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.
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.
Chad Holbrook’s first season as head baseball coach at the University of South Carolina ended at the same school where his coaching career began. The Gamecocks fell in the Chapel Hill Super Regional against the North Carolina Tar Heels, Holbrook’s alma mater and the school where he coached for fifteen seasons before coming to Columbia.
On the heels of back-to-back 11-win seasons, the Gamecocks are continuing to build for the future. USC has 12 hard commitments for the class of 2014 and head coach Steve Spurrier’s staff will likely add to that haul as the high school football season gets under way.
After years of watching Gamecock basketball fall short of almost every fan’s expectations, hope was revived with the hire of Coach Frank Martin from Kansas State.
Head men’s basketball coach Frank Martin is taking all the necessary preparations this off-season to ensure the Gamecocks have a successful 2013-2014 campaign. Martin, entering his second season as men’s head coach, believes that despite a 14-18 record (4-14 SEC record), the team played some good basketball down the stretch of the season and left a lot of room for improvement.
When Ray Tanner left the baseball diamond to take over the South Carolina athletics program in August of 2012, USC’s athletic teams were experiencing one their the most successful streaks in school history. Now, with a year as athletic director under his belt and the Gamecock athletic programs continuing to excel, it’s understandable why Tanner feels like he’s landed the ideal coaching job.