Sports / Club

Every now and then you’ll read a story about a high school woman joining the football or baseball team. It’s a feat that defies gender norms and expectations. But rarely do you hear the opposite. In field hockey, a sport dominated by women, scenarios for men to join don’t present themselves often — at least […]

Pitt students and club sports athletes received a much-needed facilities upgrade Monday morning, as the University officially opened the Pitt Sports Dome to the student body. The sunny sky and warm weather were in stark contrast to the dome’s primary purpose as a functional winter facility, something Chancellor Patrick Gallagher joked about during his speech […]

It was happenstance that first-year Pitt students Julia Lam, from East Brunswick, New Jersey, and Anjna Nair, from Fairfax, Virginia, got paired to share a practice target at the 2016 U.S. Archery National Indoor Championships in Virginia last winter. They took a few deep breaths, kept their bodies perfectly straight and discharged their arrows, piercing […]

Shay Sinha likes to humble his opponents. When Sinha started at Pitt this fall, his go-to icebreaker was that he was a pingpong player. His fellow first-years weren’t impressed — they asked him if there was something else he could do with his time. Instead of telling his Tower C floormates that he beat someone […]

A youth movement helped propel the Pitt club tennis team to a record performance at the 2016 USTA Tennis On Campus Fall Invitational last weekend. The Panthers built off their 13th-place finish at last year’s event with a seventh-place finish this year, setting a club record in the process. “We had a lot of tough […]

The Cost Center is never empty at midnight — at least not if Alyson Kornberg can help it. The rhythmic sound of shuffling feet fill the indoor field, as each movement requires precision and repetition, while each breath fuels the contractions of tired muscles and joints as Kornberg and her club football team run drills […]

For sophomore business student Katie Schreiber, disc — not ball — is life. “I’d do anything to play a game [of ultimate],” said Schreiber, who competes for Danger, Pitt’s women’s ultimate frisbee team. Whether learning the sport as the only female on an all-male team, coming to Pitt on the strength of its ultimate culture […]

Pitt’s athletic facilities are getting another major upgrade — this one in the form of a new, domed field for club and recreational sports. On Friday, a committee of the University’s Board of Trustees approved spending $13.2 million on the air-supported domed facility, which will include two intramural fields as well. The project is being […]

The Pitt Club Tennis team rallied together this year to save its season after budget reductions threatened to cut it short. Despite its funding concerns, the team finished 13th in the gold bracket at the United States Tennis Association 2015 Fall Invitational, then came in 28th at nationals this month — a competition that over […]

Thirty minutes outside of Pittsburgh at BarGee Farms, Elizabeth Morris eases a bridle behind the recently operated-on teeth of Wynn, an attentive and slow-trotting mare. Equestrians like Morris who ride with the Panther Equestrian Club team rotate horses, depending on what horses might be too tired to practice that day. Wynn is a favorite of […]