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This past August, after a successful collegiate career, Meghan Giordano was named as an assistant coach for the Hofstra University softball team. Many athletes aspire to play their sport as long as possible; some even dream to continue their legacy as a coach and give back to the community, but that’s not something that always comes to fruition.
Gabriel Pacheco built a healthy habit of winning while playing for the Bethel University Pilots men’s soccer team. That drive, which earned him the gold in Decatur, Alabama, gave him the courage to enter the transfer portal and leapfrog from NAIA to NCAA Division 1, landing him at Hofstra.
Wiktoria Fronc, a sophomore forward from London, England, is off to an outstanding start in her second season with the Hofstra University women’s soccer team.
This year’s edition of the HEADstrong Foundation Nick Colleluori Classic was held at a rain-soaked James M. Shuart Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 7.
Albert Kang was picked up in the spring transfer portal this year for the Hofstra University men’s soccer team. Given his experience, Kang has surpassed expectations and then some with his impactful technical play and extended amounts of playing time. The midfielder’s presence at every inch across the field has been beneficial. The connection between his style of play and the system in which he’s involved has been second-to-none.
After turning their season around with a historic 12-game winning streak, their 2022 season ultimately ended in a brutal five-set upset in last year’s conference championship. That means for the 2023 season, head coach Emily Mansur wanted change.
With another winning season under head coach Simon Riddiough in 2022, the Hofstra Pride women’s soccer team focuses on their 2023 campaign, as they look to capture their third straight Coastal Athletic Association (CAA) championship and a bid to the NCAA tournament.
After a 17-win season, in which the Pride went 14-2 in conference play and finished second overall going into playoffs, the Hofstra volleyball is on the precipice of a new season backed by past successes. Volleyball head coach Emily Mansur posed a difficult question for her team at the start of the preseason: who are we?
After two consecutive Coastal Athletic Association (CAA) titles, the Hofstra Pride seeks a third when they take to the pitch in 2023, led by head coach Richard Nuttall for a 35th consecutive season.
After entering the 2023 season with a heavy emphasis on senior leadership and experience, the Hofstra baseball program has unexpectedly found its brightest star in freshman sensation Dylan Palmer.
Since 2018, Brad Camarda has been a staple of Hofstra University’s pitching staff. After a notable career, Camarda is finally preparing to close the book of his Hofstra career.
Kevin Bruggeman has seen it all in his four years from behind the plate. Through a pandemic that cut off his first season as a D1 athlete, a difficult sophomore year and a complete coaching staff change, he’s learned to persevere.
On any team, collective success is always above individual accomplishments, however, for the Hofstra University softball team, Meghan Giordano and Kasey Collins have carried the Pride all season long. The two graduate students form Hofstra’s middle infield duo and are both having outstanding seasons in 2023.
“Coming in, you really don’t know what to expect. You hear a lot of stories but you’re not really sure.”
It would take a while to list every award that Trey Rogers has received in his five years at Hofstra University. As a star member of the wrestling team and a pre-medical biochemistry major, Rogers has shown ambition like no one else.
Luchianna Cardello stepped on the lacrosse field for the very first time in fourth grade, and the rest is history. Now a freshman at Hofstra, she has been named the starting goalie.
“It doesn’t matter the sport; we all have the same challenges,” Atkinson said. “It doesn’t matter the program or the level; we all have very similar challenges, and we were able to take away such great ideas from all the women that were there because everybody had very similar goals.”
Among many contributors, there was one player the team relied on in almost every big situation: Michael O’Hanlon. Coming out of the bullpen as the closing pitcher for the Pride with a 4.74 ERA in 2022, O’Hanlon reflected on how he remembers that 2022 season.
Adrian St. Germain trained his whole life to be a great wrestler. In 2019, the three-time high school state champion experienced the culmination of his 14 years of work when he started wrestling at Hofstra University. He redshirted in his first year, and in January 2020, he won his first collegiate match. Things were going well, and he was just starting the wrestling career he had always dreamed of. Less than a year later, though, that was all taken away, and St. Germain faced the hardest challenge of his life. Confronting a long recovery and an uncertain future, the lessons he learned from wrestling would help him exceed every expectation.
