GEORGETOWN, Texas - Seniors Audra Gentry and Ricky Jones received the 2010 Dr. Carla Lowry and Dr. Texas Kassen Awards which denotes the top female and male student-athletes at Southwestern University for the school year.
GEORGETOWN, Texas - Thanks to the generous donations of the members of Southwestern's first booster club, The Pirate Crew, the Athletic Department was able to begin a new tradition of awarding watches to senior athletes whom had completed eligibility while at Southwestern.
SUWANEE, Ga. - The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) announced its Student-Athlete Academic Honor Roll today for the 2009 fall term and 47 Southwestern student-athletes representing all five fall sports were earned recognition. A record 780 student-athletes conference-wide made the list.
SUWANEE, Ga. The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) today announced its second annual Volleyball All-Sportsmanship team. Twelve volleyball players were selected to the 2009 squad including SU's outside hitter senior Ali Zein-Eldin (pictured).
LEXINGTON, Va. - On the heels of leading Southwestern University to the SCAC Volleyball Championship, head coach Hannah Long has been named the 2009 AVCA Division III South Region Coach of the Year.
LEXINGTON, Ky. Four Southwestern Pirates have earned All-American honors for their spectacular 2009 season, led by senior outside hitter Audra Gentrys (pictured) Second-Team All-American honors. Also named in the report were Sam Lingamfelter (Third Team All-American), Christina Nicholls and Lindsay Thompson (Honorable Mention).
GEORGETOWN, Texas Reminiscent of their two other match-ups this season, the Trinity Tigers and Southwestern Pirates faced off in the NCAA Regional Final on Saturday evening and a crowd of 400+ saw the finals match they were expecting. The breaks did not go SUs way, however, as the Pirates fell 3-0 to end their historic season.
GEORGETOWN, Texas The Southwestern University womens volleyball team advanced to the regional finals by out hustling the Maryville Scots on Friday night to win 3-0. The finals match, beginning at 7pm, will be an all SCAC affairs as the Pirates take on conference rival Trinity.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Led by 2009 SCAC Player-of-the-Year senior outside hitter Audra Gentry of Southwestern University, the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference placed 11 players on AVCA All-Region Teams, including eight First Team selections, in an announcment made today.
GEORGETOWN, Texas Southwestern continued their winning streak in the first round of the NCAA South Regionals, defeating the University of Dallas 3-0.
Want to be the first to know where and whom the Pirates will be playing in the first round of the NCAA Tournament? Watch the NCAA DIII Volleyball selection show live at 10 am CST on the NCAA channel online.
ATLANTA, Ga. The Southwestern Pirates did what fans have become accustomed to all season, winning all games at the tournament, only this time the wins gave them an outright SCAC Championship title for the first time since 1997.
ATLANTA, Ga. The 12th-ranked Pirates, winners of 28 straight matches and the top seed for this weekends Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Volleyball Tournament, was rewarded for its highly successful season by winning three of the leagues four major postseason awards in exclusive all-conference voting by the head coaches of the SCAC.
GEORGETOWN, Texas The #12 Southwestern womens volleyball team closed out their regular season action by hosting the Halloween Volleyball Tournament and dominated their home court winning all four games to extend their win streak to 28.
SHERMAN, Texas Southwesterns volleyball team pushed their winning streak to 24 over the weekend with three wins at the Austin College Tournament held in Sherman, Texas. The Pirates won in straight sets over ASC Conference opponents McMurry, Concordia and Hardin-Simmons.
SUWANEE, Ga. - Reese Cisneros of Southwestern University, a defensive specialist/libero on the Pirates' volleyball team, has been selected the SCAC Character & Community Female Student-Athlete-of-the-Week for the week ending October 18, 2009.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Excellence. Domination. Perfection. All words that could be used to describe the Southwestern volleyball team as they have made their way through SCAC conference action over the past month. The Pirates solidified their regular season conference title with four wins over the weekend, extending their win streak to 21.
CONWAY, Ark. Ever since going 1-3 at their opening weekend tournament in Ada, OH the Pirates have been cruising, winning their last 17 straight including this weekends matches against Birmingham-Southern, Hendrix, Rhodes and Colorado College. The Pirates are now 19-3 overall and sit at a perfect 10-0 in the conference and in sole position of first place.
BELTON, Texas Put another notch on the wall for the Southwestern University volleyball team as they improve to 15-3 on the year with a 3-0 (25-9, 25-15, 25-18) win over the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor on Tuesday night. The win marks the 13th win in a row for the #14 nationally-ranked Pirates.
The scholarship, granted annually by the Texas Association of School Personnel Administrators, honors the best teacher candidates in the state. Lingamfelter, a mathematics senior, student-athlete and campus leader, plans to teach secondary math upon graduation.
GREENCASTLE, Ind. #18 Southwestern took care of business this past weekend at the SCAC West/East Crossover hosted by DePauw, willing all four contests including their final match against #11 Trinity.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas - #20 Southwestern University looked impressive at their first conference crossover this weekend. The Pirates dropped just one game to go 4-0 over the weekend and improve to 10-3 overall and 4-0 in conference.
Audra Gentry, a senior outside hitter from Albuquerque, N.M. has been named SCAC Volleyball Player-of-the-Week for matches played from Monday, September 7 through Sunday, September 13.
After an uncharacteristically shaky start that saw service errors and miscommunication, Southwestern reorganized and refocused to defeat Concordia-Texas 3-0. The Pirates improve to 5-3 on the season while the Tornados fall to 0-5.
The Pirates had to win a total of nine games over the weekend to sweep the Southwestern Invitational, and after at 3-0 over a hard-hitting Wiley College team they did just that. With the win SU improves to 6-3 on the season.
The Southwestern Pirates, ranked 20th in the latest AVCA poll for NCAA Division III, got back to their winning ways as they defeated one of the top teams in the ASC, Texas Lutheran, in four sets, 25-18, 17-25, 25-18, 25-14, Wednesday night. The Pirates improve to 3-3 on the season while TLU falls to 3-2.
Coach Long knew what kind of competition her club would face while at their first tournament in Ada, OH. Getting a taste of what playing fellow nationally ranked programs is like was a big reason she scheduled the trip. The Pirates got a good idea and played hard during the weekend but dropped three of the four contests to fall to 2-3 on the season.
The #8 Southwestern Pirate volleyball team proved their top ten national ranking with a dominating win over the University of Dallas. The Pirates won the match in straight games, 25-8, 25-12 and 25-18.
The Southwestern University Volleyball team will start the season as the team to beat in the conference as the Pirates were voted into the eighth place spot with 413 points in the American Volleyball Coaches Associations Preseason Poll. The eighth place ranking is highest of any Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference school and is one slot higher than the Pirates finished in 2008.