For the fourth time since 1997,  the Chadron State Eagles football team will compete against the Montana State University Bobcats in their season opener under the lights.

The Chadron State Eagles volleyball team begins the season with a new coach and new perspective. Janel Bailey, recent interim head volleyball coach, has spent some time with the Eagles prior to the resignation of former head coach Natasha Marquis.

For the first time since 1985, Chadron State College will have a men’s and women’s cross country team. The team will consist of 13 men athletes and 11 women. The cross country team is a young group, with 8 of the women runners being freshman, as well as 6 freshman male runners. Some of the runners double as track athletes too, on both the men’s and women’s team.

Chadron State’s football team kicked off its spring game at 10:30 a.m., Saturday at Elliott Field. The graduate assistant coaches split the squad into two separate teams, Cardinal and White. Head Coach Jay Long invited RMAC officials to referee the game, which helped the incoming players’ to play under real game conditions, Long said.

The Chadron State College football team played their annual spring scrimmage on Saturday, April 21, at Elliot Field, which resulted in the victory of the Cardinal team over the White 20-10.

The coaching staff has had a successful recruiting process, according to Jay Long, the football coach, despite the recent NCAA investigation. According to long, 54 players have been added to the roster this year, and the possibility of NCAA sanctions did not hinder the recruiting process.

The Chadron State College softball team closed the 2012 season, 7-1, against Metro State at home last Sunday.

Although they fell short of the RMAC tournament, a stacked schedule pitted the Eagles against the top nine teams in conference and the final victory left vindication for the team’s efforts throughout the season.

Cody Hunt and Jazmyn Webster will soon be competing at the highest level of NCAA DII track and field. But neither Webster, a sophomore jumper from Cheyenne, nor Hunt, a junior shot-putter from Lingle, Wyo., is overly concerned with the pressure of national competition.

The Eagles women’s softball team keeps sliding out. The athletes played a triple header Saturday at home against CSU-Pueblo, pulling out only one victory. Losing two games with scores of 16-12 and 10-2 and, only one winning one game with a score of 15-7, the Eagles are third from last in the RMAC with a record of 12-21 and a 15-29 overall.

Vince Lombardi once said “Winning is everything.”

The 2011-2012 Chadron State College golf team disagrees.

The team competed against eight other squads in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Championship Monday and Tuesday and returned yesterday with a last place finish. But with their season over, they’re taking the loss in stride.

The Eagles softball team had a rough weekend. Going on the road to Nebraska-Kearney, the athletes didn’t have much to celebrate on the holiday break as they lost all four games in both of their double-headers. They also split their double-header Tuesday against nationally ranked Augustana.