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.
On Saturday at the trials, 131 women will compete in the marathon. The top three men and top three women finishers, who meet qualifying performance standards, will be named to represent Team USA at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. $300,000 in prize money will be awarded among the top 10 finishers in the women’s race.
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.
Five Westfield State women’s cross country runners were formally named to the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference All-Conference team, the league announced on Thursday.
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.
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 sophomore runner Shea Hamel earned conference honors this past week as the MASCAC Runner of the Week after posting a strong performance at the James Earley Invitational 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’s Shea Hamel finished eighth in the individual standings to lead Westfield State to a fifth place finish at the 23-team Keene State Invitational Meet on Saturday.
Shea Hamel topped the efforts for the Westfield State University women, placing 48th at the UMass Dartmouth Invitational meet on Sunday in North Darmouth, Mass.
Westfield State women’s cross country picked up their second straight team title as the Owls won the Trinity Invitational meet on Saturday morning at Wickham Park in Manchester, Conn. on Saturday morning.
Sophomore Shea Hamel (Longmeadow, Mass.) was the first one home for the Owls in 11:57.3 on the short 2-mile course, placing fourth individually and setting a PR by 44 seconds.
Westfield State women’s cross country’s reign at the top of the MASCAC is projected to continue as the Owls are favored to win the conference for the fourth straight season.