Category: Sports

For most, the senior year of college is a time to focus on the future, whether that be through exploring job opportunities, solidifying lifelong friendships or something else entirely. However, Flames’ senior setter Hannah Morris remains focused on the present as she looks to wrap up her volleyball career and instill a lasting competitive work ethic into her younger teammates. […]

 junior cross-country runner is changing the game at Liberty with her quick times, determined work ethic, team-oriented mindset and servant leadership. Noel Palmer is entering her junior year on the women’s cross-country team as a captain after a record-breaking sophomore season. Due to her emphasis on serving and mentoring her team, Palmer was voted captain in her first season as […]

Liberty’s women’s volleyball team needed a spark. They split the first two sets with the Virginia Tech Hokies, trailing 5-4 as they began losing momentum early in the third set. In the middle of the ensuing volley, junior libero Macy Phillips fully extended her arm while running backwards and out of bounds to keep the ball alive to help tie […]

Coming off back-to-back ACHA championships, the Liberty Lady Flames Division I hockey team needs leadership more than ever with six freshmen joining the team, and few players understand this more than senior forward Alex Smibert. Smibert, a Dorchester, Ontario, native, is majoring in biomedical science and hopes to go to medical school after graduation.  Smibert emerged last season as a […]

The Liberty women’s volleyball team is preparing for its second year in the ASUN conference and the team has something to prove. The team finished last season with a 10-6 record in the ASUN and entered the conference tournament ranked fourth, going on to lose in the second round to eventual champions Florida Gulf Coast. Head Coach Trevor Johnson is […]

The Green Bay Packers have been a staple of American football culture for 100 years. Imagine if one day they closed the gates to Lambeau Field and never played another game.   For fans of Bury FC, that’s the reality they face today. After 134 years of operation as one of the oldest soccer teams in England, Bury was expelled […]

When the Liberty coaching staff finally looked to the bench for a quarterback during the Flames 24-0 defeat to Syracuse, their best option was not even wearing shoulder pads because the NCAA is not allowing him to play. Liberty’s most heralded transfer player, former Auburn quarterback Malik Willis, was denied his appeal to play immediately after transferring to Hugh Freeze’s […]

Still without a goal after two games and 43 minutes of the season, Liberty women’s soccer needed a spark against William & Mary Thursday night.  That spark came when senior Kailey Neef tucked home a loose ball at the back post to score the Lady Flames first goal of the season, kickstarting a 4-2 win that saw the Lady Flames […]

Senior Ervin Chang is beginning his final year on the Liberty men’s golf team, and his path to success has been characterized by dedication not only to his personal game, but to his team as well. Even though golf is an individual sport, Chang expressed the importance of his relationships with his teammates, and the impact Liberty’s environment has had […]

The Liberty Flames cross-country team will enter the 2019 season with numerous changes mixed with plenty of optimism.  The Flames overhauled their coaching roster this summer, adding first-time coaches Isaac Wendland and Rachel Johnson to the men’s and women’s programs respectively. According to Liberty’s website, Wendland was a star in his athletic career at Liberty, winning the Big South 1,500- […]

There are only two types of unscripted reality TV shows – politics and sports. And while politics has some real-world implications, sports only has one purpose: entertainment. The conflict between entertainment and real life has never been clearer than in Indianapolis on Saturday night, where the Colts 27-17 preseason loss to the Chicago Bears was overshadowed by one man standing […]

Senior defender Mickayla Green is entering her final year on Liberty’s women’s soccer team, and she has had to put in a lot of hard work to develop into the player she is today. As she has moved forward in her career at Liberty, her playstyle and her approach as a leader has changed.  Over the years, Green has learned […]