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Following Long Island University's founding in 1927, its sports teams wore blue uniforms and became known as the Blue Devils. After the school's uniforms were changed to black in 1935, a Brooklyn Eagle reporter from the Midwest saw the new look as the basketball team dribbled up and down the court and stated that the team looked like the blackbirds from back home; the comment struck home, and ...
Long Island University announced that the wrestling team that had represented its Post campus in Division II would join the EIWA once the merger of the athletic programs of its Brooklyn and Post campuses took effect in July 2019.
McCoy was named the 2005 Friends of Long Island Wrestling Man of the Year and was inducted into the Longwood High School Hall of Fame in 1998. McCoy went on to compete at Penn State , where he accumulated an overall record of 150–18 and won the NCAA heavyweight championships in 1994 and 1997.
The Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) is a wrestling-only conference that has 12 members in the 2024–25 season after the addition of Morgan State University. EIWA member Franklin & Marshall is the only Division III school competing in Division I wrestling.
Last year, the Chieftains became the first Rhode Island team to earn a Top 50 ranking in 40 years and Ponaganset’s run to the state and New England championship made it one of the most ...
With his natural athleticism, he mastered the sport very quickly. He attended Baldwin Senior High School on Long Island where he was a Nassau County and New York state wrestling champion. [11] A standout in college, he earned All-American wrestling honors twice at Nassau Community College before transferring to Hofstra. He became the first ...
The LIU Post Pioneers (also Long Island–Post Pioneers and formerly the C.W. Post Pioneers) were the athletic teams that represented the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, located in Brookville, New York, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports through the 2018–19 school year.
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