After finishing fifth last season, the Tech men’s basketball team is picked to finish in the same place this year. “I think the preseason polls don’t really matter,” Steve Payne, head coach, said. “Year after year it has shown that no one really knows what they’re talking about. Every team […]
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Wide Receiver Dontez Byrd catches a pass for a touchdown during a Nov. 4 homecoming game against Austin Peay State University. APSU won the game 35-28. Football: The Golden Eagles faltered in their first game following their first win of the season over Tennessee State, as they lost to Austin […]
Tech goalkeeper’s dominant career
No one in Tech Women’s soccer history has played more minutes through their junior season than goalkeeper Kari Naerdermann. Naerdermann, a native of Germany, started her career playing for SG Essen in the Bundesliga, which is a professional association football club in Germany. She dressed as a member of the […]
Two Tech tennis players make quarterfinals
Eduardo Mena, TTU Senior, returning a voller during the ITA Men's All-American Championships Two TTU tennis players battled to the quarterfinals of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Ohio Valley Regional championships. Senior Eduardo Mena, the thirty-third ranked player in the nation and two-time Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Year, was […]
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Soccer: The nine-game undefeated streak the team accomplished during the last games of the regular season have placed the soccer team directly into the semifinals of the OVC tournament due to a double bye. The team, led by goalkeeper Kari Naerdemann, will play their first game on Nov. 3, with […]
TTU sports wrap-up
Men’s Golf:” The men’s team has really put out some solid rounds over the last events,” said head coach Polk Brown. “ We need to work on yardages inside 130 yards as well as managing our rounds when we don’t have our best stuff. If we can do these two […]
Quarterback looks forward
Golden Eagles quarterback Andre Sale left an impression on his head coach after only five games. “I don’t want him (Sale) to get the big head right now,” Marcus Satterfield, head coach, said during a news conference following the Sept. 16 Ball State loss. “He’s got a ways to go, […]
Tech football struggles
ANDRE SALE- QB Andre Sale after handing the ball off during the first quarter of the Sept. 30 game against Jacksonville State Photo by J.K. McMillen Despite being 0-6 for the first time since 1991, Tech coach Marcus Satterfield believes in his process. “That’s the beauty of our process,” Satterfield […]
Aleksa Jugovic calls to fans for support
Aleksa Jugovic, the only senior on Tech’s men’s basketball team who has played all four years without redshirting, is preparing for his final season as a Golden Eagle. Jugovic is from Serbia and during his junior and senior year of high school he started on Serbia’s U-18 national team that […]
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Football: The Golden Eagles football team is returning to Cookeville for their first home game since the season-opening loss to Western Illinois. The team seeks its first win of the season, as well as its first victory over an OVC opponent. (Subject to change depending on the outcome of the […]
