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Christian Krasnek, the diving mortician

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 15, 2017

November 15, 2017

Reading Time: 3 minutesAVRIL KING Social Media Manager and Assistant Sports Editor “Every meet is a funeral.” Those are the words that Christian Krasnek, a sophomore member of the Fredonia men’s diving team lives by. Why? “Because I’m going to kill it,” he said. It certainly seems as though Krasnek is taking......

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Dancing with the Athletes: Athletes team up with dancers to raise money for Moving Miracles

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 15, 2017

November 15, 2017

Reading Time: 3 minutesQUINTIN JAMES Assistant Sports Editor On Nov. 12, in the Williams Center Multipurpose Room, the Student Dance Organization held their fifth annual Dancing with the Athletes event. The event was for charity, a non-profit organization called Moving Miracles that assists individuals with special needs in dance, creative movement, music......

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Circling the Wagons: Tailgating a saving grace for Bills fans

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 15, 2017

November 15, 2017

Reading Time: 4 minutesCURTIS HENRY Sports Editor Seventeen years of mediocrity. I regularly find myself wondering how the entirety of the Buffalo Bills’ fan base — myself included — is capable of rallying each and every Sunday during the fall to go out and support one of the NFL’s saddest franchises. Perhaps......

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Dieting and college sports: How much does one affect the other?

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 8, 2017August 18, 2019

November 8, 2017August 18, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutesANDREW RICHARDSON Special to The Leader Division I athletes have an extreme diet and conditioning schedule they must maintain throughout the season. This diet consists of four separate workout time slots, each of which is followed by a meal of some sort. Fredonia does not do this. Fredonia and......

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The evolution of the Beer Mile

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 8, 2017

November 8, 2017

Reading Time: 3 minutesQUINTIN JAMES Assistant Sports Editor In the wide world of sports today, many new sports are popping up daily. One new sport that is starting to become a hot trend in track and field is called the “beer mile.” The beer mile is a race where you have to......

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Bunk missing SUNYACs poses questions about academics and athletics: Women’s tennis team bounced amid bizarre circumstances

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2017

November 3, 2017

Reading Time: 7 minutesCURTIS HENRY Sports Editor The Fredonia women’s tennis team was ousted in the quarterfinal of SUNYAC play to SUNY Cortland at the start of the month. This was an unexpected early finish to what was otherwise a wildly successful year for the Blue Devils. However, missing from the team......

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Men’s basketball has big plans for upcoming season

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2017

November 3, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutesJORDAN PURVIS Special to The Leader Last season the men’s basketball team finished with a record of 10-15 and failed to reach the SUNYAC playoffs. The team hasn’t been to the playoffs since the 2012-2013 season. Surely, getting back to the playoffs will be the team’s top priority for......

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The search for a new athletic director quickly wrapping up

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2017

November 3, 2017

Reading Time: 3 minutesAVRIL KING Social Media Manager Since 1997, SUNY Fredonia has known one person as the athletic director. Greg Prechtl was a Fredonia graduate with the class of 1969. He went on to serve as the head coach of the men’s basketball team for 23 seasons, and he eventually took the......

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Fredonia has three top 10 finishers at SUNYACs

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2017

November 3, 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutesAIDAN POLLARD Special to the Leader On Oct. 28, the Blue Devils men’s and women’s cross country teams competed in the SUNYAC championship race hosted by SUNY Potsdam on a grueling and extremely hilly, looping course. The men came seventh out of 10 teams and the women placed fourth out......

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A sit down with Ian Helps

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 3, 2017

November 3, 2017

Reading Time: 3 minutesQUINTIN JAMES Staff Writer Coming into his senior season at Fredonia, forward Ian Helps has not only become the best player on the men’s basketball team, but he has become a leader. It has been three years of learning and getting better and, now in his senior season, he’s......

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Christian Krasnek, the diving mortician

Dancing with the Athletes: Athletes team up with dancers to raise money for Moving Miracles

Circling the Wagons: Tailgating a saving grace for Bills fans

Dieting and college sports: How much does one affect the other?

The evolution of the Beer Mile

Bunk missing SUNYACs poses questions about academics and athletics: Women’s tennis team bounced amid bizarre circumstances

Men’s basketball has big plans for upcoming season

The search for a new athletic director quickly wrapping up

Fredonia has three top 10 finishers at SUNYACs

A sit down with Ian Helps