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Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Kurt Martin | Sports Editor | @IamKurt14


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Sports

Jordan Cintron enters transfer portal

First reported by VerbalCommits.com, and further confirmed by Longwood athletics, men's basketball forward Jordan Cintron has entered the transfer portal.  Entering the portal is not a gurantee that Cintron will transfer out of the program, but the decision does allow him to seek other ...

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Opinion

These are uncharted waters

Editor's note: The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. Well, I'm pretty sure when we all came back to Longwood in January, we weren't expecting for it all to come crashing down in the middle of March. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a halt to our in-person campus community, ...

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Sports

All Big South Sports suspended until March 30

This past Friday, the Big South Conference extended their suspension of all competition and required athletics activities until March 30, “to mitigate the further spread of the COVID-19 virus,” according to an announcement from the conference. In the announcement, it is stated the decision was made ...

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News

SFC Report: Chess Club requests funds

Longwood University Chess Club $200  Funds are the 2019-20 VA Scholastic and College Chess Championships Freshman Class President Cole Pillow made a friendly amendment to strike the line two item “Meals”, which was originally worth $100, to zero dollars. The amendment was made and seconded ...

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News

After recent shooting, FPD searches for answers

The third gun-related incident in the Town of Farmville within the past three months took place on Friday, February 7, as the Longwood University community was alerted of a report of shots fired on Oak Street near the Centra Southside Community Hospital at 3:16 p.m. The previous two events, which law ...

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News

Baseball looks to overcome doubters, return to BSC tourney

When head coach Ryan Mau first heard his team was selected 10th in the Preseason Big South Conference poll he briefly spoke to the team about it, but knew the squad as a whole would use the ranking as fuel to prove any and all doubters wrong as this season gets off the ground.  “A lot of ...

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News

SFC Report: The Rotunda requests funds, continued WMLU discussion

The Rotunda $2,312.00 Funds are to send three members to the College Media Association Spring National College Media Convention.  Vice President Catherine Swinsky made a friendly amendment to the line three item "Hotel" to lower it from $1,484 to $1,000. This was due to research being done which ...

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Basketball

How a follow-up question can help turn the tide of a program

In her career at Ocean Lakes High School in Virginia Beach, Kyla McMakin scored nearly 2,000 points (1,990 to be exact) and grabbed over 1,000 rebounds, but there was only one problem, it was starting to get late in the recruiting process and she had yet to commit to a school to continue her playing ...

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News

SFC Report: 1/30

Longwood Chess Club $242.85 Club came to SFC for materials for the organization, along with assistance in paying for membership in United States Chess Federation. A friendly amendment was made by Executive Vice President Catherine Swinsky to change the line four item "Spring Weekend Supplies" from $50 ...

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