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By Antonia Lopez After promoting Assistant Basketball Coach Nathan Moran to head coach of the men’s basketball team, the athletic department continues its search for a women’s basketball and women’s soccer coach. Moran was announced as head coach April 22 after Kevin Caroll took the head coaching position at neighboring Lipscomb University. “To the past and present players and the Trevecca community, I can’t express how grateful I am,” Moran said in a Trevecca athletics press release. “We will work to build a team that not only performs on the court but also inspires others through our values and community impact.” Moran is a Lipscomb and Battle Ground Academy graduate. He has previous coaching experience as an assistant coach at Lee University and was a part of the coaching s...

By Parker Henningsen Staff Writer Ashlan Sensing pitching on the mount for the Trojans at home. Wes Sharpe/Trevecca Athletics Trevecca’s softball team is off to an impressive start in the 2025 season going 3-0 on opening day of the GSC. The team swept Montevallo in a three- game series with Ashlan Sensing breaking two-all time school records and freshman Shea Hollingsworth hitting a walk-off grand slam to end game three. Sensing, a senior, tied the all-time appearance record with her starts in game one and two. She also broke the all-time Trevecca strikeout record of 617. “It means a lot, but I couldn’t have done it without my team behind me and Coach Tyree’s guidance,” said Sensing. The Trojans not only dominated in pitch- ing but also in hitting. “It felt good to ...

By Natalia Bowles Staff Writer Wes Sharpe/Trevecca Athletics After finishing the 2024 season with a 33- 23 overall record (20-12 conference), the Trevecca baseball team entered 2025 in unfamiliar territory. With a move from the Great Midwest Athletic Conference to the highly competitive Gulf South Conference, the team faces new challenges as it looks to establish itself in a new league. The Trojans have struggled with an 8-14 start to the season. However, with conference play approaching, head coach Chase Sain is optimistic about the team’s potential. “We’re a veteran team. We’ve got some guys who have played a lot of baseball at the college level, and they bring a lot of experience,” said Sain. “It’s really good to go into a new conference with more of a mature team.” ...

By Parker Henningsen Staff Writer Wes Sharpe/Trevecca Athletics For the first time since Trevecca joined the NCAA Division II, the men’s basketball team hosted a quarterfinal playoff game at home. No. 4 Trevecca played No. 5 Delta State in the Gulf South Conference quarterfinals, where TNU fell 87-78 on Tuesday. After an outstanding season, the Trojans’ campaign comes to an end. Trevecca played Delta State twice during the regular season, defeating them both times, 76-69 and 99-88. The Trojans, who joined the GSC this season, broke several records and led the league in assists, scoring and blocks. Despite the tough loss, Jikari Johnson reflected on the atmosphere in the Trojan Fieldhouse. “It was electric. Even from warmups and starting lineups, that was the most energ...

By Natalia Bowles Staff Writer Trevecca’s men’s soccer team huddles in the middle of a game against Spring Hill on Jan. 6, 2025.Greg Ruff/Trevecca Athletics For senior athletes at Trevecca, their final days as members of a sports team are approaching. Student-athletes spend years dedicating themselves to their sport, often leaving little time to focus on career development. On average, student-athletes spend about 70 hours a week on athletic and academic demands, according to the NCAA. While their experiences instill discipline, teamwork, and leadership, these same experiences also mean athletes don’t have as much time to network, complete internships, or participate in career-ready activities, said Karen Weaver, a sports management professor at the University of Pennsylvani...

By Parker Henningsen Staff Writer Trevecca’s STUNT team competing against Purdue University at the Trojan Field House on Feb. 21, 2025. Wes Sharpe/Trevecca Athletics Trevecca stunt is the only sport on campus not sponsored by the GSC. Stunt is widely regarded as an “emerging sport” across the United States, with only a few conferences nationwide sponsoring it as a sport. One of those is the G-MAC, which Trevecca left this past summer. “The only difference is that we don’t get recognition awards like Player of the Week and things like that. We also are playing against primarily D1 teams,” said Kelly Quigley, stunt head coach. Emerging sports can still compete, but not in an organized conference like the NCAA or the GSC. Instead, they form their own conferences so teams can...

By Parker Hennigson Staff Writer Trevecca will not be recruiting for a women’s lacrosse team in the spring of 2025 as intended. Mark Elliott, Trevecca’s athletic director, said it could be up to two more years before a program is fully running on campus. “We have promised to start the team, but the start date is still undetermined,” Elliott said. Due to a lack of space and coaching staff, women’s lacrosse wasn’t pursued until the university switched from the GMAC Conference to the GSC in the summer of 2024. Trevecca signed a deal with the GSC that allowed the university to join the conference in return for having a functioning women’s lacrosse team on campus by the fall of 2026. There is still no space, but the athletic department has found a potential coach, jump-star...

By Antonia Lopez Editor in Chief Diego Pavia playing for the Vanderbilt Commodores. Getty Images Trevecca athletes that started their athletic career at a junior college won’t receive any more eligibility from the NCAA–for now. The NCAA DII Management Council did not receive a majority vote for Division II junior college transfers to receive the same blanket waiver as Diego Pavia, a Vanderbilt University quarterback, who won a legal case granting him another year of eligibility. Although the blanket waiver will not be extended to DII schools, the council has voted for an extensive revision into eligibility, possibly granting athletes a fifth year of play. Pavia, Vanderbilt University’s starting quarterback, sued the NCAA on Nov. 8, 2024, challenging an NCAA rule that cou...

By Natalia Bowles Staff Writer Three athletes from Trevecca and many athletes from high schools and other university running for the Vanderbilt Commodore Challenge at Vanderbilt University’s Outdoor Track Complex on Jan. 18, 2025. Wes Sharpe/Trevecca Athletics The Trevecca track teams on Jan. 11 kicked off their 2025 indoor season at the Vanderbilt Commodore Challenge in Nashville, featuring 17 schools, including NCAA Division I programs such as Indiana, Ole Miss, and Vanderbilt. “This is the third or fourth year in a row that the team has been bigger than ever Trevecca’s track and field teams start the season with record breaking stats, debut in Gulf South Conference before in Trevecca history. It’s exciting to see the program grow like this,” said Austin Selby, head coach. ...

By Parker Henningsen Staff Writer Trevecca cheerleaders performing a pyramid stunt during their UCA routine in Orlando, Fla. on Jan. 17, 2025 University Event Photography On Jan. 17, Trevecca cheer placed 12th in Universal Cheerleaders Association (UCA) Nationals at the Division I level and placed fifth in the University World Cup (UWC) in only their third time competing. This marks a record for the team, as they competed in the World Cup for the first time. “We received our highest raw score in program history, which is very exciting. We would have finished in first place, but we had a small mistake at the end of our routine, which bumped us to fifth,” said Lexi Laucirica, the cheer team’s head coach. In 2024, the team did not place due to the rebuilding of the program. How...