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 upend top-ranked Niagara to claim UNYCHL hockey title

    Feb 13, 2026

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    Seven weeks after Christmas, Niagara University got a lot of Cole in its stocking.

    St. Bonaventure’s Cole Bailey scored late in the third period and 3:45 into overtime to give the Bonnies a thrilling 3-2 win over the Purple Eagles Thursday night to capture the Upstate New York Collegiate Hockey League title at NU’s Dwyer Arena.

    Niagara came into the game 24-1, its only loss of the regular season on Dec. 6 to St. Bonaventure, 5-4.

    Carson Schlager scored just 33 seconds into the third period to tie the title game for the Bonnies, but Niagara took the lead just 8 minutes later, setting the stage for Bailey’s late-game heroics. SBU outshot Niagara, 41-39.

    “One of the grittiest games I’ve ever been a part of,” said Mike Cosentino, Bonnies’ head coach. “The guys stayed focused and never lost their composure.”

    Rallying from multiple-goal deficits in the last two weeks gave the Bonnies confidence they could come back, Cosentino said. SBU trailed New Hampshire, 3-0, less than 8 minutes into their game Jan. 31, and were down 2-0 to Liberty on Feb. 7 before rallying to win both games.

    The Bonnies have won 10 games in a row and went 14-0 on the road during the season, including the title game at Niagara.

    Cosentino believed at the start of the season that balance and depth would be the keys to the team’s success. He was right.

    Five players — Bailey, Michael Clouden, Tyler Menz, Michael Robertson and Ryan Levesque  — scored between 15 and 19 goals, and goalies Kyle Karoleski (9-3-1) and Tyler Kirk (9-2) had save percentages above .900.

    “We got contributions from everyone, right down to our fourth line,” Cosentino said. “We just had an amazing group of guys.”

    The Purple Eagles were ranked No. 1 in the latest American Collegiate Hockey Association Division II Northeast poll. The Bonnies, now 21-4-1, were ranked No. 3, behind only Niagara and Farmingdale State.

    The victory automatically qualified the Bonnies for the ACHA Northeast Regional tournament Feb. 21-22 in Simsbury, Connecticut. Niagara also qualified as an at-large, as would the Bonnies had they lost.

    Ranked No. 3 in the 16-team field, SBU will face No. 14 Sacred Heart (12-8-3) at 10 a.m. on Feb. 21. Winners of the eight games Saturday will be reseeded and square off on Sunday, Feb. 22.

    The four remaining teams in each of the regionals — Northeast, Central, Southeast and West — will advance to the ACHA Division II National Tournament March 12-17 in St. Louis.

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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 #8 for value and #19 overall by U.S. News and World Report (2025).