By Nathan Solomon, Contributing Writer Throughout the later part of summer, St. Bonaventure University student-athletes began to repopulate campus after being abruptly sent home in March due to the coronavirus outbreak. However, in order to return, athletes would have to be committed to following protocols, even after a summer at home. “Two weeks prior to…
Social distancing requirements are adding a new wrinkle to offseason workouts By Tommy Valentine, Staff Writer It used to be that the toughest part of preseason workouts for athletes at St. Bonaventure was avoiding the snooze button on their blaring alarm at 6:00 a.m. Picture the toughest pre-pandemic workout you’ve had in recent memory: hands…
By Mike Hogan, Associate Editor Sometime in the future, St. Bonaventure women’s soccer coach Steve Brdarski will coach his players in person again. Games will be played at the Tom ‘80 and Michelle Marra Athletics Complex. The lights will be on. The hill filled with SBU students on a crisp fall night. But when those…
By Tom Seipp, Sports Editor Two weeks ago St. Bonaventure University’s men’s basketball program had three scholarships to fill for the 2020-2021 season. On Monday, the Bonnies landed their third recruit with the commitment of Kent State University transfer Anthony Roberts. “It was a no brainer,” Roberts said. When Roberts announced that he was entering…
By Tom Seipp, Sports Editor Just three days after St. Bonaventure University men’s basketball program signed its first spring recruit, it got another commitment. This time, Jalen Shaw, a six-foot 10 center by way of Triton Junior College in River Grove, Illinois. Multiple schools pursued Shaw this year, including Cleveland State, but Shaw decided to…
By Tom Seipp, Sports Editor The St. Bonaventure University men’s basketball team picked up their first spring recruit Friday, with the commitment of JUCO guard Eddie Creal. “It just felt like the place to be,” said Creal on his commitment. “The coaches here believe in me and I trust them.” Creal said there were other…
By Tom Seipp, Sports Editor and Mike Hogan, Editor-in-Chief On March 30, the NCAA voted to grant an extra year of eligibility to student-athletes in spring sports whose seasons were cut short due to the coronavirus pandemic. As part of the decision, the NCAA left the decision up to institutions on whether or not they …
Kyra O’Gorman, contributing writer, St. Bonaventure University’s women’s lacrosse It is almost impossible to put into words the feelings of myself and many other student-athletes around the country on March 12. Being a senior, there is not much of a “bright side” to this situation. Although we all are extremely aware that the decision was…
By Michael Krauza, contributing writer, baseball “How do you walk away from something that has been part of your life for the past 20 years? That is a question that many senior, student-athletes, including myself, were abruptly forced to answer this past Thursday when the majority of NCAA athletic conferences (Including the Atlantic 10) decided…
By Destinee Johnson, senior, St. Bonaventure women’s lacrosse My teammates and I were on a bus to Canisius ro our eighth game of the season when the first conference canceled its spring sports. We joked about how that would never happen to us, it just seemed too surreal. Alongside the other captains, we did our…
By Casey Vincent, contributing writer, St. Bonaventure baseball When the Atlantic 10 made the decision to cancel all spring athletic seasons, one of the hardest things to deal with was that no one knew it was going to be our last game. Some of the guys on the team were having great starts to the…
By Avery Teeple, contributing writer, St. Bonaventure women’s lacrosse My senior year has not been what I was expecting it to be. My team got off to a great start, going 5-2. This is the best record I have ever had in my four years at St. Bonaventure University. How could this happen? What is…
By Mike Hogan, editor-in-chief ST. BONAVENTURE, NY – The music blasting through Amadi Ikpeze’s speaker bounced off the white-painted walls of the Reilly Center as he shot baskets alone on Tuesday morning around 10:30 a.m. He turned the music off and walked to an empty section of blue bleachers facing Bob Lanier Court. Ikpeze, the…
By Rylee Hehir, contributing writer, women’s softball If you would have told me at the start of my freshman year my collegiate softball career would be cut short due to a pandemic, I would have thought you were crazy. However, that is exactly how it happened. I never thought my last collegiate games in a…
By John Pullano, Managing Editor pullanjj18@bonaventure.edu Following the Atlantic 10’s choice to cancel all 2020 spring sports competitions and 2020 spring championships due to health and safety concerns related to the COVID-19 virus, several St. Bonaventure University athletes were left with no final season. An abrupt ending for athletes who have given countless amounts…
By Sam Dumas, contributing writer, St. Bonaventure men’s track and field athlete Throughout high school, I have always dreamed of competing for an NCAA Division 1 track and field team. I worked every day in order to realize this dream. Now being at St. Bonaventure University, and having already completed my first NCAA Division 1…
By Tommy Valentine, Staff Writer Feb. 27, 2013, was a different time for St. Bonaventure University athletics. Tim Kenney was the associate athletic director at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. The school didn’t offer men’s lacrosse, nor men’s and women’s track at the Division I level. Demetrius Conger was the leading scorer for Mark Schmidt’s men’s…
By AJ Powers and Mike Hogan, Contributing Writer and Editor-in-Chief After finishing each of the past two seasons 10-32, the St. Bonaventure softball team feels no reason to be discouraged. Excitement, as the regular season looms near, is the theme for coach Mike Threehouse’s team. The team returns 14 players from last year’s team, including…
By John Pullano, Managing Editor “You play to win the game.” As famously shouted at a reporter by former NFL player and coach Herm Edwards, it seems like such an obvious concept. However, MLB teams heading into the 2020 season seem to have forgotten why they play. For an MLB team to win games it…
By Tom Seipp, Sports Editor The Bonnies don’t play in western New York until April 1, but the baseball team is making the trip to Emmittsburg, Maryland, to take on Mount St. Mary’s this weekend to kick off its 2020 season. It has been three seasons since the Bonnies last qualified for the Atlantic 10…