EUGENE, Ore. (USC SID) — Two members of the University of South Carolina track & field team earned first-team All-America honors Friday at the 2017 NCAA Division I Track & Field Championships. Juniors Isaiah Moore (110mH) and Tye Williams (high jump) each finished in the top-eight of their events to collect All-America laurels for the first time as Gamecocks. Williams tied for fourth place in…
EUGENE, Ore. (USC SID) – Sophomore Rougui Sow paced the University of South Carolina track & field team as the Gamecocks competed on day two of the 2017 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships Thursday at Hayward Field. Sow earned first-team All-America honors in the long jump, while the women’s 4x100m relay finished the day as second-team All-Americans. Sow finished the…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (USC SID) — The University of South Carolina is currently in 16th place in the latest 2016-17 Learfield Directors’ Cup Standings, released today. The Learfield Directors’ Cup honors institutions maintaining a broad-based athletics program. Each institution is awarded points in a pre-determined number of sports for men and women. The Directors’ Cup Standings are a program managed by the…
EUGENE, Ore. (USC SID) — The University of South Carolina track & field team opened the 2017 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships on Wednesday night, the first of four days of competition at Hayward Field. Junior Isaiah Moore led the way on Wednesday, qualifying for the national finals of the 110m hurdles, while Markus Leemet got off to a great start in the decathlon…
Following his resignation on Tuesday, Gamecock athletics and Chad Holbrook are negotiating a settlement to compensate the former head baseball coach for the reaming two years on his contract with the school. As Athletics Director Ray Tanner prepares to find his newest leader for the program, price doesn’t seem to be a problem. Salaries have risen as the sport’s spotlight…
The search is on for the next Gamecocks head baseball coach. USC Athletics Director Ray Tanner spoke Wednesday at a press conference following Tuesday night’s announcement that Chad Holbrook was resigning from his position leading Carolina’s program. Pitching coach Jerry Meyers will be the interim head coach in the meantime, but Tanner stated that none of the current assistants on…
Gamecocks athletics director Ray Tanner spoke on Wednesday at a press conference following the resignation of head baseball coach Chad Holbrook. The two have had a long working relationship and personal friendship that extends past the ball field. Holbrook was an assistant on the USC AD’s teams from 2009-2012 when Tanner was leading the squad to a pair of College World…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)- Local baseball fans have mixed reactions to Chad Holbrook’s sudden departure. Some Gamecock baseball enthusiasts said resigning as head coach was the right thing for Holbrook to do. “We kind of feel like it was time for a change, for something new to happen because we go to all the scrimmage games over there and we know…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (USC SID) – South Carolina head women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley will take the Gamecocks to Tokyo, Japan, for three exhibition games this summer. The trip, which spans June 27 to July 5, includes three exhibition games against the Japan National Team. It will be the Gamecocks’ first international trip under Staley. “We’ve been looking for a trip like this…
On Tuesday night, University of South Carolina Athletics announced that head coach Chad Holbrook has decided to resign from his position as the Gamecocks’ head baseball coach. Through his time in Columbia, rising from his role as Ray Tanner’s assistant to leader of the program, Holbrook brought USC to a pair of super regionals and three NCAA Tournaments. But his…
