Athletics

Early in March, before the campus was closed due to COVID-19, The Citadel held its annual Blue-White spring football game on Summerall Field.

Friday and Saturday nights are met with a new anticipation for many cadets during hockey season.

The Citadel is ready to install artificial turf at Johnson Hagood Stadium, with the new surface slated to be finished by the end of April.

Citadel linebacker Willie Eubanks III has been named defensive player of the year in the Southern Conference by the league’s football coaches and media.

The track and field and cross country teams took part in their annual holiday food drive earlier this week to support needy families in the Charleston area.

A group of 20 randomly selected Citadel students on track for an Army commission were taken as part of a group to measure the success of the training program.

I could have gone to different colleges and universities for football. But I chose The Citadel because I did not want to go to a normal college.

Holly Hill native Terrence Smalls, a 1998 graduate of The Citadel, was inducted into The Citadel’s Athletic Hall of Fame this September.

Joshua Roides is a third-team kicker, 5-foot-7 and 166 pounds, who sports a grin with a missing front tooth and often wears black-rimmed nerd glasses.

I can’t put all of the names of those who are dear to me on my ring, but I do have “First Sgt John Urban” engraved in my band of gold, just after my name.