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Making waves: Equitable access to Augie’s sporting facilities

Making waves: Equitable access to Augie’s sporting facilities

Chloe Baxter March 23, 2024

Many students are aware of the sporting facilities on campus, such as the pool or PepsiCo, used for sports like swimming, water polo or track. However, these facilities represent an investment not just...

Sophomore Cesar Castillo from Panama during an Augustana College men’s swimming and diving team practice in Lindberg.

Just warming up: men’s and women’s swimming win first meet

Medin Sehic October 26, 2023

The men’s and women's swimming teams won their season opener against North Central College on Oct. 14. The men won with a score of 150-24, while the women won with a score of 174-24. With their victory...

Viking swim girls win the CCIW title

Abhib Lal Amatya March 3, 2022

The women’s swimming and diving team won their first CCIW title since 1997 in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin on Saturday, Feb. 12.  This is the seventh such achievement by Augie women’s swimming and...

Sophomore Nick Phillips during practice in the new Lindberg pool on Oct. 28, 2021.

Swimming beginning their season’s meet by winning in the new pool

Stuti Shrestha November 4, 2021

On Oct. 23, the swim team won against Monmouth in their season-opening meet in the new pool. Women’s swim team captain, senior Lauren Raike, feels like the new pool has been a bonus for the team....

Running on empty

Carly Davis April 16, 2021

Trigger Warning: This article discusses eating disorders/disordered eating. The pandemic has pushed college athletics as close to the breaking point as it can. Reducing crowds, limiting team bonding and...

Inside the life of student athletes

Sydney Krueger October 9, 2020

As upperclassmen begin to approach the end of their collegiate careers, Augie athletes reflect on what they have learned over the years. Throughout their experiences, they shared both the highs and the...

First-year Lauren Raike warms up in the pool at the Carver Center in preparation for the swimming team’s meet at Carthage College on Saturday, Jan. 12. Photo by Ian Murrin.

Raike makes splash at Augie

Sarah Major January 16, 2019

Stepping onto the starting block, first-year swimmer Lauren Raike’s hands find the edge of the surface as she prepares to begin her race. With the pop of the starting noise, Raike dives into the water...

Patti Grod (’20) trains with a kickboard to get ready for the 2017 swimming season. Photo by Tony Dzik.

Men’s and Women’s Swim prepares for St. Ambrose Meet

October 19, 2017

After preparing for the start of the swim season for the entire fall term, the men and women’s swim team will have their first meet against St. Ambrose in Davenport on Oct. 27. Before the workouts started,...

Josh Wielenga, senior, practices diving in the Carver pool.
Photo by Ian  Magnuson.

Augustana diving duo makes a splash

December 4, 2014

Augustana’s diving team is as small as a team can be, consisting of one man and one woman. Senior Joshua Wielenga and junior Megan McGregor are coached by diving coach Aimee Moylan. This is Wielenga’s...

Past olympian coach to lead swimmers

October 9, 2014

As the Augustana swimming and diving season approaches, they are incorporating a past olympian coach as their leader, Dan Lloyd. At the end of last year, the men had a 6-1 dual meet record and finished...

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