» Shannon Smith

The Central Valley’s one and only women’s full-contact football team, the War Angels, are preparing for their third season.

Sarah Luke swings her leg up the left side of Prince O’Pep, then back down.

She repeats the process on the right side, careful to keep her movements slow and steady. She finally sits down in the saddle and gets led around the round pen.

As finals approach and Fresno State students try to stay focused on finishing their current classes with a bang, many students have already begun thinking about the next semester.