by Whitney Smith | Oct 10, 2016 | News Slider
Mayor Megan Barry spoke at the Nelson and Sue Andrews Institute on Civic Leadership’s “Now That You Ask” event on Tuesday evening. Although the event was part of the conversation series hosted by Tom Ingram, leader-in-residence of the Institute on Civil Leadership, it was also open to the public. The conversation was centered around Barry’s personal life, her passion to serve and her major goals in office. Among those goals are the issues in which she centered her campaign around. “It’s pretty simple,” Barry said. “It’s housing, transportation, education, a strong economy, continuing to make sure we have jobs here, but also that quality of life that makes Nashville special.” At a year into her term, Barry has been able to stick to a major aspect of her campaign: transportation reform. Although last week the Metro Transit Authority (MTA) board approved a $6 billion, 25-year regional transportation plan, Barry told the audience there are still many avenues to explore before the plan takes effect. “I had a meeting today with the Mayors Caucus,” she noted. “When we get together, it is all the counties that surround Davidson and more. As the mayors in those counties, we all unanimously agreed today that the plans we have to be pushing at the state is the ability to have a local option for us to explore in funding mechanisms but also that the state needs to take some additional revenue.” While the impacts of this plan will outlast her time in office, Barry has taken steps in ensuring that she is focused on the future beyond her term. As the first female...
by Erin Franklin | Oct 10, 2016 | News Slider
Hurricane Matthew, the threatening storm that has spread devastation from Haiti to the Bahamas to Florida, has since passed, but people, including Lipscomb students, are still reeling from its aftermath. Despite the brutal storm hitting parts of Florida, Lipscomb Athletics’ Senior Publisher and Media Relations Director Mark McGee said it didn’t affect any of the team’s traveling to play Lipscomb this weekend. “As far as I know we’re going strong,” McGee said. Lipscomb had seven events this weekend, but none were cancelled. However, McGee said there was a soccer match in Florida that was canceled. Lipscomb Missions affiliates at Manna Global Ministries in the Dominican Republic reported that so far, they have remained safely in the shadow of the storm. Paul Wert, co-director of the Manna Children’s Home in the northeastern countryside of the DR said he had mixed feelings about Hurricane Matthew. “We were happy to have missed the brunt of the storm,” Wert said. “We did receive some much needed rain and a little bit of wind, but our area of the island of Hispaniola really had little damage.” Glenn Weaver, head of Manna’s college program in Santiago, said that he and his students experienced light rain and ominous clouds over the last few days. “The only way it really affected us was that our students were out for three days,” he said. “It meant we had a lot more time to spend together than we normally do which got us thinking of other communities and how we can help Christians not just in our neighborhood [during this time].” Several Lipscomb students hail from places that were severely affected...
by KJ Lauck | Oct 9, 2016 | News Slider, Sports
The Lady Bisons soccer team (9-4-2, 3-1-1) tied the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles (9-4-1, 3-0-1) on Sunday afternoon at Lipscomb Soccer Complex. The Eagles controlled possession for the first 25 minutes of play and spend a lot of time in the Lipscomb defensive third. Florida Gulf Coast finally capitalized in the 26th minute with a goal from senior forward Tabby Tindell, giving the Eagles a 1-0 lead. Freshman forward Emilie Olsen assisted. Lipscomb did not get many chances after that goal and went into the half trailing 1-0. The Eagles’ dynamic duo came out in the second half and struck again in the 48th minute with a goal from Olsen, extending the Florida Gulf Coast lead 2-0, with Tindell assisting. The Bisons responded with a well-executed set piece that led to a shot on goal in the 60thminute; however the Eagles’ goalkeeper, freshman Melissa Weck, made a jumping save to preserve the Eagles’ lead, 2-0. After the Eagles second goal, both teams traded possession, and each kept the other from many quality chances. Lipscomb then drew a penalty kick in the 76th minute, and redshirt-junior Ellen Lundy cut the deficit 2-1, which gave the Lady Bisons new energy. “Ellen’s a great target player – she was conference freshman of the year and scoring a ton of goals for us,” Head coach Kevin O’Brien said. The Lady Bisons pressed the Eagles late in the match, trying to mount a comeback, and with 10 minutes remaining, O’Brien put in his leading goal-scorer, freshman Olivia Doak. The goal made the Lady Bisons hit another gear. “Yeah, I think we did actually,” O’Brien said. “I felt like the whole...
by Anna Rogers | Oct 9, 2016 | News Slider, Sports
The men’s soccer team (6-5-1) evened their conference record to 2-2 after a 2-1 victory against USC Upstate (3-7, 1-2) Saturday night. The game was the fourth Lipscomb win in a row over the Spartans. The match was the only conference game played all weekend after the other four were cancelled due to Hurricane Matthew. “We knew we had to keep playing our game and keep fighting,” commented redshirt sophomore forward Logan Paynter. “We knew we would break them down with our style of play if we kept at it.” A quick shot in the 16th minute got behind senior goalkeeper Micah Bledsoe and led to a Spartan 1-0 lead, setting the tone for the rest of the half. Throughout the first 45 minutes USC Upstate outshot Lipscomb 7-4, despite the Bisons having a 4-3 advantage in corner kicks. “At halftime we were very specific about what we had to do: be aware of every opportunity,” noted junior forward Ivan Sakou. The Bisons came out in the second half significantly more aggressive on both offense and defense, leading to several hopeful counter attacks; however, the team failed to finish many set pieces and passes into the box early in the half. In the 65th minute, Logan Paynter caught a quick pass in the 6-yard box and sent a powerful shot past the goalkeeper to even the score 1-1. The goal was assisted by Ivan Sakou and junior midfielder and forward Ivan Alvarado. The goal proved to be a big momentum turner for the Bisons, who got 7 shots off in the next 10 minutes. Lipscomb continued the strong offensive play...
by Lindsey Nance | Oct 9, 2016 | News Slider, Sports
Florida Gulf Coast was out for blood this year after losing to the Lady Bisons in both meetings last year. The Lady Bisons hoped to continue their winning streak after their win last night against Stetson, but FGCU defeated the Lady Bisons in three quick sets Saturday night. “Florida Gulf did a nice job of coming out and executing their game plan, and, unfortunately, that leaves us sitting here pondering on a lot,” head coach Brandon Rosenthal said. Kayla Ostrom, Lauren Anderson, Taylor Racich, Brittany Thomas, Carlyle Nusbaum, Maddie Phillips and Katie Bradley started the match in Allen Arena and fell behind FGCU early on in the first set. Lipscomb called a timeout in set one with the score 10-4 to try to switch the momentum. Nevertheless, the Lady Bisons fell behind early on and never came back. FGCU extended the lead to 16-8, and then dominated the net to move to 21-11, leaving the Lady Bisons in the dust. Lipscomb eventually fell to the Eagles 25-14. “We hadn’t been beat like this all year, and it’s alarming,” Rosenthal stated. The second set started off much better for the Lady Bisons as they quickly jumped ahead to 7-3. FGCU called a timeout to try to freeze Lipscomb but to no avail. The Lady Bisons pushed ahead, keeping their early lead. FGCU battled at the net until tying up the game 11-11. Lipscomb tried to gain the lead back but fell behind 14-11. The Eagles took advantage of this momentum, winning set two 25-18. Despite the Lady Bisons offense’s slow start, Nusbaum kept her double figure kill streak in place,...
by Charissa Ricker | Oct 8, 2016 | News Slider, Sports
The Lipscomb women’s soccer (9-4-1, 3-1) lost to the Stetson Hatters (6-4-2, 3-0) with a score of 2-0 on Friday night at the Lipscomb Soccer Complex. The team returned home after a three conference game winning streak at Kennesaw State, Jacksonville, and North Florida. The game started slow with an early goal from Stetson in the first five minutes. However, the game quickly switched to a defensive fight between the Bisons and the Hatters. “For most of the game I thought we played well,” head coach Shannon O’Brien said. “We dictated the tempo.” Lipscomb defense continued to fight throughout the first half with three goal saves by goalkeeper Anna Buhigas, but switched to strong offense in the second half. “We created a lot of good chances, we just couldn’t score,” O’Brien said. “Which in the end is the hardest part of the game.” The game was full of near misses for the Bisons, with ten shots in the first half and twelve shots in the second half, outshooting Stetson by double. “The last ten minutes we gambled we pulled a center back and threw her forward, and they got that second goal,” O’Brien said. “It’s a risk/reward thing; if it works out and you get a goal with an extra forward, great but if it doesn’t, well that’s what happened.” As the game neared its’ end, the Bisons started to lose the control over the ball which lead to a chaotic finish to the tough game. With seven minutes left in the second half Stetson drove the ball from center field into the net scoring the second goal of...
