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Club Sports
Club sports allow you to keep those competitive juices flowing, playing as a representative of 鶹ӳ against club sports teams from other colleges and universities.
But it's more than that. As a club sports participant you'll grow as a person, learn the value of teamwork and fair play, and have the opportunity to mature as a leader through four years of practice and competition with new friends and teammates as devoted to your favorite sport as you.
You might even have the opportunity to compete again in front of your hometown friends and neighbors — this time as a Bonnie.
Club Sports @ SBU
College doesn't mean you stop playing the games you love. Playing a club sport keeps you fit, focused, and satisfies that yearning you'll always have for competition and camaraderie.
Club Sports for Men
Men's baseball competes in the (CCBA). The team can roster
up to 30 players per year. Tryouts are held each fall.
Club Sports for Women
Mixed Club Sports
Congratulations to 鶹ӳ's varsity Fortnite duo, Cal Reddington and Caleb Lafko, who placed second in the 2023 NACE Collegiate Championship Split #1 finals.Recreational Club Sports
These are internal clubs at the university that do not currently compete against teams from other universities. As these clubs grow, the option to compete externally will be explored!
Full-time athletic training staff available to club sport athletes
The athletic training staff attend many games on campus and staff a club sports training room, located in Room 127 of Doyle Hall, adjacent to the Center for Student Wellbeing.
The training room is equipped with ultrasound and electrical muscle stimulation equipment, a hydrocollator for heat treatments, as well as other equipment for the prevention and treatment of injuries.
Pictured (from left): Club sports athletic trainers Thomas Gallagher, MS, LAT, ATC and Brendan Carter, MS, LAT, ATC.
Required club sports clearance form
Widening recruiting footprint boosts Bonnies women’s rugby
A recruiting class that once came almost entirely from Western New York now stretches from California to Sweden.
For 鶹ӳ women’s rugby coach Meredith Pyke, that expanding footprint is one of the clearest signs of how far the program has come — and where it might be headed.
Pyke’s first recruiting class in 2023 was composed mostly of Western New York players, with walk-ons coming largely from the Buffalo and Rochester areas. This fall, the Bonnies welcome players from Ohio, Indiana, California, New Hampshire, Michigan, Canada and, for the first time, Europe. Freshman Hannah Granelli of Sweden is the program’s first European player.
“Each year we’ve seen the footprint get a little wider,” Pyke said. “It’s exciting that our name is getting out there a little more.”
The Bonnies open their varsity season on Rugby Alumni Weekend, hosting New Haven at 10 a.m. on Sept. 12. The full schedule and roster details can be found here.
The geographic growth has been accompanied by something just as significant: roster growth.
The Bonnies enter the season with 43 players, enough to field both an A-side and a full B-side, or junior varsity team. Pyke said that, to her knowledge, no other Division I women’s program has a B-side. Bonaventure’s second team will play a schedule against Division II and Division III opponents, giving players throughout the roster meaningful competitive minutes.
“It feels like the culmination of a lot of hard work to get to this point — to have an A-side and a B-side, to be this large and to have brought in such a big class,” Pyke said.
That class could make an immediate impact. Bonaventure added 13 freshmen and two transfers, and Pyke estimated that eight freshmen were in the starting lineup for a preseason scrimmage victory at Division I opponent Walsh Aug. 26. Sadie Hershberger, Ruby Miscavage and Elliot Bitondo are among the newcomers who have impressed early.
The newfound depth could prove especially important as the Bonnies pursue a Division I postseason berth. Pyke noted that Bonaventure defeated Walsh despite leaving four impact players home because of preseason injuries — a luxury the program’s smaller rosters of previous seasons rarely afforded.
“The fact that we’re now getting into those numbers is exciting, and I think it’s going to make a significant impact,” Pyke said. “I’ve felt like all of the hard work we’ve been doing since we won the (small-college) national championship (in 2023) has paid off to get us where we are now.”
The Bonnies remain young, but Pyke believes their talent, depth and chemistry give them reason to aim high now.
“I think we’ve got a lot of things really going for us right now,” she said. “The girls seem really united and on the same page. … And the rugby looks pretty good so far, too.”
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鶹ӳ the University: The nation’s first Franciscan university, 鶹ӳ is a community committed to transforming the lives of its students inside and outside the classroom, inspiring in them a commitment to academic excellence and lifelong civic engagement. Out of 164 regional universities in the North, 鶹ӳ was ranked in the Top 25 overall and for value by U.S. News and World Report (2026).
Margot Hickey
