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Safety on the Mind: What if a life-threatening injury happened to a varsity athlete at Fredonia?

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Reading Time: 6 minutesMATT VOLZ Asst. Sports Editor  Sports can be dangerous. There is always the possibility of injury, no matter the sport. But many football fans likely will not forget what happened on Jan. 3, 2023, when Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed during a Monday Night Football game. Bills trainer Denny......
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Racing Into Action with captain of Track and Field, Joshua Walters

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Reading Time: 2 minutesMITCHELL HORUCY Staff Writer Captain of the men’s track and field team, Josh Walters, runs year-round for the Blue Devils. He is a member of the cross-country team as well. Walters, a junior exercise science major, ran track in middle and high school. He debated on if he wanted to......
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Fredonia athletes unite for unified basketball game

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Reading Time: 3 minutesWILL KARR  Editor in Chief  While SUNY Fredonia athletes are usually the ones playing on-campus sporting events. Last week, on Thursday April 27, the Athletics Department hosted its first-ever Unified Basketball game in Dods Hall between Dunkirk and Fredonia high schools.  “I brought up the idea of hosting a unified......
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[NEWS ANALYSIS] Double vision: balancing looking backward and forward

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Reading Time: 4 minutesWILL KARR Editor in Chief  In order to move forward, we must first look backwards. We can’t move into the future without going back to address and come to terms with our problematic pasts, histories and actions. Confronting our pasts can be difficult. Looking back can force us to start......
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Offices start to envision a new model for club sports

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Reading Time: 3 minutesWILL KARR  Editor in Chief  Change isn’t going to happen overnight. However, Angela Pucciarelli, assistant director of Athletics, said the Athletics Department and other offices on campus are working to envision a safer environment for club sports.  Pucciarelli said herself and the other offices on campus started working on a......
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Club athletes seek more oversight for club sports

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Reading Time: 4 minutesWILL KARR Editor in Chief  As a result of athlete Jason Winston’s injury, Max Hamilton, president of the Blackhorse Rugby Team, believes that there should be a designated person and central office on campus who oversees club sports in the future. While NCAA sports go through the campus Athletics Department,......

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