Throughout any basketball season, there are countless moments when the pressure mounts and the intensity flares to red-hot levels. It is during these moments — perhaps as the final seconds are ticking away in a tightly contested game, or as the head coach gathers his troops to design a climactic […]
Being a rookie to the whole college soccer scene, Nicholette DiGiacomo figured the news had to be some sort of cruel joke. The Pioneers had compiled a 19-2-1 record — including a perfect 11-0 mark in the Sun Belt Conference. Sure, DU had suffered a shootout loss in the finale […]
The University of Denver men’s swimming and diving team topped all NCAA Division I programs to earn the Scholar All-America Team honor for the 2010–11 academic year. The College Swimming Coaches Association of America gives the honor each year to a team with the highest cumulative GPA. Sixteen DU swimmers […]
Six of the nation’s top NCAA Division I men’s ice hockey programs have become founding members of the newly formed National Collegiate Hockey Conference, which will begin competition for the 2013–14 season, the programs’ athletic directors and head coaches announced today at historic Penrose House in Colorado Springs, Colo. The […]
More than 500 University personnel will receive First Aid/CPR/AED training as part of the program.
The DU Pioneers hockey team will be leaving the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) to join a new hockey conference, DU Athletics Director Peg Bradley-Doppes announced today in a joint statement with Colorado College Athletics Director Ken Ralph, Miami University Athletics Director Brad Bates, University of Minnesota Duluth Athletics Director […]
The University of Denver continued its dominance among NCAA Division I non-football schools by earning its fourth consecutive Learfield Sports I-AAA Directors’ Cup. The Pioneers sent nine teams as well as individuals from three sports programs to NCAA postseason competition to finish with 384.5 points. DU outdistanced No. 78 UC-Irvine […]
One current and three incoming DU hockey players were selected on day two of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft, held at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn. The four DU players were drafted in the second, third, fourth and seventh rounds of the draft. Incoming freshman Scott Mayfield of […]
At an average DU event, a 21-year-old college student would blend right in with the crowd. But at DU’s annual Emeritus Tea — where attendees include alumni who graduated 50 or more years ago, emeritus faculty members and retired staff — junior Henry Miketa stood out. Although the alumni from […]
Michael Perry sees opportunities everywhere, and he doesn’t like to waste them. Perry came to Colorado hoping to play soccer and study business. That’s all. And while on campus, he did both those things well enough to be selected team captain and to be named first team academic All-American, an […]
The DU men’s lacrosse team has turned in the greatest season in program history, culminating with the program’s first-ever trip to the NCAA Final Four. While the magical season ended with a 14-8 loss to eventual NCAA champion Virginia in the national semifinals on May 28, the program can look […]
Fueled by three-goal performances from senior Todd Baxter and sophomore Cameron Flint, the No. 6-seeded University of Denver men’s lacrosse team defeated the No. 3-seeded Johns Hopkins Blue Jays 14-9 in the second game of the Hofstra quarterfinals at Shuart Stadium in Hempstead, N.Y. With the victory, the Pioneers (15-2) […]
The University of Denver men’s lacrosse team won its first-ever NCAA tournament game with a 13-10 victory in front of a record 2,575 fans at DU’s Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium on May 15. The game — the first NCAA men’s lacrosse tournament contest ever played west of the Mississippi River […]
The University of Denver held off a late rally by Fairfield to claim the inaugural ECAC tournament championship with an 11-9 win at DU’s Barton Lacrosse Stadium on May 7. The Pioneers, who also won the ECAC regular-season title, earned the league’s automatic NCAA tournament bid and extended its winning […]
Jamie Faus was a little uncertain whether he would be able to capably step in as starting goalkeeper for the University of Denver men’s lacrosse team. There is little question that the jump from high school to Division I — let alone playing for a program looking to take the […]