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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    SBU women open rugby season with wealth of high school experience

    Sep 12, 2025

    When she started her career as head coach of the women’s rugby program at St. Bonaventure three years ago, Meredith Pyke had nine returning players. Only three had played high school rugby.

    Today, with a 2023 national title and an unbeaten 2024 regular season in her holster, Pyke’s 33-player roster is now filled with players with high school experience — 23 in all, including 11 freshmen and one transfer.

    The success on the national stage has dramatically widened Pyke’s recruiting footprint.

    “It’s really nice to pull in 12 (new) players that have rugby experience who could go in to a varsity match in their first weekend if we needed them to. I think that is the big difference,” said Pyke.

    The Bonnies open their regular season at 10 a.m. Saturday at home vs. Aquinas College to kick off Saturday’s events of the Rugby Alumni Weekend’s 50th anniversary celebration. (The men host Belmont Abbey at noon.)

    “We have girls from Tennessee, Virginia, Massachusetts and New Jersey, two girls now from California, one from Arizona, and a Canadian on the team,” Pyke added. “We are getting more recognized as we continue to do well playing at one of the top levels of competition in the country.”

    Pyke lost All-Americans Makenna Ramsey, Kaylee Middaugh and Ashlee Reid to graduation, but the influx of new and returning talent gives her confidence in the team’s ability to succeed again this season. (Middaugh returns as an assistant coach.)

    One newcomer is freshman Kaegan Rhodes from the Corning Lions, the 2024 New York State High School Player of the Year.

    “I knew she was an experienced scrum half, but she has just come in and blown us away with what she’s able to do,” Pyke said. “The collegiate game is a bit different, but she’s adapted so well. And Katie Crawford (Allegany, New York) and Taryn Gonzalez (Middletown, New Jersey) have been very impressive with all the work they’ve put in over the summer to compete for time at backup scrum half.”

    Fly half Triniti Shaffer (Murfreesboro, Tennessee) “just knocked it out of the park” at a round-robin friendly last weekend in Syracuse, and Ahi Ma’ake (Concord, California) is “really doing some wonderful things” at forward, Pyke said.

    In their first season in Division I last year, the Bonnies stormed through the regular season, going undefeated and outscoring their competition 415-0 before losing to eventual national champion Wheeling in the Allegheny Rugby Union title game.

    “Winning 100-0 is OK every now and then, but not every week. It does nothing to help us grow as a program and be competitive with the best teams,” Pyke said. “NCR (National Collegiate Rugby) is very conscious of the disparity between varsity and club teams so I think we will start to get better games.”

    The complete Bonnies roster and season schedule is available here.

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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).