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This page consists of coverage of everyone’s favorite sports team – the Maroons! Check here for athlete spotlights and updates on how our teams are doing over the course of the season.

Three-Set Takedown

Swing of Victory

Rally Time!

Through Perseverance

XC, New Feats, New Heights

An Unstoppable Force

For Roanoke’s incredible soccer teams, the lineups have been nothing but sweet sweet victories thus far. Family Weekend was especially plentiful in entertaining games...

Maroon Spotlight: Aunika Kemp

To represent our Maroons, we’ll be celebrating Cyclist Aunika Kemp, who started off her senior season strong with a win at Explore Park hosted...

Swimming to Victory

As Roanoke College opens the 2024-2025 season for Men and Women’s swim teams, they recently competed at the Old Dominion Athletic Conference Relays which...

Cycling’s Highway to Victory

By Mariana Hanlin As a newer team on campus wheels in, cycling has worked hard to become well-known for being incredibly talented at what they...

Women’s Soccer: Powerful Brains and Braun

By Mariana Hanlin As we delve deeper into this season, the women’s soccer team at ‘Noke has been practicing long and hard. They have continuously...

Women’s Rugby: An Unbreakable Bond

By Lauren Price The women’s rugby field is an exciting place to be when the Maroons are playing. Rugby is very similar to football –...

Women’s Volleyball: A Ferocious Streak

By Lauren Price The Roanoke College Women’s Volleyball team has cruised to an incredible 9-3 record this season! Interestingly enough, the team consists of mostly...

Sports Legend Desires a New Crown

By Zachary Bayers World renowned soccer player, Cristiano Ronaldo, is widely accepted to be one of the best soccer players in history. With a whopping...

The Grand Return of Noke Football

By Mariana Hanlin With the new school year starting, Roanoke College welcomes back a highly anticipated sport that has been missing for quite a while:...

A Soccer Season of Great Promise

By Lauren Price Well, it sure was an exciting season opening scrimmage for the men’s soccer team. The Maroons hosted the Randolph Wildcats on August...

First Picklebrawl Tournament Announced in Salem

Written by Hannah Guanti  The first USA Pickleball sanctioned tournament is slated to be played in Salem this fall. The ‘Picklebrawl in Virginia’s Blue Ridge’...

Women’s March Madness Roundup

Written by Tim Hoffstatter This year has been filled with a lot of excitement both on and off the court! As of this article being...

Kim Mulkey Being Correct?

Written by Tim Hoffstatter Louisiana State University’s (LSU) Women's basketball is the head of the most controversial team in all of college basketball and all...

March Madness Mess-Up

Written by Tim Hoffstaetter These past few weeks have been filled with amazing basketball on both the women’s and men’s side however there has been...

Track and Field All-Americans

Written by Tim Hoffstaetter To wrap up the 2023-2024 Indoor Track season Roanoke College had two athletes compete at nationals and both earned all-American honors!...

Dawn Staley vs. Kim Mulkey

Written by Tim Hoffstaetter On Sunday, March 10th the SEC hosted their Women’s Basketball championship but sadly the discourse is not about the game anymore....

MLB March 21st Round-Up

Written by Mateo Biggs As we all see with sports rivalries, there is always a sort of hype that is present when fans get together...

Library of Libraries

Written by Nina Earle The Library of Congress in Washington D.C. What are your first thoughts? Do you think of the Gutenberg Bible that they...

Upcoming Game Schedules

Written by Mateo J. Biggs Men’s Volleyball: Feb. 16th- Bethany @ Bethany, WV Feb. 17th- Penn State @ Bethany, WV Feb. 22nd- Virginia Wesleyan @ Home Feb. 24th- Reinhardt...

ODAC Women’s Basketball Tournament Preview

Written by Tim Hoffstaetter Basketball season will sadly be coming to a close sooner rather than later. We are nearing the end of regular season...