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.
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 freshmen and seniors, which makes for a good amount of variety in terms of varying experience. Nonetheless, the Maroons have played exceptionally well throughout the season with an outstanding performance…
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 total of 816 goals under his belt, such a feat has earned him the official title of the highest overall men’s international goalscorer in history. For decades, this near forty…
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: Football. This will be the first year Roanoke College has had a football team since 1942, nearly eighty years ago. With fresh recruits from all around settling in, these players…
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 25th, the first home event of the season. The Roanoke student body was incredibly excited to show up and support their classmates for this occasion. The energy was ecstatic, which…
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’ is expected to bring hundreds of fans and competitors to the valley. Beyond being an officially sanctioned competition, Picklebrawl is also the first tournament held in the commonwealth. Salem is…
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 written we still have two elite 8 games left between Iowa vs. LSU and Uconn vs. USC. An interesting fact about this Elite 8 is that all games have been…
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 of basketball right now period. Part of this is her personality and her coaching philosophy and style while other parts are because of players on her team being deemed as…
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 a lot of on and off-court messiness, especially on the women’s side, no fault of the players. Starting off with one of the worst mistakes in basketball history, at the…
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! The two amazing athletes are senior Kaitlyn Nguyen and junior Brady Fowler. This is the first time in my tenure here that we have sent multiple athletes to nationals, and…
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. The championship was between the University of South Carolina, coached by Dawn Staley, versus Louisiana State University, coached by Kim Mulkey. It was a close game where the Gamecocks ended…