The Hillsdale College men’s basketball team’s season came to a disappointing end on Saturday night in the GLIAC Tournament semifinals in Ashland, Ohio. The eighth-seed Walsh Cavaliers scorched the Chargers, shooting 63 percent from the field en route to a 98-69 victory. Hillsdale, on the other hand, shot just 38 percent from the floor and...
Two Hillsdale College alumni are training to qualify for the 2016 Olympics this August in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Amanda Eccleston (formerly Putt) ’12 and Maurice Jones ’15 both ran track and field while at Hillsdale and hold standing school records for many events. They will try out for the 1500-meter run and the 400-meter...
Hillsdale College senior defensive tackle Roger Stewart chased his NFL dream at Winter Park, the Minnesota Vikings’ indoor facility on Saturday. After months of rigorous training, Stewart was given less than five hours to impress NFL scouts at a regional combine in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. A day-long event, regional combines provide college football players who...
Gianpiero Placidi is a freshman on the tennis team from Bournemouth, England. How did you decide to attend Hillsdale? Has living in the United States been a difficult cultural transition? Right, so I’m from Bournemouth—that’s around the middle of the south coast, about two hours from London. I was looking to come to America and...
The Student Activities Board chartered a bus to take students to the Hillsdale College men’s basketball team’s GLIAC tournament game on Saturday in Ashland, Ohio. Twenty-one students travelled three hours by bus to cheer on the Chargers, who lost to the Walsh Cavaliers 98-69. “When an athletic team makes it to that level, whatever the...