VALLEY CITY, N.D. (vcsuvikings.com) – The Valley City State University athletic department recognized excellence in its student-athletes Monday night at the 2021 Viking Awards.
The annual banquet brings together most of the university’s student-athletes for a meal, awards and recognition of their accomplishments during the 2020-21 season. This year’s celebration was held outdoors at VCSU’s Lokken Stadium, and students were served a tailgate-style meal prepared by members of the VCSU Century Club Board of Directors.
Athletic director Jill DeVries emceed the event as VCSU announced its major athletic awards, honored its seniors and North Star Champions of Character, and celebrated numerous school record breakers during the night.
Mavericks open NCAA Championships strong, Taylor wins weighted throw
Mavericks open NCAA Championships strong, Taylor wins weighted throw By Mary Rominger | March 11, 2021 at 10:38 PM CST - Updated March 11 at 11:23 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (KEYC) - Thursday marks day one of the three at the 2021 NCAA DII Indoor Track & Field National Championships.
Like many, MSU Mankato’s highly ranked men’s and women’s track & field programs are seeing a long year, come full circle.
“A year ago today, basically 3:27 p.m. is when we received an email that the national championships were canceled in the same city in Birmingham, Alabama where we found out last year that that happened. It’s kind of an exciting thing for us to, a year ago have that taken away and now, so many ups and downs throughout the season from thinking we’re not going to have a season to we are to now we have a quality team. Just really excited for this weekend’s championships,” head coach of the men’s and