Dakota Student

UND Intramural sports keeping students active

Madison Overby, Sports Writer March 26, 2018

Intramural volleyball started up last week at the Wellness Center. The season runs for about five weeks; the regular season lasts until late April. However, if teams make it to tournaments the season can...

Kyley Foster is a pole vaulter on the UND indoor track and field team. Trevor Alveshere / Dakota Student

Foster flies high


Madison Overby, Sports Writer March 4, 2018

Kyley Foster is a junior at UND who has just recently added to her long list of accomplishments by finishing third in the pole vault at the Big Sky Conference Championships for indoor track. Foster also...

Members of the UND soccer team recently signed certificates for the Set The Expectation pledge, which states that sexual assault and physical violence are never acceptable.

Set the Expectation

Madison Overby, Sports Writer February 26, 2018

On Tuesday, February 6, University of North Dakota student-athletes filed into the ballroom at the Memorial Union for the spring all student-athlete speaker. Groans and eye rolls were apparent throughout...

Track performances on the rise

Madison Overby, Sports Writer February 11, 2018

The University of North Dakota track and field team spent the past two days competing at the South Dakota State University Indoor Classic in Brookings, South Dakota. The SDSU Indoor Classic is one of the...

The Super Bowl is often the largest site of human trafficking in the United States.

Super Bowl attracting the wrong traffic

Madison Overby, Sports Writer February 11, 2018

Many stories about sex trafficking in Minneapolis over the week before and weekend of the Super Bowl have been circulating. There were warnings upon warnings telling women to walk with friends and be extremely...

UND forward Mimi Eiden sprints with the ball down the pitch at Bronson Field during a match against Idaho State earlier this season.

Mimi Eiden

Madison Overby, Sports Writer February 4, 2018

Mimi Eiden, a freshman on the UND women’s soccer team, made herself right at home this year.   After a short settling-in period she began contributing points consistently. Eiden ended up with...

UNDs Shane Gersich (#19) fires a shot past Denver goaltender Tanner Jaillet during a home series last season.

Red hot Pioneers come to the Ralph

Madison Overby, Sports Writers January 24, 2018

This weekend is sure to bring high tension and good hockey. The University of North Dakota, 2016 national champions, go head-to-head with rival and 2017 national champions Denver. After splitting the...

Teams and coaches can become second families for student athletes staying on campus during holiday breaks.

Sacrifices for your sport

Madison Overby, Sports Writer January 22, 2018

Nothing compares to the feeling of settling into a long winter break after a semester filled with exams, projects, assignments and stress piling into the living room with your family, hot cocoa in hand...

Molli Detloff is a thrower on the UND Track & Field team.

UND kicks off track season

Madison Overby, Sports Writer January 22, 2018

After spending the first week of January training an immense amount, University of North Dakota Track and Field rung in 2018 with the Thundering Herd Classic in Fargo on January 13. The day was marked...

Senior outside hitter Tamara Merseli jumps for a shot earlier this season at the Betty Engelstad Sioux Center.

UND Volleyball makes repeat NCAA appearance

Madison Overby, Staff Writer November 29, 2017

After beating the number one seed Sacramento State in five sets in the Big Sky Championship game, the North Dakota Women’s Volleyball team was named Big Sky Conference champions. The conference title...

Fighting Hawks football players line up against Missouri State during this seasons Potato Bowl football game at the Alerus Center.

Taking a redshirt year

Madison Overby, Staff Writer November 15, 2017

It’s becoming more and more common in the world of college sports to have athletes take a “redshirt” year. This means that the athlete can practice with the team and is required to continue going...

UND forward Katie Moller looks for an opening in a home soccer match against Idaho State earlier this season.

Katie Moller finishes her best season

Madison Overby, Staff Writer November 5, 2017

Katie Moller, a forward on the University of North Dakota women’s soccer team, is coming off one of the best seasons of her career. Moller finished off the season with six goals and 15 points in Big...

Load More Stories
Activate Search
madison overby