NEW PALTZ — SUNY New Paltz had little difficulty in dispatching Division II New Haven, 30-19, 30-21, 30-22, in a men’s volleyball match on Wednesday night at Elting Gymnasium. Sean Riley led a balanced effort for New Paltz (3-2), the eighth-ranked team in this week’s American Volleyball Coaches Association…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — SUNY New Paltz cut a five-point halftime deficit to three, but could not get any closer, as it lost its second game to Utica/Rome this season, 71-55, on Tuesday night at Elting Gymnasium. The (5-12 overall, 4-9 SUNYAC) Hawks never led in the contest, with Robert…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — SUNY New Paltz shot nearly 54 percent in the second half to outdistance Utica/Rome for the second time this season, 63-48, and snap a two-game losing skid on Tuesday night at Elting Gymnasium. Britni Bishop scored a game-high 20 points and Sonya Mkoloma added 12 points,…
Read MoreCORTLAND — Mark Otto won three individual events and Jeff Galaise won two, as SUNY New Paltz held off SUNYAC rival Cortland, 124-110, in a men’s swimming and diving dual meet at Cortland’s Holsten Pool on Saturday afternoon. In the women’s meet, meanwhile, little went right, as New Paltz…
Read MoreONEONTA — A 21-point first half deficit was too much for SUNY New Paltz to overcome in Saturday’s 79-51 SUNYAC women’s basketball loss to Oneonta at Dewar Arena. Sonya Mkoloma scored 12 of her team-high 16 points in the second half, and added a game-high 12 rebounds to help…
Read MoreONEONTA — SUNY New Paltz led by five points at the half, but allowed 52 Red Dragon points over the game’s final 20 minutes, to drop a SUNYAC men’s basketball matchup, 76-67, to Oneonta on Saturday afternoon at Dewar Arena. Robert Jones (19 points, seven rebounds, three blocks) and…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — SUNY New Paltz men’s volleyball standout Christopher Wright, an at-large member of the NCAA Division III Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), has just been appointed to two SAAC subcommittees. Wright, a Queens, NY native, has been selected to serve on both the Legislation and The NCAA News Project Teams. The…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Katie Dwyer’s strong performance for the SUNY New Paltz Track and Field team last week has earned her the distinction of Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III Field Athlete of the Week. Dwyer, a freshman, finished first (5’1″) in one of her specialties, the high jump, this…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The State University of New York at New Paltz named Rayna J. Wendell to be its director for alumni affairs after completing a nationwide search. She will begin her new duties in late February. Wendell has more than eight years of experience in university administration, the last four…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Jeff Galaise won two individual events on the men’s side, and Jennifer Gregory nearly qualified for the SUNYAC Championships while winning the women’s 100-yard Breaststroke, to lead SUNY New Paltz past Mount St. Mary in a swimming dual meet on Wednesday night at Elting Natatorium. New…
Read MoreBUFFALO — The SUNY New Paltz men’s volleyball team split its two matches on the final day of the D’Youville College Invitational on Sunday in Buffalo. The (1-2) Hawks lost to the University of Findlay in four games (30-27, 30-18, 26-30, 30-28) before rebounding to defeat Johnson and Wales…
Read MoreOSWEGO — Three players in double figures wasn’t enough to overcome a rough shooting night, as SUNY New Paltz lost to Oswego, 60-48, in women’s basketball on Saturday night at Laker Hall. Silver Williams (13 points, eight rebounds), Maura McShane (11 points, five steals) and Zebi Williams (10 points,…
Read MoreBUFFALO — SUNY New Paltz opened its men’s volleyball season with a four-game loss to Tri-State University on Saturday at the D’Youville College Invitational. The (2-1) Thunder, a NAIA II school from Indiana, defeated New Paltz, 30-20, 26-30, 30-21, 37-35, for its second straight victory of the young season….
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Desiree Grand, a May 2000 SUNY New Paltz journalism graduate and Bronx native, recently received the Marguerite Higgins Journalism Prize for a story she wrote while doing an internship at the Legislative Gazette in Albany during the spring 2000 semester. Grand turned a routine press-release assignment about the…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — On Tuesday, January 30, 2001 Joel Evans (oboe), Valentina Charlap-Evans (viola), and Ruthanne Schempf (piano), all faculty of the Music Department at SUNY New Paltz, present a program featuring music from the Romantic Era. “Gothic Romance” includes works by the Early Romantic Robert Schumann, and Late Romantics…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — SUNY New Paltz freshman guard Britni Bishop’s continued strong play has earned her two awards this week. First, Bishop was selected as the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) Women’s Basketball Player of the Week. Then she was honored again, with her selection as…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — SUNY New Paltz outscored Farmingdale 51-23 in the second half to extend a 10-point halftime advantage to a 38-point final margin, for a 82-44 non-conference women’s basketball win on Wednesday night at Elting Gymnasium. Silver Williams scored a game-high 21 points and had 17 rebounds to…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The SUNY New Paltz College-Community Chorale is seeking experienced choral singers for this spring’s performance of the Brahms “Requiem.” The Chorale is conducted by Dr. Edward Lundergan, Director of Choral Activities at the university, and is open to community residents as well as SUNY New Paltz students,…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — SUNY New Paltz exhibitioned the last six events on both the women’s and men’s sides, as they cruised past Manhattanville, 76-45 and 73-41, respectively, in a swimming dual meet on Tuesday night at Elting Natatorium. Erin Thorsen, Molly Soule, Erin Lalor and Christine Foster picked up…
Read MoreTROY — The SUNY New Paltz Men’s Swimming and Diving team finished fourth, ahead of SUNYAC rival Cortland, in Saturday’s Rensselaer Kumpf Invitational at Robison Pool. Jeff Galaise (200-yard Individual Medley) and Mark Otto (1000-yard Freestyle) both had second-place finishes, while Jon Amoia finished fourth in the 200-yard Breaststroke,…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — SUNY New Paltz won for the first time since Dec. 9, and snapped nationally ranked Cortland’s nine-game win streak, with a 62-60 come-from-behind victory on Saturday night at Elting Gymnasium. It was just the second loss of the season for the (10-2 overall, 7-2 SUNYAC) Red…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — SUNY New Paltz led undefeated SUNYAC leader Cortland, ranked ninth in Division III, for virtually all of the first nine minutes before the Red Dragons went on 23-13 run to close the first half. After halftime, New Paltz didn’t get closer than 10 points, as Cortland…
Read MoreUTICA — A 21-point difference from the foul line was the story, as SUNY New Paltz lost its fourth straight men’s basketball contest, 80-73, at Utica/Rome on Friday night. Even four players in double figures, and a 15-for-31 (48.4 percent) effort from the field in the second half, couldn’t…
Read MoreUTICA — They’re not related, but the Hawks’ two players with the same last name had identical point totals to help SUNY New Paltz cruise past Utica/Rome, 65-49, on Friday night at the Campus Center Gymnasium. Zebi Williams (14 rebounds, three assists, two blocks) and Silver Williams (seven rebounds,…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The Legislative Gazette, the weekly newspaper of New York state government and SUNY New Paltz’s semester-long internship program in public affairs journalism in Albany, has hired a new editor to replace Glenn Doty, who retired in December after 23 years with the newspaper. John Bechtel, who…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The Legislative Gazette, the weekly newspaper of New York state government and SUNY New Paltz’s semester-long internship program in public affairs journalism in Albany, has hired a new editor to replace Glenn Doty, who retired in December after 23 years with the newspaper. John Bechtel, who came to…
Read MorePLATTSBURGH — The SUNY New Paltz Swimming and Diving teams opened the second semester on a good note, with a dual meet sweep of SUNYAC rival Plattsburgh on Wednesday afternoon at Memorial Hall. The Hawks got three individual wins (200-yard Freestyle, 200-yard Butterfly and 500-yard Freestyle) from Mark Otto…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — SUNY New Paltz shot just under 36 percent for the game, including only 32 percent (10-for-31) in the second half, en route to a 70-52 SUNYAC men’s basketball loss on Tuesday night at Elting Gymnasium. Robert Jones (16 points, 16 rebounds) and Ben Davey (10 points)…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Freshman point guard Britni Bishop had a game-high 23 points to help lead SUNY New Paltz past Oswego, 65-55, in SUNYAC women’s basketball action on Tuesday night at Elting Gymnasium. Bishop, who is nationally ranked in three-point percentage (12th) and assists (18th), added four rebounds, three…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Longtime SUNY New Paltz athletic department fixture Joe Donovan passed away Sunday night at his home after a short illness. He was 78. Donovan, who retired from New Paltz in 1996 after 26 years of service, held a wide variety of positions during his tenure. From…
Read MorePOTSDAM — Britni Bishop had a game-high 20 points to lead New Paltz past Potsdam, 57-44, in a SUNYAC women’s basketball matinee on Saturday at Maxcy Hall. Katie Monahan supplied eight points, four assists and three rebounds for New Paltz, which improved to 4-5 overall and 3-4 in SUNYAC…
Read MorePLATTSBURGH — Lisa Burriss had 11 points and nine rebounds, and Maura McShane and Silver Williams added 10 points apiece, but SUNY New Paltz lost anyway to Plattsburgh, 84-58, on Friday night at Memorial Hall. Other contributors for New Paltz (3-5 overall, 2-4 SUNYAC) included Katie Monahan (eight points,…
Read MoreRaymond J. Steiner class of 1966 and 1971 (BA in English and MA in Literature, respectively) recently published an important history of the Art Students League (NYC). The League’s early association with the Woodstock art colony is of special interest to the SDMA and we encourage you to follow this…
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