Standout senior continues to garner accolades 2011 Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division I All-Region Teams STARKVILLE, Miss. – The College of Charleston’s Alexa Datko has been named to the to the 2011 Louisville Slugger/National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Division I All-South Region Second Team, as announced by the NFCA.   A total of 259 players from 127 different institutions comprise this seaso ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. – For the second consecutive year, College of Charleston women’s tennis player Caroline Newman was honored on the Capital One Academic All-District III Women’s At-Large First Team by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).   The junior right-hander from Greensboro, N.C., achieved a perfect 4.0 grade-point average in psychology as a CofC Honors College student and ...

Meet Web Site Preview Video CHARLESTON, S.C. – Freshman Dena O’Brien will represent the College of Charleston at the NCAA East Preliminary of the Track & Field Championships this week hosted by Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind. The meet is scheduled for May 26-28 with O’Brien’s 5,000-meter race Saturday May 28 at 8:05 PM. O’Brien has the 19th best time in the field of 48 runners with her personal ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - College of Charleston redshirt-junior third baseman Matt Leeds (Boca Raton, Fla.) has been named to the 2011 Capital One Academic All-America First Team as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Leeds is a recent summa cum laude graduate with a bachelor's degree in accounting with minors in economics and finance from the CofC School of Business. He becom ...

SPARTANBURG, S.C. -Redshirt-freshman RF Daniel Aldrich (Mt. Pleasant, S.C.) has been named the Southern Conference Freshman of the Year, and redshirt-junior 3B Matt Leeds (Boca Raton, Fla.) and junior LHP Josh Renfro (Bradenton, Fla.) join Aldrich on the All-SoCon First Team as voted on by league's 11 head coaches. The Cougars received five all-conference selections as sophomore RHP Christian Powell (Greenw ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. – The College of Charleston sailing team begins the first leg of the Intercollegiate Sailing Association’s three national spring championships today with the ICSA/Sperry Top-Sider Women’s National Championship on May 23-26 followed by the ICSA/APS Team Race National Championship on May 27-29 and the ICSA/Gill Dinghy National Championship on May 30-June 1 in Cascade Locks, Ore. All three eve ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Travel packages are now available to cheer on and support the College of Charleston men’s basketball team as it participates in the inaugural Battle 4 Atlantis tournament to be held during the Thanksgiving holiday break on Nov. 24-27 in Paradise Island, Bahamas. The Cougars are among an elite eight-team field which includes defending national champion Connecticut, Harvard, Florida State, ...

Charleston, SC. Goals from forward Dane Kelly and substitute midfielder Jon Gruenewald lifted the Charleston Battery to a 2-1 win over the Richmond Kickers Tuesday night at Blackbaud Stadium. Richmond’s Matt Delicate opened the scoring for the Kickers in the first minute after a Battery defensive miscue but Charleston rallied to earn their first victory since April 29. The win lifts Charleston (4-4-2) into ...

Charleston, SC. The Charleston Battery welcomes the Richmond Kickers to Blackbaud Stadium Tuesday night for an American Division USL PRO fixture. The game is a rematch of the 2010 USL2 championship match that saw the Battery defeat Richmond by a score of two goals to one. Tuesday’s game is the 43rd all-time meeting between the two sides in the rivalry’s nineteen-year history and the series is deadlocked at ...

Full Schedule CHARLESTON, S.C. – College of Charleston Men’s Golf Head Coach Mark McEntire has announced the schedule for the upcoming 2011-2012 season. The Cougars will start where they left off as they open at the Country Club of South Carolina, where they last competed in the 2011 Southern Conference Championship. This time the Cougars will compete in the Spring Hill Suites Intercollegiate (Sept. 12-13) ...