The St. Bonaventure University golf team, coaches, parents and alumni travelled across the Atlantic Ocean to Ireland during midterm break. Being on the golf team, I was able to experience this first hand. It was the trip of a lifetime. We left for the Toronto airport at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 2, arrived in…
As the regular season winds down, the St. Bonaventure women’s soccer team is making a push toward the Atlantic 10 Tournament. Every remaining game is important, and they are making every effort to get positive results in the win column. The good news for the lady Bonnies is that they are peaking at the right…
This year’s St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team features seven returners – three of them sophomores, three of them seniors and only one junior. The junior, Emily Calabrese, has played a lot of basketball during her first two seasons. In fact, none of the six other returners have played more. Calabrese has played in all 60…
If St. Bonaventure men’s basketball fans are not yet familiar with the name Justin Winston, it shouldn’t be too long before they are. Winston, a freshman power forward out of West Orange, New Jersey, was rated a four-star recruit by ESPN coming out of Immaculate Conception High School in Montclair, New Jersey. By adding Winston…
It’s no secret. Bobby Planutis is a shooter, and after sitting out a year per NCAA transfer rules, he’s ready to start lighting it up again from beyond the arc. This time, in game action. At Mount St. Mary’s, the six-foot-eight transfer shot 33-67 from 3-point range, which was nearly 50% of his attempts. In…
Womens basketball looking to take steps forward in 2019-20 season After finishing with a sub-.500 record in each of the past three seasons, St. Bonaventure head coach Jesse Fleming finally feels as if he has laid a foundation for success. This foundation he hopes can help the Bonnies return to where they were under former…
On Nov. 5, every single seat in the Reilly Center should have someone sitting (or standing) in it. On Nov. 5, the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team takes to the floor, marking the 100th season of St. Bonaventure basketball and second season of the greatest trio of players in program history. No, you did not…
The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball came one corner-three short of an Atlantic 10 championship in 2019, and despite nearly climbing to the mountain top last season, the team’s expectations are larger than Osun Osunniyi’s 7’8” wingspan. For coach Mark Schmidt’s five returners, the image of graduate Nelson Kaputo’s shot hitting off of the front of…
At the beginning of 2017, Japanese tennis player Yoshihito Nishioka was a rising star. After earning his second win in a Grand Slam tournament at the 2017 Australian Open in January, he followed that up with his first career win over a top-20 opponent on the ATP Tour when he defeated Jack Sock at the…
The St. Bonaventure golf team has an upcoming adventure that’s unlike anything they’ve experienced before. After a top-ten finish for junior Christian Chapman, and a fourth-place overall for the Bonnies, all eyes are set on the team’s trip to Ireland this week to face off against Trinity College Dublin. During the long-awaited voyage, the team…
“Holy s***,” I thought to myself as I walked through the media entrance at Miller Park, the home of the Milwaukee Brewers. The fact that I was about to cover a Major League Baseball game was scary, exciting and dreamy. What in the hell was Mike Hogan, a 20-year-old journalism major at St. Bonaventure University,…
St. Bonaventure University is home to only 1,800 undergraduate students, and on a weekly basis, its athletic programs compete with the largest Division I universities in America, many of which are home to more than 50,000 undergraduate students. And for a school like Ohio State University, with an undergraduate population of 66,000, recruiting is easy…
On Monday night, Dr. John Soder held a lecture in the Walsh Auditorium discussing St. Bonaventure football and the illustrious history that surrounded it. In 1946, the St. Bonaventure’s College football team signed former Notre Dame head coach, Hugh Devore. The signing immediately thrusted the college’s football team into the national spotlight, earning praise from…
The St. Bonaventure University men’s rugby team defeated the Notre Dame College Falcons Saturday, 32-12. The Bonnies entered this game as No. 13 in the nation, with Notre Dame just one spot behind at No. 14, according to D1ARugby.com. The Bonnies came out strong from the start, as Charles Schwenk put the Bonnies on the…
An 84th minute penalty kick spoiled St. Bonaventure’s women’s soccer team’s Atlantic 10 opener at Fordham, proving to be too much to overcome the Bonnies lost 1-0. The loss dropped the Bonnies to 4-5 overall and 0-1 in the A10. Fordham improved to 2-6-2 overall and 1-0 in the A10 as of printing. The decisive…
Much like Cinderella and Snow White, college athletes getting a share of the profits they bring into their respective universities seemed like nothing but a fairytale. Until Nancy Skinner, California state senator, introduced legislation. The legislation allowed student-athletes from universities in California to be paid via sponsorship agreement. Skinner’s bill was later altered by the…
Will Delaney continues to make his mark as a runner for the men’s cross country team. Prior to this week’s meet, Delaney held the fastest 5K time in St. Bonaventure history. This past weekend, Delaney set his personal record and moved up in the record books to become the second fastest runner in the 8K…
The St. Bonaventure women’s tennis team opened up its 2019-20 season this past weekend in Annapolis, Maryland for the Navy Invitational. The Bonnies returned all six players from last year’s 8-15 team, including their two 13-game winners, sophomores Penelope Abreu and Emily Stanley. They also brought back Kahlei Reisinger, the lone senior for the Bonnies…
By John Pullano, Sports Editor The Reilly Center opened its doors to the 100th season of St. Bonaventure men’s basketball, which begins in less than two months, rocking a whole new look to honor the program’s centennial season. Since 1966, the Reilly Center has been the home to the rich tradition of St. Bonaventure basketball.…
By John Pullano, Sports Editor Sports journalism has only been expanding over the past several years. From the major media outlets, such as Fox Sports, NBC Sports and ESPN, to the smaller companies, such as The Ringer and even your very own Bona Venture newspaper. However, in recent months Barstool Sports has risen the popularity…
