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Simon Gerszberg Champions in Sports Analytics

Karenna Warden, Sports Editor • April 29, 2022

ShotQuality, created by senior Simon Gerszberg, is a product that quantifies basketball shots on a play-by-play basis, utilizing over 90 different variables based on player percentages in different areas....

Colgate Men’s Rugby: A Proud Tradition Since 1966

Heath Newman, Contributing Writer • April 22, 2022

From their arrival as first-years up the hill, Colgate students are made aware of the aura that surrounds the Colgate University Rugby Football Club. With their field set alongside Oak Drive, Colgate Rugby...

My Experience as a Coxswain

Logan Sundberg, Staff Writer • April 15, 2022

In the spring of my freshman year in high school in Wayland, Mass., I was deciding what spring sport I wanted to do. Did I want to continue playing tennis as I had for the last 10 years of my life? Or...

Player Profile: Men’s Basketball’s Nelly Cummings

Jack Donovan, Contributing Writer • April 15, 2022

Colgate Men’s Basketball's Renell Cummings, known by many as “Nelly," recently capped off a successful career for the Raiders. In his three years on the team, the point guard helped win three Patriot...

Starting a New Tradition: Theta Chi’s Charitable Hockey Tournament

Sloan Martin, Staff Writer • April 15, 2022

Beginning a new tradition, Theta Chi hosted their first annual 3v3 hockey tournament on Tuesday, April 5 at the Class of 1965 Arena as a fundraiser for charity. The fraternity raised $2,865 from the event,...

One Team on a Revenge Tour

Liv Fitzgerald, Contributing Writer • April 15, 2022

Look out, Colgate tennis is on a revenge tour this season. Both the men’s and women’s tennis teams are hungrily working towards winning records in their regular seasons. “We always joke about...

The Women’s Rowing Team Looks to Attack the Spring Season

Logan Sundberg, Staff Writer • April 8, 2022

This past weekend, the Colgate’s Women’s Rowing Team competed in the Murphy Cup Regatta in Philadelphia. The varsity 4+ (1V4) finished fourth in its heat, coming in 25 seconds faster than the fifth...

Bill Moore and the Psychology of Conscious Awareness

Karenna Warden, Assistant Sports Editor • April 5, 2022

At 14, Colgate Athletics' mental performance specialist Bill Moore was in Florida. His evenings passed under the bright sun of tennis courts. Here, he coached kids. He coached them in exchange for tennis...

A Taste of the World of Competitive Eating

Karenna Warden, Assistant Sports Editor • April 1, 2022

Joey “Jaws” Chestnut stands at 6’1" and 230 lbs. The 38-year old Illinois native holds 46 world records (a world record in itself), according to ESPN. In what, you may ask? Competitive eating, one...

Heartbreak in Milwaukee: Colgate Men’s Basketball Narrowly Falls to Wisconsin in the NCAA Tournament

Heath Newman, Contributing Writer • April 1, 2022

Slotted to tip off in the final game of the Round of 64, all eyes were on the 14th seed Colgate Raiders as they aimed to upset the third seed and Big Ten champions Wisconsin Badgers. All was going according...

Hoops, They Did It Again: Men’s Basketball Dominates Patriot League Regular Season

Sloan Martin, Staff Writer • March 11, 2022

Men's Basketball Coach Matt Langel has it rolling in Hamilton yet again for the 2021-2022 season. Marking a third time in the last four years, Colgate men’s basketball finishes as the Patriot League...

Inside Scoop on ‘The Booth Review’

Liv Fitzgerald, Contributing Writer • March 11, 2022

Every Thursday at 12 p.m. on WRCU 90.1 FM radio, you can tune into the Colgate’s sports radio show "The Booth Review," hosted by three sports enthusiasts, seniors and active Colgate Intramural (IM)...