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Senior pole vaulter Brendan Sheehan has stood out in the 2023-2024 indoor men's track and field season. Sheehan qualified for the 2024 NCAA indoor championship even with a stress fracture to the hook of the hamate bone.

Breaking Boundaries: Senior pole vaulter competes in indoor season despite a broken hand

By Flynn Hynes, Head Sports Editor • April 15, 2024
As the Ithaca College men’s track and field team transitions into its outdoor season, there is one pole vaulter that stands out from the rest: senior Brendan Sheehan.
From left, graduate student Allison Arndt, sophomore Lily Babcock and senior Taylor Volmrich, three members of the Ithaca College women’s rowing team’s varsity eight, race on the Cayuga Inlet.

Rowing teams duel at Cayuga Inlet to start season

By Aidan Charde, Sports Editor • April 5, 2023
Under threats of heavy wind and thunderstorms, the Ithaca College men’s and women’s rowing teams started their spring seasons at the annual Cayuga Duels on April 1.
Butterfield Stadium is one of two natural grass football fields in the Liberty League. However, Ithaca College announced in November that the field would be replaced with an artificial turf surface.

Planned turf field at IC to contain toxic chemicals

By Aidan Charde and Elijah de Castro • February 8, 2023
According to oceanographers, ecologists and environmental policy experts, the life cycle of an artificial turf field has detrimental effects on human health and the environment.
Senior Sophia Israel and junior Caitlin McGrinder are ready to leave it all out on the golf course for the Ithaca College women's golf team.

Women’s golf team counts on strong leadership this year

By Devan Adegbile, Contributing writer • March 25, 2021
With almost a 18-month layoff from their last tournament, the Ithaca College women's golf team is shooting to make momentum early and build on it.
Junior guard Juliana Gamboa seeks to pass during the game against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Jan. 25 in Ben Light Gymnasium.

Junior guard transfers from Liberty League competitor

By Arla Davis • January 29, 2020
Junior guard Juliana Gamboa made Ben Light Gymnasium home for the 2019-20 season after competing against the Bombers at William Smith for two years.
Senior third baseman Ryan Henchey is ready for the throw at third base to try to tag out freshman outfielder Jake Hertz of the University of Rochester in the Bombers' 12–11 win April 23. The Yellowjackets are apart of the Liberty League Conference.

Bombers will face new challenge in Liberty League Conference

By Caitie Ihrig, Sports Editor • May 3, 2017
Starting in the Fall of 2017, Ithaca College will be leaving the Empire 8 Conference and enter into the Liberty League Conference.
Some colleges and universities are covering all of their energy needs by renewable sources. Despite the progress made with Ithaca College's recent solar project, when comparing the college’s 10 percent to numerous other colleges' and universities', the college does not measure up.

Ithaca College still behind on renewable energy usage

By Sophie Johnson, Contributing Writer • March 22, 2016
Ithaca College is still behind on using renewable energy compared to other colleges and universities nationally, despite its recent adoption of solar energy to cover 10 percent of the college's energy needs.
The men's crew team rows against Colgate University, Marist College and Hamilton College on April 25, 2015, at the Cayuga Inlet. The varsity boat returns three out of its eight members.

Men’s crew will depend on new rowers

By Alyssa Curtis, Staff Writer • March 2, 2016
The men's crew team will look to utilize a smaller roster this spring season in order to take down top competitors this spring season.

Swimming and Diving cruises through last meet before States

By Justin Rouzier, Staff Writer • February 13, 2016
The Bombers picked up 10 first-place finishes at the Ithaca Invitational Feb. 13.
The football team faces off against Hobart college on Sept. 19 at Butterfield Stadium. Starting in the 2018-219 academic year, these two teams will play each other regularly in the Liberty League conference.

Ithaca College athletics to enter Liberty League

By Andrew Sullivan and Danielle Allentuck • December 17, 2015
The Bombers will leave the Empire 8, where they spent the past 16 years, and enter the Liberty League by the 2018-2019 academic year.
Ithaca College faculty and students join Seneca Lake protests

Ithaca College faculty and students join Seneca Lake protests

By Kyle Arnold, Contributing Writer • September 16, 2015
Activists protest the use of caverns for storage of natural gas and blockade the entrance to the Crestwood plant.
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