For Coach Pamela Findlay, the new women’s basketball coach, it has always been about more than winning. She went to the Air Force Academy to play basketball, not on an athletic scholarship but on a military scholarship. Institutionally, the Air Force Academy doesn’t offer scholarships based on athletic ability. Findlay said the lack of athletic…
Every week in Mac sports you can’t help but hear the numbers: goals scored, number of strikeouts, sets won and so many others. But more than anything, sports are games of percentages. It doesn’t matter how many steals you had in one game if you turned the ball over just as many times. There’s no…
Macalester’s Track team won five events over the weekend to finish in second place at St. Olaf’s Tostrud Classic. Jack Schultenover ’18 (center) finished in first place at the preliminary 60-meter dash, with a time of 7.15 seconds, to finish in second at the final heat. Other victories came from Joe Giamberdino ’15 in the...
For first-year Women’s Basketball head coach Kelly Roysland this season has been full of learning experiences, from getting to know her players to adjusting to competition in the MIAC. “I went into the start of practice [at the beginning of the season], I knew nothing about my players and a lot of them hadn’t really…
As a chill bites the air and the fall sports seasons come to a close, the focus of Macalester sports fans will soon shift from the outdoor fields of soccer and football to indoors. On the hardwood courts of the Leonard Center, the Macalester Women’s Basketball team is aiming to improve with a squad built…
Despite a promising start to the season, the women’s basketball team has not had the year it hoped for. The team got off to a quick start in conference play in its first five games, beating MIAC foes St. Olaf, St. Catherine and Augsburg and narrowly losing to St. Thomas and St. Benedict. These games…
Although many students spent a lot of time sleeping in at home over winter break, four Macalester sports teams were busy competing to give glory to the institution. The basketball and swimming and diving teams spent all break competing in both conference and non-conference meets and games. Men’s Basketball The men’s basketball team struggled during…
