Stories about "Athletics"
Our top 10 Bobcat sportraits from fall 2024
Friday, November 15, 2024 3:48 pm
"Sportraits" is a portmanteau of the words "sports" and "portrait," and as you can see in this photo story, they're as inventive as the word itself. They're funtastic. Or funthusiastic?
Campus Construction Update: Nov. 8, 2024
Thursday, November 7, 2024 7:07 am
Opening another front in Bates’ endless battle against marine clay, workers began laying a new FieldTurf playing surface at Leahey Field this week.
Mic’d Up: Golf captain Will Phillips ’25 on lefty golf swings and the ‘damn shame’ of a missed putt
Friday, October 11, 2024 12:33 pm
College golf is a beautiful thing, which this quip-filled mic’d up video captures — walking a course on a beautiful fall day in Maine with teammates who are also friends.
Raising $32k, Bates wins College Cup at 2024 Dempsey Challenge
Friday, September 27, 2024 2:15 pm
Accepting the cup from actor Patrick Dempsey was a Bates student and rower who is in his own battle with cancer.
Part I: Skills, surprises, and epiphanies when Bates students talk about their summer experiences
Friday, September 20, 2024 12:47 pm
In Part I of our photo stories about Bates students with college-supported summer experiences, we check in with eight students whose summer was spent somewhat far, and very far, from campus.
Campus Construction Update: September 20, 2024
Thursday, September 19, 2024 8:56 am
After the summer replacement of its grass playing surface with FieldTurf, Russell Street Field is back in play. But what of Leahey Field?
Campus Construction Update: While you were gone…
Tuesday, August 20, 2024 8:28 am
Others may look ahead to summertime eagerly anticipating beach trips, camping, cookouts, etc., but for Campus Construction Update, summer means just one thing: facility projects at Bates.
‘Friend, dad, brother, mentor,’ retired head coach Al Fereshetian dies at age 66
Friday, June 28, 2024 5:01 am
Professor Emeritus of Physical Education Albert M. Fereshetian Jr., affectionately known as “Coach Fresh” during his 26 years as head coach of Bates men’s cross country and track and field, has died at the age of 66.
26 items (plus two from Commons) in the Bates library’s Lost and Found on June 26, 2024
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 12:38 pm
As the days get warmer, the learners at Bates get younger and older. And what they have in common with Bates students? They lose things.
New to Bates, it’s the CATSBYS and six amazing sports moments in 2023–24
Friday, May 10, 2024 1:04 pm
Bates Athletics debuted its new awards program, “the CATSBYS” (think ESPN's "Espys," with a smidge of F. Scott Fitzgerald), and put a few defining Bobcat moments from 2023–24 on center stage.