As the University of South Dakota finishes its transition to Division I, its basketball teams will be eligible for the Summit League Conference Tournament next year. The Summit League tournament has been hosted at the Sioux Falls Arena for the past four years and the arena has the tournament contracted for the next two. South […]
Students at the University of South Dakota have the opportunity to be a member of any group that interests them. If there isn’t a group they’d like to be a part of, they can make one themselves, and that’s exactly what one group of students recently did. The university is now offering a sports management […]
Amidst the hype of the Invisible Children’s Kony 2012 campaign, members of the University of South Dakota’s African Student Association — mainly consisting of African refugees — find themselves full of unanswered questions. Questions like: Why Uganda? Why not my country or Africa as a whole? But mostly — after 26 years — why now? […]
The 2012 NFL Draft is just weeks away, and six University of South Dakota senior football players got their chance to boost their stock and impress the scouts as USD hosted an NFL Scout Pro Day inside the DakotaDome on Thursday afternoon. Seniors Jeremy Blount, Tom Compton, Dante Warren, Marquis Butler, R.J. Polley and Dion […]
While the weather has been friendly for the University of South Dakota men’s golf team, the competition has not been. Coming off only their second tournament of the spring season the golf team took home 16 place in the South Dakota State University Jackrabbit Invitational on March 13 in Primm, Nev. On March 26 the […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Each week The Volante sports staff will interview a member of the USD athletic community and ask them off-the-wall questions. Enjoy the hilarity. Lucas Turner is senior men’s golfer out of Bowdle, S.D. Turner recently placed 37th at the Jackrabbit Invitational in Primm, Nev. with a score of 224. Austin Ashlock: Do you […]
Inside the University of South Dakota men’s track locker room doubled as a conference room, USD seniors Annie Roche and Amber Hegge sat in front of the media Monday night wearing an the unmistakable mask of disappointment. “It has been a great season, a lot of fun, but just not very much fun right now,” […]
The University of South Dakota football team has a new face. That new face is Head Coach Joe Glenn, hired last November to replace Ed Meierkort. Glenn comes with a USD background, as he is a 1971 graduate. Glenn played on the football team as a quarterback and wide receiver and was a captain during […]
Throughout my misadventures in love I have been given a lot of very strange advice. One of the strangest was to stay friends with my exes after getting dumped because that is the only way to maturely handle the situation. Though I realize that there are some people who can do such a thing, this […]
Think “Harry Potter.” Or “Twilight.” But instead of wizards, witches and vampires, think impoverished families fighting to survive. Instead of current times, think future. While you’re at it, think “1984.” The Hunger Games, the first in a three-book series by Suzanne Collins, is set to hit theaters Friday and has some University of South Dakota […]
