St. Bonaventure University

Club Sports


Club sports allow you to keep those competitive juices flowing, playing as a representative of St. Bonaventure University against club sports teams from other colleges and universities.

But it's more than that. As a club sports participant you'll grow as a person, learn the value of teamwork and fair play, and have the opportunity to mature as a leader through four years of practice and competition with new friends and teammates as devoted to your favorite sport as you.


You might even have the opportunity to compete again in front of your hometown friends and neighbors — this time as a Bonnie.

Club Sports @ SBU


College doesn't mean you stop playing the games you love. Playing a club sport keeps you fit, focused, and satisfies that yearning you'll always have for competition and camaraderie.

Club Sports for Men



  • Club Sports for Women


  • Mixed Club Sports


  • Recreational Club Sports


    These are internal clubs at the university that do not currently compete against teams from other universities. As these clubs grow, the option to compete externally will be explored!


  • Full-time athletic training staff available to club sport athletes

     
    Students who play club sports at SBU have access to full-time certified athletic training staff for their care and treatment.

    The athletic training staff attend many games on campus and staff a club sports training room, located in Room 127 of Doyle Hall, adjacent to the Center for Student Wellbeing.

    The training room is equipped with ultrasound and electrical muscle stimulation equipment, a hydrocollator for heat treatments, as well as other equipment for the prevention and treatment of injuries.

    Trainers Thomas Gallagher & Brendan Carter

    Pictured (from left): Club sports athletic trainers Thomas Gallagher, MS, LAT, ATC and Brendan Carter, MS, LAT, ATC.

    Required club sports clearance form

    All students who want to play a club sport at St. Bonaventure must complete and submit our Club Sports Clearance Form before participating in practices or games.


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    Bonnies headed to Indiana as they begin defense of National Collegiate Rugby title

    Nov 17, 2022

    The Bonnies are back in the tournament that put them on the national stage.

    St. Bonaventure (6-2) travels to Indiana (7-1) Saturday at 2 p.m. to meet the Big 10 champion in the quarterfinals of the National Collegiate Rugby Division 1 tournament. The No. 2 seed from Rugby East, the Bonnies defeated Penn State, 19-18, last December to win the NCR Championship.

    The game will be streamed live on the NCR Rugby YouTube page.

    Indiana, whose only loss was Sept. 17 to perennial national power Davenport, defeated Ohio State, 22-20, last weekend to claim the Big 10 title and earn the NCR bid. The Hoosiers are ranked 8th in the latest D-1 national poll; the Bonnies are ranked 7th.

    St. Bonaventure is coming off a 28-8 loss to Navy, the nation’s top-ranked team, in a game that was closer than the final score indicated. The Bonnies appeared to score midway through the second half to cut Navy’s lead to 15-8, but officials called SBU for a foul to negate the try.

    Until then, the Bonnies spent a lot of time in the offensive zone but a couple defensive lapses allowed Navy to score two tries to take the lead.

    “The first 20 minutes of the game, we had the better of it and if we could have scored on a couple of our opportunities in the green zone, we’d have had a lead at halftime,” said Tui Osborne, Bonnies head coach. “We just made a few too many mistakes, and you can’t afford to do that against a team that strong.”

    Despite the loss, Osborne thinks the caliber of play in Rugby East, considered the toughest league in the nation, has prepared his team well for the tournament. Six of the top 11 teams in the latest national poll play in Rugby East.

    The Bonnies’ only two losses are to No. 1 Navy and No. 3 Army; both teams opted to compete in the College Rugby Association of America D-1 tournament in the spring.

     “Nothing against any of the teams ahead of us, but Navy might be the toughest team we play this year,” he said. “But we’re not going to look past Indiana. They have a very good coach and a sound structure to their game plan. The Big 10 has really improved a lot in the last few years and Indiana has always been strong.”

    Winners of the four quarterfinal games Saturday will advance to the semifinals Dec. 3 at Penn State-Berks, with the winners there advancing to the title game Dec. 10 in Houston.

    The SBU-Indiana winner will play Saturday’s winner of Wheeling at Brown. Thomas More hosts Fairfield and American International travels to Queens (N.C.) University in the other two quarterfinals Saturday.

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    About the University: The nation’s first Franciscan university, St. Bonaventure University is a community committed to transforming the lives of our students inside and outside the classroom, inspiring in them a lifelong commitment to service and citizenship. St. Bonaventure was named the #5 regional university value in the North in U.S. News and World Report’s 2022 college rankings edition.