As someone who has seen most of Will Chandler's career first-hand, I find it irresponsible and unfair to use words like bully and thug to describe his sideline demeanor.

I have seen and heard far worse from the opposing bench - and I only see those coaches once a year.

Quote from: saratoga on March 04, 2026, 01:20:40 PMAwards have been announced:

POY: Kaci Kranson

Defensive POY: Kaeli Romanowski

ROY: Sofia Talutto

Second Team:

*Elizabeth Bennett

*Katie Gorski

*Megan LaManna

Coaching Staff of the Year:
Ben O'Brien, Hannah Angelini, Tom Kosen, & Erica Haefele


Congratulations to all...fantastic choices.
Congressional committee dismissed. 

Saratoga, you should be banned from the Long Center for spelling Kosin wrong.

Quote from: saratoga on November 11, 2025, 04:57:47 PMCalling it now...
Former Miseri, Keystone & current Cedar Crest coach Jason Rhine will be aiming for the Muhlenberg job once it opens at the conclusion of this season.
No idea if he'll get it but no way do I see him staying at the Crest.

Per the announcement of coach Rohn's retirement - "Sadie Nelson, Rohn's assistant for the last two seasons, has been named associate head coach and will take over the reins of the program for the 2026-27 season."

I am pretty sure that this season doesn't have anything to do with financial aid or faith.

Misericordia football featured on front page of d3football.com in a story by Brian Lester:  https://d3football.com/columns/features/2025/misericordia-not-satisfied-at-4-1

Quote from: Ron Boerger on July 22, 2025, 07:42:55 PM

Quote from: IC798891 on July 22, 2025, 04:59:46 PMThe thing I can't quite wrap my head around is, what "going all in" on athletics looks like. Albright's already got a robust athletics program, in terms of what they offer. They're adding men's wrestling (which seems like it makes women's wrestling the obvious next move) and women's stunt. But they've already got 19 teams. They don't have swimming, and from a cursory glance on the web, it doesn't look like they have required existing facilities needed to add it.

So, is the plan to just try and attract more athletes to the sports you're struggling to do so already? (The track teams strike me as very small)

According to the DoE's Equity in Athletics site, Albright had 1,215 FTE in the last year for which data was available (2023?), of which there were 324 male and 145 female athletes after duplicates were removed - nearly 40% of enrollment are athletes.  Lightly endowed schools that get much higher than that don't have much success in the long run.

And if I'd only *read the freaking article* I would have seen that they gained $13.8M in one-time revenue and nearly $4M in donations, so absent that they would have lost around $8M last year.  That would be an improvement over the '23-'24 year when they lost $22.7M and the '22-'23 year when they lost $27.8M, but at the end of '23-'24 they had $155M in liabilities and $224M in assets, liabilities having increased by nearly $50M in that one year.  The school listed $53M in endowments at the end of the year, but also $76+M in "lease liabililties", the increase in which accounted for most of the increase in liabilities over the prior year.

Albright dropped swimming a year ago.  They were dominant in the MAC on the women's side in the 2000s and on the men's side in the 2010s.

Bess' granddaughter Emily Bessoir heading to the Olympics as part of Team Germany.

Yes, this title never would've been possible if Doc Mould didn't 'transfer' to Misericordia in 1990.

First 'team' sport title.  We've won a few individual titles in swimming/track & field.

Yes, first D-III champion from PA.

https://www.d3baseball.com/playoffs/all-time

Thanks Gordon.  Baseball might be one of the toughest to win.  You have to win a minimum of 10 games in the NCAA Tournament.

Tyler Cottle named interim head coach at Misericordia.

https://athletics.misericordia.edu/news/2024/2/28/mu-names-tyler-cottle-interim-head-football-coach.aspx

Quote from: Stretch4 on February 25, 2024, 04:44:24 PMI believe 1 MAC Freedom championship for DeSales in past 10 years, with 6 or 7 regular season 1st place finishes. I know for sure that their very talented senior class this year had four regular season 1st place finishes, and lost 3 home game championships and 1 home game semi-final. At some point that does creep in to the heads of the coaches and players. As far as yesterday went, I think you need to give credit to Stevens who put together a very good defense effort, and quite honestly were the tougher team yesterday. Hard to beat a good team 3 times in one year, and Stevens is clearly a good team. 

In my opinion, the way this D3 season has played out with seemingly any team vulnerable on any given night, it is a challenge to put a Sweet Sixteen lock label on anyone.

You can check your math here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1goo2eKaPC5byw3Ki2f6YF6tB5Ni1ekgN5MxKVONooaE/edit?path=mbball#gid=634347005

John Davis is resigning as head football coach at Misericordia, effective March 4.


https://athletics.misericordia.edu/news/2024/2/17/john-davis-stepping-down-as-misericordia-football-coach.aspx

Quote from: saratoga on November 23, 2023, 09:39:35 AM

Perhaps a little known fact of Miseri basketball...

Mike Dunleavey, current Governor of the great state of Alaska & graduate of Scranton Central High School, was a pretty darn good basketball player for the Cougars.

After graduating from Miseri, he headed northwest & the rest is history.

I didn't know Mike Dunleavy was from Scranton - maybe they should name a street after him.