Category: Sports

  • Defense rules as field hockey shuts out Centre

    With a wealth of returning talent at the forward and midfielder positions, it looked like the field hockey team’s success would start with the offense early in the season. However, as the Wooster field hockey team picked up two victories this past weekend, it was the defense that deserved the brunt of the credit.

  • Despite long family legacy, Ali Drushal sets records, makes own name for herself

    Ali Drushal ’09 has arguably set enough records to catch Guinness’s eye. The 2006 and 2007 North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Libero of the Year already has the set the school record for career digs and last year led all of NCAA Div. III in digs as well. However, for the senior volleyball standout, being…

  • Men’s and women’s cross country teams take third at Wooster Invite

    The Wooster Fighting Scots cross country team kicked off the 2008 season with the annual Wooster Invitational. The Scots hosted the event this past friday at the L.C. Boles Memorial Golf Course. Four schools, Kenyon College, Edinboro University, Hiram College and Lake Erie College, were invited to the Wooster Invitational. For the women’s teams, Kenyon…

  • Men’s and women’s cross country teams’ outlook is positive for a strong, competitive run at NCAC titles

    As the beginning of the 2008 cross country season approaches, both the men’s and women’s teams look to be in a position to have a very competitive season. For the men’s team, five of the top seven runners are returning from last season this year, including senior Mark DeWine ’09. Despite its seventh-place finish at…

  • Women’s soccer aims for another winning season

    The College of Wooster women’s soccer team kicks off its season this weekend at the Herb Lauffer Tournament in Erie, Pa. The Fighting Scots will attempt a tenth winning season and hope to top their impressive 12-5-1 record last fall. This year’s women’s soccer team looks very different. With 14 first-years and 14 returning players,…

  • Volleyball team aims to pick up where it left off

    Amid the falling leaves and first-year lanyards, a team of 13 women is spending its days gearing up to take a run at a goal. That goal, though, is not just a conference title ‚Ä” it is finishing what they came so close to achieving last season. When last October rolled around, the women’s volleyball…