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Men’s Basketball Ends Winter Season

March 1, 2012 Cat Tacopina 0

A season of new beginnings for the New Paltz Men’s Basketball team ended on Feb. 21, after a 73-62 loss in the quarterfinal match to SUNYAC rival SUNY Oswego. The Hawks earned a playoff berth as the No. 8 seed with a 9-17 record after a 65-68 loss to SUNY Plattsburgh on Feb. 14. The Hawks were slated to face the No. 1 seed Oswego after losing to them twice already during the season. The 2011-12 season marked Head Coach Mike Rejniak’s first season as a Hawk. In his first playoff appearance as coach, Rejniak said a slow start and a small roster held […]

Student Steps Up

February 9, 2012 Cat Tacopina 0

With the spring 2012 season fast approaching, the SUNY New Paltz Lacrosse team welcomes Liz Student as its new head coach. Student is the second head coach in program history since being reinstated in 2008. After a search that began midway through the fall 2011 semester, an announcement made by Nphawks on Dec. 21 said Student would become the coach after former Head Coach Heather Semelmacher was offered the head coach […]

Jumping In

February 9, 2012 Kaycia Sailsman 0

The New Paltz Women’s Swim team has made a splash in the SUNYAC conference with a current 9-3 overall record, despite saying goodbye to a gifted graduating class in 2011. The success of the season so far has made them the team to beat in the conference, especially after besting last year’s Conference-winning SUNY Geneseo with a meet score of 182-150. Head Coach Scott Whitbeck said he hadn’t initially thought the team would do as well as they had last season, but knew his team could rise to the challenge. “I did not expect this team to perform as well as they did, especially after graduating six really good seniors,” Whitbeck said. […]