fall 2011

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Finishing Strong

November 17, 2011 Kasey Caminiti 0

The 2011 fall season for the SUNY New Paltz women’s field hockey team has ended their season but not without acclaim. The team finished with an 8-10 overall record and a 4-2 conference record, while Head Coach Shanna Vitale was named the 2011 SUNYAC Coach of the Year and now holds the record for the most program wins with 25. Two of the Hawks’ conference wins came when the team faced SUNY Oswego and SUNY Geneseo, with the latter making program history. By defeating Geneseo, the Hawks accomplished something the team has been unable to do since 2004. Vitale led the Hawks to its second consecutive SUNYAC Field Hockey Championship […]

Slaying Dragons

November 10, 2011 Andrew Wyrich 0

For the first time in program history, the Lady Hawks are SUNYAC Champions. In a 1-0 contest, the New Paltz Women’s Soccer team defeated the No.1 seeded SUNY Cortland in the tournament final on Nov. 5, securing not only a SUNYAC Championship title, but a berth into the NCAA Division III Women’s Soccer Championship tournament. “It was of course unbelievable,” Head Coach Colleen Bruley said. “I just bent over and started crying. [The team] jumped on each other in the middle of the fiel. It was incredible. I was in a daze about the whole thing all day. It was surreal.” Third-year forward Shelby […]

Students Seek to Mobilize a Movement

October 6, 2011 Jaleesa Baulkman 0

Eirik Bjorkman climbed atop a stone bench outside of the Humanities Building Wednesday to remind dozens of chanting student protestors surrounding him of an old saying: “no one can make you go through a door.” “They can show you the doorway, they can show you the key, […]