Registration has begun for the 2021 intramural flag football season at VSU. Players need to have their teams registered before registration ends on Thursday, Jan. 21 at 11:59 p.m. Although COVID-19 is still present and doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon, the Competitive Sports staff at the Rec Center is planning to move forward with the return of ...
Read More »VSU women’s basketball team resumes practice
The Valdosta State women’s basketball team has started practicing once again as they gear up for what will be a unique season. The upcoming season will be profoundly different from any other season in recent memory, thanks in large part to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. On Nov. 17, the Gulf South Conference announced that both the men and women’s basketball ...
Read More »The Blazers return to Bazemore-Hyder for a high-scoring scrimmage
The VSU football team—split into two teams: Red and Black—returned to the field on Saturday, Nov. 14, in a high-scoring scrimmage that the Red team won by one point. The Red team was up as the Black team was set to tie the game, but they wouldn’t have gone into overtime if the Black team had kicked the extra point ...
Read More »Football season cancelled; soccer and volleyball seasons modified
On Tuesday, the Gulf South Conference announced that every sport except football will be returning in the spring. According to the GSC’s announcement, “there will not be a spring conference schedule for football. Institutions will have the discretion to schedule events on their own.” The announcement came as no surprise to VSU Head Coach Gary Goff. “We’ve known about that ...
Read More »More history to be made as The 2020 Masters plays out in Augusta
The 2020 Masters Tournament is underway in Augusta, Georgia. The Masters is one of the four major championships in golf. It is usually the first major of the year and, unlike the other three, it is always held in the same location. This year’s tournament will be the 84th edition of The Masters. Originally scheduled to be played on April ...
Read More »SGA holds last face-to-face meeting of the semester
President Richard Carvajal was the guest speaker and addressed his wishes to increase the number of face-to-face classes on campus on Nov. 2 when the Student Government Association held their last face-to-face general meeting of the semester. The meeting was called to order at 7:05 p.m. Melissa Wolfe, SGA president, delivered the state of the SGA, in which she commended ...
Read More »VSU football team set to hold scrimmage
The Valdosta State football team is prepping for what will be a one-of-a-kind scrimmage game at Bazemore-Hyder Stadium on Nov. 14 at 2 p.m. The scrimmage will be unlike any other in recent memory as VSU, along with the rest of the country, continues to deal with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Normally, VSU’s football team would be heading into the ...
Read More »VSU cross country teams set personal records and a school record at the GSC Championship
On Saturday, Oct. 31, the VSU men and women’s cross country teams traveled to Huntsville, Alabama, and capped off their season with several members setting personal records, and senior Angie Cipriani setting the new school record for the 5K. Cipriani, a senior, was the first Lady Blazer to cross the finish line and finished with a time of 18:09.09 her ...
Read More »One Team Coalition and VSU athletics get student-athletes involved in the 2020 election
The One Team Coalition, created by Valdosta State’s women’s volleyball head coach Kaleigh Zoucha, Associate Athletic Director Jennifer Grubbs and several student leaders within the athletic department, are using a variety of resources to encourage student-athletes to vote. Taj Taylor, a redshirt junior on the football team, is one of the student-athletes who was selected to be a leader within ...
Read More »Men’s Golf Team Finishes Fall Slate
The Valdosta State men’s golf team has wrapped up their fall slate, one that was shortened due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. As they look to continue to improve, they prepare for a seven-tournament slate in the spring. VSU participated in two tournaments in the fall. The Blazers finished, tied for fourth, at the Camden Collegiate, which took place on ...
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