COVID-19, retirements and personnel changes can catch anyone off guard. Ask Robert C. Vowels, Jr., who has dealt with all of these in just two short years. Vowels, the 14th Director of Athletics at the University of Detroit Mercy, has led the Titans athletic department for nearly nine years. Going forward, […]

Sometimes a person comes to a crossroad in life. I never really understood this until now. I have reached that proverbial crossroad and a difficult decision had to be made. Either I could stay and play my extra COVID-19 year here with my dad, brother and teammates or go into […]

The Detroit Mercy softball team has had a tough start for the 2021-2022 season. Since starting play in mid-February, the Titans are 0-19. But the players aren’t deterred. “Obviously, it is not what we expected, but at the end of the day, we cannot let it affect the rest of […]

Titan Field is scheduled for a much-needed facelift this May. The University had been meaning to install new turf on the field, which hosts men’s and women’s soccer as well as lacrosse, but the project has been postponed the past two years by the coronavirus pandemic. “The new field was […]

As seniors Antoine Davis and Willy Isiani prepare for graduation, they’re also preparing for what’s next in their basketball stories. Davis and Isiani arrived on Detroit Mercy’s McNichols campus together during the 2018-19 season, the same year Head Coach Mike Davis, Antoine Davis’s father, took over the program. The younger Davis […]

The University of Detroit Mercy’s women’s lacrosse team lost its first game of the year to the University of Michigan by a score of 23-2, but players are extremely excited about the season and the games to come. “It is hard to say how we will do record-wise this season […]

It took nearly 14 months and an entirely new roster, but the University of Detroit Mercy women’s basketball team has finally won a game. The Titans snapped a brutal 29-game losing streak on Valentine’s Day, beating the University of Illinois-Chicago on the road 63-61 with a last-second layup from graduate […]

Detroit, Mich., is not often on the top of lists of places world travelers want to visit. Those born here will admit the area has its pros and cons, but if you are from an entirely different country, you have a completely different outlook. The University of Detroit Mercy is […]

A month ago, the city of Detroit finally got to see longtime Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford win a playoff game in his 13th season in the National Football League. Unfortunately it was something he had to accomplish with a different team. That playoff win turned into one of the more […]