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What you should know: The 2024 Big 5 Classic

Mia Messina ’25, Sports Editor December 4, 2024

What is the Big 5? The Big 5 is an informal league of six colleges, originally consisting of St. Joe’s, Villanova, Temple, University of Pennsylvania and La Salle, founded in 1955. The recent addition...

PHOTO COURTESY OF ST. JOE’S ARCHIVES

Archives Unboxed: 1970s track photo

Kiera Donohue '25, Special to the Hawk December 4, 2024

A photograph of a track meet at St. Joe’s offers a glimpse of track in the 1970s, showing five runners racing toward a chest-high white string stretched across the track. It’s not clear who won...

Bridget Carter ’25 returns a serve in a pickleball game, Dec. 2. PHOTO: ZACH PODOLNICK ’26/THE HAWK

Game, set, match

Rebecca Romito '26, Special to the Hawk December 4, 2024

Here’s the thing: There are no pickles involved in pickleball. There is a ball, yes, plastic and with holes, slightly bigger than a tennis ball. There are two to four players and rackets for each....

54th Airborne’s Big 5 Classic Predictions

Monica Sowinski ’26, Sports Reporter December 4, 2024

What do you think of the Big 5 championship matchups for both the men’s and women’s teams? Nicole Caldwell ’25: I’m super, super, super excited for [the men’s game], and I’m very hopeful...

St. Joe’s field hockey players console each other following a 5-0 loss to Northwestern in the national championship Nov. 24. PHOTO: MIA MESSINA ’25/THE HAWK

Field hockey’s historic season comes to heartbreaking end

Mia Messina ’25, Sports Editor November 24, 2024

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — St. Joe’s field hockey team reaching the NCAA Championship game might have felt like a dream at the beginning of the season, but head coach Hannah Prince knew her team was capable...

Field hockey poses for a team photo with fans and alumni after a 2-1 victory over North Carolina Nov. 22 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, advancing to the NCAA Championship. PHOTO: MIA MESSINA ’25/THE HAWK

‘Why not us?’

Mia Messina ’25, Sports Editor November 22, 2024

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — All week, St. Joe’s field hockey has posed the question, “Why not us?” and has carried that mindset into its final four matchup with #1 University of North Carolina Nov. 22 in...

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Up at the half

Chris Sletvold '26, Columnist November 20, 2024

The Philadelphia Eagles improved to 8-2 with a 26-18 home win against the Washington Commanders Nov. 14. They have won six straight games and sit in control of the NFC East. The Eagles are winning in...

Natalie Nevins ’24, M.A. ’25 runs out after being announced for the starting lineup for St. Joe’s women’s soccer
game against Lafayette, Aug. 22. PHOTO COURTESY OF NATALIE NEVINS ’24, M.A. ’25/THE HAWK

A farewell to my first love

Natalie Nevins ’24, Copy Editor November 20, 2024

From the moment I was brought into this world, there has been a soccer ball at my feet. In fact, on the day I was born, it was one of my father’s players who drove my mother to the hospital as she was...

Sophomore guard Xzayvier Brown celebrates with 54th Airborne, the official student section of SJU
Athletics, after defeating Villanova, Nov. 12. PHOTO: MADELINE WILLIAMS ’26/THE HAWK

Defending the title

Mia Messina ’25, Sports Editor November 20, 2024

It’s time to start working on the rollouts. St. Joe’s men’s basketball is heading back to the Big 5 Classic title game after its two Big 5 pod wins last week.  The Hawks defeated Villanova at...

St. Joe’s field hockey poses with NCAA regional trophy after advancing to the Final Four, Nov. 17. PHOTO: MIA MESSINA ’25

Field hockey looks to ‘fight to the end’

Mia Messina ’25, Sports Editor November 18, 2024

At the beginning of the season, St. Joe’s field hockey team returned to the newly-renovated Ellen Ryan Field, complete with a new playing turf. It took less than four months for the Hawks to make history...

Brianna Kelly ’26 attempts to dodge Drexel defense on her way to score, Nov. 9.
PHOTO: ZACH PODOLNICK ’26/THE HAWK

Women’s rugby hosts first tournament in two years

Monica Sowinski ’26, Sports Reporter November 13, 2024

For the first time this season, women’s rugby hosted a tournament on Sweeney Field, bringing its 2024 fall season to a close Nov. 9. This year is the first time in two years the club has been able to...

Field hockey poses with the A-10 Championship trophy following their 2-1 win over UMass, Nov. 9. PHOTOS: JOE SCHNEYDER ’12/SAY CHEEZE STUDIOS

Field hockey wins fourth consecutive A-10 title, hosts first round of NCAA Tournament

Mia Messina ’25, Sports Editor November 13, 2024

Four was the magic number for fourth-ranked St. Joe’s field hockey, which beat Massachusetts 2-1 to secure its fourth consecutive Atlantic 10 championship Nov. 9. No strangers to each other, the Hawks...

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