BY NICK MOREO
Lions’ Pride Staff Writer
The Saint Leo women’s softball team stepped out onto the field at the University of West Florida. The Lions entered the tournament at 2-2 at the game series on February 13-14th. Having two regional opponents, the first game was against University of West Florida while the second team was Palm [...]

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BY JACOB STOUT
Lions’ Pride Sports Writer
From February 17 to February 20, the Saint Leo Lions Men and Women swim teams traveled to Charlotte, North Carolina to take part in the Bluegrass Mountain Conference Championships. The event was hosted by Wingate University at the Mecklenburg Aquatic Club.
The Lions competed against teams from Wingate [...]

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BY JESSICA PALL &
MINDY PIERCE
Lions’ Pride Sports Editors
Basketball senior Sierra Williams is player #24 guard for the Lady Lions. Majoring in Biology with a minor in management, William’s career goal is to run her own physical therapy clinic. William’s favorite memory with the team would be when the Lady Lions’ beat Nova University in [...]

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BY JESSICA PALL &
MINDY PIERCE
Lions’ Pride Sports Editors
Just over 200 female athletes dressed in business attire of Saint Leo’s nine athletic teams enjoyed a thick slice of chocolate cake with coffee, water or unsweetened ice tea, at Saint Leo’s 20th Annual Girls & Women in Sports Celebration banquet.
Held Thursday, February 4th, this banquet celebrated the [...]

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BY JACOB STOUT
Lions’ Pride Sports Writer

Courtesy of Mike Carlson

Lady Lions fight for the lead

Coming off a thrilling second OT win against Nova Southeastern at home, the Saint Leo women’s basketball team traveled to Boca Raton, Florida to take on the Lynn University Fighting Knights. However, the Lions’ came out on the short end with a [...]

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BY JESSICA PALL
Lions’ Pride Sports Editor

Courtesy of Mike Carlson

Josue Vazquez

Josue Vazquez is a senior on Saint Leo’s Men’s Basketball team. Majoring in Criminal Justice, after graduating Vazquez desires to play professional basketball overseas and hopes to work in the law enforcement field. During Vazquez athletic career at Saint Leo, he has been player of the [...]

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BY JACOB STOUT
Lions’ Pride Sports Writer

Courtesy of Mike Carlson

osue Vazquez and Eric Sharper

On January 13 before a crowd of more than 500 spectators at the Saint Leo’s Marion-Bowman Center, the Saint Leo men’s basketball team upset the Florida Southern Moccasins 91-79. The Moccasins entered the game ranked No. 2 in the nation in NCAA [...]

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BY JESSICA PALL &
MINDY PIERCE
Lions’ Pride Sports Editors

Courtesy of Liz Casey

Group hard at work.

Imagine if you could give a dying wish to a child who had a death threatening illness. What would you do to help make that true? “Give Kids The World Village” is a foundation home stationed in Kissimmee, FL that [...]

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BY JESSICA PALL &
MINDY PIERCE
Lions’ Pride Sports Editors
Erin Lucas and Erin Hotchkiss are the two graduating female seniors from Lions’ swimming program. Both have been competitively swimming for a majority of their life with Lucas at 15 years and Hotchkiss at 13.

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BY JACOB STOUT
Lions’ Pride Sports Writer

Courtesy of Mike Carlson

Erin Hotchkiss.

Saint Leo men’s and women’s swim teams both swept the visiting Rattlers of Florida A&M University on Saturday November 14 in Saint Leo, Florida. The Lions won every one of the 20 events, scoring a total of 94 points to the Rattlers 32 points.
Juniors Alisha [...]

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BY MINDY PIERCE &
JESSICA PALL
Lions’ Pride Sports Editors

Courtesy of Mike Carlson

Michelle Nogueras leaps to set the ball.

After the Lions had captured two wins in the first and second round playoffs of the NCAA Volleyball Tournament against the University of North Alabama and University of West Florida, Saint Leo had one more match against University of [...]

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By Jessica Pall &
Mindy Pierce
Lions’ Pride Sports Editors

Kyle Gramm and Brian Kiessling

Kyle Gramm from Naples, FL and Brian Kiessling from Mt. Pleasant, NC are the first class of graduating seniors from the male swim team who swam all four years since the beginning of the swim program.
Gramm is a middle grades education teacher planning to [...]

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BY JACOB STOUT
Lions’ Pride Sports Writer

Courtesy of Mike Carlson

SLU Basketball Player

The Saint Leo men’s basketball team was handed a loss at the hands of the University of Florida Gators on Monday, November 2 at the Stephen C. O’Connell Center in Gainesville. In spite of the Lions’ strong efforts on the court, the Gators ended [...]

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BY JESSICA PALL &
MINDY PIERCE
Lions’ Pride Sports Editors

Courtesy of Mike Carlson

SLU Womens’ Soccer

On a chilly Tuesday Night, November 3, the Lady Lions Soccer Team won their first game of the Sunshine State Conference tournament against Nova Southeastern University in the quarterfinal round match.
Statistically, the Lions held advantage in every category except for saves.

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BY MINDY PIERCE &
JESSICA PALL
Lions’ Pride Sports Editors

Courtesy of Mike Carlson

Hannah Beard

Hannah Beard is originally from Liverpool, England and is majoring in criminal justice.
Beard has played women’s soccer with the Lions all four years of college. She names her biggest accomplishments with SLU soccer to be named conference player of the year and All-American [...]

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BY: EDGARD AND EDWARD OLIVA
Lions’ Pride Staff Writers
October 28 2009 capped the start of the World Series of baseball. This year it was between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies. The New York Yankees ended the regular season with a record of 103 wins and 59 losses. They swept the Minnesota Twins in [...]

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BY JESSICA PALL &
MINDY PIERCE
Lions’ Pride Sports Editors

Courtesy of Mike Carlson

Mark McGuire

Men’s Golf claimed their team victory at the Spartan Invitational in Tampa where they played at the Rogers Park Golf Club.
“The Spartan Invitational was the most consistent the team has ever played,” Saint Leo’s men’s golf coach Ray Cisbani said.

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BY JACOB STOUT
Lions’ Pride Sports Writer

Courtesy of Mike Carlson

Alison Luthman

The Saint Leo men’s and women’s cross country teams recently competed in two meets. On October 2nd, the flrunners.com Invitational in Titusville, Florida saw the men’s team finish 8th and the women’s team finish 5th. On October 10th, the Disney Invitational saw a total of 25 [...]

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BY JESSICA PALL &
MINDY PIERCE
Lion’s Pride Sports Editors

Courtesy of Mike Carlson

Brittany Fuhr, from Nokomis Florida, plays the defensive specialist position and #10 on Saint Leo University’s Volleyball Team. Majoring in Psychology, she chose Saint Leo because it was close to home and has a great community.

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BY JACOB STOUT
Lions’ Pride Staff Writer

Courtesy of Mike Carlson

Kaitlin McKenna

The Saint Leo University women’s volleyball team continued its dominance on the volleyball court at the Bowman Center in Saint Leo, Florida on Wednesday October 6th. The Lions won the final two sets, in thrilling fashion, to beat visiting Florida Southern College, three sets to two.
The [...]

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BY MINDY PIERCE
Lions’ Pride Assistant Sports Editor

Courtesy of Mike Carlson

Leo Nogueira

Leo was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, majoring in Business Administration, hopes to stay in the US and attend graduate school.  He wants to stay involved in soccer with hopes to getting a job as an assistant coach at a Division I university.  His long [...]

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BY JESSICA PALL
Lions’ Pride Sports Editor

On September 23, Dr. Arthur F. Kirk, Jr. and assembled athletic staff ate lunch with Saint Leo University student athletes who academically were in the top 15 percent among all student athletes for Spring 2009 Semester.
Held at Lake Jovita Golf & Country Club, 37 student-athletes were honored with the lowest [...]

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BY JACOB STOUT
Lion’s Pride Sports Writer

The Saint Leo Men’s and Women’s Soccer teams each fell at home on Wednesday September 23. In the first game of the night, the Men’s team lost a close one, 1-0, to the visiting Flagler College Saints in front of a crowd of 381 at University Field. The Saint Leo [...]

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BY JESSICA PALL
Lions’ Pride Sports Editor

Photograph courtesy of facebook.com

Tanja Redmond

Tanja Redmond from Orlando, FL is majoring in International Business with a career goal of becoming a wedding planner.
Redmond earned MVP in both Track and Cross Country during her high school career at Eden Jr - Sr High School.
Although this is Redmond’s first season with Saint [...]

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BY MINDY PIERCE
Lions’ Pride Assistant Sports Editor

It was supposed to be an hour long meeting in the student center boardroom for all student athletes.
It wasn’t.
Saint Leo’s entire student athlete body was held by the athletic department on September 14 for more than four hours.
Fran Reidy, the director of athletics, informed the student athletes that he [...]

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Jacob Stout
Lions’ Pride Assistant Sports Editor
The Saint Leo University Women’s Soccer team secured their first win of the season with a penalty kick goal in the 87th minute on Thursday September 17. The crowd of 316 at University Field in Saint Leo, Florida saw the Lions overcome a sluggish second half when senior midfielder Sara [...]

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By Mindy Pierce & Jessica Pall
Lions’ Pride Sports Editors

Photograph courtesy of Jessica Pall
After a long day of class and practice, student athletes were informed they had to attend a mandatory assembly which began at 7 pm on Tuesday night to listen to motivational speaker Thomas Dismukes. While some who attended may have reluctantly went, [...]

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Jacob Stout
Lions’ Pride Assistant Sports Editor
Kaitlin McKenna and Emily Calderon-Reyes led Saint Leo University on the attack as the Lions handily beat the visiting Rollins College Tars three sets to none on Wednesday September 16 in front of a black-out crowd at the Bowman Center. McKenna led all attackers with 14 kills on 23 attempts [...]

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BY JESSICA PALL &
MELINDA PIERCE
Lions’ Pride Sports Editors

Athletes and coaches alike must have dedication, high goals, and a competitive attitude to succeed in the sports world. Tim Crosby set that standard here at Saint Leo University by dedicating 39 years of his life as head coach of the men’s tennis team and 37 years as [...]

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BY JACOB STOUT
Lions’ Pride Staff Writer

With the new school year coming into full swing, the Saint Leo University campus has come alive with students, both new and returning.  This year has provided the largest class of incoming freshmen in Saint Leo University history.  The University has also admitted more than 120 transfer students for the [...]

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