Every year, the Super Bowl is one of the most-watched events of the entire year. The Super Bowl is the championship football match for the NFL that takes place every February. It is a huge cultural event with many different aspects that make it appealing to so many different audiences. Sports fans — specifically football fans — love the game itself. The halftime show always draws in a ton of fans . . .

There were multiple sporting events for students to enjoy this homecoming. On Friday Men’s basketball held an intrasquad scrimmage along with a series of skills contests before the contest started. An intrasquad scrimmage is a game played between two teams that are made up of the men’s basketball team split in half and competing against each other. Then on Saturday, the day started with a tailgate at eleven before the men’s lacrosse alumni game that started at noon, and then the swim team held their intrasquad meet at 1:00 pm.

On Sunday, October 23rd, both men’s and women’s soccer held their senior day playing against Trinty University. Men's soccer honored five seniors on their senior day, including Jaron Patreas, Xavier Noyola-Ramirez, Marco Basteris, Sami Borchalli, and David Barbera. After the men’s game, the women played on their senior day, too. They honored nine graduating seniors: Daisy Acosta, Sydney Bascom, Yosi Bouslog, Sierra Charles, Karlie Delhommer, Haleigh Gangloff, Avery Gilbert, Ariel Muller, and Celeste Muniz.

For about as long as one can remember, Centenary has had athletics. We used to have a football team that competed against LSU in the 1900s, we used to only report on Centenary sports news, and we had some impressive athletes attend our school. There was a point in our history when we were able to report on Robert Parish’s collegiate career, and the scandal that is tied to it. We haven’t always had the same sports teams we have now, and The Conglomerate's newspaper hasn’t always had a sports section like this one.

Following their best season in program history, Centenary lacrosse has named their former associate head coach, William LeClair, as the official head coach. Charles Seling, the former associate head coach alongside Coach LeClair, has decided to take a small step back by taking the role of assistant coach of the team. The Gents returned most of their starters from last year and recruited five new faces to help build on the momentum they gained at the end of last season.

With athletics finally back in full swing, our Centenary’s own student-athletes have wasted no time adding more hardware and accolades to the record books. On August 8th, Kendall Sanders was nominated for NCAA Woman of the Year, an extremely prestigious award with over 150 nominees across all NCAA divisions.

On July 6th, Alyssa Davis was able to add another achievement to her already impressive resume after the SCAC nominated her for Woman of the Year, an award that has never been won by a Centenary student since the award was established in 2005.

Having grown up around the sport of lacrosse my entire life, the idea of lacrosse existing outside of North America seemed far-fetched. After finding out I would be taking my module to Finland, I wanted to see if lacrosse had started to grow there like it did in the United States.

Over two years ago now, COVID rocked everyone's world and changed how society functioned to combat the spread of the virus. Centenary closed campus in March of 2020, cutting the seasons of many spring athletics programs short. Thankfully when student-athletes returned to campus in the Fall of 2020, athletics was allowed to resume but not to the same capacity.

In the first 18 games of the season, our Centenary Gents have managed to post a 10-8 record. Currently, the team is on a four-game winning streak that includes impressive wins on the road against Occidental College and a dominant at-home victory against Millsaps.

Many people grow up having dreams of playing collegiate sports; later down the line, these same people also learn about joining Greek life, which is very popular amongst first-year college students. Both sports and Greek life offer their own social groups—the opportunity to become a leader, and the chance to develop lifelong skills that can benefit you even after graduation.

The NCAA stands for the National Collegiate Athletic Association and is responsible for regulating numerous different sports across thousands of colleges and universities.

The NCAA stands for the National Collegiate Athletic Association and is responsible for regulating numerous different sports across thousands of colleges and universities.

Something embedded in every Centenary student's mind, from orientation to graduation, is that anyone can start a club or organization on campus.

After winning the SCAC championship in 2019 and getting eliminated from the same tournament in the semifinals a year later, the Gent basketball team is hungry to achieve the same post-season success they saw in 2019.