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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.

As summer employees of Watershow Productions, Inc., three Blue Devil divers played the roles of dysfunctional pirates in search of a treasure map. However, they didn’t perform on an ordinary stage, or even a stationary one: their theatrical set was an inflatable pirate ship which partially concealed two three-meter diving boards and a tower with small platforms that extended as high as 50 feet.

Fredonia sophomore Kelly Sponholz and senior Scott Horsington have qualified for the NCAA Division III swimming and diving championships for women and men, respectively.
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SUNY Fredonia named Clark Companies of Delhi, N.Y., specialists in designing and building world-class sports facilities, as its Contractor of the Year during an annual luncheon honoring all companies which did business with the university last year.
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Alumni raced to raise funds for the track and field program in honor of late alumnus, Fred Ruterbusch, '77.

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