The latest athletics offering at Thomas More University is eSports. The Crestview Hills campus announced the launch of esports program on Monday and will begin competition in intercollegiate athletics during the 2022-23 academic year as part of the National Association of Collegiate Esports (NACE). Esports encompasses competitive, organized video gaming. While professional esport leagues have been popular for […]
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Building Relationships Huge Priority for New NKU Director of Athletics
When Christina Roybal starts the new job officially on July 1, the new Director of Athletics said building relationships will be a huge priority. That is not only with the coaches, administrators and the Northern Kentucky University Norse student-athletes. That’s also with the alumni and other members of the community. “That’s what I plan on […]
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Takeaways from NKU women’s soccer spring season and looking ahead to fall season
Written by Jared Darwish, Reporter at The Northerner The preseason for Northern Kentucky women’s soccer has seen a lot of changes to the team. With the departure of a couple key seniors, the team is transitioning its younger players into more prominent roles. So far, the spring season for the squad has had its ups […]
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Pendleton County native Dontaie Allen commits to Western Kentucky
Dontaie Allen has officially traded his blue and white for red and black, the same colors he wore in high school starring for the Pendleton County Wildcats. The former Kentucky Wildcat announced today via Twitter that he is committing to play for Western Kentucky University, led by Head Coach Rick Stansbury. Allen will have three […]
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Thomas More celebrates a special group of Saints
Since 2016, Jeff Hans and his Thomas More women’s basketball team have brought back three national college titles to Crestview Hills. That’s on top of finishing as a national runner-up a year ago. That’s four times to the Final Four – oops, sorry, only the NCAA can say “Final Four” – so make that two […]
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Thomas More NAIA women’s basketball championship team came together in many different ways
The Thomas More University Saints women’s basketball team took most of last Wednesday to travel back in Crestview Hills on the bus from Sioux City, Iowa. Thomas More completed the run to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics crown with a 77-65 win over Dordt University from Sioux Center, Iowa on Tuesday, an opponent playing […]
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Thomas More men, women in NAIA tournament quarterfinals
Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams at Thomas More University are competing Saturday in their respective NAIA national tournaments’ quarterfinals. The #2-seeded men’s team is making its first-ever appearance in the field of eight remaining teams competing for a national title. The Saints easily defeated SAGU on Friday, 74-44. Luke Rudy led TMU with […]
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Kansas City, here come the Saints
It’s taken three shots for the Thomas More men’s basketball team to finally make it to Kansas City for the NAIA National Basketball Championships. Covid blocked the Saints on their first try after qualifying for the trip when the championships were canceled. Then a year ago even after getting to host the regionals, Thomas More […]
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Dan Weber: NAIA knows the Saints are coming
When Thomas More decided to leave the NCAA for the NAIA several years ago, they didn’t change their approach to women’s basketball. After dominating the NCAA’s Division III with a pair of national championships in the last seven seasons, a Thomas More’s women are headed west again for the second straight year — and this […]
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Thomas More goes 2 for 2 on the way to the NAIA nationals
Say goodbye – and good luck – to the nationally ranked Saints. They’re off to the shores of the mighty Missouri. For the Thomas More women, with two NCAA basketball championships in the past decade, it’s a return trip to Sioux City, Iowa, for the NAIA 16-team national championships. For the TMU men, it took […]
