Adelphi Panthers

Adelphi Panthers
University	Adelphi University
Conference	NE-10 (primary) ECC (women's bowling)
NCAA	Division II
Athletic director	Danny McCabe
Location	Garden City, New York
Varsity teams	21 (9 men's, 12 women's)
Basketball arena	Center for Recreation and Sports
Baseball stadium	William J. Bonomo Memorial Field
Softball stadium	Janet L. Ficke Softball Field
Soccer stadium	Motamed Field
Other venues	Woodruff Hall
Nickname	Panthers
Colors	Brown and gold[1]
Website	aupanthers.com

The Adelphi Panthers are the athletic teams that represent Adelphi University, located in Garden City, Long Island, New York, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports.

The university fields 23 varsity sports programs, and the Panthers compete as members of the Northeast-10 Conference in 22 of their 23 sports. The women's bowling team competes within the East Coast Conference as an affiliate. Adelphi has been a member of the NE10 since 2009, after joining from the ECC.

Opened in 2008, the 76,000-square-foot Center for Recreation and Sports (CRS) features a three-court gymnasium, a suspended running track and significantly upgraded athletic training and rehabilitation rooms. Complementing CRS is Adelphi’s fully renovated Woodruff Hall, which houses a fitness center, pool and additional playing courts. Adelphi also has invested in its fields and outdoor competition spaces, including its all-weather Motamed Field, Janet L. Ficke Field for softball and William J. Bonomo Memorial Field for baseball.

NCAA National Championships

The Panthers have won 17 NCAA Division II National Championships in three different sports, with 16 of 17 coming in the sport of lacrosse. The men's lacrosse team has won seven national crowns with the last coming in 2001. The women's lacrosse team has won nine, including three consecutive National Championships in 2009, 2010, 2011, consecutive championships in 2014 and 2015, and another national crown in 2017 and 2019.

In 1974, the men's soccer team were the national champions, and the Adelphi track and field program has also won numerous individual national championships.

Since transitioning to the Northeast-10, the Adelphi Panthers have become a powerhouse in the East Region. In 2013, just their fourth year in the conference, the Panthers were awarded the 2013 Northeast-10 Presidents' Cup. The Presidents' Cup is presented annually to signify overall athletic excellence in the Northeast-10. The honor is awarded to the institution that compiles the most total points from all of its programs competing in league championships.^[2] Since arriving in the Northeast-10 in 2009, the Panthers have collected 27 regular season conference titles, 29 tournament championships, 41 individual crowns and captured the Northeast-10 Presidents' Cup four times (2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017), while winning six NCAA Division II National Championships.

Varsity teams

List of teams

National championships

Team

Association	Division	Sport	Year	Opponent	Score
NCAA	Division II	Men's Lacrosse[3]	1979	UMBC	17–12
			1981	Loyola (MD)	17–14
			1993	C.W. Post	11–7
			1995	Springfield	12–10
			1998	C.W. Post	18–6
			1999	C.W. Post	16–8
			2001	Limestone	14–10
		Women's Lacrosse[4]	2004	West Chester	11–12
			2006	West Chester	16–8
			2009	Lock Haven	16–4
			2010	West Chester	17–7
			2011	Limestone	17–4
			2014	Lock Haven	7–5
			2015	Lock Haven	5–4
			2017	Florida Southern	6–4
			2019	West Chester	11–5
		Men's Soccer	1974	Seattle Pacific	3–2
United States Team Handball Federation (USTHF)	Open Division[5] Adult national championship	Men's Team handball	1971
			1972[6]	United States Army	21–16
			1973
			1974	Jersey Jets
	College Division		1972[7]

Individual teams

Baseball

The baseball team has participated in the NCAA Tournament 16 times in its history, and has advanced to the Division II College World Series four times. The team has seen several of their players selected in the MLB first year player draft, including Bobby Lanigan who was selected in the 3rd round (92nd overall) by the Minnesota Twins in 2008 and Keith Couch who was selected 413th overall by the Boston Red Sox in 2010. In 2013, the Panthers' single-season and career saves leader Dillion McNamara was selected in the 27th round by the New York Yankees.

The baseball team is currently led by Bill Ianciello, who succeeded former Yankees bullpen coach Dom Scala (2004 - 2021), who was named head coach in 2021. Their home games are played at William J. Bonomo Memorial Field, a state of the art artificial turf complex located in the heart of the campus.

Soccer

Adelphi fields both a men's and women's soccer team. Adelphi's men's soccer team competed at the NCAA Division I level until 2012, following the dissolution of the Atlantic Soccer Conference in 2011; starting in 2013, men's soccer will compete at the Division II level.^[8]

The men's team won the

. He also went on to play for Puerto Rican and United States national teams. Armas returned to Garden City in 2011 to take the reins of the women's soccer team as head coach.

The women's soccer team has won 7 ECC championships (1996, 1997, 2001–04, 2007).^[9] In 2012, the Panthers advanced to the Northeast-10 Conference Championship game as the No. 8 seed, the first No. 8 seed in the history of the conference championships to do so.^[10]

Volleyball

Under the direction of head coach Danielle MacKnight, the volleyball team has become one of the leading programs in the NCAA Division II East Region. In 2009, MacKnight received the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Thirty Under 30 Award as one of the top thirty coaches under the age of 30 in the nation at all levels. Under her direction, the Panthers have recorded six consecutive season of 20 wins or more and have appeared in six consecutive NCAA Tournaments. Over that span, the Panthers have had 13 All-Region selections, one ESPN: The Magazine All-American and, in 2013, one AVCA Division II All-American, the first in the 20-year history of the program. In 2011, the Panthers took home the program's first-ever conference championship after winning the Northeast-10 Tournament title, and claimed back-to-back conference crowns in 2014 and 2015.

Women's basketball

After a series of lean years following strong results in the early 2000s, the women's basketball team claimed the program's first NE-10 Tournament crown in 2014 after hosting three playoff games and defeating American International College in the championship. Behind a 28-3 record, the Panthers were awarded the top seed and hosting privileges in the 2015 Division II East Regional.

Softball

Adelphi's softball team appeared in three Women's College World Series in 1984, 1985 and 1988 as a Division I program.^[11] In 2015, the Panthers advanced to their first WCWS as a Division II program, and repeated the feat in the 2016 season. They returned yet again in the 2022 season.

References

External links

• Official website