Thanks for the memories
ERIN MADDEN SPORTS EDITOR Just two short years ago, I walked into my first-ever Troubadour writers’ meeting with no prior journalism experience. I took just one story at that first meeting — a story about the women’s volleyball home opener. I was a little nervous since I had never written a story before, but I […]
Baron tennis advances to conference finals
ERIN MADDEN SPORTS EDITOR Franciscan University men’s tennis team advanced to its sixth straight conference championship match with a 5-0 victory over fourth-seeded University of Pitt.-Greensburg in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference semifinals. “I told the guys earlier that it’s not something we deserve, it’s something they’ve earned,” Head Coach Jeremy Ellis said. “We’ve earned […]
From high school cheerleader to head sports writer
ERIN MADDEN STAFF WRITER When I was in the eighth grade, I went to my high school’s cheerleading tryout. I had cheered for three years in grade school but I wasn’t completely sure if I had the talent to make a high school squad. That didn’t stop me from trying. Three days of clinics, bruised […]
McClelland scores 100th goal, Lady Barons’ lacrosse win third straight game
ERIN MADDEN SPORTS EDITOR Senior attack Tracy McClelland scored her 100th career goal on Saturday as Franciscan University Lady Barons lacrosse beat Muskingum 13-7 in the team’s home opener. McClelland only needed two goals coming into the game to hit the career milestone. The senior took a lot of shots early in the first half […]
Making the madness
ERIN MADDEN SPORTS EDITOR Twenty-eight games have already been completed in this year’s NCAA basketball tournament and my bracket is officially busted (along with 99 percent of my fellow college basketball fans). How could I predict that No. 12 Yale would win its first-ever NCAA tournament game, that No. 11 Wichita State would manhandle No. […]
Franciscan sports teams head South for practice, team bonding on spring break
ERIN MADDEN SPORTS EDITOR Spring training has been a phrase synonymous with Major League Baseball for over a century. Teams flee to warmer climates before the start of the regular season so that players can compete for roster spots and get extra practice. Lately, colleges and universities have adopted a similar practice by taking spring […]
Barons tennis team wins first nonconference match of the season
ERIN MADDEN SPORTS EDITOR Franciscan University men’s tennis made a little bit of history Saturday afternoon by defeating a team from the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) for the first time in five years with an 8-1 win over Ohio Northern University. Beating the Polar Bears also marks the first nonconference win of the spring season […]
Becoming a Scanlan Scholar: Students compete for full-tuition scholarship
ERIN MADDEN SPORTS EDITOR High school seniors from across the country flocked to Franciscan University of Steubenville on Feb. 11-12 for the chance to compete for one of two full-tuition scholarships. Named for the Rev. Michael Scanlan, TOR, president emeritus of the university, the Father Michael Scanlan Scholarship Competition is in its 13th year of […]
The theater of the sports arena
ERIN MADDEN SPORTS EDITOR Last week, I touched on the relationship between sports and politics. Sticking with the subject of The Troubadour’s themed issues, let’s talk about the relationship between sports and fine arts this week. There are so many parallels between sports and fine arts despite the fact that the two are seemingly worlds […]
Sports column: Are conservative values benched in sports media?
ERIN MADDEN SPORTS EDITOR Bias exists in many different forms: religious, gender, racial, ethnic and others. But all of these biases can be tied back to one realm – politics. Sticking with the political theme for this edition of The Troubadour, let’s talk about the relationship between sports and politics. As much as we want […]