By staff writer Elise Manley has had a successful senior season on the PLNU track team. Already a multiple-time All-American in the relays, Manley has qualified for the NAIA National Championships in the 800, the 1,500 and the 4×800-meter relay. Just days after her qualifying run in the 800, Manley sat down with The Point [...]
by Emily Holding staff writer The sixth-ranked PLNU men’s tennis team lost to No. 6 Westmont College in a close conference battle Saturday. The Sea Lions lost 4-5 on the Westmont courts, getting two of those wins in singles play and two in doubles. Senior Joel Myers defeated his opponent on court one (2-6, 6-4, [...]
by Emily Holding staff writer Junior Sean Lewis has already qualified for the NAIA Track and Field National Championships in the 100-meter dash and the 400-meter hurdles and has hit the B standard in the 200-meter. He improved his qualifying time in the 400-meter hurdles at the Pomona-Pitzer Invite on Saturday, running a 52.06, which [...]
by Maggie Hills, staff writer, and Emily Holding, sports editor The PLNU baseball team is hoping to improve on last year’s third place NAIA World Series finish, and senior Tyler Kuehl is one of the players whose experience will help get the team there. Kuehl is the Sea Lions’ secondbaseman and has started in all [...]
by Emily Holding sports editor The NAIA named senior Tori Anderson the National Women’s Outdoor Field Athlete of the Week last week after Anderson scored 4,916 points in the heptathlon, just 17 points under the school record. The heptathlon, a seven-event competition that takes place over two days, includes the 100-meter hurdles, the high jump, [...]
by Emily Holding Sports Editor An informational meeting held in Brown Chapel during finals week last semester sought to expland President Bob Brower’s Nov. 19 announcement that the university would proceed with the application process to join the NCAA II Brower and Athletic Director Ethan Hamilton spoke at the meeting, which was attended primarily by [...]
By Emily Holding Sports Editor The board of trustees voted to make an NCAA bid in June 2011 at a meeting during Homecoming week, according to President Bob Brower. The board’s action surprised many because Brower had sent an e-mail the Monday before the meeting to members of the Athletic Advisory Committee, a group appointed [...]
By Emily Holding Sports Editor One of the topics of discussion at this Thursday’s meeting of PLNU’s board of trustees will presumably be the school’s national athletic affiliation. PLNU athletic teams currently compete in the Golden State Athletic Conference (GSAC), a conference in the NAIA. But the GSAC is changing, as Cal Baptist University has [...]
By Emily Holding Sports Editor Sophomore Breelan Matranga is the number-one runner on PLNU’s NAIA No. 6-ranked cross country team. Though she started running in high school as a sprinter, Matranga says she fell in love with running when she went out for the cross country team her junior year and found that she was [...]
By Emily Holding Sports Editor When the women’s cross country team steps up to the starting line for the GSAC Championships in Fresno on Saturday, qualifying for the national meet will not be at the forefront of their minds. “I think this year’s a little different than most years,” said Coach Jerry Arvin. “Other years [...]
