Hofstra Pride

The Hofstra Pride (formerly the Hofstra Flying Dutchmen) are composed of 21 teams representing Hofstra University in intercollegiate athletics, including men and women’s basketball, cross-country running, golf, lacrosse, soccer, tennis and track and field. Men’s sports include baseball and wrestling. Women’s sports include volleyball, field hockey, and softball. The Pride compete in the NCAA Division I and have been members of the Colonial Athletic Association in most sports since 2001.[2] They were previously members of the America East Conference.

Hofstra Pride
UniversityHofstra University
ConferenceColonial Athletic Association
EIWA (Wrestling)
NCAADivision I
Athletic directorRick Cole Jr.
LocationHempstead, New York
Varsity teams17
Basketball arenaMack Sports Complex
Baseball stadiumUniversity Field (Hofstra)
Soccer stadiumHofstra University Soccer Stadium
Other arenasMack Sports Complex (5,000+)
NicknamePride
Fight songMarch On, Hofstra
ColorsBlue, White, and Gold[1]
              
Websitewww.gohofstra.com
Colonial Athletic Association logo in Hofstra’s colors

Teams
Men's sports Women's sports
BaseballBasketball
BasketballCross country
Cross countryField hockey
GolfGolf
LacrosseLacrosse
SoccerSoccer
TennisSoftball
Track and field+Tennis
WrestlingTrack and field+
Volleyball
† – Track and field includes both indoor and outdoor.

Basketball

The men’s basketball team experienced its most successful period in 2000 and 2001, winning back-to-back America East Men's Basketball Tournament titles and making their first appearances in the Division I championship since the 1970s.

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.[3]

Dennis Papadatos is the current head coach.[4] The Pride wrestling team competes on campus in the Mack Sports Complex. Former Pride wrestler Chris Weidman was a 2-time NCAA Division I All-American (6th in 2006 & 3rd in 2007, both at 197 lb) and is now the current 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
Main article: Hofstra Pride football

The school fielded a football team from 1937 to 2009, when the sport was cancelled due to costs and declining attendance.[5] 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.[6]

Conference history

Two of Bill Cosby's early comedy albums include routines about a game between the now-defunct Hofstra football team and Temple University.[7] 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 Everybody Loves Raymond was devoted to a main character, Frank Barone, catching a record-setting field goal ball kicked by a Hofstra player at a game against Northeastern that Ray Barone predicted to be a "tickle fight."

See also

References
  1. Hofstra Licensing Standards Guide (PDF). July 1, 2014. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
  2. "GoHofstra.com - The Official Website of Hofstra Pride Athletics". gohofstra.com. Retrieved 2012-06-26.
  3. "Points of Pride | Hofstra | New York".
  4. . Hofstra University Athletics https://web.archive.org/web/20140808063105/http://www.gohofstra.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=209603595&DB_OEM_ID=22200&SPSID=345362&SPID=13577&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=22200&ATCLID=3715204&Q_SEASON=2013. Archived from the original on 2014-08-08. Retrieved 2014. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. Armstrong, Kevin (2009-12-03). "Hofstra Drops Its 72-Year-Old Football Program". The New York Times.
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-03-28. Retrieved 2017-03-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. "Bill Cosby – Hofstra – Listening & stats at". Last.fm. 2009-02-11. Retrieved 2011-11-26.
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