Labor Day marks the start of the fall sports slate for five Oglethorpe University athletics teams. Men’s and women’s soccer, volleyball, and men’s and women’s cross country will all be kicking off the season with competitions over the holiday weekend. GoPetrels.com put together team previews for all fall sports teams. The Oglethorpe men’s soccer team reached […]
The Oglethorpe baseball program’s 2018 recruiting class was ranked as the #1 class in NCAA Division III by Perfect Game, the industry leader in promoting baseball and amateur players. Perfect Game assigns points to each recruit according to their national ranking, and the Stormy Petrels came out on top with the most points for the […]
Todd Brooks has been appointed as director of athletics at Oglethorpe University, effective August 27. Brooks most recently served as athletics director at Berry College, a fellow member of the Southern Athletic Association (SAA), comprised of the south’s premier liberal arts institutions. During his 24-year career as a collegiate athletic director, Brooks has developed a reputation […]
Jon Akin, long-time head coach of the Oglethorpe men’s soccer program, was named as one of the top 50 soccer coaches in Georgia over the last 50 years by Georgia Soccer, the state’s official soccer association within the United States Soccer Federation (USSF). Akin joined 49 other coaches from around the state of Georgia at […]
A slew of incoming Oglethorpe University freshman and high school baseball commits have been cutting their teeth at Hermance Stadium this summer as part of the Brookhaven Prospect Bucks team. The Prospect team is comprised of rising college freshmen and high school students, and serves as a feeder to the Brookhaven Bucks Sunbelt Baseball League team, […]
The Oglethorpe University fight song, “The Stormy Petrel March,” was arranged in 1987 by music professor Dr. Irwin Ray, who retired in 2017. Learn the lyrics, or just hum along, as the University Singers lead us in a spirited rendition. Lyrics: Come on ol’ Oglethorpe We’re going to take the lead Our flag will fly […]
The Oglethorpe athletic department rounded out the season with the Sixth Annual Petey Awards on Sunday, hosted at the university’s Turner Lynch Campus Center. The event, which is produced by the Oglethorpe Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), allowed Oglethorpe student-athletes to honor the best and brightest performances of the year while reflecting on the 2017-18 athletic […]
For business administration major Stuart Spiers ’18, continuing his dream of working in professional sports was a hard road traveled. Literally. “I had a game the day of the interview with the [Atlanta] Hawks,” recalls Spiers, a relief pitcher on the Oglethorpe baseball team. “The game was up in Piedmont. After a two-hour interview I had to […]
This article was originally published on GoPetrels.com. Freshman forward Savannah LeGate of the Oglethorpe women’s basketball team was named the women’s Division III Rookie of the Year by D3hoops.com over the weekend, marking the first time that a member of the Stormy Petrels has won a postseason national award from the website. It also marks the third […]
The Oglethorpe women’s basketball team won its first SAA championship and its second conference championship overall Sunday afternoon with a 70-69 overtime victory over the Hendrix Warriors in a classic game at Dorough Field House. The victory won the program its first conference title since the 2008-09 team won the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference crown. […]