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 fall to Tampa, 3-2, at AAU College Hockey Nationals

    Mar 07, 2025

    The hill was just too high to climb.

    Needing to not only win, but win by three goals to advance in the tournament, St. Bonaventure (14-10-1) fell to Tampa, 3-2, Friday night in the final game of pool play at the AAU College Hockey Nationals in Jacksonville, Florida.

    Tampa (20-4-1), the second seed in the tournament, advanced to the national semifinals Saturday night.

    The Bonnies, seeded No. 7 in the tournament, needed to win by three goals because the tiebreaker in a three-way tie — Fairfield also finished 2-1 in the pool after beating Auburn Friday morning — was fewest goals allowed in the tournament.

    Tampa entered tonight’s game having given up only two goals; SBU had allowed five. Had the Bonnies won by three, they’d have won the next tiebreaker (goal differential).

    A terrible break put the Bonnies in an early 1-0 hole.

    Tampa scored less than 3 minutes into the game while shorthanded when a clearing pass took a crazy bounce off the end boards and went right to the stick of Tampa’s William McCann in front of a wide open net. Bonnies goalie Kyle Karoleski, waiting to play the puck off the boards, had no chance.

    Tampa scored 4 minutes later on the power play to take a 2-0 lead after the first period. But SBU tied it in the second.

    Sam Cichowski deflected a Miles Brown shot from the point while on the power play just over a minute into the period and Tyler Menz scored with 4 minutes left, blocking a Tampa shoot-in at the blue line and converting a breakaway to tie it.

    Tampa added an empty-net goal with 2:38 left in the game for the winning score.

    Karoleski stopped 35 of 37 shots for the Bonnies.

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    About the University: The nation’s first Franciscan university, St. Bonaventure is a community committed to transforming the lives of its students inside and outside the classroom, inspiring in them a commitment to academic excellence and lifelong civic engagement. 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).