By Taylor Nigrelli Sports Editor The last time the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team started a season 3-0, Bill Clinton sat in the Oval Office, the Backstreet Boys ruled the Billboard charts and the phrase “welding certificate” didn’t make residents of Olean recoil in horror. During that 2000-2001 season – which ended with an NIT…
By Heather Monahan Features Editor Sports is one of the most internationally-recognized pastimes. It can bring people together and form bonds between different groups. That was the idea Unified Sports built upon. The program, funded by the Special Olympics, brings together athletes of the same age, regardless of whether or not they have disabilities.…
By Taylor Nigrelli Sports Editor Two games, two sub-par first halves, two strong second halves and two wins for the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team. After pulling away in the second half against South Dakota Saturday, the Bonnies (2-0) defeated Abilene Christian (0-2) 75-47 Monday night at the Reilly Center. Despite the lopsided score, the…
By Zach Waltz Assistant Sports Editor Sophomore forward Katie Healy will return to the Reilly Center court after starting in 16 of 29 games last year for the Bonnies. Healy led the team in rebounds, blocks and steals last year while averaging 24.6 minutes per game. With the departure of forward Doris Ortega, Healy looks…
By Taylor Nigrelli Sports Editor In his first six seasons as head coach of St. Bonaventure men’s basketball, Mark Schmidt has taken on plenty of seemingly impossible challenges. He inherited a program decimated by NCAA sanctions stemming from the Jamil Terrell scandal. He overcame the school’s location, financial and size issues to recruit players capable…
By Harrison Leone Sports Assignment Editor The trees are bare, frost is in the air and night is coming early. It’s basketball season at St. Bonaventure. Head Coach Mark Schmidt, in his seventh year at SBU, will look to bring the Bonnies back to Atlantic 10 prominence. The lights glared sharply off the hard wood…
By Alicia Maldonado Contributing writer How would you feel if you learned a huge amount of sexism thrived among the sports culture here at St. Bonaventure? St. Bonaventure University students and alumni take pride in the NCAA Division 1 sports teams on campus. These teams include women’s softball, men’s baseball, women and men’s soccer,…
Sports enthusiasts enchanted by the phenomenon that is March Madness were horrified by the horrendous injury sustained by Louisville’s Kevin Ware during his teams Elite Eight match up against Duke. The fact that it happened in real time should serve to accentuate the audience’s appreciation of sacrifices that college athletes pay to play ball and…
By Nate West & Jimmy McCarthy News Editor / Staff Writer On Wednesday, the Harlem Globetrotters brought their famous show to the Reilly Center, and fans of all ages were more than pleased with what they saw. “I did enjoy the game very much. It was basically a bunch of tricks with a basketball but…
By Bryan Clark Staff Writer It’s been more than a year since the St. Bonaventure University men’s basketball team won its first Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament Championship. The championship trophy currently sits in the men’s basketball office, hidden from the public. Several athletic trophies glisten from cases in the Reilly Center concourse. The women’s basketball,…
By Taylor Nigrelli Sports Assignment Editor A year after ascending to the top of the Atlantic 10 mountain, the Bonnies (14-15, 7-9) have fallen to a valley of a basketball-free postseason in a manner that seemed nearly impossible even while it was happening. Entering Saturday, the Bonnies needed either a win over Fordham (7-24, 3-13)…
By Kristie Schiefer News Assignment Editor At the beginning of the 2012-13 men’s basketball season, the Reilly Center housed a full student section. But since the start of the spring semester, support dwindled. During the Feb. 20 game against UMass, the Bonnies saw one of the worst student crowds in the Reilly, with only 75…
By Skye Tulio Sports Editor Second-half woes struck the women’s basketball team yet again last Sunday as they fell to Butler, 64-46. The Bonnies travel to George Washington Sunday for a 2 p.m. game against the Colonials. With only three games left in the season, the Bonnies (9-16, 2-8) need to find their groove in…
By Kyle Zamaira Promotions Editor Michael Gargin’s dreams of playing hoops may have died in high school, but the senior didn’t let those limitations keep him away from the game. Gargin has been a manager on the men’s basketball team since he enrolled at St. Bonaventure back in 2009. The New Jersey native said finding…
By Annie Riley Assistant News Editor St. Bonaventure will co-host unified basketball games and clinics with Special Olympics New York on April 19 and 20. The men’s and women’s basketball teams will participate in a clinic for the Special Olympics teams in the Western New York area. The event on Sat., April 20, will involve…
By Amy Michel Contributing Writer With the first three weeks completed and another two weeks to go until the second round of voting is concluded, the 2013 Naismith Student Section of the Year contest has St. Bonaventure in second place, leaving students and players alike excited. St. Bonaventure’s student body size is roughly 2,000 people,…
By Kristie Schiefer News Assignment Editor The game operations team within the St. Bonaventure University Athletics Department collectively agreed to cut the pep band from Bonnies Basketball games, and not everyone’s happy about it. With NCAA Division I school pep bands rarely featuring less than 25 members, the St. Bonaventure pep band lacked in numbers…
By Nate West News Editor “I haven’t won a game for 25 years, the players win the games. I just coach.” That’s what men’s basketball Head Coach Mark Schmidt says he tells people. It’s just the opposite, however. He’s actually won 163 games as a head coach and people have noticed. Forbes.com named Schmidt the…
By Jillian Hammell Assistant Features Editor During St. Bonaventure’s basketball season, the Reilly Center has a designated spot for its roaring student section known as the Wolf Pack. The group’s arrival to the arena ignites an all-out enthusiastic yelling session that is anything but subtle. The Wolf Pack is now in the running for the…
By Nate West News Assignment Editor Funding for the construction of the new athletic fields is underway, thanks to one generous alumni. Tom Marra, ’80, and his wife Michelle donated $1 million to help fund the $3 million project. Steve Watson, director of athletics at St. Bonaventure, said the university was very grateful for…