How student-athletes maintain momentum during pandemic
Symiah Dorsey, Staff Reporter
April 1, 2020
The enforcement of social distancing has put a halt to all university athletics, leaving student-athletes with no choice but to adjust their lifestyles. With the progression of the coronavirus outbreak, workout facilities on and off campus are closed until further notice. These limited res...
Track and Field team wins championship
Daniel McClain, Staff Reporter
March 26, 2020
Led by head coach Corey Mistretta, the university men’s indoor track team clinched a spot at the top of the Southland Conference. The team had not accomplished this goal since 2014. With the team placing second in the conference last year, Mistretta explained how incoming recruits and redshirt runner...
Finding space for the stage, the track and the classroom
Zachary Araki, Assistant Editor
April 2, 2019
Jacquelyn Walker, a sophomore athletic training major, aims for success whether running at a meeting, competing on a stage or studying for a test. A track scholarship, the athletic training program and warmer weather brought Walker from Jefferson City, Missouri to the university. “It was an adjustmen...
Underdogs and life lessons: Mistretta’s coaching approach
Diamond Hollins, Staff Reporter
March 11, 2019
For Corey Mistretta, head coach of track and field, entering the coaching profession was meant to be. With his dad being a football coach and his love for sports, Mistretta always knew that coaching would be a part of his life. “My dad was my high school football coach, so coaching has been in my...
Coaching opposite genders
Zachary Araki, A&E Editor
September 19, 2018
Coaches work to connect with their athletes to optimize their training, and gender differences can be one of multiple factors that stand in their way. Although minimal women coach male sporting teams, 58.8 percent of head coaches for women’s teams are men according to the University of Minnesota’s...
