Category: Sports
WAC headlines
CBU wins with perfect score The California Baptist University men’s cross-country team successfully defended its Western Athletic Conference title and won the 2021 WAC cross-country championship. Florian LePallec won the individual title, and four more of his teammates followed him to help the Lancers clinch the win with a perfect score. The Lancers won while […]
Living out Christian ethics in athletics
Christians are called to let their faith show in everything they do, whether they are playing a sport or fixing a car. Christian faith is not supposed to be a private exercise that believers take part in once a week. Rather, Christian ethics are supposed to influence everything that believers think, say and do. In […]
Rodeo gallops into the community
The first European settlers of what would become the state of California were Spanish ranchers, who used the fertile land of the coastal plains to graze large herds of cattle. Eventually, American ranchers came to California and continued the state’s long history of agricultural industriousness. One of the features of ranch life in California and […]
How endurance sports affect Christianity
In the New Testament, the apostle Paul uses athletic imagery to describe the Christian life and what it means to have faith. He exhorts Christians to finish their races well, to run with perseverance and to strive for the prize of salvation. This athletic imagery can be especially meaningful for athletes who train every day […]
Water polo splashes into the season
The California Baptist University women’s water polo team had a successful season in 2021. As they recovered from a canceled 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they were able to compete against some of the top teams in the country and qualify for the Golden Coast Conference championships in spring 2021. Now the CBU […]
Fortuna celebrates history of tradition
Thirty years ago today, in Volume 36, Issue 5 of The Banner, sports editor Chuck Walker wrote an event preview headlined, “Fortuna Bowl I brings football action to Cal Baptist next Monday.” Now 30 years later, students at California Baptist University will gather to celebrate Fortuna Bowl XXX as a part of the annual Family […]
WAC headlines
New Member Joins The Western Athletic Conference announced on Nov. 12 that the University of the Incarnate Word will be joining the WAC. Starting on July 1, 2022, UIW will join the WAC as a full member, and as the only member school to sponsor all 20 sports that the WAC sponsors. UIW is the […]
Softball hits it out of the park at the Olympics
At the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, held in the summer of 2021, softball made a surprising appearance. After being added to the Olympic sports program in 1996, softball was removed from the Olympic sports line-up for the 2012 and 2016 games. Along with baseball, softball was able to return to the Olympics in 2021. […]