Lady Barons basketball cannot catch D’Youville, bids farewell to seniors
ERIN MADDEN SPORTS EDITOR Franciscan University women’s basketball team could not send its four seniors off with a victory, falling to D’Youville College, 62-51, in the last game of the season Feb. 20. “Today we ran into a hot D’Youville team,” said Head Coach Suzy Delaney. “They are playing really well heading into the playoffs. […]
Fighting to break the proverbial glass ceiling in sports journalism
ERIN MADDEN SPORTS EDITOR I have a passion for sports journalism. I have been writing sports stories for The Troubadour and the athletic department for a year and a half now. I’ve been to five Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference tournaments and three NCAA tournaments with some of the best athletes on our campus. Heck, I […]
Students, newspaper staff launch TroubadourFUS mobile app
ERIN MADDEN SPORTS EDITOR The Associated Press’ mobile application was not developed as a result of a class project. Neither was The New York Times’ app nor USA Today’s. Lucky for The Troubadour, Paul Norton, Blaise Lamatrice, Connor Gaede and Henry Hudson all took Dr. Cory Maloney’s Structured Systems Analysis class for the fall 2015 […]
Lady Barons basketball upsets no. 1 La Roche in 76-69 victory
ERIN MADDEN SPORTS EDITOR Franciscan University women’s basketball team held off a fourth quarter surge by La Roche College, the no. 1 team in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference, upsetting the Redhawks with a final score of 76-69 on Monday. The seven-point win also marks the first time in program history that the Lady Barons […]
Lady Baron basketball grabs first conference win
ERIN MADDEN SPORTS EDITOR Franciscan University women’s basketball grabbed its first conference win of the season, 75-65 over the University of Pitt.-Greensburg. “It was a quality effort tonight from our entire team,” Head Coach Suzy Delaney said. “We have a long way to go becoming a complete team, but I’m seeing some good things coming […]
Mizzou football joins #ConcernedStudent1950 protests
ERIN MADDEN SPORTS EDITOR The University of Missouri has been thrust in the national spotlight for a number of racially-charged events that have occurred on its Columbia campus. However, a majority of the nation lived in blissful ignorance about the situation until the school’s football team got involved. Let’s backtrack a little bit, with help […]
Franciscan volleyball suffers loss to Juniata in NCAA tournament, Herrmann praises three seniors
ERIN MADDEN STAFF WRITER Appearing in its second consecutive NCAA tournament, the Franciscan University volleyball team lost to Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, for the second-straight year in three sets, 14-25, 10-25 and 11-25. Franciscan advanced to the tournament after beating Medaille College for the Lady Barons’ second championship, receiving the conference’s automatic bid to […]
Lady Barons volleyball wins AMCC championship
ERIN MADDEN SPORTS EDITOR Franciscan University volleyball became back-to-back Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference champions in Buffalo, New York, on Sunday with a straight set sweep of host no. 1 Medaille College, 25-18, 25-18 and 25-20. Medaille earned the no. 1 seed and hosting privileges in the tournament by finishing 7-2 in the conference, including a […]
Franciscan volleyball advances to second consecutive conference championship
ERIN MADDEN SPORTS EDITOR Franciscan University’s volleyball team advanced Nov. 7 to its second-straight conference championship match with a five-set win in the Buffalo, New York, semifinals over no. 2 Penn St.- Altoona, 25-13, 27-29, 25-21, 18-25 and 15-12. Senior outside hitter Dani Link became the program’s all-time kill leader. Link only needed five kills […]
Lady Baron volleyball advances to conference semifinals
ERIN MADDEN SPORTS EDITOR Senior outside hitter Dani Link hit the 1,000 career kill mark in the first set of no. 3 Franciscan University’s 25-21, 25-20 and 25-13 straight set win against no. 6 Mount Aloysius College in the first round of the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) tournament. “It’s awesome that it’s at home,” […]