his Coke Zero Sugar 400 win at Daytona International Speedway. “Really just the final probably 10 laps of the race I was on offense, trying to just win the race and take whatever run I […]

Liberty’s latest athletics construction project, an indoor tennis facility, offers its tennis players something they have never had in school history: on-campus indoor courts. Liberty announced the construction of the facility in November 2019, after an anonymous donor gifted a generous sum toward the facility. Once completed, the facility will cost approximately $5 million.  Located next to the Cook Tennis […]

Receiving the news that the fall soccer season is postponed until spring was a devastating blow for Atlantic Sun athletes, but LU’s women’s soccer team is working day by day to keep momentum going in the midst of an uncertain year. Due to COVID-19, the ASUN conference decided it was in the best interest of players and staff to postpone […]