Former Stetson basketball star on new track with coaching at Flagler
By Matthew Pagels | gargoyle@flagler.edu
With a one-time professional stint playing basketball, Sharnesha Smith has now turned her career into something much more at a young age.
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Flagler men’s soccer win second-round NCAA match in shootout
By Eric Albury | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photo by Eric Albury
After a scoreless regulation and overtime, the second-seeded Flagler College men’s soccer team outscored sixth-seeded UNC Pembroke 4-2 in a shootout in a second-round match of the NCAA Division II Men’s Soccer Championship on Saturday night.
Ryan Hanson, goalkeeper for the Braves, could not follow up on his perfect record during regulation and overtime of 12 saves, allowing all four of the Saints’ shots during the shootout to go past him.
By Cristina Coca | gargoyle@flagler.edu
With the season rapidly approaching, head coach Erika Lang Montgomery has her team in high gear. The Women’s basketball team has been preparing for the last few months for a season that could very well be one of their best in the Peach Belt Conference.
Coach Lang Montgomery feels that this could be the year the team makes a strong argument in conference play and makes it to the post season Conference tournament. The team has a very strong core group of girls with eight returners and five newcomers including three seniors Jen Knurek, Arianna Roper, and Rachel Brown. The team has not had a winning season as a member of the Peach Belt since they joined four years ago from the NAIA Florida Sun Conference. But that isn’t stopping the team this year, they are using that as motivation.
Flagler looks to hold first round of PBC tournament
By Marisa Strawn | gargoyle@flagler.edu
The Flagler men’s soccer has found itself putting Flagler College on the athletic map. Since moving into the NCAA’s Division II and the Peach Belt Conference in 2009, the men’s soccer team has achieved great success.
In 2009 and 2011, the men’s team was the regular season champions and the Peach Belt Conference Tournament champions. They are also 3-time NCAA tournament participants, finding themselves in the elite eight of the NCAA Division II tournament.
Former Flagler men’s basketball player signs pro contract
By Latesha Johnson | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photo by Dyann Busse
Flagler College alumni and former basketball star, D.J. Ferguson, signed a professional contract in Germany this summer.
Minor leagues hold dreams for Flagler men’s baseball players
By Eric Albury | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Former pitcher for the Flagler College Saints, Jonathan Armold has just completed his first season of Minor League Baseball pitching for the Milwaukee Brewer’s affiliate in the Arizona League.
Athletics not all about the athlete
By Cristina Coca | gargoyle@flagler.edu
You may have noticed some of the new faces in the athletic department here at Flagler College over the past few weeks, many of them coaches. But there is one new face that is even more important to those new coaches, staff members, and most of all the student athletes here.
She doesn’t call the court or the field her home, her home is the Athletic Training Room. She is the newest Associate Athletic Trainer. Eva Beaulieu joins an already strong athletic training staff with Head Athletic Trainer Jennifer Rinnert and fellow Associate Athletic Trainer JJ Wetherington.
Women’s volleyball set to overcome challenges
With the season under way, Brian Heffernan looks for success in his first year as head coach of the women’s volleyball team.
With five starters returning, younger players moving up the ranks and the acquisition of three freshmen, Heffernan faces the challenge of incorporating his style of play to those who are unaccustomed to his tactics.
Men’s golf to showcase Guatemalan talent
A new Guatemalan golfer, Sebastian Barnoya, has joined the Flagler men’s golf team this year.
Cultural mash-up: Men’s soccer shows diversity
By Eric Albury | gargoyle@flagler.edu
With 11 foreign players sporting accents from England, Ireland and Bermuda, this year’s men’s soccer team has become a cultural mash-up that makes games feel more like spectating at an international match.