by Brianne Welch | Nov 15, 2012 | Sports
Vanessa Medina, a senior softball player from Bakersfield, Calif., came to Lipscomb University to experience a different world. “I wanted to challenge myself,” she said. For four years, softball was Medina’s life. According to Medina, the sport provided her with some of her favorite memories. “One of my best memories was winning conference my sophomore year,” Medina said. “We danced to ‘Baby’ on the field.” Medina was injured her sophomore and senior years, which limited her playing time. She was offered a medical redshirt but decided not to use it. Instead, Medina said she is enjoying being a regular student during her last semester of college. “I do love being a normal student,” Medina said. “I also like being busy though, so I don’t think I could handle all this free time for more than one semester.” While softball was Medina’s job and took up the majority of her time, it was just a means to a desired end. Medina is majoring in public relations and wants to use her degree to remain involved in sports. “Maybe I’ll be a sports broadcaster or the person setting up the press conferences,” Medina said. “I want to do something in sports.” Medina’s dream is for that “something” to be a job in Major League Baseball. Though her favorite team is the New York Yankees, Medina has interviewed for a position with the Minnesota Twins, among other types of jobs. “I’ve had a couple of interviews, but nothing is set in stone.” Medina said sports helped her learn valuable life skills. “I learned a lot of time management because of softball,” she...
by Emily Snell | Mar 29, 2012 | News Slider, Sports
The Lipscomb softball team was robbed in San Francisco Sunday night while doing some site seeing at the conclusion of its spring break tournament trip. After traveling back to San Francisco from one of their games in San Luis Obispo, the team went on a night tour of Alcatraz and then out for dinner. When the team returned to the vehicles around 10 p.m., the girls said they saw glass on the ground and then realized that two of the four team vehicles had been broken into. “I freaked out and I immediately looked to see if my computer had been taken,” said Vanessa Medina, a senior public relations major. Medina was one of the lucky team members whose stuff was not stolen, but five others were not so fortunate. Brianne Welch, a freshman communications major, had her backpack stolen, including a Mac laptop, which she had just purchased in August, and a Kindle Touch, which her mother had purchased as Welch’s birthday gift only two weeks ago. “I felt like I was kind of in shock a little bit,” Welch said. “I called my mom. I cried; I don’t think I’ve ever been so mad before.” “As a collective group of girls, we were just so angry,” she continued. “It’s a terrifying feeling. You feel violated.” After realizing they had been robbed, Assistant Coach Lexi Myers called the police, and then the team waited in the parking lot nearly two hours before they arrived. “[Myers] was great when this happened,” said Bridgette Begle, a sophomore, whose stuff was not stolen. “I felt secure while I was there. She...
