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Marquette alum Emery Lehman’s last ride: Winter Games are speed skater’s final chance at gold

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...
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Alexa Maletis is chasing soccer dreams she’s had since 4 years old. They brought her to Austria

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...
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Skate then study: Marquette students participate in U.S. Olympic Speed Skating Trials

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...
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Marquette defending its crown in highly-anticipated season

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
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QB still undecided for Packers ahead of their first NFC North game

The Green Bay Packers will play their first NFC North rival game of the season Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings.

The Vikings currently stand undefeated despite a quarterback shuffle. Backup quarterback Sam Darnold stepped up after J.J. McCarthy faced complications with a torn right meniscus before their first game, which sidelined him for the rest of the season.

In the team's first three games, Darnold has accumulated a pas...
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Marquette’s homegrown graduate assistants teach through strong relationships

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...
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Final Marquette Poll: Who's leading presidential race in Wisconsin

The final Marquette Law School Poll finds 50% of likely voters support Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and 49% support Republican former President Donald Trump. When initially undecided voters are kept as a separate category, Harris garnered 48% of support, Trump gathered 47% and 5% were undecided.In the U.S. Senate race, 51% of likely voters support Sen. Tammy Baldwin and 49% support Eric Hovde. When undecided voters weren't forced to choose and were kept as a separate category, 48% cho...
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Marquette women’s soccer draws Loyola Chicago with late goal

Confidence is difficult to conjure and easy to lose.
Marquette women’s soccer took a gut punch to its confidence only six minutes into its matchup against Loyola Chicago when the Ramblers found the back of the cage on a cross-field shot.
In that moment, simply put — no Marquette player was smiling.
“It’s tough,” Marquette head coach Chris Allen said. “Obviously, it’s been a tough couple weeks around Marquette and we were really wanting to get together, pour into each other and start on the front...
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Meg Bireley sits just 10 goals away from all-time scoring record

The Marquette women’s lacrosse all-time goal scoring record that has stood for six years is about to be snatched.
After Marquette’s most recent game against Niagara at Valley Fields on Friday evening, senior attacker Meg Bireley sits at 165 goals — 10 short of record-holder Grace Gabriel’s 175 she got between 2016 and 2019. If Bireley keeps up her average pace of 4.2 goals per game, she’ll pass Gabriel during the team’s matchup against Detroit Mercy on March 16 at home and finish her collegiate...
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Women’s soccer pairs with nonprofit to give twins life-changing experience

There is more to the Marquette women’s soccer team than what the roster shows.

Twins Kendall and Chloe Roehling have been Golden Eagles for four months, despite being 9 years old.

Through Team IMPACT, an organization that pairs children with disabilities or life-threatening illnesses with college sports teams, the Roehling twins became honorary Marquette players over the summer. Born in 2015 with a rare form of restrictive cardiomyopathy, Kendall and Chloe were 13 months old when they were dia
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Women’s soccer grabs first Big East win over St. John’s, 3-1

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...
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Meredith Black’s ‘gold standard’ helped start women’s lacrosse program from scratch

Meredith Black was with the Marquette women’s lacrosse team before it could even be considered a team.

Before any names were on a roster, and long before there were any practices and games and wins and losses, Black was there.

She has been at the helm of the team for the lows of a 2-15 record in 2013 and the highs of a 15-4 2023 season in which they made their first NCAA tournament appearance.

But in the beginning, she said starting the program in 2012 was extremely challenging.

“It was hard
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Wisconsin's voting results show biggest turnout in state history

Around 3.4 million people, 72.6% of those eligible to vote in Wisconsin, cast ballots in the 2024 presidential race — the highest number of voters in the state's history. This is based on unofficial results pending certification by the Wisconsin Elections Commission. This Wisconsin certification process involves multiple levels of canvassing — a publicly observable process in which election officials review and validate the election results. This year's voter turnout percentage in Wisconsin was...
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HANSON: The rise of AI poses a threat to writers

With the exponential growth of online chatbots within the past few years, the capacity for academic integrity is declining. Jobs previously performed by humans can be taken over and writing that would take hours to create can now be accomplished by AI in seconds.

Chat GPT3 is an online chatbot created in November 2022 by Open AI that Microsoft just invested $10 billion into. It’s a system that reached 1 million users in five days and is meant to replicate human dialogue that can hold conversati