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Men’s Cross Country Wins GLVC Title
On Oct. 24, the men’s cross country team won the 2020 Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) Cross Country Championship at Principia College in Elsah, Ill. The Flyers finished with a score of 51 points after defeating Southern Indiana on the last kilometer. This is the first GLVC title the team has won since 2004 and […]
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Women’s Golf Ends Fall Season
On Oct. 19 and 20, the women’s golf team had their final contest of the fall season finishing seventh at the McKendree Bearcat Dual Gender tournament at the Far Oaks Golf Club in Caseyville, Ill. The Flyers finished with a 54-hole total of 950 on the par-72 6,0002-yard layout, scoring 328 in the first round, […]
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Kozak Sisters Bonded by Cross Country
On Sept. 25, the women’s cross country team earned third place at the UIndy Triangular meet – the first of the season. In the five kilometer race, two Flyers in particular, freshmen sisters Abbey and Anna Kozak, had very close finishes, crossing the line just 10 seconds apart from each other. Originally from Lockport, the […]
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Track Runner Caster Semenya Loses Case in Swiss Supreme Court
On Sept. 8, the two-time Olympic athletics champion Caster Semenya lost her case over testosterone rules at Switzerland’s Supreme Court. In May of 2019, the South African appealed against a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling that ratified rules defined by track’s governing body, World Athletics, limiting female runners’ testosterone levels in the 400, […]
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Division II Grants Competition Relief for Fall Sports
On Wednesday, Sept. 2, the NCAA announced that all fall sport athletes will be offered eligibility relief due to the uncertainty of the upcoming season generated by the pandemic. Under the new guidelines, fall athletes can apply for a waiver to receive an extra year of athletic eligibility, regardless of how much they compete in […]
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Women’s Tennis Defeats University of St. Francis
On Feb. 11, the women’s tennis team won their first match of the spring semester against the University of St. Francis 7-0 at the Challenge Fitness in Lockport, Ill. The Flyers struggled to get their way out at the beginning of the semester as they lost their first three games. However, the Flyers were ready […]
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