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Baseball Wins First Game Of The Season, Splits Doubleheader Against Grand View
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Minneapolis, Minn. – The Gustavus baseball team achieved its first victory on the season, defeating Grand View University out of Des Moines, Iowa 7-4 in game two of a doubleheader on Sunday night at the Metrodome. Gustavus suffered a narrow 4-3 loss in the opening game of the doubleheader. The Gusties improve to 1-3 overall…
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Athletic Trainers Set To Kick Off National Athletic Training Month With Food Drive
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March is recognized as National Athletic Training month and to kick off the celebration, the Gustavus Athletic Training Association is hosting a food drive. To show your support for the athletic trainers and athletic training students at Gustavus, please bring a non-perishable food item or donation to the Athletic Training room on Wednesday, March 7th. …
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Tim Kennedy Honored With 2011-12 MIAC Mike Augustin Award
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Author – Matt Higgins, MIAC Assistant to the Executive Director Throughout his distinguished career as the sports information director at Gustavus Adolphus College, Tim Kennedy always honored his colleagues in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) through his selflessness, leadership, dedication and friendship. Recently, the MIAC SIDs unanimously voted to return the favor by awarding…
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Polar Bear Plunge And Special Olympics A Success This Weekend
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The numbers are in for the Sixth Annual Minnesota Special Olympics Polar Bear Plunge held at Lake Hallett in St. Peter on Saturday Feb. 11. The Nicollet County Sheriff’s Office is happy to report that roughly 615 plungers raised about $100,000. “We are happy to report that our numbers have increased with both money raised, as…
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Gustie Athletes Set To Participate In Polar Plunge This Weekend
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The Gustavus Adolphus College Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and Gustie student-athletes will be participating in the 2012 Polar Bear Plunge held Saturday, Feb. 11 at Lake Hallett located at W St. Julien St and Old Minnesota Ave in St. Peter, Minn. The event will take place at 1:00 p.m. Gustavus Adolphus is entered into…
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Tom Brown Named Director of Athletics
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President Jack R. Ohle announced the hiring of Tom Brown, a native of Milaca, Minnesota and a 1986 graduate of Augustana College (S.D.) as Director of Athletics at Gustavus Adolphus College. Brown, who has been a part of the Gustavus Athletics Department as a coach, instructor and administrator since 1991, succeeds Dr. Al Molde who…
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Gustavus Director of Athletics Al Molde Announces Retirement
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Dr. Al Molde, the athletics director at Gustavus Adolphus College for the past 15 years, has announced that he will retire at the end of the current academic year. Dr. Molde, a 1966 graduate of Gustavus and a Montevideo, Minn. native, replaced Jim “Moose” Malmquist when Malmquist retired in 1997. He is one of only…
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Women’s Cross Country Set To Compete At MIAC Championships
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The Gustavus women’s cross country team will compete at the MIAC Championships on Friday, Oct. 29 in St. Paul, Minn. looking to improve on last year’s fourth place finish. The Gusties have been led by the trio of senior Brooke Beskau and juniors Kate Eggers and Beth Hauer. Beskau, a Hastings, Minn. native, hasn’t finished…
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Meghan McMillan Named MIAC Athlete Of The Week
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The Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) named Meghan McMillan its Women’s Soccer Athlete-of-the-Week on Tuesday. The senior forward from Minneapolis, Minn. knocked home the game-winning goal in a 1-0 upset victory over the University of St. Thomas last Saturday in St. Peter. The goal was fitting for the occasion, as the Gusties’ lone senior scored…