With midwest weather trends, some nearby athletic departments have already made the move to turf athletic fields for certain sports. Cornerstone and Davenport Universities both have turf baseball fields...
Calvin men’s lacrosse will look for their first conference win this weekend against longtime rival Hope College. A win would put the Knights in a three-way tie for fifth place alongside Hope and Trine.
With...
A recent upset of rival and nationally ranked Hope College wasn’t enough to get Calvin’s softball program into the postseason. Calvin faces Olivet in their last doubleheader of the season with an overall...
Both tennis teams are two games into the conference season. The men sit in second with a 2-0 record, while the women are tied for fourth with a 2-1 record.
For the men, seniors Matt Buesing and Tom...
Last weekend both men’s and women’s basketball came out on top of rival Hope College in the MIAA Tournament championship. The victories secured automatic qualifiers to the NCAA tournament. Calvin women...
After a record-breaking first half scoring 57 points, the Knights went on to defeat the Olivet Comets 88-54. The Knights tied the MIAA record for three-point shots in an MIAA tournament game and shot 60.4...
Despite a slow start, Calvin women’s basketball won 61-44 to complete a sweep of the regular season series. The men’s basketball team also swept Hope, who—in 1994—was the last college to have two...
DeVos Fieldhouse was taken over by the Knights for just the second time last Saturday as the Knights beat the Flying Dutch 76-74. With seconds ticking away, senior Hannah Acre put the Knights ahead with...
Calvin College athletics currently stands in sixth in the Learfield Sports Director’s Cup standings after the fall scores were released. Calvin looks to hold onto a streak that only five other schools...
In their fourth highest-scoring game of the season, the Knights defeated rival Hope College by a score of 88-64. While only scoring two points in the first five minutes, Calvin came out strong after a...
The men’s basketball team takes an 8-4 record and a three- game win streak into Saturday’s competition against rival Hope College. Calvin looks to close the gap between the Knights and Hope’s Flying...
Both the men’s and women’s cross country teams will be competing at NCAA DIII Nationals this weekend at Wilmington College in Mason, Ohio.
The women earned an automatic qualifier by placing first...
After the third straight game that went to penalty kicks, the Knights finally found themselves on the losing side in the second round of the NCAA DIII tournament when Ohio Wesleyan University won 4-2.
Both...
Calvin’s men’s soccer team won the MIAA Championship against Kalamazoo College 8-7 after nine rounds of penalty kicks, making this the second year that penalties decided the champion. In volleyball,...
Calvin’s cross country head coach Brian Diemer has led Calvin’s cross country teams to 36 titles, making him the most medaled coach in MIAA history. Diemer began his coaching career in 1986 with just...
Editor's note: The game has been moved to Hope College with the game taking place at 5 p.m.
On Friday, Nov. 14, at 11 a.m., the men’s soccer team will take on Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology,...
After three years of playing NCAA Regionals on their home court, the number-one ranked Knights will head to Wisconsin in defense of their national championship. In their first match, they will take on...
Technology has given people access to things that were once only possible in their dreams. Once we wondered what truly went on in the life of a celebrity. Now, thanks to Twitter, that problem has been...
Calvin’s men’s soccer team won the MIAA Championship against Kalamazoo College 8-7 in nine rounds of penalty kicks, marking the second year that penalties decided the champion. With this victory, Calvin...
The Calvin Knights were victorious over the Trine thunder team in a tight battle of four sets. The Knights had a three point margin of victory. The sets went as follows: 25-23, 21-25, 25-22, 25-23.
Trine...
Calvin College’s men’s soccer team won 6-1 in a game against Olivet College on Nov. 1, capping off an undefeated MIAA season. Not only is this the first time for a team to go 14-0-0 in Calvin’s history,...
After splitting a two-game series with Grand Valley State University, Calvin still remains on top of the Michigan College Hockey Conference (MCHC) West with a record of 4-1-0 in conference and 9-1-0 overall.
Calvin...
Sometimes life throws you a curveball and plans that were once written in stone are washed away. That is precisely what happened to sophomore diver Hillary Glover as she was going through a physical before...
Calvin College volleyball coach Amber Warners has a long history of West Michigan athletic excellence. During her time at Calvin, she has won the Great Lakes Coach of the Year awards for both softball...
With the regular season for fall sports coming to an end, it is time to reflect on what has happened this past season and how next season might look. Three of seven teams secured a spot in the MIAA playoffs...
After shutting out Adrian and rival Hope, Calvin men’s soccer clinched their fourth consecutive outright MIAA championship. They have had at least a share of the title each of the past eight seasons.
Ranked...
Men’s and women’s swimming and diving will soon open up the 2014-15 season looking to defend their MIAA titles. Last year’s titles were the first ever for the men and 13th for the women.
The two...
The head coach of Calvin men’s soccer, Ryan Souders, has a rich history of working with soccer professionals and is admittedly passionate about the Calvin mission for Christian liberal arts. If you know...
Women’s soccer stuck to their word earlier this season and put in three solid performances to notch four wins without conceding a goal. They scored 10 goals in the process and are now tied with Alma...
At the head of the Calvin College athletic department are two people who have been working together since 2006. They both play significant roles in the Calvin community, not only as athletic directors,...
Four Calvin teams came up with big performances last weekend to improve their records.
Women’s Cross Country
When the top three Calvin runners finished 1-2-3, the prospect of winning the Knight Invite...
The volleyball team lost two matches at the four-match tournament at the Wittenberg Fall Classic this past weekend. This marks the first time they have lost a match since Oct. 18th during 2013 National...
Calvin Knight’s Volleyball, which was ranked number one in the nation in a preseason poll, won 20 straight sets from Sept. 8 to [look up last match]; six of those wins occurred this past weekend in Illinois.
The...
Calvin men’s soccer split two non-conference games, facing two non-conference opponents this past weekend in Wheaton, Illinois as they prepare for conference play. They have one more non-conference game...
Twenty-one cross country teams will be competing this Saturday at the Gainey Athletic Complex in the first official meet of the season for the Calvin Knights. Last year, the Calvin men took third place...
Calvin athletics opened the year with six wins, a second-place finish and a third-place finish in ten events last week. Both the men’s and women’s soccer and golf teams, as well as the volleyball...
Although school wasn't in session, Calvin’s athletes kept busy this summer. When they weren’t taking in big sporting events, such as the 2014 FIFA World Cup, the Manchester United vs. Real Madrid game...
Calvin has tripled the seating options at the Spoelhof Fieldhouse Complex and closed the spirit shop in a bid to create more areas on campus where students can relax and study.
There are also plans to...
A couple of weeks ago, Carlos Gomez, the Milwaukee Brewers’ star outfielder, got in a brawl. Later in the week, Mike and Mike of the ESPN Radio talk show were discussing the matter and they said something...
As the 2014 spring semester is coming to an end, so is the regular season for all MIAA sports. Three different teams were able to secure spots in the MIAA conference tournament with a chance at Nationals....
After a walk-off win against Albion was posted to YouTube (http://youtu.be/OQN5rXG7o60), Calvin Baseball gained attention from the MLB FanCave (http://mlb.mlb.com/fancave/blog/article.jsp?content=article&content_id=71991384)...
After four non-conference games, the Calvin women’s lacrosse team stands level with two wins and two losses. The team has come ready to score every game, recording 46 goals so far.
Both victories...
One thing of many I have learned during my time here at Calvin College is that in order for a muscle to grow, it tears and rebuilds itself stronger than before. Believe it or not, this seems to fit well...
After finishing fourth last year at 15-13 in conference and 16-25 overall, the Calvin Knights are looking to take advantage of an experienced squad.
Coach John Sparks provided optimistic insight. “With...
After finishing fifth in conference at 8-8 and going 17-13 overall, the Calvin Knights softball team is looking to compete with a new attitude and a new coach.
Coach Tim Syrek is a native of Grand Rapids...
After playing five MIAA conference games, the Calvin Knights women’s basketball team is not far behind the expected second place finish according to the MIAA Preseason Coaches’ Poll.
Currently in...
In just three sets against the Emory Eagles, the Calvin Knights were able to punch their ticket to their second straight NCAA D-III volleyball national finals match appearance.
Calvin will take on Cal...
Volleyball advanced to NCAA Division III nationals this weekend as they won the regional tournament. A three set sweep and two five set thrillers kept Knight Nation on their toes, but a resilient Calvin...
On a day full of Calvin-Hope matchups, the Calvin women’s soccer team brought home the win as they defeated the Flying Dutch 2-0.
Neither team was able to take a lead in the first half of the MIAA Championship...
Two victories last week have placed Calvin’s women’s soccer team in a position to claim the sole ownership of the MIAA title with a win over Hope on Monday afternoon.
Currently tied for first with...
The Knights fought to stay atop the MIAA the past week as they hosted Adrian and Olivet. The Knights outscored their opponents 8-3 en route to earning the full six points, putting them three points ahead...
The Knights took a break from facing MIAA teams, but they didn’t take a break from playing good soccer. The women’s soccer team earned positive results from two challenging matches this week as they...
The Knights were focused on defending the home turf in two conference games against Alma and Trine. Both games resulted in exciting wins and were pivotal in securing the Knights’ standing as the current...
Halfway through the conference season, the Calvin women’s soccer team finds themselves in a good position to go after the conference title. With two wins this week against Olivet and Hope, the Knights...
The Calvin women’s soccer team won both of their MIAA conference games this week by large margins, scoring a total of nine goals, only conceding one. They currently stand in third place, two points behind...
The Calvin women's volleyball team headed east this week as they took on Trine and took part in the Wittenburg Fall Classic. The team continued to impress as they won all five games in three sets.
The...
In a continuation of the Calvin-Hope rivalry series, the No. 1 Knights held strong on their home court, winning an eighth consecutive match against the No. 2 Flying Dutch.
They did so in a mere three...
The Calvin women’s volleyball team remained undefeated on the season as they took to conference play last week, defeating Albion, Alma and Olivet over the course of four days. The Knights didn’t lose...
