Emery Lehman doesn’t remember some of his speed skating races very well.
Given how the Marquette alumni’s gold medal race against Italy in the 2026 Winter Olympics unfolded, it could have joined that pile. Feeling fatigued going into the race, he and his teammates used their energy too quickly and, most painfully, lost.
Entering the race as gold medal favorites and world record holders, they exited Milano Speed Skating Stadium second-best.
Still, Lehman will always remember the rematch against I...

Italy was the only team that had beaten Lehman and Team USA at these Olympics in the team pursuit. Besides that, the American trio went undefeated this World Cup season.
So it was only natural the two teams met in the gold medal race, two days after they competed in the qualifiers. Both times, the host nation used a strong finish to upset the world record holding red, white and blue.
Up until the final lap, the contenders were within a second of each other.
Team USA grabbed a narrow lead of just...

After four years of thinking about Olympic gold in team pursuit speed skating, it was finally time for Marquette alumni Emery Lehman and Team USA — the event favorites — to show how hard they had been working.
But in its qualifying race against Italy, the red, white and blue fell apart in the last three laps.
Out of the gates, it looked as if Team USA and Lehman were going to have no problem against the home team. They began strong.
After two laps, USA was a little over eight tenths of a second...

While Emery Lehman — a four-time Olympic speed skater and bronze medalist — attended Marquette, he didn’t like going to the recreation center on campus in the morning.
It was too far of a walk and took up time in his already packed schedule. He would simply stay inside his dorm, Carpenter Tower, before his 8 a.m. classes.
But he’d be damned if he wasted that time sleeping.
When his alarm went off at 6 a.m., he got up to run the 16 flights of stairs a couple times, then, sweating, went back to hi...

Blair Cruikshank puts her admiration and professional pursuit of speed skating in the simplest form possible: “I love going fast.”
When the three-time Junior World Cup skater pumps her exhausted legs down the final straight of a race and her blades cut through the ice propelling her up to 35 miles per hour, no other explanation will suffice.
“There’s really no feeling like it.”
Cruikshank and Leo Thompson, both Marquette students, went as fast as they could when they competed at the United State...

Natisha Hiedeman wears her heart on her sleeve. Literally. It’s been there in an orange Connecticut Sun jersey, a red Atlanta Dream one and in blue and green for the Minnesota Lynx. Her shoulder is tattooed with ‘Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.’
This mantra articulates her bond to Marquette women’s basketball, where she set records from 2015-19. A career so strong the university welcomed her into the ‘M Club’ Hall of Fame on Jan. 10.
“If I’m at a different university,” Hiedema...

Shaka Smart could have had a lot to think about going into Wednesday’s game.
Yes, Marquette men’s basketball played Southern — a team its never lost to and ranked 177th on KenPom.com — but there were many unknowns. Were the first half nerves going to return? Could more rookies step up? How would the 3-point shooting look? What about the bench rotations? Would the short, two-night rest period from the season-opener rear its head?
With this new-look Marquette team having a mere 40 minutes under it...

Shaka Smart plans for the future.
He hasn’t touched the transfer portal much since he began coaching at Marquette in 2021, instead opting to develop his roster in-house for future success. Recently, he has been doing this for some of his coaching staff as well.
Now in their first year as graduate coaching assistants, Jack Anderson and Cameron Brown smacked the hardwood with two hands as Golden Eagles for one and four seasons, respectively. It’s the first time in Smart’s 17 years of coaching that...

The entire squad hollered and clapped with their punched ticket sitting in front of them. The announcement was especially important for senior forward Jacob Ognacevic.

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

Four Big East games, or more fittingly, gut punches, in 10 days.
That’s what killed Marquette women’s soccer’s chances at exorcising postseason demons in 2025, leading to another missed conference tournament. Four gut punches that came quicker than the Golden Eagles knew how to respond.
Marquette hasn’t played in the postseason since 2017 and this year, almost every player on the team said either winning or simply making it was their biggest goal for the season. That desire in early conference p...

Conference play has been defined by inches for Marquette women’s soccer.
If sophomore forward, Jocelyn Leigh’s hand is inches in any other direction during Saturday night’s game in Omaha, there’s no handball, Creighton doesn’t get a penalty kick, the game isn’t tied and Marquette wins 1-0. But no — another draw, which continued a winless streak that extended back to August and gave the Golden Eagles their second tie in a row.
Tonight, in Marquette’s game against St. John’s, it looked like that t...

Chris Allen walked along the beaches of Lake Michigan in Port Washington, looking for a flat stone and a piece of driftwood to make a spear. Yes, it was going to be used for hunting — but not in the traditional sense.
It was going to be used to hunt opposing teams.
After every game, Allen hands out his ‘Tip of the Spear” MVP award — a literal spear. The player who receives it writes her name on a ribbon with the color corresponding to the team that they played, and ties it around the spear. If t...

As Josie Bieda sprinted past midfield during the first game of the season, she stuck out her right arm to call for the ball despite having a defender running alongside her. The pass came; she gathered the ball and took off dribbling towards the right side of the net. As she got closer to the cage, the Northern Illinois goalkeeper stepped out to limit Bieda’s options, but she took the shot anyway.
The decision to let it fly was the byproduct of a conversation the Marquette women’s soccer senior f...

Alexa Maletis’ morning routine is pretty standard.
The former Marquette women’s soccer defender wakes up around nine o’clock, makes her cup of coffee and reads some pages of the book she’s working through. Not long after, she packs her bag and begins her 20-minute walk to work.

Here’s where the standard ends.

Her work? Professional soccer. Where she does it? Few could pinpoint it on a map. Her walk? “Absolutely gorgeous.”

On her stroll, she sees two mountain ranges, rolling fir trees and never-e...