Neil Morgan Archives

A Woman Who Paved The Way

Biola Alumni Kelly Kobayashi is a living testament for women in sports.

Nina Corral, Sports Editor • September 28, 2024

If you are a sports fan and follow ESPN on Instagram or TikTok and come across the small clips of the mini-microphone interviews or scrolled on TikTok and saw the viral Savannah Bananas dancing Umpire eating some nachos a fan offered him while on the field and wondered who captured this fun moment? Biola’s...

Athletics’ adjustments to COVID-19 safety measures

Biola welcomed student-athletes back on campus under stringent NCAA protocols.

Andi Basista and Maria Weyne • September 24, 2020

On Monday, Sept. 14, fall sport athletes were cleared of the 14-day Initial Quiet Period put in place by the Eagles Athletics COVID-19 Action Plan. Student-athletes were placed under a strict quarantine, required by the PacWest Conference and the NCAA Sport Science Institute to try and keep coronavirus...

Eagles step into official NCAA Division II membership

The Eagles are now eligible for Division II postseason play.

Andi Basista, News Editor • September 21, 2019

(This story was originally published in print on Sept. 19, 2019). After two years of provisional NCAA Division II membership, Biola Athletics officially became a full and active DII school over the summer. The Eagles entered provisional DII membership during the summer of 2016 after 52 years in the...

Tennis Center gets a facelift

The renovations come after over a decade of fundraising and will improve the recruiting process and efficiency during matches.

Ashley Grams, Deputy News Editor • September 19, 2019

(This story was originally published in print on Sept. 19, 2019). Biola hosted the grand opening ceremony of the new Tennis Center last Saturday morning. Fans, local supporters and honored guest Michael Chang, the 1989 French Open Champion arrived for a short ceremony and even played on the courts for...

SGA Rundown: Senators revisit SGA positions and athletic boosters

Senate adds auxiliary positions and promotes spring athletics.

Amanda Frese, Managing Editor • February 28, 2019

After staging a Leisure Lounge event on Wednesday and debriefing from their attendance at Student Congress on Racial Reconciliation conference last weekend, Student Government Association spent their last meeting before spring break proposing new auxiliary positions and addressing a spring athletic proposal...

Eagles take the Islands

For the first time ever, the Biola Athletics had three teams in Hawaii concurrently.

Joel Ashor, Sports Editor • October 23, 2018

This story was originally published in print on Oct. 18, 2018. While many students looked forward to a short week of school before Torrey Conference, three Biola teams had something else in store; a trip to Hawaii to take on PacWest rivals Chaminade University, Hawaii Pacific University, and University...

Volleyball’s weirdest streak is for the birds

Austin Green, Managing Editor • October 20, 2018

Neil Morgan does not remember the exact moment when he discovered what is almost certainly the most unorthadox streak in Biola Athletics history. He does, however, remember what led to the find. Biola volleyball was playing in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics national tournament...

SGA Rundown: Athletics, commuters and the SUB highlight last meeting before Torrey weekend

The senate hosted a passionate presentation from Commuter Life and passed two proposals from SGA President Sierra McCoy.

Austin Green, Managing Editor • October 4, 2018

The Student Government Association senate set out Thursday to take care of some familiar business in an unfamiliar place. The senate moved its meeting to the Lehman Board Conference room in Metzger Hall as their normal space in the Student Union Building was temporarily transformed into a backstage area...