Both the Springfield Republican and the Daily Hampshire Gazette have stories featuring the maiden flight of the UMass Sports Network video drone which shot aerial video footage of UMass football's new press box and performance center at McGuirk Stadium on Thursday.
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Be sure to join us today at Noon for the UMass Sports Luncheon which will be located in the Mullins Center First Floor Concourse. Field hockey's Brooke Sabia along with soccer's Sarah Pandolfi will be honored as the UMass Athletes of the Week.
The guest speakers today will be women's cross country coach Julie LaFreniere and head football coach Charley Molnar or one of his assistant coaches.
Cost of the salad-to-dessert buffet is $13 and free parking is available in the lot directly behind the Mullins Center.
It's a busy week for MinuteFans and as the first week of classes start on campus, that means more and more events to check out.
All the action starts on Tuesday at Garber Field as the nationally ranked field hockey team hosts in-state rival UMass Lowell at 5 PM.
Tuesday, Sept. 3
Field Hockey vs. UMass Lowell - 5 PM - Garber Field
Wednesday, Sept. 4
UMass Sports Luncheon - Noon - Mullins Center
Bud Light Football Coaches Radio Show - 7 PM - Hangar Pub & Grill
Friday, Sept. 6
Men's Soccer vs. New Hampshire (at Vermont) - 1:30 PM
Women's Soccer at Providence - 7 PM
Field Hockey vs. Harvard - 5 PM - Garber Field
Saturday, Sept. 7
Football vs. Maine - 2 PM - Gillette Stadium
Sunday, Sept. 8
Men's Soccer at Vermont - 1:30 PM
Women's Soccer at New Hampshire - 1 PM
It's a busy weekend for UMass Athletics and if you can't make it to the games, we've compiled a listing of each game and where on the television you can find it.
Click the link below to find each station from you cable provider.
You can also check the Watch & Listen page of UMassAthletics.com to see radio and live stat options. Follow @UMassAthletics on Twitter for in-game updates as well.
Friday:
Hockey at New Hampshire (7:30 PM) - WBIN/Fox College Sports
Saturday:
Men's Basketball at Xavier (2 PM) - CBS Sports Network
Women's Basketball vs. Xavier (1 PM) - CBS3 Now
Hockey at New Hampshire (7 PM) - WBIN/Fox College Sports
Sunday:
Women's Tennis vs. Binghamton (12:30 PM) - CBS3 Now
ONLINE VIDEO (UMassAthletics.com/All-Access)
Saturday:
#14 Women's Lacrosse vs. Iona (1 PM)
#5 Men's Lacrosse vs. Brown (2 PM)
Sunday:
Women's Tennis vs. Binghamton (12:30 PM)
Football head coach Charley Molnar will be the guest speaker at today's UMass Sports Luncheon which will begin at Noon in the Massachusetts Room of the Mullins Center.
Coach Molnar will speak about the 2013 recruiting class which was officially signed last week and will give updates on the upcoming spring season.
Chaz Williams of the men's basketball team and Matt Whippen of the men's lacrosse team will also be honored as the Co-Athletes of the Week.
The UMass Sports Luncheon features an all-you-can-eat buffett for just $11 and parking behind the Mullins Center is free. The Luncheon is held every Wednesday throughout the school year.
Just a reminder for fans attending today's UMass Sports Luncheon that it will start at a special time of 10:30 AM in the Massachusetts Room of the Mullins Center. The early start is to allow fans attending the chance to see the women's basketball game against La Salle which will tip-off at 11:45 AM as the annual Field Trip Day game for local elementary school children. Fans going to the Sports Luncheon will receive a free ticket to the game and can park in the back lot of the Mullins Center!
The weekly UMass Sports Luncheon will begin at 10:30 AM this Wednesday in conjunction with the women's basketball game against La Salle that will tip-off at 11:45 AM. The game will be the annual Field Trip Day where local school children get to attend the game thanks to the morning start.
Fans who attend the UMass Sports Luncheon will receive free tickets to the basketball game and there will be free parking in the Mullins Center Back Lot. Speakers for Wednesday's Luncheon will be hockey head coach John Micheletto along with women's basketball Director of Operations May Kotsopoulos. Additionally, this week's co-athletes of the week Becky Stoyle (women's track) and Michael Cyphers (men's track) will be honored.
An action packed UMass Sports Luncheon is on tap for today as field hockey assistant coach Shannon Taylor will speak about her time at the 2012 London Olympics with Team USA and the 2011 Dad Vail Regatta rowing champions will be honored.
The guest speakers today will also include men's soccer coach Sam Koch and hockey coach John Micheletto. Lauren Allymohamed will be honored as the Athlete of the Week after guiding the field hockey team to a 3-0 week highlighted by the scintillating win over No. 1 ranked Syracuse at Garber Field.
The luncheon begins at Noon in the Massachusetts Room of the Mullins Center with free parking at the rear of the building (next to the tennis courts).
New UMass football head coach Charley Molnar continues his state-wide tour with a stop at MacDonald's Tavern in Worcester on Thursday, June 14 from 5:30-7:30 PM. Fans can join Coach Molnar as he lays out his vision for UMass football both on and off the field as the Minutemen prepare for their first full season as members of the Football Bowl Subdivision and the Mid-American Conference.
The evening will include a Q&A session with Coach Molnar along with time to mingle with fans and alums of the University. Complimentary food and a cash bar will be available for all guests.
The event is free, but registration suggested. To register, simply call the UMass Marketing Office at 413-545-3870 or e-mail rmccaffr@admin.umass.edu
If you are around campus today, be sure to stop by the UMass Sports Luncheon at 12 PM in Room 1009 of the Campus Center. Men's basketball coach Derek Kellogg, women's basketball coach Sharon Dawley, and hockey head coach Don "Toot" Cahoon will be the guest speakers.
Freshman goalie Kevin Boyle will also be honored as the UMass Athlete of the Week.
Matt Vautour of the Daily Hampshire Gazette has an in-depth piece looking at the upcoming year with Athletic Director John McCutcheon and several major projects being undertaken by the UMass Athletic Department.
Fall officially arrived for John McCutcheon last week as he had the Game Tracker for the University of Massachusetts women's soccer team's 2-1 win over New Hampshire open on his computer as he worked in his office.
"It got my blood flowing a little bit," McCutcheon said.
After a tough year for the department in 2010-11, the University of Massachusetts athletic director was glad to have 2011-12 under way.
"I can't wait. I think we have improved. We want to see the effects of that on the court, on the field and on the ice. I think the coaches are excited about it, too," he said. "A lot of things probably didn't go the way they wanted it to last year and they probably have a bad taste in their mouths and they can't wait to get it out of there. I think everybody is looking forward to getting this year started."
If you would like to hit the links with some of UMass' finest coaches, administrators, and fans, then be sure to sign up for one of the two upcoming golf tournaments.
First up is Friday's Sports Medicine Golf Outing (June 10) at the Ledges Golf Club in South Hadley. Click here for info on how to register.
Next on the docket will be the UMass Hockey Pond Club Golf Tournament on Monday (June 13) at The Orchards Golf Club in South Hadley. Click here for info on how to register.
Aside from a great outing of golf, proceeds from these golf tournaments go to each program to help improve the student-athlete experience at UMass.
Join us for the weekly UMass Sports Luncheon as Athletic Director John McCutcheon will be the featured speaker. He will talk about UMass' upgrade to FBS and the MAC for football and be available for questions. Join us at the Campus Center Room 1009 starting at 12 Noon. Call 413-545-4290 for more information.
Women's track and field jumper Stephanie Aguguo and women's lacrosse attacker Jackie Lyons will be honored as the UMass co-athletes of the week. This is the second week in a row that Aguguo has been named an athlete of the week.
Check out this blog entry from ESPN.com's Diamond Leung, where he focuses on UMass basketball and its future in gaining fan interest:
Continue reading ESPN.com Blog On Basketball Fan Interest.
Masslive.com has a nice feature story on the Mullins Militia, the basketball support group. Read it here: Mullins Militia leads UMass basketball student section.
Continue reading Masslive Feature On Mullins Militia.
• USA Today: UMass football to join FCS, MAC Conference in 2012
• Sporting News: UMass To The MAC
• Boston Globe: Kraft rose to occasion
• Springfield Republican: A pipedream no more, UMass officially becomes an FBS program
• Springfield Republican: Gillette had to be part of move, but Western Mass. is left behind
• Daily Hampshire Gazette: Gillette Stadium new home for UMass football beginning in 2012
• Daily Hampshire Gazette: Upgrade creates need for more women's scholarships
• Daily Hampshire Gazette: Opinion on campus divided over football program shift
• Daily Hampshire Gazette: UMass to join MAC in upgrade to Football Bowl Subdivision
• Daily Hampshire Gazette: With move to MAC, Minutemen may play weeknight football
• Daily Hampshire Gazette: Upgrade means new challenges for UMass football
• Boston Herald: Buckley: Move to Gillette boosts big-time hopes
• Boston Herald: UMass goes deep for football glory
• Boston Herald UMass moves up to FBS
• Worcester Telegram: UMass, Gillette cut a big-time football deal
• Berkshire Eagle: UMass makes its move to DivisionI-FBS, MAC
• Hartford Courant: UMass Makes Move To FBS Official
• Attleboro Sun-Chronicle: Kraft: UMass to be boon
• Daily Collegian: UMass football officially announces move to FBS
• Philadelphia Inquirer: UMass joins MAC for football Philadelphia Inquirer 2011-04-20
• Cleveland Plain-Dealer: Marriage of UMass and MAC a winner, for now: Analysis
• Detroit News: UMass is 'excellent addition' to MAC for football
• Columbus Dispatch: College football: UMass is a good fit, MAC chief says
• Washington Post: UMass football to join Mid-American conference starting in 2012
• Fox Sports: UMass' move puts program in FBS
• The Sports Network: UMass football to join Mid-American Conference in 2012
• Kalamazoo Gazette: No decision on MAC division alignment after UMass joins as football-only member
• Oxford Press: UMass arrival brings challenge
• Ball State Daily News: FOOTBALL: Massachusetts makes move to MAC official
• NCAA.com: UMass set to join MAC in 2012
• Berkshire Eagle: UMass football joining Division I-FBS, Mid-American Conference in 2012
• College Football Talk: MAC officially adds UMass as newest member
• SB Nation: UMass Officially Joins The Mid-American Conference
• Seacoast Online: With UMass football moving to FBS, what's next for UNH?
• ABC40: McGuirk No More
Here are video interviews from the event:
Continue reading Football Media Coverage On Move To FBS, MAC.
Senior Cerie Mosgrove of the women's basketball team and senior Sean Busch of the men's track & field squad have been named the 2011 UMass Winter Scholar-Athletes. The duo will be honored at the UMass Sports Luncheon today, Apr. 6, at Room 1009 of the Campus Center at 12:15 p.m. Also, the UMass Athletes of the Week will be recognized: Sara Plourde of the softball team, who was also named the National Player of the Week and Katie Ferris of the women's lacrosse squad, who tallied 12 points in two wins for No. 11 UMass.
You can follow the UMass men's lacrosse team on twitter @UMassMLacrosse, sign up now to get all the latest news on the Minutemen.
@UMassMLacrosse on twitter.
Check out the which include a bunch of new items including several throwback basketball jerseys from this past season, modeled after the uniforms of the 1990s. Throwback shorts from the uniforms are also available. Other new items include black jerseys from the mid-2000s and some autographed sneakers from Stephane Lasme and Tony Gaffney.
Check out Ron Chimelis' story from the Springfield Republican on UMass push to sell more tickets to see the men's basketball squad.
The University of Massachusetts men's basketball team will play Central Florida on Wednesday night, a game matching two teams with a combined 17-3 record. The unbeaten visitors include Marcus Jordan, son of Michael. But a sparse crowd is expected, because at UMass home games these days, a sparse crowd is the rule.
UMass officials are more than baffled. They are worried, because basketball is still considered the school's flagship sport, in terms of image and revenue potential.
Continue reading Republican: UMass Searching For Fans.
Matt Vautour of the Daily Hampshire Gazette has a great feature story on the UMass basketball team and its visit to the VA Hospital in Northampton.
With too little time between Wednesday's win over American International College and Saturday's 3 p.m. game against Holy Cross, most of the University of Massachusetts men's basketball players didn't go home for Thanksgiving.
Instead, the Minutemen visited and shared a turkey dinner with staff at the Northampton Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Northampton on Thursday.
UMass coach Derek Kellogg said it was a new experience for most of his players and he was proud of the way they handled themselves.
"It was an eye-opening thing for a lot of us. You want to go and have a good time and brighten somebody's day and let them know we appreciate what they've done," Kellogg said. "Some of them don't have families or can't get home to their families, so it was good to go and change the monotony."
Continue reading Gazette Feature On VA Thanksgiving Visit.
With a throwback game at the Curry-Hicks Cage on Saturday, the Minutemen will be sporting their new throwback uniforms for the first time in the game against Holy Cross. This year's throwback jerseys are replicas of the 1995-96 Final Four season. The style was worn from 1994-97 and will be on display Saturday. They will be worn several other times this season.
For tickets call 1-866-UMASS-TIX.
In the Daily Hampshire Gazette Matt Vautour has a story on how the basketball team hand-delivered season tickets on Monday night. The piece also has info on the team's Sunday scrimmage at Harvard, an update on Maxie Esho and more.
Continue reading Gazette: Basketball Notes On Esho, Scrimmage.
On Sunday morning, the UMass football team led by head coach Kevin Morris was out in full force at Six Flags Agawam to Walk For a Cure for Juvenile Diabetes. The players and many staff members took part in the walk throughout the park to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Check out Coach Morris and his wife Rebecca -- the co-chairs of the Western Mass chapter of the JDRF -- with Mr. Six at Six Flags.
Masslive.com has a story on the UMass Football team which will participate in Sunday's Walk for a Cure, a fundraiser for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation at Six Flags New England in Agawam. The walk begins at 10 a.m. UMass coach Kevin Morris and his wife, Rebecca, are co-chairmen of the foundation's Western Massachusetts chapter.
The new banners for the 2010-11 seasons have been hung outside the Mullins Center. Come check out images of men's basketball, hockey and women's basketball players.
The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced today the complete field for the 2010 Hall of Fame Tip-Off, scheduled to take place Nov. 20-22 at the MassMutual Center. The announcement was paired with the official release of the UMass basketball program's 'Mission 1,000.'
UMass also unveiled its 'Mission 1,000' marketing initiative, aiming at selling 1,000 more season tickets to the many families, fans, business owners and corporations throughout Western Massachusetts and the state. The excitement level for both announcements is expectedly high.
"Saying I'm excited is an understatement," said UMass head coach Derek Kellogg. "To make Springfield for a week of the year the mecca of college basketball is great. It's fitting for the national tournament to have a local flavor."
Join us at this week's UMass Sports Luncheon Wednesday at 12:15 p.m., in the Campus Center Room 1009. Football coach Kevin Morris will be the featured speaker along with field hockey coach Justine Sowry. Athlete of the Week Jonathan Hernandez will be recognized for his big game at Michigan.
While the main focus of this weekend has been the football game at Michigan, Gazette writer Matt Vautour highlights some of the other action going on for the Maroon & White. The women's soccer team will be playing at Michigan as well, while the men's soccer team hosts UCF today at 3:30 and #24 Indiana on Sunday (1 PM). The men's and women's cross country teams will host a home meet on Saturday (11:15 AM). The No. 20 field hockey team will head to American and No. 2 Maryland this weekend as well.
It was an interesting start to the day as Matt Houde and I took a helicopter ride (thanks to the Marines) around campus. We were able to shoot some photos and videos of our facilities and campus in general. The landscape has certainly changed in the 7 years I've been here! On a side note, if you've never taken advantage of the free helicopter rides that happen each semester, do so. You have a pilot who is a Marine and I always say you are never safer then when you have one of those guys around!
Check out the Photo Gallery.
Check out the Photo Gallery.
Sam The Minuteman and many members of the UMass football team took part in the building of the longest California sushi roll in the world. Read the story in the Springfield Republican.
Volunteers wearing T-shirts that read "UMass, Amherst home of the world's longest California roll" sealed 650 sheets of nori - seaweed - then "glued" it in place with about 200 pounds of sushi rice, then laid on avocado, cucumber and Alaskan crab ... and then rolled all of it into a 422-foot long sushi roll, eclipsing the current record of 340 feet set last November at the University of California, Berkeley.
| UMass-Amherst Creates World Record California Roll |
If you were watching "America's Got Talent" last night, you saw the new Big Y commercial, which features none other than Sam The Minuteman!
If you have a link to the commercial send it to us in the tweet @UMassAthletics.com
Former UMass softball star and current UMass marketing assistant Michelle Libby was interviewed by NBC22 about the music industry and the transition from album sales to downloading music.
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Also, for every 100 new Twitter "followers" of @UMassAthletics, FIVE lucky Twitter followers will win a FREE T-shirt. Sign up today at http://twitter.com/umassathletics.
Invite all of your friends to join the fun! Go UMass!
In preparation of the UMass vs. New Hampshire football game at Gillette Stadium on Oct. 23, Sam The Minuteman took a trip to Patriots Training Camp and their home field, today. Here are some pictures of Sam in action. Check out his Facebook Page Photo Gallery.
- Don't forget to buy your tickets online or by calling 1-866-UMASS-TIX.
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With just two days left in July (wow, summer has moved quick), that means we are officially less than a month away from our first regular-season games of the year. First on the docket will be the field hockey team hosting Boston College and the women's soccer team hosting Washington on August 27. Several teams will begin preseason training camps in just under two weeks. Well, the downtime was nice while it lasted! Start making your plans out to Amherst by checking out the Schedule Calendar which lists everything in a nice month-by-month format. Also, you can order Football Season Tickets Online now!
The Game Promotions Page has been updated with the 2010 season football promotions!
The Kids Club Information page has been updated. Sign up your child for a $20 membership that lasts until their 13th birthday.