Archives by date

You are browsing the site archives by date.

Intramurals 03.23.2011

Team Sign-up Billiards League Information TBA If interested, please sign up at the Intramural desk or at Outback Jacks. Co-Rec Softball Opens: Thursday, March 24 Closes: Wednesday, March 30 Starts: Sunday, April 3 Co-Rec & M Soccer Opens: Thursday, March 24 Closes: Wednesday, March 30 Starts: Sunday, April 3 M&W 4 on 4 Football Opens: [...]

Baseball sweeps Bears

From gojacks.com GREELEY, Colo. – Jesse Sawyer hit a pair of home runs to tie the South Dakota State career record Sunday afternoon, leading the Jackrabbits to a 9-1 victory and a series sweep of Northern Colorado at Jackson Field. With their four-game series sweep, SDSU improved to 7-9 overall. UNC dropped to 1-11. The [...]

Phil Mcdaniels

Coach’s Candor 03.23.2011

Editor’s note: Phil McDaniel enters his first season SDSU head volleyball coach after Nanabah Allison-Brewer stepped down in January. We caught up with to discuss offseason workouts, next season’s outlook and coming back to Brookings. Q. Are you excited to be back at SDSU? A. Very excited. It’s only been three years, but there’s been [...]

SDSU’s Kelli Fiegen rises for a kill attempt in a match last season at Frost Arena.  Collegian Photos by Stephen Brua

Fiegen selected for U.S. volleyball team

The reigning Summit League player of the year is among 36 chosen to represent Team USA in Dallas. The awards and acknowledgements keep piling up for SDSU volleyball player Kelli Fiegen. Last week, Fiegen was selected to the USA Volleyball A2 roster. Tryouts for the team were held in February in Colorado Springs, Colo., and [...]

Sean Burns spins in his delivery of the hammerthrow in a meet earlier this season. Burns has 13 career victories, including seven in the hammer throw. Submitted Photo

Sean Burns: the Quick Learner

Sean Burns’ senior season has boosted SDSU track and field. By Dustin Veurink Sportswriter Senior weight thrower Sean Burns dominated the indoor weight throw competition this year, but the amazing thing is that he hasn’t been competing in the event long. Burns, a Rapid City native, didn’t know the weight throw was an event until [...]

Xavier stops Jacks postseason run

The Jacks stayed close to the No. 2 seed for a half, but Xavier moved on. By Marcus Traxler Assistant Sports Editor Too big. Too strong. Too much. The nation’s fifth ranked team, Xavier, pulled away in the second half from the SDSU Jackrabbits 72-56 in the first round of the women’s NCAA Tournament in [...]

Musketeers’ Phillips and Harris display big time tourney talent

The Musketeers’ pair were too much for SDSU to handle. It seemed there was more stacked against SDSU than just Xavier’s 13-foot tall, WNBA-quality front court. Never mind that no 15-seed has upset a two-seed in the NCAA tournament, or that Xavier was playing on their home floor in front of over 4,000 fans, or [...]

Despite struggles, SDSU season full of success

Of the seven seasons that South Dakota State women’s basketball has competed at the Division I level, this one was most difficult. Losing eight of nine games from late November to late December was the second-worst nine game stretch in the 45-year history of the program, matched only by a 14-game losing streak in 1984. [...]

Photo by www.juliancasablancas.com

The Strokes are at it again with their new album, Angles

By Jonathan Willett Music Columnist Not to begin so cliché, but there’s the old saying in the south where I grew up, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”  The Strokes burst onto the music scene almost ten years ago with their earth-shattering debut, Is This It?.  Changing music for so many of us suffering [...]

Film shows Facebook creeper

A New York photographer develops a relationship with a young painter on Facebook that isn’t who she seems. Juice Columnist The film Catfish, for those of you that have not seen it yet, is one of the most twisted and unexpected movies I have seen in the past few years. Don’t worry; I’m not going [...]