Cragg Named Athletic Director
Isabella Bruni, Managing Editor
October 3, 2018
Filed under Home Scroll, Sports
St. John’s new Athletic Director Mike Cragg was officially welcomed into the St. John’s community on Tuesday, Oct. 2, the seventh athletic director in program history after spending three decades at Duke University. He replaces former Director of Athletics Anton Goff. During his 30-plus years in North Carolina, ...
Welcome to The “Belly Fam”
Nick Bello, Social Media Manager
October 3, 2018
Filed under Sports
The term, “Insta-famous” refers to those who have achieved a somewhat celebrity status online via the app Instagram. Kodiak Simpson, a recent St. John’s graduate, obtained this status of internet fame in an interesting fashion over this past summer. Simpson went viral when a video of him dunki...
Skage Simonsen Seeing Success
Brendan Murray, Staff Writer
October 3, 2018
Filed under Sports
The countdown is over, the clock resets to 45 minutes, the game is about to kick off, the first player that stands out on the field of the starting 11 is one of the tallest, number 8 the starting midfielder, Skage Simonsen. Simonsen stands at 6’3, 185lbs, he is a freshman from Bergen, Norway, who, de...
Women’s Soccer Splits on Midwest Road Trip
Brendan Myers, Sports Editor
October 3, 2018
Filed under Sports
As Big East play continues to heat up, the St. John’s Women’s Soccer team picked up a key win on the road at Creighton before falling at home against Marquette last Sunday. After dropping their first conference game of the 2018 season at home to Georgetown, the Johnnies needed to pick up some...
DRIVEN: Budapest Native Leads Big East in Goals, Points
Nick Bello, Social Media Manager
September 26, 2018
Filed under Sports
Determined. That is the most fitting way to describe redshirt sophomore Zsani Kajan of the St. John’s Women’s Soccer team. Her overall goal for her soccer career at St. John’s is simple. Kajan wants to be named the Big East Player of the year, for her team to win the Big East Championship and ...
St. John’s Begins New Era With Dillon Pottish
Annie Drouillard, Contributing Writer
September 26, 2018
Filed under Sports
As the St. John’s Men’s Tennis team makes their way through the beginning of their new season, they are also adjusting to the new leadership of Head Coach Dillon Pottish. On Aug. 10, St. John’s announced the new addition to the coaching staff. Coach Pottish has been a NCAA tournament champi...
Women’s Basketball Releases 2018-19 Schedule
Brendan Myers, Sports Editor
September 26, 2018
Filed under Sports
With college basketball season opening up official practice on Tuesday, St. John’s Women’s Basketball Head Coach Joe Tartamella can officially start preparing his team for what appears to be a loaded 2018-19 schedule. Taking a different path than last year’s opening two games being within the...
St. John’s Volleyball Off to Strong Start
Nick McCreven, Staff Writer
September 26, 2018
Filed under Sports
The St. John’s volleyball team has charged their way through September thus far all the way to a 12-5 start. The Red Storm opened their season with the Jack Kaiser Classic in Carnesecca Arena. The team defeated Manhattan College and Central Connecticut State on the first day of the tournament, with...
St. John’s Hosts Eight Annual Dribble for the Cure Event
Derrell Bouknight, News Editor
September 26, 2018
Filed under Sports
The St. John’s Men’s and Women’s Basketball teams hosted the eighth annual Dribble for the Cure event on Saturday to raise funds and awareness for the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation. Since its inception in 2011, the event has raised more than $500,000 to contribute to the work of Dr. Mitch...
The New Age of St. John’s Soccer
Brendan Myers, Sports Editor
September 20, 2018
Filed under Home Scroll, Men's Soccer, Sports
The term “rebuilding year” has become a cliché in sports. If you looked at the St. John’s men’s soccer roster heading into the 2018-19 season, it would have been easy to think it was going to be a rebuilding year. Head Coach Dr. Dave Masur had a squad of 33 players, 25 of them new. Putting the sh...
Softball Coach Amy Kvilhaug Steps Down After 12 Seasons
Sean Okula, Staff Writer
September 20, 2018
Every coach must decide. Strategy, batting order, pitching changes. Decisions will always have consequences, good and bad. But any coach, at least any good coach, will decide using past performance and reason. As Coach Amy Kvilhaug moves on from St. John’s softball and pivots to a career of life and...
Keegan Bradley Wins BMW Championship
Nick Bello, Social Media Manager
September 10, 2018
Filed under Sports
For former St. John’s golfer Keegan Bradley, winning had become a distant feeling before this past weekend’s BMW Championship. The last time Bradley had won a PGA Tour event was in 2012 at the WGC Bridgestone Invitational. That however all changed Monday afternoon at a rainy Aronimink Golf Club ...
