By PATRICK MEEHAN, Centenary Sports Information Director
Southwood product D’Qavion Lemons made a name for himself last season on the Centenary football team and is getting some national attention as a result.
Monday, the Gents’ junior defensive tackle was named to the D3football.com Preseason All-America Team as a third-team selection.
After making 46 tackles, including three sacks, and forcing two fumbles last fall, Lemons was named to the D3football.com 2024 All-Region Team and was a first-team All-Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference selection. He helped Centenary go 4-6 overall and 4-4 in the SCAC in its first official season of football in the modern era.
The Gents, who began preseason practice last weekend, have been picked to finish fourth in the SCAC and notably picked up one first-place vote in the poll of league coaches.
Centenary kicks off the 2025 campaign Sept. 6 at Atkins Field against Westgate Christian, out of Portland, Ore.
The Gents begin conference play at home on Saturday, Oct. 11 with a visit from Texas Lutheran.
TICKET POLICY CHANGE: The 2025-26 athletics season is just weeks away and tickets for all Centenary athletics fall home events are on sale now via the official Centenary athletics web site.
Tickets can be purchased using the following link: https://fan.hudl.com/usa/la/shreveport/organization/69826/centenary-college-of/tickets
A new policy implemented will require fans to pay to attend all 2025-26 Centenary home athletic events and tickets can only be purchased online. No cash sales will be available. Centenary students, faculty & staff are allowed into every home event free by presenting a valid Centenary ID.
SOCCER: The Ladies were picked to finish 10th in the conference in the preseason poll released on Tuesday.
The Centenary men’s team finished eighth in the conference in the preseason poll, coming off the program’s most wins since the 2019 season.
VOLLEYBALL: The spikers from Centenary are projected by league coaches to finish 12th in the SCAC.
The league continues to utilize the divisional alignment it put into place prior to the 2024 season with modifications made to adapt to changing membership. Austin College, Centenary, and Dallas remain in the Blue Division while University of Ozarks, in its first year of varsity competition, and the league’s two newest members – Hendrix and LeTourneau – will also compete in the Blue Division. Three former Blue Division schools – Colorado College, McMurry, and St. Thomas – make the move to the Gold Division where Concordia (Texas), Schreiner, and Texas Lutheran continue to reside.
GYMNASTICS: Twelve Centenary gymnasts have won national academic honors for the 2024-25 academic year from the Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association.
Centenary also finished 70th nationally in team grade-point average (3.49). Three Ladies – Hayden Cagle, Emma Lavelle and Olivia Stratmann — earned a perfect 4.0 GPA and Molly English (3.97) barely missed perfection.
The other Centenary qualifiers: Peyton Burford (3.78), Skyla Cruz (3.78), Claire Flores (3.73), Chloe Gilbert (3.71), Anna Ichiba (3.81), Olivia Montgomery (3.75), Sophie Schmitz (3.82) and Mylia Vidtor (3.67).
Contact Patrick at pmeehan@centenary.edu