Athletics

(Editor’s note: Robert D. Manfred Jr. P’16, the commissioner of Major League Baseball, delivered the following address to the Colgate University Class of 2016 on May 15, 2016.) Good morning everyone. It is an honor and a pleasure for me to be here today.  I grew up just down the road in Rome, N.Y.. And, […]

Sunday’s men’s basketball game was a senior day to remember for Austin Tillotson ’16, from York, Pa. Tillotson’s family was at the game, his younger sister sang the national anthem, and his late-game heroics were hailed on SportsCenter as the top highlight of the night, caught by Bob Raiber ’68, P’02.   @colgateuniv number 1 on ESPN pic.twitter.com/K3clkxBQgt […]

Colgate University has taken the No. 8 spot in a recent ranking of top colleges for women who want to play Division I soccer while enjoying a rigorous academic experience. The ranking came from College Factual and appeared on USAToday.com. To create the list, College Factual compared its own Best Colleges ranking to win-loss percentages, […]

Colgate’s Dan Hunt is one of 15 candidates for STATS FCS Coach of the Year. The Raiders’ head man earned Patriot League Coach of the Year honors last week after guiding Colgate to a perfect 6-0 conference record. It was the program’s eighth Patriot League championship, and Hunt has been involved in every one. He served 19 […]

Silence is usually described as a feeling of stillness; a state of peace, a split-second of quiet, a season of serenity. It’s harmonious and soothing and usually portrayed by unruffled waters or someone sitting in tranquility. This is what silence looks and feels like to a lot of us most of the time. We long […]

Talk about following in some footsteps. Colgate’s Dan Hunt matched his mentor Dick Biddle here Saturday when the Raiders outlasted Lehigh 49–42 to clinch the Patriot League championship. Hunt and Biddle both captured Patriot League titles for Colgate in just their second seasons as head coach.

Colgate student-athletes improved by one position to third nationally in the latest NCAA Division I Graduation Success Rate release. The Raiders for the fourth straight year are at 98 percent, placing Colgate alongside peer schools Columbia, Davidson, Duke, Harvard, Holy Cross, Loyola-Chicago, Notre Dame, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale.

Colgate’s new athletics facility, opening in October 2016, will be named the Class of 1965 Arena, thanks to a record-setting gift from the university’s 50th anniversary graduates. Class members — led by gift chair Jim Himoff, Peter Desnoes, Peter Kellner, John McGonagle, and Robert Forster — offered more than $22 million in support for Colgate […]

Colgate senior hockey defenseman Spiro Goulakos has been selected as one of 20 candidates for the 2014-15 Senior Class Award. To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence – community, classroom, character and competition. (Read Goulakos’s profile.)

Colgate recently released a practice protocol designed to limit head injuries in sports. Expanding on the idea, athletics director Victoria Chun ’91 MA ’94 wrote an op-ed called “There Is No Neat Solution For Head Injuries in Sport” for the Huffington Post.