Last track season, the women’s 4×100m relay team made history, racking up awards from CSU, to Big South records, to NCAA All-American status. The quartet of Jessica Thomas, Dionne Gibson, Misha Morris and Gabrielle Houston was not content when they shattered the Big South’s record at the NCAA East Region becoming the first women’s relay team to break the 45-second mark. The team went on to become the League’s first relay team to earn a bid to the national championship meet.

When you plant bold seeds in South Carolina soil, you expect them to grow strong and true. Charleston Southern University was planted in North Charleston in 1964, watered by prayer and tended by faithful stewards over several decades. Now ready to bloom, CSU is quickly moving in the direction of an exciting vision, aided by the efforts of the newly established Center for Christian Leadership (CCL). I arrived at CSU in June of 2007 and have since been given the honor of acting as the director of the CCL.

Every athlete dreams of representing his or her country in the Olympic Games. Although not competing, cross country freshman Shaun Bisson got his chance to represent Canada as one of the torch bearers for the 2010 torch relay.

The 2009 Hall of Fame class included women’s soccer player Betsy Lapp-Blackwell, baseball player R.J. Swindle and men’s tennis player Sandeep Yeni Reddy.