Weekly Athletics Preview: January Twelfth-18th

General | 1/12/2026 11:59:00 AM

ERIE, Pa. – Make little mistake: the center of the winter sports activities season is upon us. 

Just a number of weeks from now, Women’s Water Polo, Acrobatics & Tumbling, and Competitive Cheer & Dance will begin their 2026 campaigns, with different spring sports activities set to start practices this week. While the countdown for his or her seasons start, this week will show to be essential for males’s and girls’s hoops. Men’s and Women’s Basketball put together for a pair of dwelling exams every on Wednesday and Saturday, whereas Swimming returns for the second half of the 12 months for Senior Day. 

Here is our weekly athletics preview:

 

THIS WEEK IN GANNON ATHLETICS  

No. 2 Men’s Wrestling (5-1)

Friday, January sixteenth @ Shippensburg – 7:00 pm

Saturday, January seventeenth @ Millersville – 12:00 pm

• Now ranked second within the nation by the Open Mat (their highest rating in group historical past), the Golden Knights loved a come from behind, 29-12 victory over Lake Erie final Saturday afternoon. The twin was highlighted by GU successful the ultimate 5 bouts, together with fall victories for Dillon Walker (Mason, Ohio/Mason) & Dorian Crosby (Erie, Pa./Cathedral Prep).

• PSAC motion begins this week! Gannon will take to the highway for a pair of matchups away from dwelling, dealing with Shippensburg on Friday evening earlier than turning round to face Millersville lower than 24 hours later. 

No. 9 Men’s Basketball (13-2) 

Wednesday, January 14th vs Seton Hill – 7:30 pm

Saturday, January seventeenth vs IUP – 3:00 pm

• The Golden Knights suffered their first convention lack of the season final Saturday, falling to Cal (PA), 99-88. The Vulcans had been additionally unbeaten in convention in what’s shaping as much as be a gauntlet of a PSAC West slate. Gannon dispatched Edinboro, 101-83 earlier within the week for a rivalry win. Sophomore Lucas Sekasi (Washington, DC/Jackson-Reed) had one other excellent week, placing up 25 factors in opposition to the FIghting Scots and 23 extra in opposition to the Vulcans. The 25 factors was a profession excessive. 

• The subsequent two video games for Gannon will not get simpler as PSAC West motion continues. The Golden Knights will face Seton Hill (12-4, 6-2) on Wednesday earlier than welcoming in IUP (10-2, 6-1) to city for PSAC 75 Day on Saturday.       

No. 5 Women’s Basketball (16-1) 

Wednesday, January 14th vs Seton Hill – 5:30 pm

Saturday, January seventeenth vs IUP – 1:00 pm

• 15 straight wins heading into this week. Cleve Wright‘s squad went two for 2 to open up PSAC West play final week, edging rival Edinboro in extra time, 63-56 earlier than storming previous Cal (PA) in a powerful 82-46 win. Post participant Mia Slater (Canberra, Australia/Canberra Grammar School) has continued to gentle up the scoreboard within the final month, pouring in 36 whole factors over the 2 video games. Kate Ratliff (Canal Winchester, Ohio/Canal Winchester) was additionally spectacular on Saturday, main the group with 20 factors within the win.   

• Just like on the lads’s aspect, this week will likely be a large job for the ladies’s squad, as they’re going to welcome within the different two unbeaten groups in convention play to city. First up, Seton Hill, a group Gannon performed and beat 4 occasions final season en path to the Elite 8. The Griffins (12-2, 8-0) return a bevy of starters from a 12 months in the past. Similarly, IUP (13-0, 7-0) hasn’t misplaced a recreation and is simply behind the Golden Knights (eighth – Gannon is fifth) within the newest WBCA coaches ballot.             

Swimming (2-1)

Saturday, January seventeenth vs Oberlin & Malone – 1:00 pm (Recreation & Wellness Center Pool) (SENIOR DAY)

• The second half of the season begins this weekend! Gannon, contemporary off a productive 2025, will return to the pool for Senior Day on Saturday once they host Oberlin & Malone for a tri-meet.
• Senior Day festivities will start simply previous to the beginning of the meet.
• Gannon welcomed in new assistant coach Bill Bradley final week forward of Saturday’s meet. Bradley joins the Gannon employees after spending greater than 4 years as the top coach of the lads’s and girls’s swimming and diving applications on the State University of New York at Fredonia.

#17 Women’s Wrestling (7-5) 

Does not compete this week. 

• The Golden Knights traveled to Cedar Rapids, IA final week to compete within the NWCA National Duals. Gannon would fall to McKendree within the opening spherical earlier than incomes a powerful 32-12 win over West Liberty instantly following. GU would fall to Sacred Heart to shut the event. Gannon returns to motion subsequent Saturday, January twenty fourth on the Journeyman Women’s Duals.