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Community members flock to Sweeney Field on March 18. PHOTO: LUKE MALANGA 20/THE HAWK

Class of 2021 athletes’ favorite moments

Riley Frain June 11, 2021

Text: Riley Frain ’21 Design: Rachel Kwok ’22

SJU Athletics timeline of the coronavirus pandemic

Riley Frain May 5, 2021

March 12, 2020 SJU Athletics announces the cancellation of all spring sports. June 26, 2020 SJU Athletics releases their fall 2020 COVID-19 Health and Safety Plan, allowing student athletes to...

Men’s basketball transfers and recruits update

Riley Frain April 27, 2021

Gearing up for the 2021-22 season, the St. Joe’s men’s basketball team added two new incoming freshmen with their 2021 recruiting class and two incoming transfers who will join the Hawks this offseason.   Erik...

St. Joe’s men’s lacrosse are NEC regular season champions. PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

Men’s Lacrosse continues NEC undefeated run

Riley Frain April 27, 2021

After a 14-13 victory over Long Island University, the only other undefeated team in Northeastern Conference (NEC) play, the St. Joe’s men’s lacrosse team has been crowned NEC regular season champions...

Booth described the Sons of Ben as the standard for what Philadelphia sports fans can be.
PHOTO COURTESY OF MORGAN TENCZA/BROTHERLY GAME

St. Joe’s grad turned Philadelphia Union supporters’ group leader

Riley Frain April 20, 2021

During his time at St. Joe’s, Adam Booth ’13 could always be found front and center of the student section in Hagan Arena cheering on the men’s and women’s basketball teams. After four years of...

April 1, 2018; Head Womens Basketball Coach Muffet McGraw cuts down a piece of the net following the 2018 Final Four Championship Game. Notre Dame defeated Mississippi State 61-58. (Photo by Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame)

Q&A with Muffet McGraw ’77 on women in sports

Riley Frain March 30, 2021

Muffet McGraw ’77 led the St. Joe’s women’s basketball team to a 23-5 record her senior year, earning the Hawks a No. 3 national ranking in the final AP Poll of the 1977 season. McGraw would go on...

SJU’s greatest female athletes turned coaches

Riley Frain March 23, 2021

In honor of Women’s History Month, The Hawk highlighted some of the most prolific female athletes and coaches to have played or coached for SJU Athletics.  Through their legendary collegiate or professional...

Megan Johnson ’15 first ran on American Ninja Warrior in 2018. PHOTO COURTESY OF MEGAN JOHNSON

St. Joe’s grad becomes three-time American Ninja Warrior competitor

Riley Frain March 23, 2021

As a competitor in the National Ninja League, Megan Johnson ’15 has been invited to participate on the show “American Ninja Warrior” three times, with her first attempt at the 2018 Philadelphia City...

According to Bodensteiner, only 12-13% of Division I Athletic Directors are women.
PHOTO: LUKE MALANGA ’20/THE HAWK

A conversation on women in sports

Riley Frain March 16, 2021

When Director of Athletics Jill Bodensteiner, J.D., accepted her job on Hawk Hill back in 2018, she became a member of an exclusive group: female Division I athletic directors. While Bodensteiner said...

Groundbreaking women within SJU Athletics

Groundbreaking women within SJU Athletics

Riley Frain March 9, 2021

In honor of Women’s History Month, The Hawk highlighted some of the most prolific female athletes and administrators on Hawk Hill.  Through their legendary collegiate or professional careers, these...

Since 2017, the St. Joe’s field hockey team has not missed an NCAA Division I Championship.
PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

Field hockey and women’s teams deserve more recognition

Riley Frain March 9, 2021

St. Joe's not just a basketball school For as far back as most fans can remember, St. Joe’s has been touted as a “basketball school.” A university filled with tradition, pride and a deep seated history...

Fred King last coached Division I men’s soccer as a volunteer assistant at Harvard University in 2007.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ST. JOHNS ATHLETICS

Women’s associate head coach steps in to coach men’s team

Riley Frain March 2, 2021

With the spring 2021 St. Joe’s men’s soccer season on the horizon, the team was working hard in the lead-up to their season opener against St. John’s University, a team nationally ranked at No. 21. However,...

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