Sports

Working From Behind: Cross country excels despite disadvantages

AUSTIN MILLER | CO-SPORTS EDITOR The Butler University men’s and women’s cross-country teams are preparing for their third season of competition in the Big East Conference and are once again taking aim at the top teams in the country. With four of the last five NCAA champions coming from the Big East, the Bulldogs find…
Young and Hungry: Women’s Volleyball looks to continue last season’s success

AUSTIN MILLER | CO-SPORTS EDITOR With just two seniors and one redshirt junior on the roster this season, a young Butler volleyball team will head into the 2015 season looking to grow up quickly on the floor. After a 20-10 season that notched them a tie for fourth place in the Big East Conference last…
High Expectations: Men’s Soccer expects to compete for conference title

GRAYSON PRATHER | SPORTS REPORTER There are two things the Butler University men’s soccer team aims to do this season: score goals and win the Big East championship. “My expectation always is to win the Big East,” junior David Goldsmith, 2014 Second-Team All-Big East member, said. “That’s one of our team expectations and we’ve got…
Finding The Balance: Women’s Soccer features youth and veterans

ERIC ROBINSON | CO-SPORTS EDITOR The Butler University women’s soccer team begins its season featuring a good balance of experience and young talent. Co-head coach Tari St. John said she understands the benefits of having a lot of young talent. “I think it keeps the upperclassmen on their toes a little bit,” St. John said.…
Aiming For Consistency

ERIC ROBINSON | CO-SPORTS EDITOR With opening kickoff less than two weeks away, the Butler University football team hopes the work they have put in this offseason translates to success on the field. The Bulldogs are coming off a season in which they tied for eighth in the Pioneer Football League with an overall record…
Butler men’s basketball releases non-conference schedule

BY KYLE BEERY | CONTRIBUTING WRITER There are still more than 15 weeks until the first pre-season Butler men’s basketball game, but the Bulldogs generated some off-season excitement Thursday by releasing the full non-conference schedule on Twitter. The team’s twitter began with a picture of the new Bulldog logo and revealed puzzle pieces every half hour…
Southport senior Joey Brunk commits to Butler

MATTHEW VANTRYON | Editor-In-Chief 6-10 center Joey Brunk, a senior at Southport High School, has verbally committed to Butler, as first reported by Kyle Neddenriep of the Indianapolis Star. He averaged 16.5 points per game and nine rebounds per game as a junior. Brunk took only two official visits, one to Oklahoma and one…
Butler grad named associate athletic director for communication

MATTHEW VANTRYON | Editor in chief John Dedman ’03 is the school’s new associate athletic director for communication, according to a press release from the athletic department. Dedman will assume the responsibilities formerly held by Jim McGrath, who retired after working as Butler’s sports information director since 1981. Read about McGrath and his career “This…
OVERTIME: Pacers faced with crucial offseason

BY WESLEY BRYANT | STAFF COLUMNIST | wdbryant@butler.edu The NBA regular season has come to an end and the Indiana Pacers are home. For the first time since the 2009-2010 season, the Pacers failed to make the NBA playoffs. With the eighth and final postseason spot in the Eastern Conference within reach, the Pacers failed…