Stories about "Athletics"
Video: Watch Bobcats have a ball at their softball photo session

Thursday, April 7, 2022 5:07 pm

Give Bates students a few props — say, bright yellow softballs and multicolored bats — and they’ll find a way to transform a routine team photo session into an afternoon of improv.

Video: Highlights of an amazing Bates hoops season and its ‘One Shining Moment’

Friday, March 18, 2022 1:26 pm

We've got it all: Steals and blocks, off balance layups and nothing-but-net threes, and tumbles and hugs. Plus Luther Vandross!

Part feminist pep talk, part history lesson: five alumnae Bobcats deliver sports and life insights

Friday, March 18, 2022 11:03 am

A discussion among five alumnae who've made significant contributions to the women in sports was part history lesson and part feminist pep talk, with lots of practical lessons along the way.

10 favorite videos showing feisty bobcats vs. all comers

Thursday, March 10, 2022 12:39 pm

From a pool of 8,273 applications — the largest in Bates history…

George L. Wigton, legendary and influential Bates coach of ‘impeccable integrity and perspective,’ dies at age 93

Friday, March 4, 2022 11:12 am

Wigton, a legendary and influential Bates head coach of “impeccable integrity and perspective” across four varsity sports, died March 1, 2022, at age 93.

Roger Williams meets Roger Williams in Bates’ NCAA debut

Thursday, March 3, 2022 5:42 pm

Double dribble? Bates’ opponent in the first round of the NCAA Division III…

Frank Keaney, Class of 1911, the chemist and coach who reinvented the sport of basketball

Thursday, March 3, 2022 11:10 am

When Frank Keaney graduated from Bates in 1911, varsity basketball didn't exist. So how did he become one of the great college hoops coaches of all time — and inventing the fast break along the way?

This Month at Bates

Monday, February 28, 2022 1:40 pm

From weather swings to amazing basketball moments. From the quiet of the classroom to triumphs on the stage. The last 28 days have provided a bit of everything.

‘Part of the new guard’: Bates grad Sam Francis ’17 puts analytics into Super Bowl spotlight

Thursday, February 10, 2022 12:43 pm

At age 26, Francis is the data analyst for the Bengals, who face the Los Angeles Rams in the Super Bowl. He'll be among the coaches feed real-time advice to head coach Zac Taylor on what the team could, or should, or might, do in any given situation.

Anna Cote ’25 of Auburn, Maine, and Emily Gianunzio ’22 of Darien, Conn., pose on and by the Bates Bobcat.They are field hockey teammates this year; last year, Gianunzio, on a one-year leave from Bates because of the pandemic, coached Cote when the latter was a senior at St. Dom’s.
Video: From coach to teammate, a Bates field hockey story

Wednesday, December 15, 2021 2:02 pm

How Emily Gianunzio went from being Anna Cote's high school field hockey coach to her Bobcat teammate.

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