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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    No. 2 Bonnies headed to Virginia for regional round of women’s rugby national playoffs

    Nov 10, 2023

    Meredith PykeMeredith Pyke doesn’t know what to expect when her Bonnies face East Stroudsburg in the South Region semifinals of the Collegiate Rugby Championship national small-college playoffs.

    St. Bonaventure (7-0) faces ESU (4-1) at 2 p.m. Saturday at Culpeper, Virginia. The teams didn’t have any common opponents and there isn’t much game film to study. Truth is, that makes preparing a little easier.

    “All you can do is stick to your plan and control what you can control,” Pyke, the Bonnies’ second-year coach, said. “You don’t worry about the playing conditions or what the other team might do.”

    Ranked No. 2 in the National Collegiate Rugby small-college poll, the Bonnies will get a chance on Sunday to avenge last fall’s 31-10 regional semifinal loss to Lee University should they defeat East Stroudsburg. Lee (4-1), the 2022 national 15s runner-up, plays Hofstra in the other semifinal.

    The title game is scheduled for 10 a.m. Sunday. The winner of each of the four regional pods will advance to the final four in Houston Dec. 2-3.

    The Bonnies laid waste to their regular-season opponents, but a hard-fought road win over Cortland in the Upstate New York Collegiate Rugby Conference title game Oct. 29 was important to prep the team for tougher competition ahead, Pyke said.

    “I think that can be a difference maker for us, knowing we can hold our own in an evenly matched game,” Pyke said. “And having the experience of being at regionals last year will help, too. It’s not new this time. The girls are very excited and feel confident. Not cocky, just confident in their ability.”

    The regional games will be livestreamed through the Veo Live app. Viewers need to download the Veo Live app through their mobile app store and then follow “Veo US Partnerships” to get notified once a stream has started. The app must be downloaded on a mobile device but once the video begins it can be casted onto a TV or computer.

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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. Out of 167 regional universities in the North, St. Bonaventure was ranked #6 for value and #14 for innovation by U.S. News and World Report (2024).