Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY: LEAH ANSON AND LUCAS PANNOZZO, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS The 2024-25 swim and dive season is here, and St. Bonaventure University’s seniors said they look to leave a memorable mark on their athletic and academic journey. With the men’s team, ranked number two in the Atlantic 10 preseason poll, senior breast/free Knute…
Photo: Colby Gaines BY: AARON TARQUINO, SPORTS STAFF 11-0. A national championship. 651 points scored. Those are some of the accolades the women’s rugby team accomplished last season in Division III. Jumping up to Division I this season, the team is looking for more of the same. “Our biggest motto is to get 1% better…
Jandoli Women in Sports Media members Courtesy of: @jwsm_sbu on Instagram BY: JESSICA WIKANDER, CONTRIBUTING WRITER The Jandoli Women in Sports Media group made its debut this semester at St. Bonaventure. The group offers women looking to enter the sports media field after graduation a place to connect and receive support from fellow students as…
Graphic: Kyle Maier BY: KYLE MAIER, SPORTS EDITOR Six years before Utah Archer’s starting goalie Brett Dobson became a two-time Premier Lacrosse League champion, he was a Canadian high school prospect with zero Division I offers, hoping for a single opportunity. St. Bonaventure men’s lacrosse head coach Randy Mearns gave him that chance. “I knew…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY: NATHAN DONNELLY, STAFF WRITER The St. Bonaventure men’s tennis team, with 75% of the roster being international players, has created a welcoming and enjoyable connection among players and coaches. Freshman Luke Ollivierre, of Bridgetown, Barbados, said that coach Michael Bates established the type of atmosphere that someone would want to…
Photo: Kyle Maier BY: ALLIE ELKINS, CONTRIBUTING WRITER “Every decision that we make is going to be with the student-athlete at the forefront,” said Bob Beretta, vice president and director of athletics at St. Bonaventure University. Beretta took on the job in July, following a months-long search for an athletic director by the university. According…
Photo: Will D’agostino BY: KYLE MAIER, SPORTS EDITOR “I could be anywhere in the basketball world today, and I choose to be at St. Bonaventure University,” said Adrian Wojnarowski today at his introductory press conference as Bonaventure’s men’s basketball general manager. At a packed Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts, Wojnarowski sat alongside director…
PHOTO: Frankie Debari BY: CARSON HAYEK, STAFF WRITER The St. Bonaventure men’s soccer team will host Robert Morris University in an out-of-conference clash this afternoon. RMU visits with a record of 3-2-2. The Colonials’ last game resulted in a 3-2-win Saturday evening to IU Indianapolis. The Colonials come into the matchup shooting 1.57 goals per…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY: AIDAN SHINNERS, CONTRIBUTING WRITER The St. Bonaventure’s women’s soccer team fell to 0-2-0 in Atlantic 10 play yesterday afternoon following a 1-0 loss to the University of Massachusetts. The Bonnies (1-8-1, 0-2-0 A-10) committed 12 fouls and allowed UMass (6-3-1, 1-1-0 A-10) to take eight corner kicks. The Minutewomen attacked…
Photo: Frankie Debari BY: CARSON HAYEK, CONTRIBUTING WRITER The St. Bonaventure women’s soccer team will face the University of Massachusetts at home today on Bona’s Senior Day. UMass is coming off a 1-0 loss to #22 Saint Louis University Thursday night. Overall, Massachusetts owns a record of 5-3-1 (0-1-0 A10). The Minutewomen average 1.5 goals…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY: DAVID PREMYSLOVSKY, CONTRIBUTING WRITER The St. Bonaventure men’s and women’s cross county teams compiled fifth and seventh place finishes at the University of Rochester Yellowjacket Invitational today. In the men’s first 8k event of the season, junior Aiden Scattergood finished first overall out of 261 runners with a time of…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY: AARON TARQUINIO The St. Bonaventure men’s tennis team went one for 11 this weekend in the Big 3 Battle, hosted by the University of Buffalo. Niagara University and UB both outmatched the Bonnies in the singles competition, with freshman Alex Kim being the only Bonnie to win a set. Buffalo…
Photo: Frankie Debari BY: WILL NUNN, CONTRIBUTNG WRITER The St. Bonaventure men’s soccer team hosts the Fordham Rams today as both teams kick off Atlantic 10 play. The Bonnies (2-4-1) are coming off a 1-1 deadlock against Le Moyne. Fordham (3-2-2) enters Saturday’s contest winless in its last three games, including losses to Penn and…
Photo: Frankie Debari BY: LAYNE HAUGHT, CONTRIBUTING WRITER The St. Bonaventure University women’s soccer team opened up Atlantic 10 play with a 1-0 loss to the George Washington Revolutionaries yesterday afternoon. The defeat brought the Bonnies to 1-7-1 (0-1-0 A-10), while the Revolutionaries moved to 3-4-2 (1-0-0 in A-10). The Brown and White came out…
Photo: Ryan Addeo BY: GAVIN WATSON, STAFF WRITER AND WILL NUNN, CONTRIBUTING WRITER For St. Bonaventure University’s cross-country team success comes from the utilization of technology in training, and it all starts with the Garmin GPS watch. The watch, which every runner wears during practice, documents their performance and vitals with an app called V.O2.…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY: CARSON HAYEK, CONTRIBUTING WRITER St. Bonaventure University’s golf head coach, Ryan Swanson, has returned to the mountains of Allegany for his eighth year. Swanson was a 2008 graduate of Bonaventure and looks very favorably on his time in Olean. “I had a great experience here,” said Swanson. “It is why…
Photo: Frankie Debari BY: KYLE MAIER, SPORTS EDITOR With players hailing from Jamaica, Venezuela, Ghana and Denmark, St. Bonaventure University’s men’s soccer head coach Kwame Oduro has built an international roster with diverse skill sets. Oduro described the scouting approach his staff takes to locate premier talent globally. “There are showcases all over the world…
BY COLIN BISH, STAFF WRITER Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The introductions of name, image, and likeness (NIL), the transfer portal and new conferences have shaken college football to its core. The norm we have been accustomed to for decades has changed completely. Oklahoma and Texas are leaving the Big 12, and the PAC-12 hangs…
Photo: Frankie Debari BY: KEGAN MCCALLUM, CONTRIBUTING WRITER The St. Bonaventure Women’s team will kick off its Atlantic 10 conference play today, taking on the George Washington University Revolutionaries at the Mount Vernon Athletic Field in Washington, D.C. The Bonnies sit at a 1-6-1 record going into the game. This matchup starts a 10-game run…
Graphic: Kyle Maier BY KYLE MAIER, SPORTS EDITOR Bob Beretta, St. Bonaventure’s director of intercollegiate athletics, revealed today that Adrian Wojnarowski reached out to him with interest in the men’s basketball general manager position despite being one of the highest-paid figures at ESPN. “Woj was instrumental in helping me begin the search for a general…