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Fredonia State won its first SUNYAC championship in women's volleyball by defeating New Paltz, 3-0, on Saturday afternoon at Dods Hall.  The Blue Devils (27-9) also set a school record for wins in a season and earned their first-ever NCAA Tournament berth with the 26-24, 25-15, 25-18 victory. They will play Haverford College on Thursday, Nov. 12, at 1 p.m., at the NCAA Tournament being held at Union College.

For the third time overall and second straight season, Fredonia State's Geoff Braun is SUNYAC Coach of the Year. In addition, sophomore Kaitlin Erdmann (Randolph) was named Player of the Year and freshman Chelsea Senn (Hamburg/Frontier) the Rookie of the Year in the conference's West Division.

The Blue Devils earned the right to host the SUNYAC Women's Volleyball Championships by winning the SUNYAC West Division. The team, coached by Geoffrey Braun, went 10-0 in conference play, sweeping every match 3-0 during the season. The tournament begins Thursday, Nov. 6.

On Saturday, Sept. 13, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., the men's ice hockey team will host “Power Plays for Cancer,” to officially unveil the team’s extended commitment to raising funds to battle cancer. From its first game of the season on Oct. 17 until its 2009 “Pink the Rink” game on Feb. 7, 2009, supporters will be asked to pledge money for every power play goal Fredonia scores.

Seventy-two Fredonia State student-athletes were cited by the State University of New York Athletic Conference for their academic achievement during the Spring 2008 semester. Among the honorees were 39 student-athletes named to the Commissioner’s List, for varsity athletes who completed their entire season and maintained a GPA of 3.3 for three semesters.

The Fredonia State Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2008 will include three multiple-choice All-Americans, the Hall's first softball inductee, and a former athletic trainer who now plies his trade with the Buffalo Bills of the NFL.  Hall of Fame committee members meeting in March selected Chris Hughey, Chris Whitmore, Robert Healy, Melanie (Yaskulski) Deemer, and Bud Carpenter (Buffalo Bills trainer, in photo) for induction Oct. 18 on campus.

The Brigham Road entrance to SUNY Fredonia’s campus is closed until further notice while crews undertake a redesign of Lake Way Drive and the parking area in front of University Stadium. Plans call for transforming this entrance to create an attractive roadway to, and dramatic highlight of, the new soccer stadium.

Senior clarinetist Scott Horsington was one of 76 student athletes from 27 campuses selected for the 2007-08 Scholar Athlete Award, which recognizes a combination of academic excellence and outstanding athletic achievement at the Division I, Division III and NJCAA levels.

The women's lacrosse team is participating in the SUNYAC tournament Friday, Dec. 2, after 12 years of missing out. They will face No. 1 seed, tournament host, and No. 23 ranked Cortland at 12:30 p.m. Friday, while No. 2 seed Buffalo State and No. 3 Brockport will square off at 3 p.m. The two Friday winners will play noon Saturday for the SUNYAC title and the automatic NCAA Division III tournament berth.

Fredonia State junior Julia Hopson (Poughkeepsie/ Arlington)  finished second Friday in the women's 20-pound weight throw at the NCAA Division III Track and Field championships held at Ohio Northern University. Friday's second-place finish earned Hopson her second All-American honor in the event. She became the third Blue Devil woman in history to earn runner-up status at the NCAAs.

The Blue Devils advance to a SUNYAC semifinal matchup 7 p.m. Saturday at No. 9 ranked Oswego. The Lakers, seeded No. 2 in the SUNYAC Tournament, are the defending NCAA Division III national champs.

For the second year in a row, the Fredonia State hockey team and the SUNY Fredonia Sports Management students teamed up for the fight against breast cancer. Pink the Rink ’08 was held Friday, February 8th, at the Steele Hall Ice Arena. The Fredonia State Blue Devils won against SUNYAC rival Cortland.

The Fredonia State cheerleaders finished fifth at the Universal Cheerleaders Association College Nationals at Disney's Wide World of Sports, held Jan. 19 at Orlando, Fla.