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 start fast, outshoot Maritime by 40 in 6-2 win at AAU national tourney

    Mar 11, 2023

    One night after struggling to gain control of a game they were heavily favored to win, St. Bonaventure didn’t take long Saturday night to sink the hopes of Massachusetts Maritime pulling a major upset.

    Mason Meggo scored the first of his two goals just 1:21 into the first period to assert the Bonnies’ game-long offensive dominance in a 6-2 win in the second round of pool play at the AAU College Hockey National Tournament in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

    The victory sets up a showdown between the top-seeded Bonnies (20-1-2) and No. 14 Georgia (24-9-2) Sunday at 2:15 p.m. to see who advances from Pool A to the quarterfinals.

    Both teams are unbeaten in pool play. Georgia defeated High Point, 7-0, early Saturday afternoon and beat Maritime, 9-2, Friday. SBU defeated High Point, 5-0, Friday night, scoring three goals in the third to break open the game.

    The Bonnies and Bulldogs played to a 1-1 tie in October at the Olean Recreation Center.

    Tyler Menz scored twice and Owen Hughes and Sam Cichowski added third-period goals for the Bonnies, who outshot Maritime, 63-23. The Bonnies had the first 16 shots of the game.

    Kyle Karoleski made 21 saves for SBU.

    The team in each of the eight pools with the most points — teams earn two points for a win and one for a tie — will advance to the quarterfinals on Monday after three days of round-robin pool play. Ties for first in the pools will be broken by head-to-head results, then by fewest goals allowed and then, if still tied, by goal differential.

    Quarterfinals, semifinals and title/consolation games are scheduled for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

    The games can be livestreamed at Black Dog Hockey. Packages are available for four-hour increments ($9.99), all of pool play ($29.99), and the entire tournament ($49.99). Fans attending the tournament are encouraged to pre-order all-access passes here.

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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.