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The original Alumni Gymnasium was completed in 1940 and was extensively renovated in 1978 to accommodate the expanded co-educational student body. The latest renovation project cost $2 million and took six months to complete.

Photographer Josh McKee has been capturing the action for Hamilton’s sports teams for seven years. From the artistic to the action-packed, and from practices to NCAA and NESCAC postseason play, here are some of his favorite images from the past 12 months.

As hoops action gets under way, meet Kena Gilmour ’20, Division III All-American and last year’s NESCAC Player of the Year, who combines athleticism, academics, and leadership.

In an opinion piece about the NCAA’s intention to permit compensation for college athletes, President Wippman posed nine questions that must be considered in designing “a comprehensive, coherent, and equitable solution to the crisis of intercollegiate athletics.”

The late Bob Simon, professor of philosophy and longtime golf coach, and the Bob Simon Golf Center named in his honor, are featured in the September, 2019 issue of Golf Range Magazine.

Associate Director of Athletics/Senior Woman Administrator Miriam Merrill has been selected to participate in the 2019-20 cohort of the NCAA Pathway Program in Indianapolis this July.

Women's track & field athlete Cat Berry '19 (Mansfield, Ohio/Western Reserve Academy) and men's basketball swingman Peter Hoffmann '19 (Putnam Valley, N.Y./Haldane HS) received the 2019 Jack B. Riffle Awards at Hamilton College's senior varsity athlete awards celebration on Tuesday, May 21.

The Hamilton College Continentals wrapped up the regular season with a non-conference doubleheader sweep against the SUNY Polytechnic Wildcats at Hamilton's Loop Road Softball Complex on Wednesday evening. Hamilton (28-9 overall) won the opener 6-0 for its 27th victory of the season, the most wins of any Hamilton College team in history.

On April 6, 120 student-athletes volunteered at 18 different community partners in Clinton, Rome, Utica, and Sauquoit as part of the 2nd Annual SAAC (Student-Athlete Advisory Committee)//COOP (Community Outreach and Opportunity Project) Day of Service. The initiative was part of the larger NCAA Division III Week of Service in which groups volunteered at local community partners, including the Thea Bowman House in Utica, and Special Olympics in Rome.

It isn’t all play and no work for Hamilton College students during their spring break, March 15 to 31. From Alternative Break volunteer service trips in Baltimore and South Carolina to a trek over the Himalayas in Nepal, Hamilton students are pursuing their academic, charitable, and athletic interests all over the globe.