Lee rebounded quickly from their overtime loss to No. 1-ranked Shorter as they thumped the Southern Wesleyan (S.C.) Warriors 83-63 on Thursday, Feb. 2. Alex Wells led all scorers with 10 points, but the scoring was spread out as the Flames went to work from beyond the three-point line. Lee shot a staggering 48.1 percent [...]
Saturday, January 28, the Lady Flames basketball team will host longtime rival Shorter College (Ga.) for the third annual Hoops for Hope fundraiser. The team is hosting a fundraiser to donate to the Lee University Developmental Inclusion Center to help raise awareness for autism. LUDIC is an on-campus program that works with children diagnosed with [...]
Stephanie Todd is a senior volleyball and tennis player from Colorado Springs, Colorado. She has played volleyball all four years at Lee and is joining the tennis team this spring for her last semester before graduation. Q: What has being a two-sport athlete taught you? A: Discipline and time management. It is tough being a [...]
This season the men’s basketball team underwent a complete makeover from top to bottom. Losing key players in Larriques Cunningham and Jerel Blocker, the team was in desperate need for offensive replacements. The team was forced to rebuild and recruit, and in doing so recruited guards and a few big men with skill and versatility [...]
Women’s basketball Head Coach Marty Rowe has seen his team fall early in the national tournament to end their season too many times. Each team was a success during the regular season and conference tournament, but only one has reached the Final Four during Rowe’s tenure. This year Rowe is ready to see the tide [...]
Rock Solid Fitness kicked off the spring semester on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012, with one of the largest crowds the program has ever seen. The DeVos Recreation Center was packed to the brim with eager students for this opening gathering, making it clear that Rock Solid has turned into a success at Lee. Rock Solid [...]
The men’s basketball team won their seventh consecutive game Monday night, taking down Truett-McConnell College (Ga.) 80-70. Hours after moving up in the NAIA Division I Men’s Basketball Coaches’ Top 25 poll from No. 21 to No. 18, Head Coach Tommy Brown and the Flames (12-3) used a strong second half to stay within distance [...]
The Lady Flames soccer team advanced in the NAIA National Championship tournament Saturday afternoon, defeating the Reinhardt University Eagles (Ga.) 3-0.
For the first time in its five-year history, Lee University sponsored the students in the taekwondo class. Twenty-nine students participated in the tournament on Nov. 12, which is the highest amount of students to ever go. The class is taught by Mark Pope, who instructs it part time. Pope also runs the Cleveland’s International Taekwondo [...]
One of Cleveland’s many hidden gems is a 25-year-old racetrack that puts on a show every Saturday night from March to November. Cleveland Speedway is located off of South Lee Highway and is a little over five minutes away from Lee’s campus. The speedway is a one-third dirt oval track and has a pretty decent [...]
Lee’s volleyball team is coming off of their fourth straight conference tournament championship and has been rampant on opponents this season, only losing one game in conference. The team has really been working hard to get back to the top, but it may be without a key player for the rest of the season. Senior [...]
Junior women’s soccer goal keeper, Leah Wilson, has been a vital part in two of the three straight national titles. She sits down to talk about her personal life, playing career and more. Q: How do you feel you have progressed so far under Coach Matthew Yelton as compared to before you came to [...]
The Lee volleyball team played host to Brenau University (Ga.) Friday in front of a packed house of fans decked out in pink to support the fight against breast cancer.
In annual Homecoming fashion, Lee University Athletics will induct three more individuals into the Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday, Nov. 4. This year’s hall of fame additions will include former standouts Brandan Cofer and Jessica Pike. The final addition will be the Meritorious Award to team bus driver Bill Hall. Brandan Cofer spent four [...]
Entering this season, Lee University men’s basketball Coach Tommy Brown is only nine wins shy of his 300th career win in just 14 seasons. If all things go as planned, Brown could pick up the historic mark as early as December, making him one of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics premiere coaches. However, a [...]
