News at Adelphi

Capping off an exceptional year for Adelphi University Athletics, the program has just been awarded all three of the 2024 NE10 Conference Presidents’ Cups. Highlights this year: a hard-fought National Championship for men’s lacrosse and a run to the national title game for women’s lacrosse. The Presidents’ Cups are the NE10’s highest honors given to the top-performing programs in the conference.

Adelphi University men’s lacrosse team has brought home the NCAA Division II Championship for the first time since 2001.

Ruth S. Ammon College of Education and Health Sciences undergraduate physical education students, seniors Christina Folias and Giavanna Dushaj, have been named SHAPE America Physical Education Majors of the Year. 

Krista Aliscio ’23 anchored the women’s soccer team throughout its trip to the Division II Final Four this fall while working on her master's degree in school psychology. Jamie Yonker ’22 continued studies for her master's degree in exercise science even as she led Adelphi’s volleyball team back to the NCAA tournament. Both share how much work it took to excel as athletes and NE-10 Conference honor roll students.

The Adelphi graduate has reached new heights with his motivational book.

Adelphi student-athletes kicked off the 2023–2024 year by taking care of some important business: getting their individual and team photos taken for use on the Adelphi Panthers website and Adelphi social media accounts and to be used by media outlets reporting on Panther prowess.

The identical twins run almost identical times while setting track records for the Panthers.

Panthers are spreading awareness of the importance of mental health for student-athletes by teaming up with Morgan's Message, a national program named in honor of a young lacrosse player who took her life.

Danny McCabe, Adelphi University’s director of athletics and campus recreation, is among this year’s recipients of the NACDA Cushman & Wakefield Athletic Director of the Year Award.

Greg Bouris asked 200 high school athletes to lift their left foot off the floor. All gamely followed his instructions, leaning on teammates for balance in the Ruth S. Harley University Center’s main ballroom on January 6. Then Bouris, lecturer and director of Adelphi University’s undergraduate sport management program, quipped: “Now you’re all starting off the new year on the right foot!” The room erupted into adolescent groans, but his point was well received.

Mark Grossman, MD, chief of sports medicine and arthroscopy at NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island, has been head team physician at Adelphi University since 2002.

Recent Adelphi field hockey graduate Jackie Brown ‘21, MBA ‘22, was recognized as an NCAA Woman of the Year Top 30 Nominee at the 2023 national NCAA Convention in San Antonio, Texas, on January 12, 2023. She is the third Adelphi student-athlete to make the Top 30, following Alison Johnson ‘20, MA ‘21, and Chelsea Abreu ‘19, MBA ‘21.

The next event in the Great Minds, Great Conversations series—"Sprinting Toward Success With Two Legendary Adelphi Olympians"—will feature Olympians and Adelphi track alumni June Griffith Collison '81, MBA '84, and Dennis Collison '80.

In what seemed like the first “normal" fall season for Adelphi University Athletics since the COVID-19 pandemic started, the Panthers returned to their winning ways, with plenty of accomplishments across all eight sports.

Jacklyn Brown ‘21, MBA ‘22, has taken the lead on the Panthers’ field hockey team, in the classroom as a business management and marketing major, and in the community.

Time management is an area in which Gabriel Silva, a rising senior, excels.

Early on the morning of April 10, seven Adelphi students gathered in the Woodruff Hall conference room to finalize their vision for a reimagined community center that was environmentally sustainable, profitable and accessible to typically underserved communities.

Since 2013, Adelphi University has prepared students to make a difference in children's lives through sports and physical activity. Students pursuing an MS in Sport Management or MA in Physical Activity Studies have the opportunity to enhance their graduate experience through Adelphi's hands-on Sport-Based Youth Development specialization.

Despite grueling schedules, our scholar-athletes continue to lead academically among all Northeast-10 institutions. Finishing first in Fall 2020, they've taken the top spot in eight of the past 11 semesters—winning in their sports and their studies.

In polls conducted by Campus Recreation this past summer and fall, students voiced their preference for in-person fitness classes and more access to the fitness center, said Linda Gundrum, MS '86, director. In response, Campus Rec is responding to these requests with more in-person classes, new pop-up intramural activities and expanded hours for the fitness center for Spring 2021.

Senior business major George Adamou is one of the world’s top-ranked players of the FIFA soccer video games. He’s already earning money doing it, and now he’s considering esports as a career.

Voting for the annual Bethpage Best of Long Island contest has begun and, as in recent years, Adelphi University is well represented among the nominations, including these “best” categories: College/University College President College Sports Program Concert Venue Theater Arts Center Mascot Public Garden College Sports Coach—with five Panther head coaches making the cut Adelphi is…

New insights into the impact of college sports on athletes’ voices.

Samantha Meehan loves the wide-open spaces of her native Colorado, but the energy of New York has drawn her to Adelphi, where she'll play on the volleyball team and study chemistry on an academic scholarship.