by Carly Reams | Mar 29, 2019 | News Slider
Lipscomb’s campus-wide Service Day on Wednesday gave students the opportunity to provide community service for up to 50 different organizations around Nashville. Over 3,000 hours of service were accumulated in just a day. Monroe Harding, a non-profit Nashville foster care service, was one of the service sites, which had approximately 20 Lipscomb students volunteer at it. One of the staff workers said the work those students accomplished would have taken him weeks. “I was surprised at how much work these students could do,” said Amy Bond, a foster-parent recruiter. “I gave them a task, and before I knew it, that task was completed. I was constantly finding other jobs we needed to get done.” Students at Monroe helped the non-profit with preparations to move out of their current location and into a new one. This included tasks from organizing paperwork to moving out furniture. Lipscomb Bible professor Earl Lavender was one of the leaders this year, and this wasn’t his first experience with Service Day. He said he has loved seeing the interactions of students and seeing how hard they work over the years. “Today was a great example,” Lavender said. “Everyone worked hard, and we did about three times as much as they expected. I wouldn’t have known about the mission they [Monroe Harding] were doing here if I had not come today and built the relationship we did.” As director of missional studies, Lavender said he is very interested in helping the community, noting he would love to see Lipscomb do a service day or even “service weekend” each semester. “And last year, I worked with Thrift...
by Abigail Davis | Mar 29, 2019 | News Slider
Lipscomb’s student population is nearly 60% female. A group of female students organized the second annual Women’s Empowerment Week. On Tuesday, Dr. Kate Watkins, the executive director of the Lipscomb LIFE Program, spoke to a group of students and faculty about her personal story as a woman in academia, as well as topics such as women’s role in the church and in the workplace. The night began with dinner and a game of “name that powerful woman.” The audience identified historically significant women through a series of clues from host, Leslie Garcia. The group laughed and played together before the mic was turned over to the speaker of the night. Through personal anecdotes and Biblical references, Dr. Watkins shared her wisdom with the audience about the source of true power. “It is not up to someone else to name me as empowered or to name me as powerful,” Watkins said. “My job does not empower me, my education does not empower me, my recognition does not empower me. I am empowered, hidden in Christ.” The week has featured multiple sessions, including a special Service Day volunteer location on Wednesday, and a MASK Chapel panel on “Beauty Standards Across Diverse Cultures” on Thursday. Garcia, a senior English major and president of the Diverse Student Coalition, said she hopes that students, men and women alike, will be able to learn from this week. “The goal throughout the week is empowering and equipping all students to recognize that there are powerful women on this campus, and in this city and in this...
by Grant Bricker | Mar 28, 2019 | News Slider, Sports
The Lady Bisons secured an 8-3 victory over the Tennessee Tech Eagles in their first meet of the season. The in-state, non-conference matchup tonight was played at Lipscomb’s Draper Diamond in Nashville, Tennessee. It was a tale of two pitchers with Lipscomb getting the better end of it.. Lipscomb pitcher Megan Gray started off the game with three strikeouts in-a-row to cap off a very impressive first inning. Then after an uneventful bottom of the first inning, Tennessee Tech took an early lead after Gray gave up a two-run homer to left center. This would pretty much be Gray’s only mishap of the evening as she stayed on the mound for all seven innings. She went on to strikeout an impressive seven batters while only allowing three runs in the process to finish off a stellar performance. As for Tennessee Tech’s pitching, it was almost the opposite. Tech struggled the most in the third inning with three runs allowed. Pitcher Alyssa Arden only lasted four innings before getting pulled, giving up six runs. The Eagles finished off the evening with Kayla Hughes on the mound, who only gave up two runs in two innings. Luckily for the Lady Bisons, it wasn’t long after a home run that they woke up in the third inning. After a strikeout to start the bottom of the second inning, Jenna Pealor hit a nice double to left centerfield to place herself in prime scoring position. Later, after an error on a beautiful line drive from Destinee Brewer, Gladden and Pealor would both score, tying the game up at two to end the...
by Mckenzi Harris | Mar 27, 2019 | Galleries
The Lipscomb baseball team fell to No. 6 Vanderbilt 15-1 on Tuesday night in the annual neutral-site meeting between the two teams. The game was held at First Tennessee Park in Nashville, which is currently home to local professional sports teams (the Nashville Sounds and Nashville SC). The first two innings of the game stayed quiet, while both starting pitchers got off to stellar starts. Read full story by Tyler Harvey here. « ‹ of 2 ›...
by Russell Vannozzi | Mar 18, 2019 | News Slider, Sports
Garrison Mathews shot 35 percent from three-point land his freshman and sophomore seasons at Lipscomb. That clip is nothing to sneeze at, but Mathews wanted to do better. And it just so happened that a local trainer could help him get there. “I didn’t want to be a mid-30 percent shooter, or even a 30 percent shooter at all,” Mathews said. “I wanted to be in the 40s – that was my goal for this year. I put a ton of work in, and I credit Jordan Romine for helping me with that.” Flash forward to this season, and Mathews is averaging 20.1 points per game and shooting 41 percent from three and 85 percent from the free-throw line. He also became Lipscomb’s all-time leading scorer in January and was named ASUN Player of the Year earlier this month. Part of that success is thanks to spending the last two summers working with Romine, a relative unknown in the basketball training world. Romine played at Centennial High School and was later a student manager for the Middle Tennessee women’s basketball team. He has since privately trained a few Blue Raiders, but Mathews is his poster child. “I saw he had potential and thought I could help him if I could get my hands on him,” Romine said. The idea was sparked when Romine heard the Lipscomb-Tennessee basketball game on the radio in December 2016. Mathews, the younger brother of Romine’s friend and former Franklin High School rival Braden Mathews, dropped 28 points and made five threes in a 92-77 loss to the Volunteers that day. “I was like, ‘that’s...
