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Students play intramural sports to stay involved

Noah Thomas | Sports Editor August 18, 2016

Whether it be the newcomers of the freshman class or transfer students, getting involved on campus can be difficult. This goes double if one doesn’t know what they are interested in, but intramural sports...

Editorial: Last year was great for UNCW sports

Noah Thomas | Sports Editor August 18, 2016

With the publishing of this article, I am now a sophomore in my first year of being sports editor at UNC Wilmington. You can probably guess which part of that sentence is harder to believe.A year ago,...

“Screamin’ Seahawks” keep loud for athletic events

Noah Thomas | Sports Editor August 18, 2016

By the time UNC Wilmington’s first exhibition basketball game tipped off last November, the crowd at Trask Coliseum could be described, at best, as mediocre.It wasn’t until about mid-January, when...

X-C continues to rebuild from program-cutting scare

Noah Thomas | Sports Editor August 18, 2016

For a program that once believed it would not exist at this point in time, the UNC Wilmington men’s and women’s cross-country teams have come a long way in the last year and half.Funding issues in...

Men’s soccer strives to improve with new group

Noah Thomas | Sports Editor August 18, 2016

Graduating 11 seniors from a team that was already in the process of rebuilding would pose a challenge for any coach, but Aidan Heaney, head coach of UNC Wilmington’s men’s soccer squad, believes the...

The new banner hangs in on the southern end of Trask Coliseum.

Basketball raises new banner in Trask

Noah Thomas | Sports Editor August 18, 2016

Over the course of last season, UNC Wilmington’s men’s basketball team accomplished a few things it had not done in quite a while. The team now has a permanent reminder of its accomplishments, as a...

Lone exhibition a success for women’s soccer

Noah Thomas | Sports Editor August 18, 2016

The UNC Wilmington women’s soccer team got off to a slow, yet aggressive start to its lone exhibition game of the 2016 season. It drew a scoreless tie with the visiting High Point Panthers last Thursday,...

Swede music: men’s soccer takes exhibition, 1-0

Brandon Sans, Staff Writer August 15, 2016

The Seahawks were out in full force as international heroics and a new entrance allowed fans to exit Monday night’s exhibition against Gardner-Webb happy and hopeful as UNC Wilmington claimed a 1-0...

Volleyball to host CAA Tournament

Volleyball to host CAA Tournament

Noah Thomas | Sports Editor July 5, 2016

UNCW will host the 2016 Colonial Athletic Association Volleyball Championship Tournament in November, adding another conference tournament event to its schedule for next school year.The Seahawks will host...

Whitman Barnes will not return to UNCW in 2017

Noah Thomas | Sports Editor June 9, 2016

In a statement released Wednesday, UNCW’s Whitman Barnes has decided that he will not be returning to the baseball program for the 2017 season.Barnes, a redshirt sophomore this season, pitched 32 innings...

South Carolina grounds Seahawks in Columbia Regional

Noah Thomas | Sports Editor June 7, 2016

It’s over. Just like that.Two days ago, UNCW’s Diamond Hawks were riding high with a 2-0 record in the NCAA Tournament’s Columbia Regional. Now they’re headed home after suffering back-to-back...

UNCW advances to regional final

Noah Thomas | Sports Editor June 4, 2016

It almost feels as if this UNCW baseball team refuses to not make history on a weekly basis.The Seahawks have taken the Columbia Regional by storm. Two days in, UNCW has netted a pair of victories behind...

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