Chi Alpha Sigma recognizes undergraduate college student-athletes who participate in a sport at the varsity intercollegiate level, achieve junior academic standing or higher after their fifth full time semester, and earn a 3.4 or higher cumulative grade point average.
Owls' athletics recognized its major award winners, including the Senior Scholar Athlete Awards, the Peter Mazza Athletic Award, the Senior Male and Female Athletes of the Year, and the John Kurty Award, the department's highest award for four-year contributions to athletics, and inducted 33 new members of Chi Alpha Sigma, the national honor society for college athletes.
At the conclusion of the winter sports season, Westfield State University Athletics continues to hold the top spot in the 2023-24 Howard C. Smith Cup standings as the best athletic program in the MASCAC.
58 Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC) student-athletes have been recognized for their outstanding sportsmanship as members of the 2023 Fall Sportsmanship Team.
After the conclusion of the fall season, Westfield State athletics holds the lead in the 2023-24 Howard C. Smith Cup standings, awarded to the top athletics institution in the MASCAC.
The Westfield State University men’s soccer team appeared in their first MASCAC title game since 2017, falling to top-seeded Bridgewater State 5-0 on Sunday afternoon.
Westfield State first-year midfielder scored the game-tying goal midway through the second half, then fired home the penalty-kick winner to send the Owls to the MASCAC Championship game over Salem State.
The Owls have a busy Friday at Alumni Field as they host a tripleheader of MASCAC semi-finals matches, beginning with women’s soccer at 12:00 P.M., then field hockey at 3:30 P.M., and finishing with men’s soccer at 7:00 P.M.
Westfield State senior Coleby Andrade scored the game-winning goal at the 73:04 mark and Luke Theroux piled up a career-high 16 saves to power the Owls to a 2-1 win over Salem State on Saturday afternoon on the road.
Bridgewater State senior forward David Nelson (E. Bridgewater, Mass.) recorded a hat trick to lead the Bears to a 6-0 win over Westfield State in a MASCAC men’s soccer matchup at Alumni Field on Saturday afternoon.
Westfield State first-year midfielder Paul Whalley obtained the MASCAC Rookie of the Week after his late-game tally against Fitchburg State on Saturday afternoon.
Westfield State senior Matthew Allen broke a 1-1 tie with a penalty shot goal, as the Owls topped Vermont State University Castleton 2-1 in a non-conference match on the road Monday night.
Westfield State first-year midfielder Paul Whalley tallied the lone goal of the match with 4:07 remaining in the game to propel the Owls to a 1-0 victory over Fitchburg State on Homecoming Weekend on Saturday.
Westfield State men’s soccer will recognize the memory of late head coach John Evans at halftime of the homecoming game vs. Fitchburg State on Saturday, October 14. The game kicks off at 11:00 a.m.
Be advised that Westfield State's men's soccer match at Castleton State has been rescheduled and will be moved up nine days, and will now be played on Monday, October 14 at Castleton State's Wolk Stadium.
Five different players scored goals for Salve Regina as the Seahawks blasted their way past Westfield State, 5-1 in a non-conference men’s soccer match at Alumni Field on Tuesday evening.
An improbable goal by Westfield State keeper Luke Theroux was not enough as the Owls fell at Framingham State 2-1 in a MASCAC battle on Saturday afternoon.
Jesse Njamnshi’s (Fitchburg, Mass.) goal put Westfield State on the board first, but UMass Dartmouth countered with a hat trick from Joey Paiva as the Corsairs outlasted the Owls, 5-3 in a non-conference men’s soccer match at Cressy Field in North Dartmouth on Wednesday afternoon.
Emerson College scored three second half goals, including two by Thomas Pelino (San Jose, Calif.) as the Lions got past Westfield State, 3-0 in a non-conference men’s soccer match on Tuesday evening at Alumni Field.
Westfield State women’s volleyball senior Bridgette McAndrews, men’s soccer forward Santino Mazza, and women’s soccer midfielder Tia Tollis all earned conference recognition this past week.
Westfield State sophomore Santino Mazza scored a pair of goals, including the game-winning tally with 1:52 remaining in regulation as the Owls rallied from two goals down in the second half to defeat MCLA 3-2.
Westfield State forwards Charlie Anischik and Coleby Andrade tallied second half goals to lead the Owls to 2-1 victory over Worcester State in a MASCAC game on Saturday afternoon from Alumni Field in Westfield, Mass.