Category: Other Sports

Sophomore shortstop Marti Littlefield has proven herself worthy of many honors in the game of softball. Following the VSU women’s softball team first-place victory at the Eckerd Triton Spring Invitational two weekends ago, the Gulf South Conference named Littlefield the GSC Player of the Week in the East Division.
Littlefield was also the best freshman softball [...]

Starting in fall 2011, Valdosta State will be welcoming a women’s soccer team to the school. Leading the way will be head coach Melissa Heinz.
Heinz comes over from Winthrop University, where she was named NCAA Division I Coach of the Year for first-year coaches. She received the honor after compiling a 7-12-1 record. Heinz [...]

On January 23, 2010 Valdosta State’s Athletic Hall of fame inducted 6 new deserving members. The Hall of fame began in 1997 and since its inaugural year there have been 67 athletes inducted. Among the 6 athletes entering the hall are Nicky Balanis, Randy Fisher, Michael Terry, Kim Southall, Bobby McDonald, and Dr. Lamar Pearson.
Balanis [...]

The Valdosta State Blazers and Lady Blazers recorded promising numbers in the classroom for the 2009 fall semester according to results posted by the Department of Athletics on Wednesday, Jan. 6.
Out of 12 varsity sport teams at VSU, four managed to finish the semester with a team grade point average of 3.0 or higher on [...]

VALDOSTA- The Valdosta State Athletics department has named Melissa Heinz the first ever coach for the newest sports program at VSU. Heinz will lead the newly added women’s soccer team which will begin play in the fall of 2011.

 The Valdosta State athletic department is set to introduce the newest coach to VSU today in a press conference at 11 a.m.
Athletic Director Herb Reinhard has made his decision on who will be the first ever coach of the newly added women’s    soccer team, which is set to begin play in 2011.
 The process has been [...]

On Oct. 17 in Griffin, Ga., two students will be making their amateur debut into the world of Ultimate Fighting or, as it is officially known, mixed martial arts.
 Jay Edwards, a health and physical education major, and Bobby Stiner, a graduate health and physical major, will be representing the White Tiger Martial Arts Academy in [...]

Guest Column
Karah-Leigh Hancock
Editor-in-Chief
kphancoc@valdosta.edu
Whether you watch NASCAR or not, you have probably heard about the event that happened this past Sunday at the Talladega Sprint Cup race. If you haven’t, watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcCWhltnS2E
The news has been on shows that don’t even talk about NASCAR like “Larry King” and “Ellen.”
Here’s what happened: Carl Edwards, No. 99 was [...]

Michael Wilson
Sports Editor
mhwuilson@valdosta.edu
The VSU Red Hots and the co-ed cheerleading team won national titles at the 2009 NCA/NDA Collegiate Cheer and Dance Championship.  This year’s national championship for the Red Hots makes it back to back titles in the DII Dance Open championship, while the co-ed cheer team has claimed their first national title in [...]

Allison Dorminey
Staff Writer
aldorminey@valdosta.edu
Have you not quite gotten your football frenzy fix yet?
Intramural sports are making quite a stir around campus. On weeknights students can expect to ride by the Student Recreation Center and find an exceptional crowd out to watch some flag football.
“There are 22 sports going on this fall in intramurals,” Kristin Noble, Assistant [...]

Joshua Butler
Sports Writer
jwbutler@valdosta.edu
Following the Lady Blazer Volleyball team’s first conference win they hit the road this past weekend.  The girls were looking to rebound from a previous loss to Flagler earlier this year in Valdosta.
The first match proved to be an epic battle.  Sophomore phenomenon Irene Hannan had 18 kills and 13 digs.  Freshman Jordan [...]