After the Virginia Challenge last weekend, the Bradley’s track and field teams find themselves in a race against time as well as the two races scheduled for this Saturday. Luckily, that’s what the team is good at. Head coach Darren Gauson split up his team…
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If Bradley’s softball team thought it were finally done with rain-outs, Wednesday changed its mind pretty quickly. The Braves had a doubleheader scheduled for Wednesday afternoon against Illinois State, and a rainy Wednesday moved those to Thursday. The rain almost kept them playing, but the…
The University Board of Trustees pushed Bradley into its first step in a new direction March 16, 2015, with the hiring of Peoria native Chris Reynolds as director of athletics. Reynolds’ hiring came a day after former director of athletics, Michael Cross, officially resigned his…
Honestly, there’s nothing I absolutely despise more than a dumb ole double standard. Scratch that; I downright hate it. We see double standards quite a bit, honestly, and none of them are good. Like, when the law tells you to stop texting and driving, yet…
There is a reason I’m disturbingly modest. As I scribble down my final thoughts as the current longest-tenured member of The Scout while listening to “Hamilton’s” “One Last Time,” I’m yet again hit with this feeling that reminds me why. Hold on now. Don’t peg…
Technically, Alyson Clemente broke the Bradley softball home run record 15 days before she officially did. On March 19, the redshirt senior first baseman officially broke Alycia Bachkora’s five-year-old record against Indiana State with a two-out blast, but Clemente still remembers the record-breaker that didn’t…
During her introductory press conference Monday, women’s basketball coach Andrea Gorski had an early apology to make. Not for anything basketball related, but for her former teammates instead. “I’m just apologizing for them now,” Gorski said. “We’re creating an unofficial alumni group that they’re going…
Andrea Gorski was introduced as the ninth women’s basketball head coach in Bradley’s history Monday, welcoming the already Bradley Hall of Fame player back to the Hilltop. “I’m passionate about two things: basketball and family,” Gorski said, her two kids in attendance next to her.…
Even though the Bradley women’s tennis team lost to Illinois State 5-2 last Saturday, junior Ariel Dechter technically became the best player in Bradley tennis history. Dechter edged ISU’s Veronika Golanova for her 116th career victory as a Brave in a game she almost didn’t…
In another typical weekend performance, the Bradley track teams yet again set more personal and school records. Sophomore Michael Ward broke his own school record in the 5,000-meter, while senior Chase Coffey and sophomore Haran Dunderdale set personal records (PR) in the 5,000-meter and the…