BY MARY F. CHUHINKO
Lions’ Pride Staff Writer
When most people are safe in their beds sleeping, one Saint Leo student is up driving to Daytona Beach as early as 2 a.m. in the morning. Her passion is surfing. She does this at night, when the water is black and there is no one else around. After [...]

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BY JACOB STOUT
Lions’ Pride Sports Writer
The Saint Leo baseball team came up big on Green and Gold day as they beat the visiting Webber International University Warriors 28-10. The Lions pounded out 28 hits en route to their second-largest victory of the year.
The Warriors got things started immediately in the first inning. After [...]

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BY MINDY PIERCE AND JESSICA PALL
Lions’ Pride Sports Editors
Frankie Keel, from Fairfax, Virginia, is a Communications Management major and plans on continuing his career interning at the Tampa Bay radio station. Number 11 for the Lions, Keel plays as an attackman on the field. Just in the first official game for [...]

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JACOB STOUT
Lions’ Pride Sports Editors
On February 20, 2010, the Saint Leo women’s soccer team traveled to Stetson University to play in a 7v7 spring tournament. Freshman Kelli Jones, who had played in all 16 games for the Lions in the fall, was there with the rest of her team participating in the tournament. [...]

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BY JESSICA PALL &
MINDY PIERCE
Lions’ Pride Sports Editors
Senior swimmer Kyle Gramm is finished with collegiate athletics, but is continuing his athletic career with coaching.
This semester, Gramm is interning as a sixth grade math teacher at Centennial Middle School in Dade City, where he was appointed the boy’s head track coach for this season. [...]

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BY JESSICA PALL &
MINDY PIERCE
Lions’ Pride Sports Editors
Gina Schifano, from Tampa, Florida, is majoring in Biology, and hopes to go to graduate school and get her Doctorate in Physical Therapy.
Schifano has contributed a lot to the Tennis team over her four years. She has obtained the Excellence Awards her Freshman and Sophomore years [...]

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BY JESSICA PALL
Lions’ Pride Sports Editors
On April 21st, a ceremony will be held at Kafe Kocopelli in Dade City, FL to induct the inaugural class of Zeta Chapter of Chi Alpha Sigma, the National College Athlete Honor Society (NCAHS).
20 members will be inducted at this ceremony, with men’s soccer junior Bruce Cutler achieving the highest [...]

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BY JACOB STOUT
Lions’ Pride Sports Writer

Courtesy of Mike Carlson

#12 Kyle Marceau plays strong for the Lions’

The Saint Leo men’s lacrosse team went 2-1 in three games during a recent road trip to North Carolina. The Lacrosse team played against Wingate University, Queens University, and Catawba College in Wingate, Charlotte, and Salisbury, North Carolina respectively.
On February [...]

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BY JESSICA PALL &
MINDY PIERCE
Lions’ Pride Sports Editors

Courtesy of Mike Carlson

Senior Jeff Bloomer

#11 Baseball Senior Jeff Bloomer from Tampa, FL is a sports business major. Bloomer transferred to Saint Leo after attending and playing for South Florida Community College for two years. After graduating, he plans on working at an internship hopefully with the [...]

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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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