Lake Forest College
As many know, due to our home ice campaign last academic year, the College’s ice rink needed a generous donation of $2 million to replace the 45-year-old ice-making system and refrigeration equipment to keep it frozen. If the athletics department did not raise the money, the men’s and women’s ice hockey team would need to travel to play their games at other locations. In the spring, the Foresters received the donation that was needed to…
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Alex Pasiewicz ‘16 earned a spot on D3football.com’s Team of the Week for his incredible performance during Forester football’s 55-13 win against Cornell on September 17. The wide receiver achieved the longest kickoff return in the history of Lake Forest College football, and completed four touchdowns in the same game. The Lake Forest College volleyball team stands at 4-8 on the season following a loss to Concordia Wisconsin, despite standout efforts by seniors Paige Jespersen…
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A phrase that many have probably heard around campus—“respecting the shuffle”— is one that only the Lake Forest College football team will understand. But from an outside viewpoint, this stands as a goal for the team to go 1-0 every week. That is exactly what the team has done the last three weeks. From dominating Beloit, to Carleton, and then to Cornell College, the football team is 3-0 and viewing every day as a building…
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Before coming to Lake Forest College, if someone were to walk up to me and inform me that there was a national sport that involved slapping balls, I would probably have called them crazy. Little did I know that I had walked onto a campus that was famous for playing handball since 1968. Handball is likely the most misunderstood and least talked about sport on our campus. Yet, this year, 2016, marks the year that…
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Lake Forest College sees many athletes come through its doors, but only a few have made a name for themselves here. With their amazing players, Handball and Women’s Hockey teams are some notable examples. Now, though, we have a diver. Heath Ogawa ‘19 joined the diving team as soon as he got on campus with one goal in mind: make it to NCAA Nationals as a freshman. Only a week after spring break, Ogawa found…
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Every spring break, some of the Lake Forest College spring athletic teams travel south to play their respective sport in the warm weather. This year, Lake Forest’s very own tennis and golf teams traveled to Kissimmee, Florida. Both the men’s and women’s golf teams were approximately a half hour from where the tennis teams stayed, so they decided to come support one of the women’s tennis matches against Juniata College. Once the golf teams…
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