Month: January 2013

  • Gymnastics Set To Open Season With Home Triangular This Saturday

    Gymnastics Set To Open Season With Home Triangular This Saturday

    St. Peter, Minn. – The Gustavus gymnastics team is set to kick off its 2012-13 season with the Gustie Triangular against Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) opponents UW-Whitewater and UW-Stout in the Gymnastics Studio located in Lund Center at 12:30 on Saturday, January 12th. The meet not only starts off the new season, but also…

  • Men’s Hockey To Face Saint John’s In First MIAC Series Of 2013

    Men’s Hockey To Face Saint John’s In First MIAC Series Of 2013

    St. Peter, Minn. – The Gustavus men’s hockey team will head back into MIAC play with an away/home series against Saint John’s University this weekend.  The Gusties will travel to the National Hockey Center in St. Cloud, Minn. for the series opener set to begin at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 11.  The two squads…

  • No. 2 Women’s Hockey Back In Action, Hosts UW-Stevens Point For Weekend Series

    No. 2 Women’s Hockey Back In Action, Hosts UW-Stevens Point For Weekend Series

    St. Peter, Minn. – The Gustavus Adolphus women’s hockey team will be back in action after nearly a month without a regular season game when it hosts UW-Stevens Point in a weekend series at Don Roberts Ice Rink.  The two squads will face off on Friday night at 7:00 and again on Saturday afternoon at…

  • Women’s Hockey Junior Melissa Doyle Highlights MIAC Student-Athlete Spotlight

    St. Paul, Minn. – Junior women’s hockey player Melissa Doyle (Jr., White Bear Lake, Minn.) has been featured on the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference’s (MIAC) Student-Athlete Spotlight.  The MIAC Spotlight highlights student-athletes from around the conference twice weekly on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Doyle, a graduate of Hill-Murray high school, is majoring in biology and will…

  • Swimming & Diving Returns From Winter Training Trip

    Swimming & Diving Returns From Winter Training Trip

    St. Peter, Minn. – From the sandy beaches of the Sunshine State, to the frozen grounds of the Minnesota River Valley, the Gustavus Adolphus men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams returned to St. Peter after spending eight days in Vero Beach, Fla. on the team’s annual winter training trip. “We had a great trip,”…

  • Slow Start Proves Costly, Women’s Basketball Falls To St. Thomas 65-43

    Slow Start Proves Costly, Women’s Basketball Falls To St. Thomas 65-43

    St. Peter, Minn. – The Gustavus women’s basketball could not recover from a slow start in Wednesday night’s 65-43 loss to No. 3 St. Thomas at Gus Young Court.  The Tommies burst out of the gate to a 12-0 lead and didn’t look back, holding on to a comfortable double digit advantage for over 32…

  • Men’s Basketball Falls To No. 2 St. Thomas 81-60

    St. Paul, Minn. – The Gustavus men’s basketball team fell at the hands of No. 2 St. Thomas 81-60 on Wednesday night at Schoenecker Arena.  After trailing by one point with 7:50 to play in the opening 20 minutes of play, the Tommies finished the first half on a 17-to-5 run to take an 11-point…

  • Gustavus Alum Nichole Porath Breaks Indoor Marathon World Record

    Northfield, Minn. – Former Gustavus cross country runner Nichole Porath `05 set a new world record for indoor marathons at the Zoom! Yah! Yah! Indoor Marathon held on the campus of St. Olaf College on Saturday. Finishing in a final time of 2:57:34, Porath shattered the previous world record by more than 10 minutes.  The…

  • Women’s Hockey Returns From Tour Of Europe

    Women’s Hockey Returns From Tour Of Europe

    St. Peter, Minn. – While many Gusties were at home over the holiday break, the Gustavus women’s hockey team traveled through Austria and Germany taking in the sights and playing three hockey games to set the tone the second half of the season. Senior defender Kelsey Kennedy (Eagan, Minn.) and senior forward Jenna Christensen (Albert…

  • Women’s Basketball To Tangle With St. Thomas For Top Spot In MIAC

    Women’s Basketball To Tangle With St. Thomas For Top Spot In MIAC

    St. Peter, Minn. – The Gustavus Adolphus women’s basketball team welcomes the University of St. Thomas to Gus Young Court on Wednesday, Jan. 9 for a showdown to determine supremacy in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.  The game between the two conference leaders is set to tip off at 7:30 p.m. Gustavus, at 9-2 overall…