Archive for the 'Athletics' Category
Here are several items of interest:
1. This afternoon the NAIA named Belhaven as a Champions of Character school. This recognition highlights colleges and universities that: “restore character values and raise a generation of students who understand and demonstrate in everyday decisions integrity, respect, responsibility, sportsmanship and servant leadership.”
2. Our H1N1 report shows we are having [...]
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Posted in Athletics on Oct 21st, 2009 No Comments »
When I first proposed that Belhaven College start intercollegiate football a dozen years ago, a former NFL player pulled me aside to tell me it was impossible to be a Christian and play football. I strongly disagree.
This past Saturday, our team played one of the most exciting games I’ve seen in a long time – [...]
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Posted in Athletics, Belhaven, Christian Faith, Culture, Higher Education, Missions, Roger Parrott, Uncategorized, World Events, Worldview on Oct 19th, 2009 No Comments »
For sometime I’ve been encouraged to take the time to write and share some of the leadership principles that have been important to me through 21 years in the college presidency. As our faculty, and others of you who write know, it takes discipline and it’s sometimes hard to stay in the chair long enough [...]
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Posted in Athletics, Belhaven on Oct 4th, 2009 No Comments »
I’ve periodically consoled coaches who are having a tough season in the win/loss column by saying, “losing builds character.” Which is true.
But winning can build character too, if done right – and is lots more fun!
Belhaven men’s soccer (what the world calls football) moved into the top 20 national ranking this week, at #19. And [...]
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After two years of evaluation, work, and preparation, Belhaven College is changing to a new athletic conference within the NAIA – the Southern States Athletic Conference which offers 14 conference supported sports for our athletes.
Our long-term conference, the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference, includes schools who offer a limited number of sports – it is primarily [...]
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Do you know which schools in America are the most sports crazy? No, not Ole Miss, Alabama, or Florida.
MIT and Harvard field the most intercollegiate teams – 41 and 39 respectively. One of the little known facts of higher ed.
Belhaven has one of the broader NAIA school athletic programs with 14 teams.
MIT will no longer [...]
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Posted in Athletics on Feb 4th, 2009 No Comments »
Blazers Upset Top Ranked Delta State
Cleveland, MS-On a cold and windy day for baseball, the Belhaven baseball team traveled to Delta State University on Tuesday afternoon and came away with a 7-1 victory over the Statesmen. It was the Blazers sixth win of the season against just one defeat in 2009. Tuesday’s contest was the [...]
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Posted in Athletics, Belhaven on Nov 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Three members of our Women’s Cross Country team – Christie Barber, Libby Brown and Jessica Gunning – earned berths in the NAIA National Championship meet this weekend in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Several members of the women’s soccer team were named to the All-Conference Team: (1st Team) Sarah Benson, Catherine Dunst and Mallory Hodges; (2nd Team) Kristin Parson, [...]
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Posted in Athletics, Belhaven on Nov 17th, 2008 No Comments »
In all the buzz of our men’s soccer team reaching a national ranking of 6th, the strong season of the women’s team was overlooked by many. They came within just that one game of going to the national championship tournament.
The women made it all the way into the conference championship game against William Carey, after [...]
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Posted in Athletics, Belhaven on Nov 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Our men’s basketball team went to Tuscaloosa to play the University of Alabama tonight. The final score wasn’t great, 97-43, but our guys are marvelous to even take the floor against an SEC team.
We were down by only 2 points ten minutes into the game. Below is the story of the game from their web [...]
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Posted in Athletics, Belhaven on Oct 31st, 2008 No Comments »
During the past year and a half, I have carefully evaluated the future leadership needs for the Student Affairs arena of the College. In this interim without a Vice President overseeing this department, I’ve enjoyed having the Student Affairs team report directly to me, and this time has also helped me better understand the needs, [...]
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Posted in Athletics, Belhaven on Oct 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Our men’s soccer team has had only had one loss all season, and we dropped from 6th to 22nd in the national rankings that came out today following our loss to University of Mobile last week. Doesn’t feel too fair since many teams above us have had several losses. I guess this will give us [...]
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Posted in Athletics, Belhaven on Oct 14th, 2008 Comments Off
Today’s NAIA national ranking moves Belhaven from 13th to 8th. This is getting exciting! Come out and watch this team Wednesday and Friday this week in the Belhaven Bowl – both games at 3:00 pm. Could this be the march toward our second national championship in men’s soccer?
1 University of Rio Grande (Ohio) 12-0-1
2 Lindsey [...]
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Posted in Athletics, Belhaven on Oct 7th, 2008 Comments Off
The Belhaven Men’s soccer team is ranked 13th in the nation in the NAIA coach’s poll. Our team has continued to climb each of the past several weeks. Congratulations to Head Coach Steve DeCou and the team for their outstanding season to date.
Three home games are coming up in the next two weeks, and [...]
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Posted in Athletics, Belhaven on Sep 13th, 2008 Comments Off
Tonight our football team played powerful Millsaps that rolled over Mississippi College last week 42-6. It was a very close game going into the fourth quarter. Then their punter used the hurricane generated winds blowing from Texas for a 77 yard kick, followed by our fumble near their goal line and that took all [...]
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Posted in Athletics, Belhaven, Uncategorized on Sep 8th, 2008 Comments Off
This week is “Millsaps Week” as our teams face off against our State Street friends.
Football renews the Riverside Rumble event at 7:00 pm on Newell Field
Volleyball hosts the Majors Friday night at 7:00 pm
Men’s Soccer plays at Millsaps at Noon on Saturday.
(Women’s soccer plays them on the 19th at 8pm)
All students receive complimentary admission to [...]
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This must be the week when all the coaches around the country have their “media day” to get the press buzzing about the upcoming season because the papers are filled with football news. I love college football, and so can’t wait for fall. I’m anxious for our Blazers and other college teams to get on [...]
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Posted in Athletics on Jun 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Today’s Clarion Ledger reported that the MS State head football coach, Sylvester Croom, will receive a $700,000 raise, to bring his total salary to $1.4 million. He is a great guy, wonderful role model, and knows his football so I’m glad for him.
But should sky-rocketing coaching salaries really be the priority of any university? A [...]
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