Category: Sports

 With the draft next week, my love for watching professional football is being reignited. I am captivated by its intensity, humbled by the physical capabilities of the players and amazed by the dedication all team members and staff show during the grueling 17-week season. However, football season is difficult for me because I am a New England Patriots fan, and […]

A jubilant smile must have spread across Kirk Handy’s face. An ecstatic exclamation or two may have escaped from his lips. Handy watched with pride as Liberty University’s Division I women’s hockey team captured its second straight ACHA Division I National Championship by defeating Lindenwood University – Belleville 5-2 at Comerica Center in Frisco, Texas, Sunday, March 31.  But while […]

During the worst of his injuries, Tiger Woods was incapable of getting out of bed in the morning without assistance. His four back surgeries and his Achilles and knee operations left him crippled, bedridden and unable to swing a golf club, let alone compete for championships. This precipitous fall for the athlete who had previously dominated the sport of golf […]

GAME 1 SATURDAY, APRIL 13 By Ben Craft The Liberty Flames baseball team beat the bad weather to close out a three-game series Sunday afternoon with a 15-4 win over the Stetson Hatters. The Flames had a season-high 22 hits, and sophomore infielder Will Wagner had four of those hits and extended his streak of RBIs to nine out of […]

Three Liberty players left the field with hat tricks Friday afternoon, April 12, as the Flames women’s lacrosse team showed its attacking depth, outscoring Arizona State 6-2 in the second half to pull away for a comfortable 14-7 win.   With their seventh consecutive win, the Lady Flames improved to 11-2 (3-0 in conference) for the first time in program […]

Photo by Gabrielle Calhoun | Liberty News Service As a middle schooler in New Jersey, goalie Quinn Ryan allowed 12 goals in his first game as a starter. Now as a junior in college Ryan lived out a dream by playing against professional hockey players in the World University Games in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Collegiate scouts traveled around the world in […]

Featured Photo: KJ Jugar | Liberty News Service Lady Flames Junior Jenna Joyal has grown familiar with sports throughout her life due to having three athletic brothers. “Sports were the thing to do,” Joyal said. “I think I’ve pretty much tried every sport.” Joyal excelled at lacrosse, diving and field hockey in her time at Canterbury Preparatory School in New […]

Your favorite athletics team is not a personality trait.  A personality trait is defined as a person’s patterns of thought, feelings and behaviors, as defined by the Diener Education Fund. Common traits can include introversion versus extroversion or optimism versus pessimism. There are all kinds of personality tests, from the Myers-Briggs to the Enneagram to the Big Five test to […]

The men’s lacrosse team stunned the University of South Carolina Gamecocks with a last-gasp winner in the final 10 seconds of Saturday’s game, March 30, grinding out a 12-11 win after a tightly-contested clash between the two nationally-ranked heavyweights. Though their one-goal margin of victory was their smallest of the season, No. 3 Liberty (10-0) remains undefeated as No. 6 […]

The morning rain was not enough to put out the Lady Flames fire Saturday, March 30, as the women’s tennis team battled to a 4-3 victory over the Lipscomb Lady Bisons. The match was the team’s first home ASUN match in school history and marked the 100th career win for Head Coach Jeff Maren. Following a 45-minute delay while the […]

The majority of transfer student-athletes are designated to a transition period of time to adjust to their new surroundings and learn about their new team and environment. Liberty Flames men’s tennis phenomenon Nicaise Muamba is not like most transfer students. Transferring to Liberty University after one year at the University of Tennessee, Muamba has developed into a difference-maker for the […]

Junior infielder Trey McDyre stepped up to the plate in the bottom of the eighth inning with only 17 at-bats on the season, and the Liberty Flames trailing by a run with no one on base.  McDyre connected with the pitch and the wind carried the ball deeper and deeper as UNF’s right fielder ran backward. McDyre watched the ball […]

Food, fun and football. That is what brought out families, students and even community members to William’s Stadium Saturday, March 30, for Liberty’s Spring Game, the first with Coach Hugh Freeze at the helm. This year’s spring football scrimmage looked different. While it still included the interactive tailgate games for people to enjoy, the game play itself ran a different […]

With spring in the air, the Liberty University track and field team recently transitioned from its indoor to outdoor season. Liberty Flames fans are anticipating that this spring awakening will continue to bring success. Paul Carmany, the sports information director for the team, said he is hopeful the team will be just as successful outdoors as they were indoors. “At […]

Despite experiencing a new conference, the Liberty Lady Flames basketball team found themselves in a familiar position when they made the ASUN conference championship game. The Lady Flames defeated the Jacksonville Dolphins in the first round 65-53. In the second round, Liberty handily beat the North Florida Ospreys 65-51. This set up a matchup against Florida Gulf Coast for a […]