Meredith Black’s ‘gold standard’ helped start women’s lacrosse program from scratch

Meredith Black was with the Marquette women’s lacrosse team before it could even be considered a team.

Before any names were on a roster, and long before there were any practices and games and wins and losses, Black was there.

She has been at the helm of the team for the lows of a 2-15 record in 2013 and the highs of a 15-4 2023 season in which they made their first NCAA tournament appearance.

But in the beginning, she said starting the program in 2012 was extremely challenging.

“It was hard

Women’s soccer pairs with nonprofit to give twins life-changing experience

There is more to the Marquette women’s soccer team than what the roster shows.

Twins Kendall and Chloe Roehling have been Golden Eagles for four months, despite being 9 years old.

Through Team IMPACT, an organization that pairs children with disabilities or life-threatening illnesses with college sports teams, the Roehling twins became honorary Marquette players over the summer. Born in 2015 with a rare form of restrictive cardiomyopathy, Kendall and Chloe were 13 months old when they were dia

Marquette defending its crown in highly-anticipated season

At the 2022 Big East Media Day, Tyler Kolek said “F— ’em” to the doubters that predicted the Golden Eagles to finish ninth in the Big East. This year, he didn’t have anything outlandish to say in front of the press because every analyst knows what the team is capable of.

For the first time since the 1977-78 season, No. 5 Marquette men’s basketball is ranked in the top ten of the Associated Press Top 25 Men’s College Basketball Poll.

On top of that, the Golden Eagles have been voted to finish f

Transfer midfielder Tess O’Connell taking advantage of newfound opportunities with Marquette

When Chris Allen coached at Saint Louis, conference opponent Rhode Island always gave his team a hard time. Allen said there was “one tall kid in the center mid” that always made the matchup difficult: Tess O’Connell.
So, when Allen left the Billikens in 2024 to take the head coaching position for the Marquette women’s soccer team and was looking for recruits, he knew exactly who to call. Today, O’Connell’s time at Marquette has turned her into one of the leading scorers in the Big East with fiv...

Women’s soccer downs Providence 2-1 thanks to 68th minute goal

Entering its third to last game of the season, Marquette women’s soccer (5-10-3, 2-5-1 Big East) and Providence (6-9-1, 3-5 Big East) had both won just one of its last five games. The only difference? The Friars won their previous game against Xavier, and the Golden Eagles’ last win was five games ago against St. John’s: the only team below them in the conference standings.
Providence had all the momentum, but Marquette shrugged.
With four goal reviews, two set piece goals and six saves from sop...

Steiner’s historic game leads Marquette past Butler in 20-12 win

The Marquette women’s lacrosse team (5-8) had never lost against Butler (2-9) in the two programs’ seven meetings before Wednesday.

When the Golden Eagles faced the Bulldogs at home in their eighth scrap, senior midfielder Leigh Steiner made sure they would keep their undefeated record with a history-book performance: a program single-game-high-tying eight goals.

“It was definitely exciting,” Steiner said. “It’s just cool to see how far program has come in the time that I’ve been here. Obvious

Golden Eagles beat Detroit Mercy 19-7 in first road win

It was a slow start for Marquette women’s lacrosse (2-3) against Detroit Mercy (0-4) with snowy conditions and a wind advisory in Detroit.

Though, when the Golden Eagles finally got their engine warmed and windshield defrosted, there was no looking back, ending in a 19-7 win over the Titans Wednesday afternoon after leading by only two goals at halftime.

It was Marquette’s first road win of the year and stopped its three-game losing streak.

Saves keep Detroit in the game

Right away, Marquett

Wisconsin's voting results show biggest turnout in state history

Around 3.4 million people, 72.6% of those eligible to vote in Wisconsin, cast ballots in the 2024 presidential race — the highest number of voters in the state's history. This is based on unofficial results pending certification by the Wisconsin Elections Commission. This Wisconsin certification process involves multiple levels of canvassing — a publicly observable process in which election officials review and validate the election results. This year's voter turnout percentage in Wisconsin was...

Final Marquette Poll: Who's leading presidential race in Wisconsin

The final Marquette Law School Poll finds 50% of likely voters support Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and 49% support Republican former President Donald Trump. When initially undecided voters are kept as a separate category, Harris garnered 48% of support, Trump gathered 47% and 5% were undecided.In the U.S. Senate race, 51% of likely voters support Sen. Tammy Baldwin and 49% support Eric Hovde. When undecided voters weren't forced to choose and were kept as a separate category, 48% cho...

BASELINE: Golden Eagles surpass Huskies to head to first Big East championship game

NEW YORK – The Marquette men’s basketball team will get another chance to hoist a Big East trophy.

Behind strong defense down the stretch in the second-half, the sixth-ranked Golden Eagles surpassed the 11th-ranked UConn Huskies 70-68 Friday night in the Big East Tournament semifinals at Madison Square Garden.

Here’s a look into the game:

Sophomore forward David Joplin was an X factor off the bench for the Golden Eagles hitting four of his five attempts from beyond the arc. He finished with 1

HANSON: The rise of AI poses a threat to writers

With the exponential growth of online chatbots within the past few years, the capacity for academic integrity is declining. Jobs previously performed by humans can be taken over and writing that would take hours to create can now be accomplished by AI in seconds.

Chat GPT3 is an online chatbot created in November 2022 by Open AI that Microsoft just invested $10 billion into. It’s a system that reached 1 million users in five days and is meant to replicate human dialogue that can hold conversati

Playing together ‘an unmatched experience’ for Dooley sisters

On a tight-knit Marquette women’s lacrosse team, two players share the tightest bond of all.

They have earned national honors and won high school state championships alongside each other. And now they are on the same team again, repping ‘Dooley’ on the back of their blue and gold jerseys.

Sophomore defender Maeve Dooley and first-year attacker Eileen Dooley — two sisters — have been passing buddies since they could hold a stick, and were signed up for lacrosse camps by their parents starting a

Fix scores first career goal for Marquette in 1-1 draw

When Marquette women’s soccer players told the audio booth to keep turning up the music louder during warmups, their mentality heading into their final non-conference game against St. Thomas was evident.

Though, the outcome wasn’t entirely what it wanted.

After two quick goals in the first half, the Golden Eagles (3-4-2) drew the Tommies (2-2-3) 1-1 Sunday afternoon at Valley Fields.

“It’s a fair result,” Marquette head coach Frank Pelaez said. “We had a couple more opportunities in the secon
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