Hofstra Pride

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Hofstra Pride
Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
MascotWillie and Kate Pride
NicknamePride
Fight songMarch On, Hofstra
ColorsBlue, white, and gold[1]
     
Websitewww.gohofstra.com
Coastal Athletic Association logo in Hofstra’s colors

The Hofstra Pride (formerly the Hofstra Flying Dutchmen) are composed of 17 teams representing

Colonial Athletic Association in most sports since 2001.[2] They were previously members of the America East Conference
.

Until 2001, Hofstra's nickname was the Flying Dutchmen (shortened to simply "Dutchmen" or "Dutch"), an homage to the Dutch heritage of university founder William S. Hofstra.[3] The Pride refer to the two lions on Hofstra's longtime logo, which school officials felt was more meaningful.[4]

Teams

Men's sports Women's sports
Baseball Basketball
Basketball Cross country
Cross country Field Hockey Golf
Golf Golf
Lacrosse Lacrosse
Soccer Softball
Tennis Soccer
Track and field+ Tennis
Wrestling Track and field+
Volleyball
† – Track and field includes both indoor and outdoor.

Basketball

The

Division I championship since the 1970s. Jimmy Hall played for the team in 2012–13. The team most recently won the 2020 Colonial Athletic Association Championship. Speedy Claxton, the star on the 2000 team, was named the head coach in April.[citation needed
]

Baseball

The

CAA baseball tournament
.

Wrestling

The Hofstra University Pride Wrestling team competes in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association in the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships.

In 1977, Hofstra wrestler Nick Gallo won the NCAA National Championship in the 126 lb weight class and was a member of the 1976 and 1980 U.S. Olympic Freestyle Wrestling teams, he was also given the title "Most Outstanding Wrestler" in the 1977 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships.[6]

Dennis Papadatos is the current head coach.

UFC Middleweight Champion
. Hofstra can claim 30 All-American honors among 19 wrestlers through 2018.

Hofstra’s wrestling team was formerly a member of the CAA like all other Pride teams until the CAA ended sponsorship of wrestling in 2013.

Discontinued sports

Football

The school fielded a football team from 1937 to 2009, when the sport was cancelled due to costs and declining attendance.[8] The team was an associate member of the Atlantic 10 Conference from 2001 until 2009. Funds previously used for the football program went into the creation of the medical school, and enhancing a variety of programs, including hard sciences and engineering.[9]

Conference history

References in popular culture

Two of Bill Cosby's early comedy albums include routines about a game between the now-defunct Hofstra football team and Temple University.[citation needed] The routines are "TV Football" (from I Started Out as a Child) and its expanded re-telling "Hofstra" (from Why Is There Air?).

An entire episode of

tickle fight
".

See also

References

  1. ^ Hofstra Licensing Standards Guide (PDF). July 1, 2014. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
  2. ^ "The Official Website of Hofstra Pride Athletics". GoHofstra.com. Retrieved June 26, 2012.
  3. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved February 28, 2022.
  4. ^ Farmer, Sam (March 13, 2001). "Hofstra Sheds Colorful Name for Meaningful One". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 28, 2022.
  5. ^ "Facilities". GoHofstra.com.
  6. ^ "Points of Pride". Hofstra University.
  7. ^ "2013 Season". Hofstra University Athletics. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved February 19, 2014.
  8. ^ Armstrong, Kevin (December 3, 2009). "Hofstra Drops Its 72-Year-Old Football Program". The New York Times.
  9. ^ "News". Hofstra University. March 12, 2009. Archived from the original on March 28, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2017.

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