From St. Cloud to State stardom
Looking back, it helped more than it hurt. Wolters, then a senior in high school, had his team back at the state tournament for the second-consecutive season in Minnesota’s highest class. Off a third-place finish in 2008, St. Cloud Tech would be back at the Target Center, preparing to play undefeated suburban powerhouse Hopkins in [...]
Owls flock to new skies
Snowy owls have been swooping into South Dakota in unusually high numbers this winter, delighting bird watchers and stirring up a hoot over their mysterious arrival. Snowy owls typically nest in the Arctic tundra of Canada and migrate south for the winter. This season, however, these Arctic natives are participating in a dramatic migration called [...]
Cold weather coyote hunting holds memories
It was an extremely cold February afternoon, I was 10 years old and fascinated by all things hunting. I wasn’t quite old enough to actually shoot anything yet and still I was enamored. Cold as it was, I was determined to drink in all the sights and sounds of an entirely new experience. Having accompanied [...]
Big game picks
The sports staff of The Collegian usually doesn’t make picks on games. Hardly ever. Except for this time each year, when we do our best “Carnac the Magnificent” and try to predict the future, or maybe just the Super Bowl. Ultimately, we don’t have much more of a clue than Keyshawn Johnson, Jerry Rice or [...]
Boarders find way to play on prairie
Snow-mo-board-ing (v.)- The act of towing a snowboarder behind a snowmobile, usually the consequence of extreme boredom and lack of mountains (not a real dictionary entry). What do you do when you’re a snowboarder in Eastern South Dakota and Larson hill is about as exciting as College Algebra? In the words of the late Steve [...]
Live from Frost: Jacks to host Buffalo Feb. 18
There’s a first for everything, and for the men’s basketball team two firsts will take place on Feb. 18. The eyes of the entire nation have the opportunity to watch the Jacks in action on ESPNU. Beginning at noon, ESPNU will televise live from Frost Arena while the Jacks host the University of Buffalo Bulls [...]
SDSU rallies past Oakland
The SDSU women’s basketball team got a key win thanks to another big game from the bench in a rematch of last year’s Summit League championship game against Oakland. A 12-0 run early in the second half proved to be key in erasing the six point halftime deficit and led to a 61-51 victory. A [...]
Defensive domination carries Jacks
Two nights removed from one of their worst defensive performances of the year, SDSU proved that they are better than that. In a dominant performance, the Jacks forcibly denied IPFW on the defensive end, defeating the Mastodons 74-43, on Jan. 28 at the Gates Sports Center in Fort Wayne, Ind. Forty-three points is the fewest [...]
No match: Air Force raids Jacks
The SDSU Wrestling team had a long afternoon Jan. 29 hosting the U.S. Air Force Academy Falcons in Frost Arena for a league dual meet. SDSU dropped the match to the Falcons 36-6, who took control of the meet early. After Sunday’s meet, SDSU slid back to a 0-2-0 record in the Western Wrestling Conference [...]
Jackrabbit swim squads split at North Dakota duals
The men’s and women’s swim teams traveled to Grand Forks, N.D., Saturday, Jan. 28, to take on the University of North Dakota in the Jackrabbits’ final dual meet of the season. SDSU split the meet, with the men claiming victory 160-140, while the women fell to UND 164.5-129.5. On the men’s side, the Jacks came [...]
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