Athletics

Month: December 2013

  • Women’s Basketball’s Britta Rinke And Laurie Kelly Highlight This Weekend’s Gustie Spotlight

    Women’s Basketball’s Britta Rinke And Laurie Kelly Highlight This Weekend’s Gustie Spotlight

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    St. Peter, Minn. – Gustavus Adolphus senior women’s basketball player Britta Rinke (Sr., Waconia, Minn.) and Head Coach Laurie Kelly join Tom Wheeler of KNUJ AM 860 for this weekend’s edition of the Gustie Spotlight. Tom Wheeler, the radio voice of the Golden Gusties, conducts interviews with a different member of the Gustavus Athletics Department throughout the winter…

  • Women’s Hockey Back In Action With Series Against Rival St. Olaf This Weekend

    Women’s Hockey Back In Action With Series Against Rival St. Olaf This Weekend

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    St. Peter, Minn. – After being idle last weekend, the Gustavus Adolphus women’s hockey team is set to get back into action with a weekend series against Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) rival St. Olaf College.  The series will begin in St. Peter on Friday, Dec. 6th with a 7:00 p.m., opening face off and…

  • Women’s Basketball Comes Away With 75-66 Win Over Hamline In MIAC Opener

    Women’s Basketball Comes Away With 75-66 Win Over Hamline In MIAC Opener

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    St. Peter, Minn. – The Gustavus Adolphus women’s basketball team opened up its MIAC schedule with a 75-66 victory over Hamline University on Wednesday night at Gus Young Court. “Although we played better basketball in the three games leading up to tonight, it feels good to come away with a victory in our MIAC-opener,” said…

  • Men’s Basketball Opens MIAC Play With 80-62 Win Over Hamline

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    St. Paul, Minn. – The Gustavus men’s basketball team opened Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) play with an 80-62 win over Hamline University on Wednesday night at Hutton Arena.  Gustavus built a 14-point (41-27) halftime lead and would never look back on its way to the win.  Jordan Dick (Sr., Wabasha, Minn.) poured in a…

  • Women’s Hockey Remains No. 5 In Latest USCHO.com Poll

    Women’s Hockey Remains No. 5 In Latest USCHO.com Poll

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    St. Peter, Minn. – The Gustavus women’s hockey team remained No. 5 in the latest USCHO.com Division III Women’s Hockey Poll this week after being idle last weekend.  It marks the second consecutive week that the Gusties have ranked fifth, and the 67th straight time ranked in the top 10. Teams ranked first through eighth…

  • Women’s Basketball Opens MIAC Play Against Hamline On Wednesday Night

    Women’s Basketball Opens MIAC Play Against Hamline On Wednesday Night

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    St. Peter, Minn. – The Gustavus Adolphus women’s basketball team will head into MIAC play on Wednesday, Dec. 4 with a home game against Hamline University at 7:30 p.m. on Gus Young Court.  The Gusties enter Wednesday night’s contest at 3-0 overall, while the Pipers come in at 0-1 after suffering an 81-72 loss to…

  • Men’s Basketball To Open MIAC Play At Hamline Wednesday

    Men’s Basketball To Open MIAC Play At Hamline Wednesday

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    St. Peter, Minn. – The Gustavus Adolphus men’s basketball team is set to open Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) play on Wednesday, Dec. 4th when it travels to St. Paul for a match up with Hamline University at Hutton Arena. The Gusties enter the contest with a record of 3-1 overall and are coming off their…

  • Football’s Torey Asao Named CoSIDA Academic All-America

    Football’s Torey Asao Named CoSIDA Academic All-America

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    St. Peter, Minn. – Gustavus Adolphus College football player Torey Asao (Sr., Chaska, Minn.) has been named to the 2013 Capital One Academic All-America Division III Football Second Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).  Asao, a senior cornerback, is a biology major with a grade point average (GPA) of…

  • Baseball Hosts First Thanksgiving Clinic

    Baseball Hosts First Thanksgiving Clinic

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    St. Peter, Minn. – The Gustavus Adolphus baseball team held its first Thanksgiving Clinic on Friday, Nov. 29 and Saturday, Nov. 30 in the Lund Center Forum.  Thirty-five baseball players grades 2-6 took part in session one, while 18 players grades 7-12 participated in session two. The focus of the first session was to teach…

  • Allison Eder-Zdechlik Named Female Student-Athlete Of The Month For November

    Allison Eder-Zdechlik Named Female Student-Athlete Of The Month For November

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    St. Peter, Minn. – Through the opening month of the 2013-14 women’s hockey season, sophomore forward Allison Eder-Zdechlik (Stillwater, Minn.) has emerged as Gustavus’s go-to goal-scorer with an MIAC-best seven goals to go along with three assists for a team-high 10 points.  Because of her outstanding play, Eder-Zdechlik has been named the Gustavus Female Athlete-of-the-Month…