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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 […]

���dzԹ��� 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, […]

���dzԹ���’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 ���dzԹ��� 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. ���dzԹ���’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 ���dzԹ��� in just their second seasons as head coach.

���dzԹ��� 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 ���dzԹ��� alongside peer schools Columbia, Davidson, Duke, Harvard, Holy Cross, Loyola-Chicago, Notre Dame, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale.

���dzԹ���’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 ���dzԹ��� […]

���dzԹ��� 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.)

���dzԹ��� 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.

As more data becomes available about the long-term dangers of sports-related head injuries, ���dzԹ��� is implementing a strategy to minimize general contact as well as contact to the head experienced by student-athletes during practice sessions. The mandatory practice protocol covers all varsity athletic programs, with emphasis on sports where the risk is highest and […]