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Blue Devil cheerleaders build bonds through love of sport

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ALANA WINGATE  Staff Writer   Basketball, football, hockey and soccer are sports featured in the media regularly. Meanwhile, cheerleading is often widely underrepresented in the athletic community, as many people fail to see the athleticism that goes into the sport. The Fredonia Blue Devils women’s cheerleading team is one of the......
Sports

Former NBA player visits campus to talk about addiction

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WILL KARRStaff Writer Growing up, former NCAA and NBA basketball player Chris Herren would attend school assemblies where guest speakers would talk about drug addiction. At the time, he never thought he would one day be talking to auditoriums of students about his own battle with addiction. “I remember some......
Sports

[09.21.22] Blue Devils sports roundup

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MATT VOLZ Special to The Leader RUNNIN’ WITH THE DEVILS Both the men’s and women’s cross country teams were in action this past Saturday, Sept. 17 at the Rochester Yellowjacket XC Invitational, hosted by the University of Rochester at Genesee Valley Park.  The men’s team finished 12th out of 25......
Sports

Spotlight event: Women’s soccer wins in final minutes

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NATHAN SWANSON Special to The Leader The Fredonia women’s soccer team pulled off an extraordinary triumph Sept. 9 against Utica University, winning, 3-2, in the opening game of the Blue Devil Classic. This game was intense and physical.   The game came down to a free kick In the last two......
Sports

Featured Fredonia hires two head coaches for baseball, lacrosse

Tyler Pacos
TYLER PACOSSports Editor Although students have had the past couple of months off for summer vacation, the Fredonia Blue Devils Athletic Department has been working diligently to fill two vacant head coaching positions over the course of the off-season.At the end of the Spring 2022 semester, the search began for......
Life & Arts

New Blue Devil Den and Blue Lounge attract students to William’s Center

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WILL KARRSpecial to The Leader After receiving news last spring of Tim Horton’s upcoming closure in the Williams Center, Khristian King, executive director of Student Engagement and Inclusion, came up with a plan to reinvent the space. Now, she is working to help make the Williams Center the epicenter of......

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