By Joel Weckerly, Sports Editor Over the past couple years, the ACU football team has prided itself in starting off its schedule against a series of tough teams. This season is no different. The Wildcats open their schedule Thursday against Central Arkansas-a team they've lost to the past two years-in Conway, Ark. The Bears, who finished 8-3 last ... [Read More…]
Star quarterback turns star father: Freeman’s newborn Averie gives new life perspective
By Joel Weckerly, Sports Editor "Down! Set! Hike!" With the highly touted ACU football team set to kick off its season soon, those three words would appear to be the most important on star quarterback Colby Freeman's mind. But this preseason, the senior received a gift far more precious than his golden arm or his team's Top 25 ranking, and three ... [Read More…]
Young Wildcats to kick off season this weekend in Mo.: Rebuilt team features senior, two juniors
By Brian Roe, Sports Writer On a team that carries 15 players, senior Haylee Hartline symbolically wears the No. 3 on her jersey. Translation: only three of the 15 players on the 2003 Lady Wildcat volleyball team have completed two years of school. The volleyball team is young this year, as 12 of the 15 players are underclassmen, which includes ... [Read More…]
New studies use “radio pills” to track core temperatures
By Joel Weckerly, Sports Editor Six-foot-five, 310-pound offensive lineman Britt Lively is a pretty tough guy. A third-year starter on the Wildcat football team, the senior has gained quite a reputation for moving defenders with ease. But ask him how the weather's been during ACU's preseason practices, and he ditches the manly persona. "I'm not ... [Read More…]
Campbell hired to replace departed Jarrett
By Steve Holt, Sports Writer In cases of coaching changes, it's rare that both the departing and arriving coaches end up with their "dream job." Not so with Vince Jarrett and Mike Campbell. On Aug. 9, it was announced that Campbell, a high school golf coach from Andrews, would be replacing the veteran ACU golf coach Jarrett, who earlier in the ... [Read More…]
McCaleb, Mosley splitting athletic duties: Both act as athletic directors in lieu of Hays’ departure
By Joel Weckerly, Sports Editor When Shanon Hays announced his resignation as ACU's director of athletics to coach basketball at Midland College last April, there was the initial surprise from Vice President Gary McCaleb. After all, McCaleb, who oversaw school athletics, had helped bring in the 35-year-old Hays less than a year before. "I was ... [Read More…]
Former ACU athletes run in Pan-Am Games
By Steve Holt, Sports Writer Two former Wildcat track and field athletes placed first in their events at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Repub-lic, Aug. 5-9, but only one got to bring home a gold medal. Stephen Moore, a Plainview native and 1998 ACU graduate, won the gold medal in the men's decathlon at the prestigious ... [Read More…]
ACU’s preseason practices kick off with new look: NCAA changes up practice schedules; Gaines, team approve
By Joel Weckerly, Sports Editor Over 90 ACU football players reported to preseason camp practice on Aug. 11 with a slightly different schedule. In an attempt to curb the sometimes disastrous effects of heat-related illnesses that have received much intention in recent years, the NCAA mandated that, beginning this summer, Division I and II ... [Read More…]
Pre-summer classic Cats make history at D-2 Series: ACU makes first appearance in College World Series
By Joel Weckerly, Sports Editor Whoever said there's no such thing as a happy ending must've missed the last couple weeks of the ACU baseball team's season, in which the Wildcats went from almost missing the playoffs to making their first Division II College World Series in school history. ACU, which was coming off three straight Lone Star ... [Read More…]
ACU’s Alexander and VanWyk among fastest sprinters in the nation
By Steve Holt, Copy Editor "I'll meet you at the line. Run fast, and make me run fast too," is what two of the fastest sprinters in the nation say to each other just before every race. More often than not, the result has been the duo smoking the competition. They look so different-one is muscular and white, and the other is dark and lanky. But ... [Read More…]
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