Athletics

The eighth-seeded Raiders knocked off sixth-ranked James Madison 23-20 at Andy Kerr Stadium on Saturday, thanks to junior Chris Puzzi’s 38-yard field goal as time expired. The win lifts Colgate to an NCAA Division I Championship Quarterfinal matchup against No. 1 North Dakota State next weekend in Fargo.

Nicki Moore has been selected to lead Colgate’s athletics, recreation and physical education programs, following a national search for a new athletics director.

Colgate men’s track and field junior Oliver Moe has been named to the United States Olympic Committee’s Finding Leaders Among Minorities Everywhere (FLAME) program.

Members of the Colgate community gathered on Wednesday morning to send the women’s hockey team off in style as they embarked on their first trip to the Frozen Four.

Former Colgate men’s basketball All-American and NBA star Adonal Foyle ’98 has been featured in the NCAA’s “After the Game” series. Foyle discusses how his Colgate education laid the groundwork for his life after basketball.

In a letter to the campus community, President Brian W. Casey announced that Vice President and Director of Athletics Victoria Chun ’91, MA’94 has been named director of athletics at Yale University, effective July 1, 2018.

The Colgate men’s soccer team earned a 1-0 win over Holy Cross to claim its second-straight Patriot League Championship and the league’s automatic berth into the NCAA tournament Sunday afternoon at Loyola’s Ridley Athletic Complex.

Colgate student-athletes for the sixth consecutive year posted a 98-percent Graduation Success Rate, according to NCAA figures released Wednesday. Colgate’s 98 percent rate stands as the second-highest nationally among Division I institutions and was even with the likes of Princeton and Notre Dame. Colgate ranked above Pennsylvania, Stanford, Northwestern and Duke at 97 percent, and […]

The New York Times writes, “By the thousands, high schools, colleges and professional teams have followed Colgate’s path with aggressive, almost obsessive, steps to prevent MRSA outbreaks.”

Aidan Gaertner ’20 (pictured, on right) and his family were honored with the “2017 Outstanding Family Award” at the Special Olympics of Minnesota’s annual Distinguished Service Awards ceremony on September 8. Gaertner got involved with the Special Olympics when his aunt, the head coach of the Roseville Flames Special Olympics team in Minnesota, asked him […]