Raising the bar
By Taylor Lupetti For senior gymnast Rachel Heinl, going to the NCAA Seattle Regionals was the ideal way to end her last year on the team. However, the opportunity to compete at regionals was not something Heinl saw in her Read more
By Taylor Lupetti For senior gymnast Rachel Heinl, going to the NCAA Seattle Regionals was the ideal way to end her last year on the team. However, the opportunity to compete at regionals was not something Heinl saw in her Read more
By Omar Perez Success isn’t guaranteed, but hard work and dedication are good building blocks toward it. SJSU’s beach volleyball team knows all too well about coming up short in recent years, going 0-12 in 2014 and 0-14 in 2015. Read more
By Lindsey Boyd My Leander was given a ball and a club at the ripe age of 10. Since then, she’s swung her way from Sweden to the US, and has climbed to No. 1 on the Mountain West leaderboard. Read more
By Jessica Stopper Born to a pair of college athletes, Kellen Strahm was destined for a future in athletics. Both of San Jose State’s starting center fielder’s parents were student-athletes at the University of Oregon. His father, Curt, was an Read more
By Jessica Stopper Is coach Carter too legit to quit? San Jose State’s newly appointed running backs coach Alonzo Carter has been coaching a large part of his life from the high school to college level. His career did not Read more
By Luke Johnson With one year of eligibility left as a San Jose State athlete, Brandon Mitchell is rolling the dice and changing sports, but his gamble is not as inconceivable as it was 15 years ago. There are currently Read more
By Casey Geier The club lacrosse team faced challenges early in the season. SJSU went through a coaching change early in the season after handedly losing its first four games due to a shortage of players and unbalanced team chemistry. Derek Read more
By Daniel Reedy: It took the Spartans eight and a half innings to score, but they pulled off a victory in the second game of the doubleheader despite a repeating issue with stranding runners. San Jose State (24-14, 4-5 in Read more
By Ernie Gonzalez It was the bottom of the ninth inning with one on and one out. Moments prior, Shane Timmons hit a two-run shot to left-center to tie the game at five. Stefanki walked, then reached second on a Read more
By Daniel Reedy: For the second year in a row, the Spartans beat the Lobos on a Friday night in the first game of a three-game series at Municipal Stadium. San Jose State won 2-1 as starting pitcher Matt Brown Read more
By Daniel Reedy: A three-run rally in the seventh inning wasn’t enough for San Jose State in the first of a three-game series against Colorado State (17-12, 5-5 in MW). The Spartans (23-13, 3-4 in MW) lost 5-4 to the Read more
By Daniel Reedy: San Jose State joined former running back Tyler Ervin, inking a six-year deal with Adidas, unifying the school under one apparel logo. This will be the first time each Spartan team will wear the same brand. Ervin, Read more
By Lindsey Boyd: After 14 consecutive road losses, the Spartans won their first away game of the season 13-8 against Santa Clara. In comeback fashion, San Jose State (11-17) pulled ahead of the Broncos (6-22) in the seventh inning to Read more
By Kavin Mistry: It’s not often you see a coach turn to his closer while searching for answers in the starting rotation. However, the Spartans reached a breaking point. Coming into the season it looked as though Josh Nashed, Matt Read more
By Daniel Reedy: In what figures to be another rebuilding year for the Athletics, Oakland is expected to struggle as it battles in one of the more formidable divisions in baseball. Between Texas, Houston and Seattle’s explosive offenses (and Mike Read more