For sophomores Allie Spaulding and Ellie Wolkow, two women’s basketball players, following in the footsteps of their sisters led them right to St. Thomas. Reporter Jacob Schneider has the story.
Senior center Hannah Spaulding led the No. 3 St. Thomas women’s basketball team to a 90-31 victory over conference rival St. Benedict Wednesday night at Schoenecker Arena.
St. Thomas alumnus Phil Esten was announced as the new vice president and athletics director of the university. Esten starts in January and will take over the position from Steve Fritz, who announced his retirement earlier this semester.
St. Thomas alumnus Phil Esten was announced in a press conference Monday as the next athletics director for the university. He will begin his role in January.
In the third Keep the Ball Rolling episode, hosts Gamiel Hall and Brady Halbmaier, joined by producer Lauren Andrego, recap the St. Thomas women’s basketball trip to Waverly, Iowa, and talk March Madness and Kirk Cousins. St. Thomas Athletic Director Steve Fritz visits the studio.
Saturday’s Tommie-Johnnie game at Target Field will mark the seventh time the two schools have played at a neutral site.
The 2011 NCAA Division III men’s basketball national championship team reminisced and reunited over brunch on Saturday in McNeely Hall.
Coming off a strong winter sports season, St. Thomas leapfrogged 20 spots in the Division-III Director’s Cup standings to land at No. 12 in the nation.
Out of the 12 conference titles up for grabs this winter, St. Thomas won nine of them. These included six conference championships out of the eight winter sports.
This is Sports in :60 for Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014.
The tradition and magnitude of the Tommie-Johnnie rivalry have increased since its humble beginnings on Thanksgiving Day, 1901.
St. Thomas finished in the top 10 nationally in the Learfield Division-III Director’s Cup standings for the third year in a row.
