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 senior outside hitter Bridgette McAndrews (Longmeadow, Mass.) was named the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference women’s volleyball Player of the Year, and coach Fred Glanville was named the league’s coach of the year to highlight the league’s all-conference team announcement on Wednesday afternoon.
WESTFIELD, Mass. - First-year Lauren Carnes hammered out 12 kills to lead the way as Westfield State posted a 3-0 win at Fitchburg State on Friday afternoon
Westfield State’s Bridgette McAndrews (Longmeadow, Mass.) and Lauren Carnes (Westfield, Mass.) each posted double figures in kills to lead the Owls to a 3-0 non-conference volleyball win over Eastern Connecticut State University at the Woodward Center on Tuesday evening.
Westfield State women’s volleyball dropped a pair of games against Plymouth State and Salve Regina on Saturday afternoon from Foley Gym in Plymouth, N.H.
Westfield State ran out to a 9-1 lead in the first game, and never looked back as the Owls posted a 3-0 win over Massachusetts Maritime Academy in a Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic conference women’s volleyball game on Thursday evening in Buzzards Bay, Mass.
Westfield State first-year Lauren Carnes earned conference honors as the MASCAC Rookie of the Week as the Owls delivered another strong week in conference play.
Westfield State women's volleyball hosted a tri-match of games against Bridgewater State and Bay Path as part of senior day from the Woodward Center on Saturday afternoon.
Westfield State women’s volleyball picked up a crucial conference victory over Worcester State, sweeping the Lancers in straight sets on the road Tuesday night.
The Westfield State women’s volleyball team dropped a four-set match to Lasell University on the road in a non-conference matchup on Saturday afternoon.
Westfield State junior Sarah Bingham posted a team-high 14 kills and added three solo blocks as the Owls charged past Framingham State in four sets in a MASCAC battle on the road Friday night.
Westfield State first-year Lauren Carnes (Westfield, Mass.) registered a team-high 15 kills as the Owls took down Elms College in four sets in a non-conference game Tuesday 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.
In the opener, Westfield got 10 kills and six blocks from Julia Bartiet, and 10 kills and 23 digs from Bridgette McAndrews, but the Lyons prevailed, 25-19, 18-25, 25-22, and 25-21.
Westfield State Athletics is set to host a triple header on Tuesday, September 26th featuring women’s soccer at 4:00pm, then field hockey and women’s volleyball at 7:00pm.