Sac State coaches forced to adapt recruitment efforts amid stay-at-home order
May 15, 2020
College sports coaches have been fostering new and innovative ways to recruit players amid the stay-at-home order to ensure they still have successful teams and are able to bring in the right players for their programs. The year-round recruitment process usually entails visits to the campuses, facilities...
Sac State alumna makes history as first female MLB coach
May 14, 2020
While working to produce the Spartan Race at Oracle Park as an intern for the San Francisco Giants, Sacramento State alumna Alyssa Nakken passed by the office of manager Gabe Kapler. Nakken stopped to ask a simple question, not knowing that this would be one of the first steps in becoming the firs...
Top moments from the Sac State softball team’s 2020 season
April 20, 2020
The Sacramento State softball team played 26 games, ending with a 14-11-1 record before the cancellation of the season by the Sac State Athletics Department due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The following are few mentionable highlights of the season. Team begins the season with a 4-1 record ...
Sac State student-athletes on their shelter-at-home routines
April 16, 2020
With the NCAA suspension of all remaining winter and spring championships, games and practices and Sacramento State’s subsequent cancellation of sports through the end of the academic year, student-athletes are adjusting to a new daily routine - one without the sport they dedicated their college life to. “Par...
‘It is a completely different dynamic’: Sac State athlete describes transition from baseball to softball player
April 13, 2020
Sophomore shortstop Shea Graves’ love for sports started at a young age, but it wasn’t softball that first peaked her interest. Instead, she took a more nontraditional path to college softball. “I played baseball until high school,” Graves said. “I enjoyed playing with boys and they were wi...
Sac State softball team earns one win in Wolf Pack Classic
March 8, 2020
The Sacramento State softball team finished 1-3 in the Wolf Pack Classic over the weekend, bringing them to 14-11 on the season. The Hornets (14-11) dropped their first game Friday 9-0 in a dominating performance by the University of Nevada, Reno (10-14). In that game, the Hornets combined for only...
Sac State softball team earns two wins in Capital Classic
March 2, 2020
The Sacramento State softball team took home two wins in the Capital Classic Tournament this weekend at Shea Stadium. After defeating rivals the University of California, Davis in a close 4-3 game Wednesday, the Hornets (12-8) were on a roll, opening the tournament with an 8-0 win in six innings ...
‘Every team I’ve played on, I’ve been the only African-American player’
February 25, 2020
Black history is a collection of experiences and moments, many righteous and many infamous, that all equally hold a tremendous impact not only in a context of historical significance, but in the influence of people’s personal lives as well as family ties. Whether it was the ending of Jim Crow laws i...
Sac State softball team racks up 31 runs in LMU Tournament
February 23, 2020
The second road trip of the season took the Sacramento State softball team to Los Angeles to compete in the LMU tournament. For the pair of games on Friday, Loyola Marymount University (8-6) and the University of Delaware (11-2) defeated Sac State (9-6). The Hornets defeated Quinnipiac Unive...
SPORTS PODCAST: Sac State softball season starter
Robyn Dobson, Paola Yepez, and Robbie Pierce
February 20, 2020
The Spring 2020 softball season started Feb 7., and on this week’s episode of The State Hornet Sports Podcast, sports editor Robyn Dobson sat down with softball beat writer Paola Yepez to discuss the season thus far as well as predictions for the rest of it. Music: Rumble by bensound.com...
The Big West Conference board of directors announced Wednesday that fall sports competition will be postponed through the end of the calendar year.