For Moritz Moritz, there could not be a more perfect time to be developing a sand volleyball team. With the immense success of the sport in the recent Summer Olympics, interest has never been higher.
With just under a week between the start of the preseason for USC women’s soccer and its first exhibition game, Coach Shelley Smith liked what she saw from her team in its Aug. 13 contest with the College of Charleston.
It was stalled nearly an hour and a half for a lightning delay, but the USC men’s soccer season has finally begun. The drenched grass made for tough conditions, but South Carolina on Sunday beat Mercer 1-0 in their first of two exhibition matches this season.
Gamecocks land at No. 6 in the preseason AP poll Over the last three years, the South Carolina football team has had a lot of firsts.
With Baladez gone, South Carolina will need new faces to find the net this year With about a week to go before the regular season starts, the South Carolina men’s soccer team will have its final tune-up against Elon on Saturday at 7 p.m.
With just one week left until the season opener, South Carolina has a starting runningback. Runningback coach Everette Sands announced on Tuesday that sophomore Mike Davis would be the starter when the Gamecocks take on North Carolina in next week’s season opener.
For any college coach, the offseason is anything but a vacation. Recruiting is in full swing and coaches still have to look after their players to make sure they will be in shape when next season rolls around.
While Gamecock football hasn’t even kicked off for 2013, its schedule for next year’s season has already been released.
The story of how cowhide — not pigskin — ends up in the end zone.
Last year, the student section at South Carolina’s football games started to get a reputation. A bad one. In the home opener against East Carolina, the student section was nearly empty midway through the third quarter.
With the 2013-2014 sports seasons right around the corner, South Carolina will be looking to capture conference and national championships. Here are eight athletes to watch as the Gamecocks battle for titles.
South Carolina will need contributions from household names like Jadeveon Clowney, Connor Shaw and Dylan Thompson, but here are eight players keep an eye on as USC tries to capture the conference title.
August 31 — GEORGIA @ CLEMSON Starting off the season in Clemson, Georgia leads the way with the toughest game of the first week of the season.
For the first time in a few seasons, the South Carolina Gamecocks have a favorable schedule, in-conference and out. The Gamecocks open the college football season on Thursday night when the North Carolina Tar Heels come into Columbia for the battle of the Carolinas.
Shelley Smith is used to winning, not rebuilding. As a high school athlete at Mount Anthony Union High School in Vermont, Smith captured state titles in soccer, basketball and softball.
A winning season for a team that had just one winning record in the past decade would probably make most coaches happy. A winning season for a team that competes in a conference that sent five teams to the NCAA tournament last year would probably make even more coaches happy.
An SEC gameday is nothing to joke about; it’s often the highlight of fall weekends in college towns across the Southeast.
