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.
Westfield State University junior forward Delaney Parker and junior defender Jaida Cochran named to the 2023 United Soccer Coaches Division III Women’s Soccer All-Region Teams.
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 Owls women’s soccer team will travel to Grantham, Pennsylvania this weekend to face #5-nationally ranked Messiah University on Saturday, November 11 at 1:00 p.m. in the first round of the NCAA Tournament from Shoemaker Field.
The Westfield State duo of Delaney Parker and Jaida Cochran have earned the 2023 Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference Women’s Soccer Offensive and Defensive Player of the Year honors and headline the 2023 MASCAC First Team All-Conference squad which is voted on by the coaches from around the conference.
After winning their third-straight MASCAC Championship game on Sunday, women’s soccer is set to face Messiah University in an NCAA Tournament First Round matchup this weekend.
Westfield State women’s soccer’s Kiana Muratsuka, Jaida Cochran, and Tia Tollis swept all Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference awards after securing the Owls’ third straight MASCAC tournament title this past Sunday.
Westfield State junior Delaney Parker (Orange, Mass.) delivered the game-winning goal with 24 minutes left in regulation to lift the Owls to a 2-1, come from behind win over top-seeded Bridgewater State in the 2023 Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference championship game at Mazzaferro Field in Bridgewater on Sunday afternoon.
Westfield State junior forward Delaney Parker (Orange, Mass./Mahar) scored a pair of goals and Kiana Muratsuka (Mililani, Hawaii) handed out three assists as Westfield State held off Worcenster State, 3-2 in the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference semifinals at Alumni Field on Friday afternoon
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.
It is more than 10,000 miles from Mililani, Hawaii to Nairobi, Kenya, but for two newcomers to the Westfield State University women’s soccer program, they have found a unique meeting point in the foothills of the Berkshires.
Westfield State junior Delaney Parker and first-year Tia Tollis both scored twice to lead the Owls to a 6-0 victory over Salem State in a MASCAC match from Alumni Field on Friday night.
Sophomore forward Kiana Muratsuka (Mililani, HI) scored a goal and added an assist for Westfield State as the Owls took down the Plymouth Panthers, 3-2 on Westfield’s senior day.
The Bridgewater State University women's soccer team edged defending Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC) champion Westfield State University, 2-1, on Saturday afternoon at rain-soaked Mazzaferro Field.
Westfield State junior forward Delaney Parker tallied her sixth career hat trick while also setting the all-time points record in program history as the Owls tied UMass Boston 3-3 in a non-conference game on the road Wednesday night.
Westfield State women’s soccer took down two of the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference’s weekly awards, as junior back Jaida Cochran (Middleboro, Mass.) was named the league’s defensive player of the week, and first-year forward Tia Tollis (East Longmeadow, Mass.) was chosen as the rookie of the week for the week ending Oct. 15.
Jaida Cochran secured her third goal of the season early in the first half, then Kiana Muratsuka put the finishing touches on an Owls 2-0 MASCAC victory over Fitchburg State on the road Friday night.
Westfield State women’s soccer players’ Delaney Parker, Tia Tollis, and Kiana Muratsuka each scored twice as the Owls scored a season-high ten goals in a 10-1 victory over Eastern Nazarene on the road Wednesday night.
Westfield State forward Kiana Muratsuka registered a goal and an assist as the Owls defeated MASCAC foe Framingham State 3-0 on Saturday afternoon from Westfield, Mass.
Westfield State junior forward Delaney Parker scored the opening goal of the game, but Western New England scored the next three goals including two in the second half to down the Owls 3-1 on Wednesday night.
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 first-year Tia Tollis scored a pair of goals to lead the Owls to a 3-0 win over MCLA on Saturday evening from Alumni Field in Westfield, Mass.