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SPORTS 8/26/15 3:15pm

Finding, mastering a role

By Tommy Hamzik

A scrawny high school freshman named Jerry Tolley, sitting on his bicycle, leaned against the Edenton High School building on the first day of football practice in fall 1957. The legendary coach Bill Billings, who won four state titles at Edenton and later collected 10 unbeaten seasons as a coach in Delaware, approached Tolley with a skeptical look. “Tolley, what are you doing?” Billings inquired. “Well, I want to be a manager,” Tolley replied. Billings snapped back.

SPORTS 8/26/15 1:45pm

Column: Elon volleyball to reap benefits of deeper bench

By Tommy Hamzik

There were a handful of games in September 2014 in which the Elon University volleyball team dressed eight or fewer players. Not exactly a recipe for success. It also shouldn’t be a problem for this year’s Phoenix. With six new additions — including Michigan State University transfer junior and outside hitter Ebony Scott — Elon has a full roster and won’t see too many empty seats on the bench for games this year. There really isn’t anywhere to go but up for Elon after a 6-26 season and 1-15 mark in Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) play.

SPORTS 8/26/15 1:00pm

Title aspirations linger after Vargas departs

By Alex Simon

The 2014 cross country season was the longest in Elon University’s history. The impact of the success in 2014 can be felt as the 2015 season dawns for the Phoenix. In head coach Nick Polk’s office hang two plaques: one is for the 2014 Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Cross Country Athlete of the Year and the other is a 2014 All-American plaque.

NEWS 8/26/15 11:27am

Make Elon 101 more collaborative

 

On paper, the TA serves only as an assistant to the faculty or staff member instructor and explains parts of Elon the instructor isn’t familiar with. But the TA should take a more interactive role that allows him or her to better engage new students and prepare them for life at Elon both inside and outside the classroom.

NEWS 8/26/15 9:22am

Get your geek on

By Tom Mould

Let your geek flag fly. Because we all have a passionate geek inside us if we’re willing to admit it, and we are all are a heck of a lot more interesting when we connect our social lives with our intellectual ones and let our inner geeks out.

NEWS 8/26/15 9:18am

Experiences over expectations

By Lauren Phillips

Coming into college, many of us were told, “Watch out for the Freshman 15,” those pounds you may or may not pick up after late-night snacks and forgetting to go to the gym for a few weeks in a row. It doesn’t end with freshman year, though.

NEWS 8/26/15 9:15am

Column: Elon cross country holds some bragging rights

By Tommy Hamzik

The running teams were the class of the Elon University athletic department in 2014-15. Sophomore distance runner Kimberly Johansen and the women’s track and field team captured the school’s first Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) title, winning the outdoor championships in May.

NEWS 8/26/15 8:55am

Elon Center in Shanghai opens for business students

By Simone Jasper

This fall, 16 Elon University students will study at the new Elon Center in Shanghai.  The center’s program, geared toward business majors, will provide students with the chance to learn about the economy of the world’s most populous country.  For the new program, Elon partnered with the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE), a study abroad organization, to create custom course offerings.

SPORTS 8/26/15 8:30am

Some long road swings

By Nathan Smith

The Elon University women’s soccer team had a difficult end to its season in 2014. After a victory over the University of Delaware on Senior Day, the Phoenix had to travel to the College of William & Mary, Towson University and James Madison University to conclude its season. The result: three losses, two of which were shutouts, on the road in the span of seven days.  Any hope that the team wouldn’t have an end-of-season road trip again was thwarted when the schedule was released.

SPORTS 8/26/15 7:44am

Column: Elon men's soccer searching for a happier ending

By Tommy Hamzik

The scene was depressing, with blank stares across many Elon University men’s soccer players’ faces as they coped with their loss to Northeastern University in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Tournament. Their chances at a fourth straight NCAA Tournament berth had all but disappeared. Without a doubt, that loss still stings.

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SPORTS 04/25/2026 8:08pm
Beyond the Athlete conference highlights mental health in sports

Students and community members gathered in McKinnon Hall for the first-ever Beyond the Athlete Conference. Leaders in sport spoke about the challenges that Black or African American and allied community members, identifying as women, face during and after their athletic career.

SPORTS 04/25/2026 12:25pm
Rising defensive mind joins Elon football coaching staff

Elon has hired experienced defensive coach Jalen Hairston to lead its secondary. Hairston comes to Elon after many years of success in Division II football. He joins the Phoenix coaching staff after spending the past two seasons as the defensive backs coach for the University of Maine. While there, he also served as the safeties coach and defensive passing game coordinator for the Black Bears. Before he was a coach, Hairston played three seasons with the University of Charleston from 2015-2018.

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