UND Football on the rise
Adam Gunderman, Staff Writer
May 5, 2017
Filed under Adam Gunderman, Showcase, Sports
In 2017, the Fighting Hawks will not only be looking to defend their Big Sky conference title, but also trying to improve on their 2016 season. The 2016 season saw the Hawks achieve many program firsts. They made the FCS playoffs for the first time, they won the Big Sky conference for the first time,...
Summer sessions
Jake Andersen, Staff Writer
May 5, 2017
Filed under Jake Andersen, Showcase, Sports
Since joining the Big Sky in 2012, the UND women’s soccer team hasn’t had the success they’ve wanted. In fact, the team has a 9-57-6 record in five seasons with the conference, bad enough for the worst conference record during that stretch and four years spent at the bottom of the Big Sky. Katie...
Sports Q & A
Thomas McCullough, Staff Writer
May 3, 2017
Filed under Showcase, Sports, Thomas McCullough
Kaylin VanDomelen is amidst the best year of her University of North Dakota playing career. A softball pitcher and outfielder, VanDomelen leads the team in both batting average (.311) and pitching earned run average (1.86). Additionally, she has hit seven home runs while batting in 24 runs. VanDomelen...
Title IX woes
Adam Demoulas, Staff Writer
April 28, 2017
Filed under Adam Demoulas, Showcase, Sports
Following the sports cuts at the University of North Dakota, an investigation is underway regarding the controversial federal code Title IX. In the wake of cutting the women’s hockey team and men’s/women’s swimming and diving team, the university will be answering questions of the United States...
Hawk flies home
Jack Harvey, Staff Writer
April 25, 2017
Filed under Jack Harvey, Showcase, Sports
After the unexpected cut of the University of North Dakota women’s hockey team, the first Fighting Hawk has found a new home. In case you haven’t heard, the University Of North Dakota is facing budget cuts that had to be made with athletics on the chopping block. They had been since last spring wi...
Double trouble
Jake Andersen, Staff Writer
April 25, 2017
Filed under Jake Andersen, Showcase, Sports
As a three-sport high school athlete, Faith Dooley dreaded Sunday mornings. Sure, it was an off day from school and sports, but in reality, it was far from off. In fact, it was another workday, a workday on the family farm. “You wake up and dad’s like you got to go do stuff outside,” Dooley said....
Journey to the “C”
Jake Andersen, Staff Writer
April 21, 2017
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“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” Austin Poganski told Brad Schlossman that this was his favorite quote last June and after finishing his junior season at UND, Poganski keeps making the most of his shots. Poganski, a junior from St. Cloud, Minn., was named UND’s ne...
Predictions for Lord Stanley
Allyson Bento, Sports Editor
April 21, 2017
Filed under Allyson Bento, Sports
Every year, when April rolls around and hockey fans of every kind come together to compete to predict the next team to hoist the Stanley Cup. Together, with the sports writers, UND student athletes and other students on campus here are the predictions for who the next team could be. Jake Andersen - ...
Finding her groove
Thomas McCullough, Staff Writer
April 11, 2017
Filed under Showcase, Sports, Thomas McCullough
Molli Detloff is a thrower on the women’s track and field team. A junior this year, Molli is from Elk River, Minn. and is double majoring in rehabilitation/human services and psychology. The Dakota Student sat down with her this week to ask about her experience being an athlete at UND: DS: How di...
UND bids farewell to Boeser
Jake Andersen, Staff Writer
April 11, 2017
Filed under Jake Andersen, Sports
Brock Boeser wasted no time getting acquainted with his new team. Just a day after his UND squad lost a heartbreaking NCAA quarterfinal game to Boston University in double overtime, Boeser took his talents to Minneapolis, Minn. to take on the Minnesota Wild as a member of the Vancouver Canucks. Th...
Bettman says no to Olympics
Jack Harvey, Staff Writer
April 11, 2017
Filed under Jack Harvey, Sports
This past week, after speculation of what the choice would be, the National Hockey League has decided its’ players will not represent their countries at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman has stated the main reason the owners would not prefer to have p...
A program that breeds champions
Jake Andersen, Staff Writer
April 7, 2017
Filed under Flashback Friday, Jake Andersen, Sports
“Young girls cannot become what they cannot see.” Monique Lamoureux-Morando and Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson wrote these words in a letter to UND President Mark Kennedy pushing for the administration to reconsider their position on cutting the UND women’s hockey program. The statement is a...
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