The Assumption Greyhounds field hockey team is set to begin play in their fifth-straight NCAA Division II Field Hockey Championship tournament on Saturday, November 16 at 7:00 p.m. at Brian Kelly ’83 Stadium. The Greyhounds will face off against Saint Anselm, who they defeated in a shutout last w...
The nationally-ranked Assumption University field hockey team was selected to participate in the 2024 NCAA Division II Field Hockey Championship, earning the second seed in the field of eight.Assumption University (18-3, 13-0 NE10) defeated Saint Anselm College (15-6, 10-3 NE10) 3-0 in the Northeas...
For the entire Assumption men’s ice hockey coaching staff, winning the Northeast-10 Conference Championship this season was about so much more than bringing home a trophy. It was about cultivating a family and giving back to a collegiate and athletic community that they themselves had each been ...
On December 18th, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) announced that Assumption University is one of 44 institutions to have received the 2023 Presidents’ Award for Academic Excellence. The NCAA awards this distinction to colleges and universities at the Division II level that ha...
The Assumption Greyhounds Women’s Ice Hockey team made history last Friday night at the Worcester Ice Center as they officially dropped the puck in their inaugural NCAA season. In 2022, Assumption University and the New England Women’s Hockey Alliance (NEWHA) announced the Greyhounds Wo...
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-19STQ6E77M');The Assumption University women’s basketball team is set to play in their first NCAA Division II Elite Eight in program history on Monday...
Basketball has been a part of Kerry Phayre’s life for much longer than it hasn’t. Yet even in the 40th season of her coaching career (31st as a head coach, 27th with Assumption), Coach Phayre still finds new ways to raise the bar.The 2022-23 campaign, which celebrated the team’s 50th ...
WORCESTER, Mass. (June 29, 2022) – Assumption University today announced that its women's ice hockey team has accepted an invitation to compete in the New England Women's Hockey Alliance (NEWHA), an NCAA Division 1 conference. Assumption will become the eighth member of the NEWHA, and the sec...
As the first institution in the Northeast-10 (NE10) to now sponsor all 24 sports in the NCAA Division II Conference, Assumption University’s Director of Athletics Christine Lowthert, Ed.D., announces the expansion of the University’s athletic programs with the addition of women’s ice hockey an...
Assumption University’s Department of Athletics has announced the appointment of a seasoned intercollegiate athletics professional Eric Gobiel as its next director of athletics. Gobiel’s priorities will be to enhance the University’s student-athlete experience, increase enrollment and fundrais...
Members of the Assumption Baseball team gave back to the community this weekend, mentoring young athletes from the Worcester area during the Worcester Red Sox’s first in a series of youth baseball clinics. Several Assumption student-athletes shared their love of the game while instructing the youn...
When the 2019 National Football League (NFL) season kicks off this weekend, the Super Bowl-defending champion New England Patriots won’t be the only team for which the Assumption community will be cheering. Proud students, alumni and friends of Assumption will be closely following the New Or...
When the 2019 National Football League (NFL) season kicks off this weekend, the Super Bowl-defending champion New England Patriots won’t be the only team for which the Assumption community will be cheering. Proud students, alumni and friends of Assumption will be closely following the New Or...
Assumption’s Interim Director of Athletics Christine Lowthert has announced that Megan Pirez ’08, will serve as the head coach for both the Men and Women’s Tennis programs. In the past Pirez had served as the head women’s tennis coach. Following a recent restructuring by the ...
Interim Director of Athletics Christine Lowthert has announced that Kyle R. Medeiros has been named the head coach of the Assumption Women’s Volleyball team. Medeiros brings eight years of coaching experience to his new position at Assumption. From 2011-18, Medeiros served as head vo...
Assumption is pleased to announce the Richard “Doc” Ludemann as the head coach of the Women’s Swimming and Diving Team. Coach Ludemann has 30 years of competitive swim coaching experience that includes 16 years with Division 1 college varsity teams. Read More...
Interim Director of Athletics Christine Lowthert has announced the hiring of Jack Sweeney as the head coach of Assumption’s Women’s Ice Hockey program. Sweeney, a seasoned hockey professional with more than 24 years of experience, including a board position of the national governing body of USA ...
Assumption Women’s Lacrosse Head Coach Abbey Capobianco-Simone has been named the Division II Women’s Lacrosse Coach of the Year by the New England Lacrosse Journal. In her 10th season as head coach, Coach Capobianco Simone led the Hounds to one of the best seasons in Assumption’...
The life of a student-athlete is not an easy one. Along with challenging academics, student-athletes dedicate a great amount of time to their teams. From early morning practices to late night homework, it’s amazing how they handle it all. Anne Guadalupi ’21, member of Assumption’s women’s sw...
This past weekend, Assumption’s Women’s Swimming & Diving team captured their fourth Northeast-10 Conference Championship in six years. The women were led by Abbey Holmes ’20, who won the 50 free, 100 free and 100 breaststroke, and was a part of the NE10 Championship relays in th...
As children in Puerto Rico, friends Juan O'Neill '22 and Nicolas Cardona '2 played soccer on opposing teams and later as teammates for the Puerto Rico Under-20 National Team. When it came time to pick a college, friends from home told them about Assumption, and both decided to join the tight-kn...
The Women's Swimming and Diving team consistently places at the top of the Northeast-10 rankings, winning three conference championships from 2014–16 and placing second in 2017 and 2018, but the team’s winning ways are not confined to the pool. The Greyhounds regularly partake in community ...
In his Commencement address on May 12 to the 653 students graduating from Assumption, Brian Kelly, head football coach for the University of Notre Dame and philanthropist, remembered being in the collegians’ shoes at his own Commencement from Assumption in 1983 and wondering to himself: “Wh...
At Assumption’s 95th Commencement on May 12 it was announced that Brian Kelly ’83, head football coach at the University of Notre Dame, has established a $250,000 endowed scholarship for football players at his alma mater. The first scholarship will be awarded this fall. Assumption...
