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The mens basketball team huddles together before a game in February 2017.

UVM varsity sports to resume play starting next month

Hayley Rosen, Assistant Sports Editor October 27, 2020

UVM fall and winter sports teams will soon return to gameplay after season resumption plans were announced by America East, ending indefinite season delays due to the pandemic.  America East, which...

Junior Kendall Ware stands in her Vermont Swimming and Diving shirt in front of the Patrick Gym, Oct. 9. Ware will be graduating this year to enter a Speech Pathology grad program at UVM.

Students demand change amid claims that UVM Athletics mishandled sexual assault investigation

Hayley Rosen and Emma Pinezich October 13, 2020

Nearly two weeks after UVM Junior Kendall Ware came forward about UVM Athletic Department’s gross mishandling of her sexual assault investigation, students are calling for systemic change, asking for...

Head Coach Todd Woodcroft stands with Assistant Coach Stephen Wielder on the UVM ice rink holding hockey sticks.

UVM Hockey hires new coach despite University-wide hiring freeze

Hayley Rosen, Assistant Sports Editor October 7, 2020

Despite budgetary shortfalls and dozens of unfilled job openings across the University due to a hiring freeze, UVM Men’s Hockey has added two new coaches onto payroll with a combined yearly salary well...

The UVM swimming pool lays empty and still in the Patrick Gym, Sept. 17.

Club sports cleared to start practicing with restrictions

Hayley Rosen, Assistant Sports Editor September 25, 2020

COVID-19 restrictions have brought one unexpected win to UVM students: club sports seem to be functioning better than many of the athletes could have expected, and for some even more than they’d experienced...

UVM Student-Athletes of Color Affinity Group raised the Black Lives Matter flag without permission outside Patrick Gym Sept. 12, rejecting the Universitys excuses for removing the flag from the Davis Center.

Student-athletes raise BLM flag without permission, demanding racial justice reform from UVM

Hayley Rosen, Assistant Sports Editor September 22, 2020

A group of UVM student-athletes raised the Black Lives Matter flag without permission last week and demanded the administration implement a list of University-wide racial justice reforms.  UVM Student-Athletes...

Fans fill the bleachers of Patrick Gym to watch the men’s basketball team play against Brown University in Oct. 2019.

First-year athletes confront semester of unknowns as they await first week of practice

Hayley Rosen, Assistant Sports Editor September 10, 2020

Under normal circumstances, first-year soccer player Jake Vitale and his team would have been practicing and conditioning for weeks, and have already played at least a few games.  But, Vitale said...

The Gucciardi Fitness center, usually bustling with students, sits empty days before students arrive to campus.

Patrick gym now requires reservations for students to use facilities, among other COVID-19 changes

Hayley Rosen, Cynic Sports Reporter September 3, 2020

The University of Vermont athletic complex will be open for students this semester, but will now require reservations, in addition to social distancing and masks at all times.  Campus Recreation has...

COVID changes how club sports will operate this fall

COVID changes how club sports will operate this fall

Hayley Rosen, Cynic Sports Reporter August 11, 2020

Club sports cannot travel to compete based on new Vermont state regulations regarding travel restrictions and social distancing requirements effective through December 15, 2020. According to the UVM...

Anthony Lamb making a basket

UVM Athletics confirms multiple positive COVID-19 tests and at least one active case

Kate Vanni, Summer Editor-in-Chief August 4, 2020

Two unidentified members of UVM Athletics have tested positive for COVID-19 and one case remains active, according to an Aug. 4 UVM Athletics press release. Although UVM Athletics did not provide further...

Men’s soccer forward Rasmus Tobinski, a first-year, heads the ball over the head of an Iona College player in a September 2019 game.

Roughly 141 student-athletes are stripped of their normal seasons due to COVID-19

Kate Vanni, Summer Editor-in-Chief July 18, 2020

America East announced the postponement of fall sports for the fall semester on July 17 affecting roughly 141 UVM fall student-athletes. The league has postponed competition and championship events...

Stapleton and his daughter run during an Olympic Triathlon at Lake Dunmore in 2018.

Economist, lecturer, Ironman

Alek Fleury, Managing Editor April 27, 2020

With 2.4 miles of swimming and 112 miles of biking behind him and a 26.22 mile run in front of him, CDAE lecturer Kevin Stapleton, in his first Ironman Triathlon at Lake Placid, laced up his running shoes...

Todd Woodcroft, left, is the new head coach of the UVM mens hockey team. He is slated to start the position May 1.

New men’s hockey coach set to infuse excitement in program

Sawyer Loftus, News and Sports Editor April 22, 2020

UVM men’s hockey fans and players alike can expect a new attitude and mentality under the team’s new NHL trained coach. UVM has hired the NHL’s Winnipeg Jets’ assistant coach Todd Woodcroft....

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