USC to face SDSU Saturday
As South Carolina prepares for its second straight appearance in the NCAA Tournament, experience is on the team’s side.
212 items found for your search. If no results were found please broaden your search.
As South Carolina prepares for its second straight appearance in the NCAA Tournament, experience is on the team’s side.
Redshirt junior cornerback Victor Hampton’s high school nickname has a second life at USC.
South Carolina’s football team was back to practice Tuesday after taking a week off for spring break.
Wynkoop leads USC to 2nd consecutive shutout
Since defensive end Jadeveon Clowney’s dominant sophomore season, capped by a game-changing hit in South Carolina’s Outback Bowl win in January, he has been the subject of endless discussion.
USC professor Frank Rydzewski once promoted himself to vice president of his company before a business meeting with a Latin American executive.
Forward Ashley Bruner and guard Ieasia Walker made Senior Day their own Sunday afternoon.
Coach Dawn Staley acknowledges that a full season of college basketball can be overwhelming for the four freshmen on her team, which has led her to make a change in her lineup.
Sophomore shortstop Joey Pankake did not play Tuesday after leaving the second game of Sunday’s doubleheader with a hip flexor strain. Freshman Max Schrock, who started the first six games at second base, was the starting shortstop, and freshman Connor Bright was the starting second baseman.
The Gamecocks were holding a comfortable five-run lead over the Furman Paladins when sophomore Joel Seddon took the mound to pitch the ninth inning.
There is an unwritten rule in baseball never to mention a no-hitter while it is going on. But third baseman Chase Vergason said it was in the back of everyone’s mind during the first game of Sunday’s doubleheader against Albany, a game USC won 14-1.
After South Carolina got off to a rough start on the road against Alabama Saturday, coach Frank Martin said junior guard Bruce Ellington brought back the energy the team has lacked throughout its six-game losing streak.
Even though Will Fortanbary has never been involved with Student Government before, he brings plenty of leadership experience into his vice presidential campaign.
Moments after South Carolina won its first national championship in 2010, coach Chad Holbrook, then an assistant, left the field to find his wife and sons in the stands of Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Neb.As he ran up the stairway, he passed Gamecock fans, including men in their 60s, with tears streaming down their faces.That was the first moment he realized the strength of the connection between USC’s baseball team and its fan base.“When you see 60-year-old men cry, it makes you stop in your tracks a little bit and take a deep breath,” Holbrook said.South Carolina has become one of the most visible programs in a sport that has never been more visible. The Gamecocks have played in the finals of the College World Series in each of the past three seasons, winning consecutive national championships in 2010 and 2011.The Gamecocks join four other SEC teams in being ranked among the top 10 in most preseason polls this year. In the conference that Holbrook’s college coach Mike Roberts called “the major league of amateur baseball,” South Carolina faces stiff competition in its bid to return to Omaha, where the College World Series is played.Players know the first step to reaching the postseason is being competitive in the conference.“We set the expectations high around here,” catcher Grayson Greiner said. “Obviously Omaha is our goal every year, to get there. Obviously it would be very special for us to make it there, but we’re just going to try and take things a day at a time, a game at a time, a pitch at a time, and I know Coach is going to put our best nine out there to compete and try and win some games in the SEC.”Holbrook said he doesn’t look at the expectations as a burden, choosing instead to see it as an “incredible opportunity.” Rather than talk to his players about the College World Series, he tells them to have a good practice that particular day.The 2013 squad will miss the leadership of last season’s most dynamic leaders, Michael Roth and Matt Price. But Holbrook is confident that this year’s captains — converted first baseman LB Dantzler and pitchers Patrick Sullivan and Nolan Belcher — are capable leaders in their own right.“They epitomize what our baseball program is all about,” Holbrook said. “They haven’t had the success on the field that Michael Roth and Matt Price had, but they have all the respect of our players in the locker room. You don’t have to be a great player to be a great leader.”The coaches and players are used to questions about living up to South Carolina’s recent tradition of excellence, prompting Holbrook to joke, “The good thing about being head coach here is that we haven’t been very good in the past and no one’s expecting anything, right?”Success has translated not only into greater prominence around the country for the Gamecocks, but also to increased fan support in Columbia.Athletics Director Ray Tanner said when he became South Carolina’s baseball coach in 1996, season ticket sales for baseball numbered around 200. By 2012, that figure had surpassed 5,000. The Gamecocks set a record for season ticket sales again this year.Holbrook knows every one of those fans hopes to see South Carolina continue its streak of College World Series appearances.“I’m no math major, but I am smart enough to realize it doesn’t happen every year,” Holbrook said. “But I know the expectations are that we need to try to get there.”
Chad Holbrook says coaching is in his blood.
If USC had made just one-third of its shots against Texas A&M, coach Dawn Staley said it would have been enough to propel her team to victory.
According to USC men’s basketball coach Frank Martin, parenthood is “the most important responsibility that anyone has in this world.”
Coach Frank Martin said Monday there was a major difference between his first year at Kansas State and his first at South Carolina.