Athletics

Gallaudet athletes have set seven new school records in one month in men’s swimming, women’s track and field, and men’s track and field. Midajah Davis (Women’s Track and Field)GU Record Indoor Shot Put Krista Kachnik (Women’s Track and Field)GU Record Indoor Pole Vault Hannah Wetzel (Women’s Track and Field)GU Record Indoor Long Jump Eric Gregory...

After facing off 9 teams and emerging victorious, Gallaudet University is set to host the 2022 United East Women’s Basketball Tournament this weekend, February 25-26. Cassidy Perry was named conference player of the year and Stephanie Stevens was named coach of the year. Congratulations! This weekend, for the playoffs, our Bison will welcome SUNY Morrisville,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Gallaudet University Athletics Department is proud to welcome home Warren P. Keller, ’10, as its new Athletic Director, as announced by President Roberta J. Cordano and Dean Travis Imel on Thursday, December 2. Keller, 35, brings over 11 years of experience working in Deaf education and athletics. He joins Gallaudet after...

It is not often one can say they have met an NFL player, but our audiology graduate students and football players had that exciting opportunity on November 4. In October, retired NFL tight end Tim Wright reached out to Benjamin Harden, director of Gallaudet’s Hearing and Speech Center, about his new business venture, Dome Audio....

The Gallaudet University women’s volleyball team plays Juniata College today at 3 p.m. ET in Rochester, New York, in the first round of the 2021 NCAA Division III national tournament. This is Gallaudet’s first appearance in the national tournament since 2016.  Gallaudet (21-11) won the United East Conference championship last Saturday to earn an automatic...

Gallaudet University Associate Athletic Director for Communications John-Samuel Atkinson has been selected to serve as a member of the NCAA Division III Women’s Volleyball Committee, where he will help coordinate and oversee all aspects of the Division III Women’s Volleyball Championship. He began his responsibilities on September 1.  The NCAA Division III Women’s Volleyball Committee...

Three deaf women, one current student and two alumnae, completed a cross-country bicycle trip on Sunday, August 29. Emelia Beldon, Bridget Berrigan, and Isabelle Troup left Washington State in May, and bicycled 4,270 miles across 11 states to their final destination, Virginia Beach, Virginia. They raised $15,000 for Off the Grid Missions. The Daily Moth...

Long-time baseball coach Curtis Pride is one of six local sports figures who will be inducted into the Montgomery County (Maryland) Sports Hall of Fame (MCSHF) on Sunday. October 18. Pride, a Silver Spring native, played Major League Baseball for 11 years and has coached Gallaudet’s baseball team since the 2009 season. For the complete...

Gallaudet University placed a record 64 student-athletes on the 2019-2020 North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) Scholar-Athlete list. Each student-athlete on the list earned a 3.4 or higher grade point average for the full academic year Brynn Schmidt and Noah Valencia earned NEAC Scholar-Athlete honors all four years. Since Gallaudet joined the NEAC, only 19 Bison...

Several members of our men’s basketball team traveled to Costa Rica earlier this month. This trip, organized by Beyond Sports, was the first-ever international excursion for any of our sports teams. The team played three games against a national all-star team, provided community service, and toured the country, seeing San Jose, the La Paz Waterfall...