By Elise Person Staff Writer The women’s tennis team has kicked off their fall season, and with only one returning player from the 2018-2019 roster, members of the team are looking to make a name for themselves in the Northeast Conference. The women’s tennis team did not have any players…
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By Elise Person Staff Writer The women’s soccer team lost their first conference game this season against the Fairleigh Dickinson University Knights in a 2-0 defeat on Wednesday, Sept.18 at home. The Sharks had trouble facilitating an effective offense and sending shots into the back of the net, whereas the…
By Andrew Scarpaci Staff Writer The football team hosted the Sacred Heart University Pioneers in their first home opener as a Division I program on Saturday, Sept. 21. With a 38-3 loss behind them against South Dakota State two weeks earlier, the Sharks looked to bounce back and prove they…
By Elise Person Staff Writer Long Island University welcomes a new athletic director, Dr. William Martinov. At the end of July 2019, President Kimberly Cline announced Martinov as the University’s athletic director after the previous Athletic Director Debby DeJong accepted a position at Stony Brook University. Martinov will serve as…
By Jennifer Chavez Staff Writer The women’s soccer team faced New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) at President’s Stadium at NYIT on Friday, Sept. 13. The highly competitive game resulted in a 1-1 tie after double overtime. Freshman forward Tatiana Lizarraga scored an early goal against the Highlanders off a…
By Ida Ynner Lagerqvist Sports & Photo Editor The Portland Trail Blazers, an NBA team, hired alumnus Travis Demers (2003) as their new radio play-by-play broadcaster. He is the fourth ever radio play-by-play broadcaster in the team’s history. “To have the opportunity to do this at the highest level in…
By Andrew Scarpaci Staff Writer The merger between the Brooklyn Blackbirds and the Post Pioneers has come into effect beginning with the fall season sports. With more than 170 years of athletic history combined between the Brooklyn and Post campuses, the univer-sity announced last fall the merger be-tween the two…
By Samantha Cavanagh Staff Writer Leah Mele, a senior sociology major, is the middle infielder on the softball team and plays second base. So far, she had a great season. Mele played baseball from the age of 3 to the age of 14, and she started playing softball in the…
By Christian Klimaszewski Staff Writer The baseball team continued their success with a 17-2 record in the East Coast Conference and 26-12 overall with three wins over the Molloy Lions since Thursday, April 18. “We’re having great team chemistry this year. Our pitching and hitting have been working strong together…
By Myles Goldman Staff Writer Jordan Lauterbach (‘10) and Rich Degnan, the director of track and field from 2004-2007, received awards from the National Scholastic Athletic Foundation (NSAF) for their contributions to the sport of track and field. The awards were presented at The Armory in New York City on…