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 boot Wheeling, 26-13, to advance to national rugby semifinals vs. Brown Dec. 2

    Nov 18, 2023

    The Bonnies are alive and kicking — and kicking is a big reason why.

    Noah Edwards, a freshman from Santiago, Chile, outscored Wheeling University all by himself as St. Bonaventure advanced to the semifinals of the Collegiate Rugby Championship Division I national playoffs with a 26-13 victory over the host Cardinals.

    “Noah had a great game. He was named the MVP of the match,” said Tui Osborne, head coach of the Bonnies.

    Edwards made both try conversions and converted four of five penalty kicks, accounting for 16 of the Bonnies’ points. Daniel Lowther, a freshman from Johannesburg, South Africa, and Will Hogan, a senior from Denville. New Jersey, scored tries to help stake SBU to a 17-5 halftime lead.

    Wheeling (5-3) twice cut the match to a one-score game — 17-10 and 20-13 — in the second half, but Edwards’ PKs gave the Bonnies (5-3) enough breathing room each time they did to move SBU comfortably into the final four Dec. 2 at Penn State-Berks in Reading, Pennsylvania.

    “I think the consistency of our defense was really the difference, especially in the last 20 to 30 minutes,” Osborne said. “We had a lot of guys play a full 80 and they did really well. Our tight five played a fine game.”

    St. Bonaventure, ranked No. 3 in the latest NCR poll, will next play top-ranked and unbeaten Brown (10-0), a 31-12 winner over Kutztown Saturday afternoon.

    Brown defeated the Bonnies, 14-9, in the national semifinals last fall, preventing St. Bonaventure from advancing to Houston to defend its 2021 national title. The national title game will be held the weekend of Dec. 8-10 in Houston.

    “We owe them a good game and our guys are excited to play them again,” Osborne said.

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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).