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Est. 1879|The Official Student Newspaper of Mount St. Mary's University
Spes Nostra | Reporting Facts, Echoing Truth
Baseball Sacred Heart Home Game Series
Kelby Chichester Mount St. Mary's baseball kicked off their 2025 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) schedule with a three-game...
Kelby Chichester
Apr 42 min read
Emelie Beckman Pole Vaulting Successes
Kelby Chichester Mount St. Mary’s Junior Emilie Beckman, an international student from Sweden, broke the school record for the women’s...
Kelby Chichester
Apr 43 min read


Men's Basketball Faces Duke in March Madness
Colby Brooke As March Madness rages on one team says farewell to one of its best seasons in recent memory. The Mount’s men’s basketball...
Colby Brooke
Apr 42 min read
First Year Brooke Molchanoff
Stacey May Brooke Molchanoff is a first-year student from Cicero, New York. This past week, she was named the Metro Atlantic Athletic...
Stacey May
Apr 42 min read
Soccer Gets New Coach
Kelby Chichester The Mount’s athletic department has announced the appointment of Liis Abbott as the new head coach of the women’s soccer...
Kelby Chichester
Mar 212 min read


Mount Swim Travels for 2025 MAAC Championships
Hanna Aggen On Feb. 12, the Mount St. Mary’s Men’s and Women’s Swim team began the 2025 MAAC Championship meet. The 2024-25 season has...
Hanna Aggen
Mar 214 min read


Spotlight: Kevin Zaleski
Anna Hsia Senior Kevin Zaleski (C’25) is a dedicated Cross-Country and Track and Field athlete. On top of being a three-season athlete,...
Anna Hsia
Mar 212 min read
How NCAA Roster Cap Impacts Students
Kelby Chichester As national signing day approaches, college recruits and coaches are making critical decisions without clear guidance on...
Kelby Chichester
Mar 213 min read
Pinning Down Post Season
Anna Hsia This season, the Mount’s bowling team experienced many achievements and transitions. In April 2024, former Head Coach Kenneth...
Anna Hsia
Mar 212 min read

Homecoming Weekend: Mount's Annual Homecoming Game
Nicole Campos-VIllaran Homecoming is a major tradition in the United States, particularly in high schools and colleges, where...
Nicole Campos Villaran
Feb 162 min read
Women's Water Polo Strong Season Starter
Hanna Aggen On the weekend of February 1, the Mount St. Mary’s Women’s Water Polo team, faced contenders such as Bucknell, Saint Francis,...
Hanna Aggen
Feb 161 min read
Mount Basketball Rebound for a Win Steak
Stacey May For the first time since 2021, the women’s basketball team had their longest winning streak of seven games.  The beginning of...
Stacey May
Feb 162 min read
Mount's Track and Field Travels to Liberty University
Hanna Aggen February 9, the Mount Track and Field team traveled to Penn State and Liberty. The Mountaineers brought back several shining...
Hanna Aggen
Feb 161 min read
Senior Jo Raflo Shines on the Court
Kelby Chichester Mount St. Mary’s senior Jo Raflo was named Player of the Week after delivering standout performances in the team’s...
Kelby Chichester
Feb 163 min read

Bowling Coach Steps Down
Meghan Leavitt Mount St. Mary’s bowling coach has officially stepped down to pursue a different career in athletic administration....
Meghan Leavitt
May 2, 20242 min read

Lind Named as New Head Coach of Men's Basketball
Steven Morano On April 19, the Athletic Department of Mount St. Mary’s University announced Danny Lind as the 23rd head coach of the...
Steven Morano
May 2, 20242 min read

Veteran Echo Sports Guru Moves Onto the Next Chapter
Steven Morano Through my three and a half years writing and editing for The Mountain Echo, I have witnessed the transition from an online...
Steven Morano
May 2, 20242 min read
Photographic Memories
Kelly Blanco Looking back to my sophomore year, I started to get more involved on campus as some aspects of college life were returning...
Kelly Blanco
May 2, 20242 min read

Baseball Demolishes Iona on the Road in Sweep
Steven Morano This past weekend in New Rochelle, New York, the Mount St. Mary’s baseball team swept Iona in a three-game series to move...
Steven Morano
May 2, 20242 min read

In Defense of the Athletes: NARP Response
Matthew Schwanke After reading the article on Mount athletes and their superiority complexes I felt that I was uniquely qualified to...
Matthew Schwanke
Apr 11, 20242 min read

Softball Sweeps UMass Lowell in Dramatic Fashion
Xavier Suggs The Mountaineers swept UMass Lowell at home on March 16 and 17. With both teams entering the series with three wins, the...
Xavier Suggs
Apr 11, 20243 min read

Athletics to Leave Oakland for Sacramento
Steven Morano The Oakland Athletics have been a staple of Major League Baseball for more than 50 years. Kelly Green jerseys, generational...
Steven Morano
Apr 11, 20243 min read

Women's Water Polo Live for Postseason
Matthew Schwanke After a critical win over La Salle University on April 6, Mount St. Mary’s Women's Water Polo team qualified for a spot...
Matthew Schwanke
Apr 11, 20242 min read

From Undrafted to Sought After Signing
Matthew Schwanke Former Mount St. Mary’s Pitcher Cooper Adams has made his dream of pro-baseball a reality after signing a minor league...
Matthew Schwanke
Mar 14, 20243 min read

Mount Swimmers Step Up at MAAC
Hanna Aggen On Feb. 14 the Mount’s swim and dive team started off their MAAC conference championship meet with a bang. The 200 Medley...
Hanna Aggen
Mar 14, 20243 min read

Concourse Renovations Coming Soon to ARRC
Alexis Mobley The Athletics Department at Mount St. Mary’s University revealed the project to remodel the concourse at the ARCC. The...
Alexis Mobley
Mar 14, 20242 min read

Basketball to Create a Run in Atlantic City
Steve Morano After another grueling season of basketball in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, both the men’s and the women’s...
Steve Morano
Mar 14, 20242 min read
Mount Upsets Quinnipiac
Steve Morano After the women’s victory against Canisius on Saturday, Feb. 10, the Mount St. Mary’s men’s basketball team faced No. 1 in...
Steve Morano
Feb 15, 20242 min read

Water Polo Coach Ready for the Challenges
Matthew Schwanke In October of 2023, Mount St. Mary’s hired Sara Marin as a new assistant coach to join the water polo team and staff of...
Matthew Schwanke
Feb 15, 20243 min read

Women’s Basketball Thrashes on Canisius
Steve Morano The Mount St. Mary’s women’s basketball team opened a home doubleheader for the entire basketball program on Saturday, Feb....
Steve Morano
Feb 15, 20242 min read

Army Moves on from Independent Status
Patrick Rankin On Oct. 25th, The United States Military Academy at West Point announced that their football program will be in the...
Patrick Rankin
Dec 6, 20232 min read

Basketball Dominates Siena at Home
Steven Morano The Mount’s men’s basketball team were the victims of an unlucky run of games. With a record of 1-5, the Mount fell in...
Steven Morano
Dec 6, 20232 min read

Carey Earns Bronze at 2023 Santiago Games
Matthew Schwanke Annie Carey won three bronze medals for Team USA at the 2023 Parapan American Games in the 100-meter dash, 200-meter...
Matthew Schwanke
Dec 6, 20232 min read

The Mount Celebrates 30 Years of Hosting Maryland Special Olympics
Bryant Martinez Several hundred Mount students came together to volunteer at the Maryland Special Olympics Fall Sports Fest, which was...
Bryant Martinez
Dec 6, 20233 min read

Women' Basketball Undertakes New Season
Matthew Schwanke Mount St. Mary’s women’s basketball team looks to improve in their second season in the MAAC after going 8-12 in...
Matthew Schwanke
Nov 15, 20232 min read

Women's Soccer's Grand Season
Bryant Martinez The Mount St. Mary's women's soccer team upset Rider 1-0 in an exciting match on a cold Wednesday evening to earn a...
Bryant Martinez
Nov 15, 20232 min read
Rivals Join The MAAC
Patrick Rankin The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference announced on Oct. 23 that Merrimack College and Sacred Heart University will join...
Patrick Rankin
Nov 15, 20233 min read

Men's Basketball Looks to Shock the Polls
Matthew Schwanke After finishing 8-12 in their first year in the MAAC last season, the Mount looks to continue to build this year. The...
Matthew Schwanke
Nov 15, 20232 min read

Michael Chipi: Cross-Country Runner Has Become One of MAAC’s Best 
Matthew Schwanke Michael Chipi was named Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference’s cross-country runner of the week on Sept. 13, after...
Matthew Schwanke
Oct 23, 20232 min read

Exciting Season of Strokes and Splash
Bryant Marinez The swimming and diving team was gearing up to make a splash in the inaugural American University Relays on Sept. 22. The...
Bryant Martinez
Oct 23, 20232 min read

Men's Golf Shows Potential at Bucknell
Bryant Martinez In Lewisburg, Pa., from Oct. 8 to Oct. 10, the Mount St. Mary’s men’s golf team competed at the Bucknell Invitational to...
Bryant Martinez
Oct 23, 20232 min read
Mid-Season Overview of Women's Rugby Team
Matthew Schwanke The Mount St. Mary’s women’s rugby team has set out in their annual rugby 15s campaign for 2023. Through four games this...
Matthew Schwanke
Oct 23, 20232 min read

Fundraising Top Priority of New Athletic Director
Matthew Schwanke The new Athletic Director of Mount Saint Mary’s University, Brad Davis, has brought with him new ideas for improvement....
Matthew Schwanke
Sep 20, 20232 min read

Men's Soccer Gears Up for 2023 Season
Bryant Martinez The men’s soccer team at the Mount is getting ready for an exciting 2023 season in the Metro Atlantic Athletic...
Bryant Martinez
Sep 20, 20232 min read

Women Also Prepare for MAAC Grind
Bryant Martinez Mount St. Mary’s women’s soccer team is getting ready for this year’s Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference season. The...
Bryant Martinez
Sep 20, 20232 min read

Annual Wrap for Mount ESPN Program
Steven Morano With the move to the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference in 2022, Mount Saint Mary’s University signed a deal with ESPN to...
Steve Morano
Sep 20, 20232 min read


Women’s Water Polo Season Comes to an End
Matthew Schwanke After an up-and-down year, the MSMU’s women’s water polo team was able to make a final push for the postseason. They...
Matthew Schwanke
May 12, 20232 min read
Baseball Sweeps Saint Peters of NJ
Steve Morano On the weekend of Apr. 14th to 16th, the Mount took on Saint Peter’s University in Emmitsburg to excessive effect. The...
Steven Morano
May 12, 20232 min read


Ohtani: More Than a Man
Steve Morano On Apr. 1, 2023, an April Fools joke circulated around social media regarding the Los Angeles Angels star player, Shohei...
Steven Morano
May 12, 20232 min read


Lynn Robinson Retires from Mount
Patrick Rankin Lynn Robinson announced on Mar. 6 that she will retire after the Mount`s Debut Season in the MAAC. When asked about her...
Patrick Rankin
May 12, 20233 min read
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