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Celebrating 100 years in Lakeland

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FSC swimming reaches for new heights

After a 2011-2012 season in which the Florida Southern College men’s swimming team finished third in the country, expectations are extremely high for the 2012-2013 campaign. The expectations are warranted as the Mocs return six...
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Mocs close the book on 2012

The Florida Southern College Men’s and Women’s Cross Country teams competed in the NCAA South Region Championship in Huntsville, Ala. on Nov. 3. The meet told two very different stories for the men’s and...
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Mocs eye return to big dance

Fresh off a Sunshine State Conference Tournament Championship, the Florida Southern College men’s basketball team enters the 2012-2013 season with high expectations. The league’s coaches picked the Mocs to finish second in the SSC, behind...
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National title eludes FSC water ski team

Florida Southern College finished third at the National Collegiate Water Ski Association Championships for the second year in a row. The impressive finish came in spite of an injury that prevented Eastern Regional Champion...

Florida Southern College Volleyball Bounces Back from Slow Start

Entering the season with high expectations, the Florida Southern College Volleyball team started the 2012 campaign by losing four of its first five contests. Senior Anne Pietkiewicz said there was no sense of panic after...

Lady Mocs ready for big debut on CBS College Sports Network

The Florida Southern College women’s basketball team has a lot to look forward to, from its new head coach, Holly Borchers, to new recruits, to the news of a game being nationally televised on...
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Tomchinsky continues to silence doubters

“People who doubt me inspire me.” From his high school career to his third-place finish at the 2012 Sunshine State Conference Championship Meet, this statement has come to define the cross country career of Florida...

Wynee Warden Tennis Center hosts first event

On Sept. 22 the Florida Southern College Campus Showdown Tennis Tournament kicked off at the Wynee Warden Tennis Center. The event invited tennis players from the local community, both professional and amateur, to come...
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Jones takes over women’s soccer program

Brittany Jones is in her first season as head coach of the Florida Southern College women’s soccer team, after being chosen last February to replace Ben Strawbridge. Strawbridge left FSC to take an assistant position...
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Borchers steps in as women’s basketball coach

Last spring, Holly Borchers was named the head women’s basketball coach at Florida Southern College. Al Green, FSC Assistant Athletic Director, thinks Borchers’ hiring was an obvious choice. “Holly is ready to take over. She has...

Recent Articles

Prof. Mike Nabors’ guide to pivoting in life & career

Professor Mike Nabors teaches at FSC about the world of sports media, an industry he’s been a part of for more than 30 years. Recently, he’s released his second book, entitled “Don’t Quit Pivot,” which aims to drive others to chase their dreams and pursue their passions.  In the book, Nabors writes, “The goal [of this book] is to pass on the idea that the ability to move from one career to something better for you is attainable for everyone.”

New Real Estate Society opens a gateway to industry networking

Interested in the real estate world? Students now have the perfect opportunity, thanks to a brand new student organization: the Real Estate Society, founded by sophomore Claudia Kaczmarczyk. Kaczmarczyk, a finance major from Chicago, started the society just a few weeks ago with the goal of giving students more exposure to the real estate industry, something she’s been involved in for the past two years.

Students receive Sheriff’s Commendation for saving Lakeland man’s life

On April 8, 2024, junior Alex McManus and sophomore Brian von Suskil planned on driving to Starbucks early in the morning to grab breakfast while they applied for classes. Thinking the coffee house would be crowded, they decided to go to McDonalds instead. This change would alter 71-year-old Terry Dennis’ life forever. “Two older guys that came in, which ended up being Terry and then his friend Fred,” McManus said. “They had sat behind us and I didn’t think anything of it. And then I just, like, my back faced them and I heard something smack the ground. I turned around and then Terry had fallen out like, coffee everywhere, he just fell out of his chair. He was lying on the ground.”

Senior named National DSP Collegian of the Year

Gracianna Campbell, a senior accounting major from Tampa, didn’t set out to win awards when she joined Delta Sigma Pi (DSP) — she just wanted to find a community. Now, as she prepares to graduate, she’s leaving with not just that,  but also the highest honor a collegiate member of DSP can receive: National Collegian of the Year (COY).

How will Trump’s tariffs impact the economy?

On Wednesday, April 2, newly named as ‘Liberation Day,’ President Trump made a historic executive order calling for a minimum 10% tariff on all goods imported to the United States, in response to what he claimed as a national economic emergency. Along with this, other countries that have large trade deficits with the U.S. will receive even higher tariffs.