The women’s volleyball team will host Volley for the Cure on Friday, Nov. 4, to raise money for the Mary Ellen Locher Foundation for breast cancer. This will be the fourth year that the Lady flames have committed to putting on this event. Locher was the founder of the organization previously known as the Children [...]
Over the last 10 years, Lee’s flag football leagues have lost luster due to the downsizing in Greek clubs and the strict policies on student athletes and their involvmenent in intramurals. This season, there were only two teams signed up to play A-league flag football. This, in turn, is causing Lee to combine A- and B-leagues, creating one competitive league for flag football. “On rare occasions we have had an A-league sport with three teams, but our general rule [...]
The men’s soccer team put away the Brewton-Parker College (Ga.) Barons on senior night Saturday, Oct. 29. The win keeps the Flames (11-6-0) on par for getting back to the NAIA postseason tournament.
Few athletes have accomplished what women’s soccer senior forward Jamie Achten has in her time at Lee University. On Oct. 8, 2011, Achten broke the all-time record for assists with 71. The record was previously held by former Lady Flame Jodie McGucken with 70 assists. During the match against Faulkner University (Ala.), she assisted Ashley [...]
Undefeated since 1918. That has been the saying on campus for as long as any student, staff, faculty or alumni can remember. As the saying goes, Lee has not lost a football game in about 93 years. This is quite an impressive feat that is unmatched by any other team in the history of game [...]
After disappointing back-to-back losses to end the season in 2010, the Lee women’s basketball team is set to make a deep run of wins this season with 13 starters returning to the team. Coming off of a 25-7 season, the girls have been working this off-season in preparation for their homecoming season opener against Southern [...]
There is a lot that remains unknown for the men’s basketball team in the upcoming season. Because of a combination of losing key players from last year’s team as well as introducing six new players to the program, Coach Tommy Brown and his staff are in a rebuilding mode. “It is quite the rebuilding process [...]
It was a defensive struggle all game long, with momentum switching back and forth between the two teams, when the Lee Flames soccer team faced the William Carey University Crusaders. William Carey’s Francois Navarro scored the one and only goal after the 56th minute dribbling through the defense, and Lee just did not seem to have an answer. [...]
Lee men’s soccer has seen the its virtual downward spiral since 2008 halted after only 10 games into Paul Furey’s head coaching career. Currently, the men’s team boasts a 6-5 overall record and a 1-4 record in the Southern States Athletic Conference. The team hasn’t put together a winning mark this late into the year [...]
The Lee University women’s golf program is fairly new to the scene, but they are aggressively making up for their inexperience. With only three years of experience, the Lady Flames golf team has proved to be competitors on and off the course. The team placed 10th in the spring 2011 NAIA National Tournament. On top [...]
Lee’s intramural Ultimate Frisbee has seen a major decline in participation this season. Greek clubs, in particular, are highly involved in almost every intramural sport, but recent Ultimate Frisbee trends are showing that attendance by Alpha Gamma Chi, Delta Zeta Tau and Sigma Nu Sigma are free falling. Eric Eledge, assistant director of campus recreation, [...]
The Lady Flames volleyball team took control of the SSAC East on Saturday afternoon. The girls defeated Southern Wesleyan University (S.C.) by commanding every set in route of a 3-0 match victory.
Can’t find the last of the 10 differences in the Double Take in the Sept. 8 edition of the Lee Clarion? Check out the answers and see how many you got right, then comment and let us know how you did. 1. The triangles on the soccer ball have been filled in. 2. The middle [...]
It’s no surprise that social networking dominates the way we communicate today, and the athletic world is no exception. Whether they know it or not, athletes have been affected by social media. It is a common practice today to look up a new acquaintance on Facebook soon after meeting them. After Osama Bin Laden was [...]
