DELAND, Fla. – The Stetson tennis program has added more individual and team honors to its wealth of summer accolades. Recent graduate Maksim Levanovich (Minsk, Belarus) earned a second postgraduate scholarship, 11 student-athletes were named ITA Scholar-Athletes, and both the men’s and women’s squads earned ITA All-Academic status. Levanovich, who has already received a number […]
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Stetson University women’s basketball Coach Lynn Bria has completed her coaching staff for the 2012-13 season with the addition of Jenna Burkett. “She is young, but already has a lot of experience,” Bria said. She is very organized and detail oriented, but is also an outstanding coach.” Burkett spent the last two seasons as an […]
Continue ReadingStetson University athletics had a banner year in the class room during the 2011-12 academic year, placing better than 70 percent of the school’s student-athletes on the Atlantic Sun Conference honor rolls for the year. The league, as a whole, saw its student-athletes perform at a very high level. More than 65 percent of the […]
Continue ReadingStetson University women’s basketball coach Lynn Bria has filled the first of two openings on her coaching staff by hiring Pam Brown to serve as assistant coach. Brown, who spent last season as a graduate assistant at North Texas where she was pursuing a Master’s degree in Recreation and Leisure Studies, spend two seasons on […]
Continue ReadingDaytona Beach News-Journal, 6/5/12 – Two players affiliated with the Stetson baseball program were selected Tuesday on the second day of the 2012 MLB First Year Player Draft. Relief pitcher Tucker Donahue (Coral Springs, Fla.) was selected 145th overall in the fourth round by the Toronto Blue Jays while NLI signee Alfredo Escalera was taken […]
Continue ReadingThe 2012 MLB First Year Player Draft wrapped up on Wednesday with six Stetson Hatters and two incoming National Letter of Intent signees for Head Coach Pete Dunn’s baseball program being selected in the final 25 rounds. Four of the picks were seniors with two headed to the same organization. The Baltimore Orioles began Stetson’s […]
Continue ReadingTwo players affiliated with the Stetson baseball program were selected Tuesday on the second day of the 2012 MLB First Year Player Draft. Relief pitcher Tucker Donahue (Coral Springs, Fla.) was selected 145th overall in the fourth round by the Toronto Blue Jays while NLI signee Alfredo Escalera was taken in the eighth round by […]
Continue ReadingGreensboro, N.C. – Stetson senior Sam Ryder (Longwood, Fla.) concluded an outstanding senior season and his Hatters career Saturday, May 19, in the final round of the NCAA Men’s Golf Greensboro Regional. He shot four over par 76 at Grandover Resort’s East Course, tying for 35th place overall. The A-Sun tournament individual champion was the […]
Continue ReadingStetson senior relief pitcher Robbie Powell had quite a week last week. The Punta Gorda, Fla., native pitched in each of the Hatters’ five games during the week, including both games against No. 1 Florida State. After Stetson dropped the first game against the Seminoles, they won four straight to close the week, and Powell […]
Continue ReadingFive days a week. Six to eight hours a day. In the scorching hot Florida sun. Who could ever guess baton twirling would require such rigorous training? Turns out, the sport requires a high level of physical endurance – along with a lot of arm and core strength. Also, let’s not forget the amount of […]
Continue ReadingStetson University head football coach Roger Hughes continues to criss-cross the nation in his efforts to recruit for the fledgling Hatters football program. In addition to his search for players, Hughes is also working to put together his coaching staff. That effort took a step forward on Monday when Terry Tilghman was named to the […]
Continue ReadingStetson University is offering a wide range of summer camps for school-aged youth from Florida and around the country – in subjects including science, music, athletics and other academic disciplines. Camps will be held weekly from June to August at the DeLand campus. Attendees live in Stetson residence halls and eat in the Commons. In […]
Continue ReadingMACON, Ga. – Stetson’s Alexandria Buelow made it a perfect three-for-three for her career as she earned her third-straight Atlantic Sun Conference Women’s Golfer of the Year Honor. Buelow is the only student-athlete in A-Sun women’s golf history to win three Golfer of the Year awards. Buelow also landed unanimous first team all-conference honors alongside […]
Continue ReadingSenior Maksim Levanovich (Minsk, Belarus) was named the third Atlantic Sun Conference Men’s Tennis Player of the Year in Stetson history on Thursday, pacing a quartet of Hatters to receive postseason honors. Levanovich was also named A-Sun Scholar-Athlete of the Year with senior Njal Stene (Oslo, Norway) landing on the All-Atlantic Sun Second Team and All-Conference Academic Team […]
Continue ReadingIt’s hard to believe this semester is coming to an end! This week’s Stetson Showcase shined brightly on many outstanding undergraduate student research projects across the university. As graduating seniors are finalizing plans for Commencement on May 12, all students are completing semester assignments and beginning to study for finals. The following events represent some […]
Continue ReadingThree members of the Stetson women’s tennis team were recognized on Thursday for their hard work on the courts as well as in the classroom as Atlantic Sun Conference postseason honors were handed out. Senior Shannon Gunning (Boca Raton, Fla.) and sophomore Diana Bukajeva (Riga, Latvia) were named to the All-Atlantic Sun Second Team while junior Jen Miller (Tampa, Fla.) was […]
Continue ReadingBraselton, Ga. – Stetson senior Sam Ryder (Longwood, Fla.) birdied his last hole of the day to shoot one under par 71 and rally to win the Atlantic Sun Conference men’s golf individual championship Wednesday afternoon, April 18, on the Legends course at Chateau Elan Resort. Ryder is the first Hatter to win the tournament […]
Continue ReadingA 2-1 week and a match-clinching win against an A-Sun rival earned Stetson freshmen Maren Rygh (Tonsberg, Norway) and Alexa Stonish (Stony Brook, N.Y.) the Atlantic Sun Conference Sand Volleyball Pair of the Week honors for April 11, the conference office announced Wednesday. This is the second such award for a Hatters duo this year; […]
Continue ReadingEnduring subzero temperatures, rain and heavy winds, relentless fatigue and decreasing oxygen levels, Business Professor Rick Copeland and his daughter reached the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro as dawn broke on New Year’s morning. “The sunrise was gorgeous. You could see the roof of Africa and the curvature of the Earth,” recalled Copeland. “I was so […]
Continue ReadingA dozen Stetson University football players from the 1940s and ’50s and a young recruit for next year’s return of Hatter Football were special guests at the ceremonial groundbreaking for the new Athletics Complex being built on the northeast side of campus. Under beautiful blue skies with the backdrop of a partly-constructed Athletics Field House […]
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