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Bearing checkered flags and NASCAR’s infamous rainbow emblem, Daytona Beach and its beloved Daytona International Speedway is a place Hatters have called home since the Speedway’s inaugural race held in 1959, which introduced it as the the lifeblood of Volusia county’s cultural scene. Since the ‘60s, countless Stetson students have spent their first days of the semester in the grandstands for the Coke Zero Sugar 400 — back then it was the ‘Firecracker 400.’ Spring break goer

I always felt intimidated as a woman to train for self-defense. I had accepted a life where I would walk down dark streets on trepid alert, mace and a safety alarm equipped in my bag. I always wanted to learn to fight but I grew up in an early 2000s world where the representation of strong female fighters was mostly fictional and overly sexualized. The girls I knew who trained in self-defense sports, like wrestling or karate, were such a rarity that I worshipped them as akin

I (virtually) sat down with Ricky Ray, the newly hired Director of Athletics to get to know him and his game plan for the Hatters to knock it out of the park this season.