SPORTS

The fall athletic season on campus features football, soccer, field hockey, volleyball, golf, and more. Every day these teams use the gym to stretch, catch a quick team lift, the sports medicine clinic for tape, pre-practice stretching, and of course, the fields to drill over and over again. This in...

Madison Handwerger (mahandwerger@ursinus.edu) As we are nearing the end of the fall season, all eyes are turning towards winter sports. Anticipation and excitement is rising as it has been years too long since our winter athletes have participated in normal athletic competition. Student-athletes are itching to begin games and/or matches...

Katie Cressman (kacressman@ursinus.edu) It’s no secret that the number 14 ranked Ursinus College Field Hockey team is wiping the floor with their opponents this year and currently sitting with a comfortable 11-4 record, but what is it exactly that’s at work behind the scenes to enable their success on the...

Julia Paiano (jupaiano@ursinus.edu) After a majority of their leaders graduated in 2020, the Women's Rugby team has been focused on gathering enough players to compete this season. Unfortunately, they did not reach their goal of 15 players to play in a 15 v. 15 league, however they now have a...

Ben Goetz (begoetz@ursinus.edu) On Wednesday, September 29th, the Bears headed over to Messiah College to take on the #5 ranked team in the nation. This was no unusual challenge for our Bears after they racked up two incredibly hard-fought wins the past two games against top-10 ranked opponents. The Bears...

Claire Hynes (clhynes@ursinus.edu) Feeling unable to get a handle on your stress recently? Find yourself struggling with a “normal” workload that now seems too much? You are not alone. For the past 18 months, we have been thrust into a state of stress that no one was initially prepared for...

Ava Compagnoni (avcompagnoni@ursinus.edu)  The Lady Bears of Ursinus’ Women’s Tennis Team made the trip down to Mary Washington University in Fredericksburg, Virginia, September 24-26, for an International Tennis Association (ITA) Regional Small College Tournament. After missing out on the ITA last year due to COVID, the Lady Bears could not...

Morgan Grabowski (mograbowski@ursinus.edu) After a year of not being able to compete due to COVID-19, the Cross Country team has had a strong start to the new season. Both the men’s and the women’s teams compete in the Centennial Conference. A pre-season poll has the women ranked 5th in the...

Katie Cressman (kacressman@ursinus.edu)  The Ursinus College Athletics Department is finally back in full swing this semester, and with that comes a new and exciting addition. ‘Sports On Main’ is offering students, faculty, parents, and the surrounding community an original sports broadcast. It recaps everything that happened in our sports world...