Led by senior captains Nick Brothers and Justin Foster, the golf team is well balanced. Three seniors look to higher their individual scores and graduate on a positive note: the two captains along with Rick Briggs.
Tennis season is underway, and the Lions are looking better than ever. Having made the regional final last year, the coaching staff and the team are eager and ready to get on the courts and get those points.
On Feb. 7, the women’s athletic teams gathered to celebrate and to honor the accomplishments of girls and women in sports.
Combining offense and defense can lead to a team being successful top to bottom. This year the Lions have both. The depth on the roster is as good as ever in school history. Now they just have to execute.
This is the first year head coach Sean O’Connor takes his MLB and all three NCAA divisional experiences to Saint Leo University.
This past weekend, the Saint Leo University Lions took on Sunshine State Conference Rival Rollins College in a tri-sport showdown. Swimming, Men’s and Women’s Basketball were the three sports and the contests were highly publicized with the Student Government Union sponsoring the Swim Meet with free sunglasses, flip flops and ice cream. At the end of the day, the Rollins Tars were handed four losses as the Lions took them down in each sport with each contest having their own moments of spectale and wonder
In this weekend’s conference championship games, the dominant second half performance from the Baltimore Ravens placed them into the Super Bowl to face the San Francisco 49ers. This match-up was unexpected as the Baltimore trumped the New England Patriots in the second game on Sunday and San Francisco made a fourth quarter comeback to beat the Atlanta Falcons.
The men’s basketball team is on a roll this year. The Lions are led by the three Wisconsin natives Marcus Ruh, Jerrel Harris, and Trent Thomas; each averaging at least 13 points a contest.
The 2012-13 playoff season has been full of upsets and amazing victories, including the Atlanta Falcons nearly losing to the Seattle Seahawks, and the San Francisco 49ers defeating the highly favored Green Bay Packers. On Jan. 17, a few days before the San Francisco 49ers competed against the Atlanta Falcons for the NFC divisional title, and the Baltimore Ravens went against the New England Patriots and fought for the AFC division, several members of the community were asked who they thought would survive the final round of playoffs and go to Super Bowl XLVII. Here is what they had to say:
The BCS works itself out in the end. Entering week 11 of the college football season, there were three remaining unbeaten teams—Kansas State, Oregon, and Notre Dame—and all of the stars were aligning towards BCS chaos. Notre Dame, the beloved Notre Dame, was going to finish the season undefeated and be left out of the national championship. And the SEC, the best conference in college football, was not going to have a team in it, either.
