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Women's hockey goaltender Sam Walther '18 (Gambrills, Md./The Gunnery [Conn.]) and men's hockey goaltender Evan Buitenhuis '18 (Burlington, Ontario/Nelson HS) received the 2018 Jack B. Riffle Awards at Hamilton College's senior varsity athlete awards celebration on Tuesday, May 15.

“Eleni’s dedication to her friends and family, to the Hamilton community, to the refugees she worked with over the summer in Greece…. comes not from a place of ticking something off a list but from a place of passion and compassion. She is all in: heart and mind. How she does anything is how she does everything. I feel confident that Leni will take that way of being into the world and do big things.” - Amy James, director of community outreach.

The Hamilton College men's and women's basketball programs hosted their 2018 Special Olympics Basketball Clinic inside Hamilton's Margaret Bundy Scott Field House on April 19.

Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and Community Outreach and Opportunity Project (COOP) joined forces this month to volunteer at local organizations for the D-III Week of Service, a conference-wide community service competition. The goal was to gather as many hours of service as possible from April 2 to April 8. Hamilton had 128 athletes participate, and they amassed 300 hours of hands-on volunteer service during the seven-day event.

As the U.S. Speed Golf Open Champion, Hamilton College Women’s and Men’s Golf Coach Lauren Cupp ’07 was invited by the organizers of the Toro New Zealand Speed Golf Open, all expenses paid, to compete in their tournament in February.

Hamilton's Eli Saucier '18 will compete in the 200-meter dash at this weekend's 2018 NCAA Division III Men's and Women's Indoor Track & Field Championships at the Birmingham CrossPlex in Birmingham, Ala., on March 9.

Hamilton College's Kena Gilmour '20 scored 20 points and the Continentals edged York College of Pennsylvania 69-66 in a NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Championship second round game on Saturday night.

NPR’s Only a Game celebrated a 1936 Olympian and Hamilton hockey goalie on its Feb. 24 broadcast, not for his prowess on the ice, but for his courage in standing up to Hitler in a brief but prescient moment.

About 80 coaches and student athletes recently attended a program focused on helping student athletes improve their ability to perform in the classroom and in their sport.

Research shows that girls drop out of sports at rates six times higher than boys, according to Youth Sports Psychology. A program at Hamilton College is attempting to fight this statistic. Strong Girls is an after-school program for girls in third to fifth grade to empower them through athletics. It was brought to Hamilton by Katherine Kreider ’18, whose high school basketball coach originally created the program and its curriculum to motivate and inspire girls to engage in athletics. Kreider and Eleni Neyland ’18 started the club their sophomore year and are the co-presidents.