Category: Sports

Apr 09 2025

Academics meets athletics for junior Top-50 Scholar-Athletes

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Uyen Le, Special to The Denisonian– Four members of Denison’s Top-50 Scholar-Athletes shared their experiences managing the demands of rigorous coursework alongside the intense commitments of collegiate athletics. The Top-50...

Apr 02 2025

Sports

Men’s swim and dive team wins NCAA Division III National Championship

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Katey Woodruff, Staff Writer– The Denison’s men’s swimming and diving team took home the NCAA Division III national championship title on March 22. The title is its first since 2019...

Apr 02 2025

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Winter sports recap: Athletes earn All-American, all-conference honors

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Brennan Ford, Asst. Sports Editor– Denison’s winter sports teams finished the season with an extensive array of individual honors and team achievements. Denison’s men’s swim and dive team won the...

Mar 05 2025

Sports

Athletic director Nancy Carney DeBord ‘80 prepares for retirement

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Emily Orsini, Sports Editor– Nan Carney-DeBord ‘80, the beloved athletic director of Denison Athletics, is set to retire at the end of this athletic year. “There’s never a good time...

Mar 05 2025

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Women’s fencing team wins first conference championship

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Katey Woodruff, Staff Writer– The Denison women’s fencing team won the Eastern Women’s Fencing Conference tournament on Feb.16, hosted by Drew University. Their first place win was the first in...

Feb 26 2025

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‘No matter what’: Softball team stays grounded amid preseason optimism

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Max Dolinh, Editor-in-Chief– “It feels a little different this year, you know?” said Brooke Surbaugh, junior two-way player for the Denison softball team. For Surbaugh and every other player, part...

Feb 19 2025

Sports

Jake Krueger, beating heart of the men’s soccer team

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Jackson Bragman, Special to The Denisonian– “Cherry and pit. What do we got?” An ice breaker Denison University head men’s soccer coach Brandon Bianco uses with his players at the...

Feb 19 2025

Sports

Baseball team ranked No. 5 in D3baseball.com preseason poll

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Bridget Haller, Special to The Denisonian– Coming off a historic season, the Denison baseball team is ranked No. 5 in the 2025 D3baseball.com/NCBWA Preseason Top 25 poll. The team made...

Feb 19 2025

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Men’s swim and dive win NCAC championship, women’s team finishes second

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Brennan Ford, Asst. Sports Editor– The Denision men’s swimming and diving team won the NCAC championship and the women’s team placed second at the conference meet, which was Feb. 12-15...

Feb 12 2025

Sports

DSAAC partners with Project Life Movement for stem cell research

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Emily Orsini, Sports Editor– With Denison being a smaller university, the ability to have meaningful relationships with other students and professors can be much higher than at a larger school. ...