Sports

Stephanie Gilronan is a red-shirt junior on the Saint Peter’s softball team, and is weeks away from getting back into the swing of things on the field after having two knee surgeries. Pauw Wow: How long have you been playing softball? Why did you choose Saint Peter’s to continue your [...]

Basketballs whizzed past player’s heads, obscene slurs echoed throughout the gym, players were pushed, pulled, and dragged around the court. This was a typical day of practice for the Rutgers University basketball team. Verbal and physical abuse seem to have become the latest trend of coaching in collegiate sports given [...]

Luke Previte is a senior at Saint Peter’s University with a major in Marketing and minor in Sports Management. He has been swinging golf clubs for the Saint Peter’s University golf team for four years and is getting ready to leave the competitive golf and collegiate lives behind this May. [...]

The morning sun shines on the official United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs as a man walks through its doors at around 9:00 am. His body is weary from the jet lag of the nearly 4 hour plane ride and his breathing is heavy because of the thin, [...]

Jamelia Johnson is a sophomore track star. She has broken school records in long and high jump and is recognized on a national level for triple jump, all while being a full-time biology major at Saint Peter’s University. Q: What events do you do in track? A: I am a [...]

Put on your blue shirts because it’s time to support the university’s athletes! Or is it? For every team each season, Saint Peter’s University Athletics have what is called a ‘Code Blue’ game. It is a mandatory event for all Saint Peter’s athletes, in which they put on blue shirts [...]

Three consecutive MAAC Championships equals three amazing and triumphant victories for the Saint Peter’s Women’s Track & Field team. What some people do not know is that they have won both indoor and outdoor championships for the past two years. So you can say that they have five championships. Although [...]

Kevin Persson, a senior scholar track athlete who received deans list, all MAAC, and all East recognitions, has big goals for his senior year after finishing 17th in the nation in the 500-meter dash last year. How long have you been running track and what events do you run? For [...]

The Saint Peter’s Women’s Basketball team played Iona College in their annual “Play 4 Kay” game in efforts to raise awareness and money for breast cancer research on Thursday, February 14th in the Yanitelli Recreation Center. Free admission, prizes, and giveaways were offered in order to pack the house for [...]

The New York Red Bulls unveiled their new Adidas primary kits Monday night at Pier 59 Studios in New York City, as part of Major League Soccer first Jersey Week. The club, based in Harrison, NJ, kept with their classic, clean white look for their home jerseys, and will keep the same [...]

Paige Vicari, a Saint Peter’s sophomore pole vaulter is jumping over long odds when it comes to her knees. When Vicari was 15 she had big hopes of playing soccer and track throughout high school and even through college. During her second year at West Depford High School she underwent [...]

For four years, the seniors of the Saint Peter’s University men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams have called the Yanitelli Center pool their home. On Saturday, February 2, after countless early morning practices and over 20 hours in the pool a week, the eleven graduating seniors competed in their [...]

“The returners had a bad taste in their mouth,” Head Coach John Dunne expressed as he explained this year’s transition from last season’s losing record. The Peacocks ended last year’s season with a 5-26 record. Last year the squad suffered from injuries, a lack of size, and a small roster. [...]

Jamel Fields is a transfer student ready to make an impression on the Men’s Basketball team. Below is an interview with the young athlete and what he hopes to achieve at SPU. Pauw Wow: How long have you been playing basketball? What made you decide to pursue it in college? Jamel Fields: [...]