The Monmouth College community stepped up to the plate when called last week as part of the Fighting Scots' Student-Athlete Advisory Committee's (SAAC) philanthropy projects during the holiday season.

A trio of Monmouth College student-athletes got their workouts in on an unusually warm morning last Friday when they loaded, and then unloaded, a van full of nonperishable food items as part of the fourth annual Midwest Conference Canned Food Challenge.

In what has become a highly anticipated tradition at Monmouth College, Fighting Scots student-athletes will once again this holiday season reach out to special needs residents in the immediate Monmouth area through the college's Student-Athlete Advisor...

Almost 100 Monmouth College students spent part of their Saturday on Nov. 18 serving the residents of the Monmouth-Warren County community.

Monmouth's cross country team turned in some of the program's best times at Saturday's NCAA Regional at Saukie Golf Course in Rock Island where the women ran to a 15th-place finish in the 37-team field and the men placed 22nd.

Bolstered by their highest number of all-conference runners since their Midwest Conference Championship in 2012, the Monmouth College women placed third their highest finish since that championship year at Saturday's league championships at The Lin...

It's been an unusual season for coach Jon Welty's cross country team at Monmouth College. Welty was unfazed when unseasonably warm weather last month shortened the distances in the season's biggest meet.

Monmouth's men and women's cross country teams ran a total of seven improved times and placed two runners each in the top five to place in the top three teams of their respective fields at Friday afternoon's Bradley Pink Classic in Peoria.

Monmouth's women ran a tight pack to tie for fourth at the 13-team Dan Huston Invitational in Waverly, Iowa, while the men turned in a seventh-place effort.

With high heat indexes, Friday afternoon, cross country teams competing at the Brissman-Lundeen Invitational were treated to shortened courses 5K for the women and four miles for the men. Running in the "Blue" groupings which included nearly 250 runn...