The Atlanta Hawks grab a rebound during Game 3 of the their first round NBA Playoffs series against the New York Knicks. In the prior game in New York, Hawks superstar Trae Young was spit at by a Knicks fan. (Jessica Solomon/Managing Editor) As I sat with 15,000 other fans in State Farm Arena for [...]
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A common theme throughout the COVID-19 pandemic has been adapting. While students experience college online, professors have had to adjust their curriculum to better suit the virtual platform. Athletic trainers, too, have had to take on a new role as contact tracers. When Emory University transitioned online a year ago, campus life as we knew [...]
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When a 13-year-old Brianna Jones first stepped foot onto Emory’s campus for a summer volleyball camp, head coach Jenny McDowell sensed there was something special about her. Jones, an Atlanta native, never did suit up for the Eagles, but after she was a volunteer assistant during her senior year for the Emory volleyball team, McDowell [...]
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It’s hard to talk about college football without hearing the name Trevor Lawrence. The 21-year-old star quarterback from Clemson University (S.C.) has made headlines since he arrived onto the college scene in 2018, and it shouldn’t come as any surprise that Lawrence is projected to go first in the 2021 NFL Draft — especially with [...]
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On Nov. 23, 2019, the Emory volleyball team fell to Johns Hopkins University (Md.) in the NCAA Division III Women’s Volleyball Championship game. In a subsequent interview with the Wheel, then-junior middle hitter Finn Wilkins expressed her readiness to return for the 2020 season in hopes of getting to “those final moments at nationals,” noting [...]
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