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When ��ݮ��Ƶ’s women’s volleyball players arrive on campus, they may be leaving their families behind, but a new family awaits them: the Senior Rowdy Raiders. More than just a built-in fan base and cheering squad (although they’re those things, too!), the Senior Rowdy Raiders support the volleyball team the way family members would. It all […]

It was a season to remember, the ��ݮ��Ƶ football team’s 2003 run to the national championship game. The Raiders won their first 15 games of that special season – three in the NCAA playoffs – before falling to Delaware in the Division I-AA title game. More than 3,500 Raiders supporters braved snow squalls and frigid […]

(Editors Note — This story was written by John Painter, director of athletic communications. Contact him by email (jpainter@colgate.edu) or phone (315-228-7566) for information about Tuesday’s 1 p.m. news conference.) ��ݮ��Ƶ’s winningest head football coach has announced his retirement after 18 stellar seasons and seven Patriot League titles, leaving behind a legacy of championship play, […]

��ݮ��Ƶ’s NCAA graduate success rate was 98 percent for the second year in a row, putting the Raiders in a tie for best in the Patriot League and fourth in the nation, behind only Brown, Dartmouth, and Notre Dame. This is according to NCAA data, compiling the four-class average of student-athletes that entered their schools from 2003-06.

Update: For the story, click here.  ��ݮ��Ƶ’s football team is hosting a 6-year-old cancer survivor in an effort to raise money for research.  The Raiders’ chapter of Uplifting Athletes will celebrate Colin Hayward and his family this afternoon for a team practice session at Andy Kerr Stadium. Hayward is a survivor of the rare cerebro-spinal […]

��ݮ��Ƶ’s proposed new athletic facility received final approval Saturday from the university’s Board of Trustees to begin the design phase. The trustees announced that the facility, featuring the new home of ��ݮ��Ƶ ice hockey, along with locker room facilities for both soccer and lacrosse, will be constructed on the site of the current Van Doren […]

Neither distance, nor rain, nor attacking bulldogs could keep the ��ݮ��Ƶ community from enjoying homecoming weekend, September 19–22. The university rolled out the maroon carpet for more than 900 alumni, parents, and friends. Coordinated for the first time by ��ݮ��Ƶ’s Office of Alumni Relations, the weekend harnessed a series of events planned by departments across […]

��ݮ��Ƶ Director of Athletics Victoria M. Chun ’91 MA ’94 was recognized as a Sports Business Weekly Game Changer for 2013. Chun said she never imagined that 26 years after coming to ��ݮ��Ƶ she would be running the school’s athletics department. The entire ��ݮ��Ƶ community is proud of Chun’s achievements. Read the full story here. Please […]

An Inside Higher Education article titled “Tweet Smart, Tweet Often” talks about the social media strategy for athletes at ��ݮ��Ƶ University. “People who use social media should have a goal,” said ��ݮ��Ƶ’s Manager of Media Communications Matt Hames. “…Use Twitter, use social media in a positive way. Understand that you have a goal. Think of […]

Fernando J. Canales, the Mark S. Randall head coach of men’s and women’s swimming at ��ݮ��Ƶ, has been asked to be the personal coach of three-time Olympic medalist Yannick Agnel of France during the upcoming World Championships in Barcelona, Spain.