Trojans run in Bullock Invite
The Taylor cross country teams competed in the Ray Bullock Invite last Friday on their home course.
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The Taylor cross country teams competed in the Ray Bullock Invite last Friday on their home course.
Sports at Taylor University are back.
Late last month, the NAIA Council of Presidents voted to move all 2020 fall championships to Spring 2021.
Back in March, the country nearly shut down.
Golf is a fickle sport. A tiny, nearly microscopic hitch in a golf swing can be the difference between the perfect shot and a shot that floats out of bounds.
Women’s basketball and soccer broke program records. Cross country, both men’s and women’s, made nationals. Men’s and women’s golf both consistently placed in the NAIA Top 25 polls, with the women’s team spending much of their season in the top 5. Senior Mason Degenkolb brought the national spotlight to the men’s basketball program after his full-court shot.
Furloughs, new responsibilities and a massive shift in the sports media industry all seem to be strong side-effects to the war COVID-19 is waging on sports. While coaches and athletes seem to be the most affected on the surface, those behind the scenes have been just as unfortunate.
Taylor University is rare in more ways than one
Sports, and much of the world, have effectively shut down over the past few weeks. COVID-19 has picked off different sporting events, games and seasons one-by-one.
It was an unpredictable finish to an unpredictable season for Taylor men’s basketball last week.
Cheating is a part of sports.
The Taylor softball team played in the Bear Creek Tournament last weekend and went 3-1 in the two-day event. The games were their first since the J-term Arizona trip and improved the team’s record to 9-3 on the year.
After two consecutive losses to Grace College and the University of Saint Francis, the Taylor women’s basketball squad (26-3, 14-3) turned things around in a big way with back-to-back wins last week over Mount Vernon Nazarene University (17-12, 7-10) and Huntington University (20-9, 9-8).
Basketball in Indiana is more than a sport. Twelve of the 13 largest high school gymnasiums in the United States reside within the state. From Fort Wayne down to Evansville, basketball is king here. With the feverish passion for basketball comes a feverish fandom. As James Naismith, who invented basketball in Massachusetts in 1891, once said, “Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.”
Kobe Bryant’s passing on Jan. 26 came as a shock to the world. Sunday afternoons everywhere were disrupted as the initial news reports made their way through social media to an audience in denial.
It has been over a year since the Taylor women’s basketball team dropped consecutive games, but after tough losses at the hands of 10th-ranked University of Saint Francis and Grace College, that run is over.
It’s an early-December evening at Taylor University. With finals approaching, everyone has made their way to Odle Arena. The bleachers and sidelines are packed to the brim with college students wearing wild costumes. Teletubbies, Jim Harbaugh impersonators and human-sized hot dogs dot the crowd.
Riding a four-match win streak into postseason play, Taylor volleyball suffered a loss to Mount Vernon Nazarene University in the first round of the Crossroads League Tournament.
The Taylor men’s basketball team started their 2019-20 season with two consecutive wins last week.
The Taylor men’s and women’s golf teams wrapped up their fall season last week at Whistling Straits Golf Course in Wisconsin. The event took place on Oct. 21–22.