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.
Westfield State’s men’s and women’s cross country teams each finished 18th at the NCAA Division III Mideast Regional hosted by the Owls at Stanley Park on Saturday.
Westfield State men’s cross country reined in awards, as first-year Nathan Sylven (Wrentham, Mass./King Phillip) was named Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference Runner of the Year along with an All-Conference recognition on Thursday, as the league formally announced it’s all conference award winners from the championship meet held last Friday in Devens, Mass.
Westfield State first-year Nathan Sylven captured both end of season honors, securing the MASCAC Player of the Week and Rookie of the Week after dominating the MASCAC title meet this past Friday.
Westfield State first-year Nathan Sylven (Wrentham, Mass./King Phillip HS) won the individual title to lead the Owls men’s cross country team to the 2023 Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference title at Devens, Mass. on Friday afternoon.
Westfield State Athletics celebrated its 25th Hall of Fame class on Saturday, October 13, inducting five new members as part of the school’s homecoming weekend.
Westfield State first year Nathan Sylven (Wrentham, MA) was named Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference rookie runner of the week for the third time this season.
The Owls cross country teams split their squads on Saturday, with student athletes competing locally at the Western New England Invitational, and also at the Conn College Invitational at Harkness Park in Waterford, Conn., a meet that featured a number of regionally and nationally prominent runners and teams.
Westfield State first-year runner Nathan Sylven earned both the MASCAC Runner and Rookie of the Week after leading the Owls at the James Earley Invitational from Westfield, Mass. on Saturday.
WESTFIELD, Mass. -- Nathan Sylven finished 16th to lead the way for Westfield State’s men’s cross country team at the 27th annual James Earley Invitational meet at Stanley Park on Saturday.
The meet consists of four races; men’s JV at 10:30 a.m. starts the day, followed by men’s varsity at 11:15 a.m., women’s varsity at noon, and women’s JV at 1:00 p.m.
Westfield State first year Nathan Sylven (Wrentham, MA) was named Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference rookie runner of the week for the second time this season.
First-year student Nathan Sylven (Wrenthham, Mass./King Phillip) was the lead Owl on Saturday, placing 10th in the individual results and leading Westfield State to a third place team finish at the Trinity Invitational meet Saturday morning at Wickham Park in Manchester, Conn.
Westfield State freshman Nathan Sylven (Wrentham, Mass./King Phillip) was the individual winner as the Owls ran to a third-place team finish at the season-opening Keene State Alumni Invitational in Keene, N.H. on Saturday.
The Westfield State University men’s cross country team enters the season in the second spot in the 2023 MASCAC Preseason Poll as voted on by the coaches throughout the league.