The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

Sophomore biology major Haley Maher competes at State College with her horse Perry.

Pitt Equestrian Club doesn’t horse around

By Joanna Li, Senior Staff Writer August 20, 2018
Members of Pitts' equestrian team travels from Oakland to Allison Park once a week to hone their skills – then perform with a horse they've never met.
Team captain of En Sabah Nur, Pitt men’s ultimate frisbee team, Dylan Best, throws the frisbee during their game against UNC at the national championship. (Photo courtesy of William Brotman)

Pitt Ultimate Frisbee makes history

By Dominic Campbell | Staff Writer May 30, 2018

This weekend in Milwaukee was hot — over 80 degrees in the sun, and hotter on the turf fields of the Uihlein Soccer Park, where the Pitt Ultimate frisbee men’s and women’s teams competed for a shot...

Pitt Women’s Club Hockey members Dana Julian, Shannon McCafferty, Rose Saleh and Bre Doherty (from left). (Photo by Thomas Yang | Visual Editor)

Women’s club hockey skates to success

It’s 5 a.m., and while most Pitt students are still hitting snooze and sleeping off late-night study binges or a night out, one group on campus is already wide awake and on their way out of the city...

The club team played in the Midwest Finals against Purdue and the Washington, D.C., Gaels from Catholic University of America in November. (Photo by Matt Hawley | Staff Photographer)

Pitt club hurling brings Irish sport to Oakland

By Brandon Glass | Staff Writer December 5, 2017

Few people know what hurling is, and even fewer know that Pitt has a club hurling team that plays in multiple tournaments. Every phase of the game resembles a different field sport, all of them mixed...

Brett Andrews (left) and Nikhil Khongbantabam practice at the Pitt Sports Dome on Monday evening.  (Photo by Sarah Cutshall | Staff Photographer)

Men welcome: Club field hockey encourages coed participation

By Grant Burgman | Staff Writer September 20, 2017

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....

Students gather outside the $13.2 million Pitt Sports Dome for the official ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Pitt unveils brand-new $13.2 million club sports facility

By Ryan Zimba | Staff Writer April 18, 2017

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...

First-year student Julia Lam, one of three Pitt students aiming to revive the Pitt Archery Club, participates at the 2016 US Olympic Team Trials. | Courtesy of Julia Lam

Archers Unite: First-year Pitt students come together to revive Pitt Archery Club

By Molly Appezzato | Staff Writer November 16, 2016

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...

Pitt sophomore Thai Nguyen, vice president of the Pitt Ping Pong Club, lines up one of his signature curve shots. Brady Langmann | Contributing Editor

Paddle masters: Pitt Ping Pong Club serves up wins

By Brady Langmann | Culture Editor November 8, 2016

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...

Pitts club tennis team finished in seventh place out of 36 co-ed club and intramural teams at the USTA Tennis On Campus Fall Invitational in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Pictured from left to right: Anita Jain, Andrew Friedman, Rithika Reddy, Nick Kshatri and Grace Wang. Courtesy of Pitt Club Tennis

Pitt club tennis posts record performance at USTA Fall Invitational

By Mackenzie Rodrigues | For The Pitt News November 3, 2016

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...

Alyson Kornberg is the president, founder, head captain and only female member of Pitts club football team. Theo Schwarz | Senior Staff Photographer

One woman show: Alyson Kornberg tackles club football at Pitt

By Ted Zhang | Staff Writer October 26, 2016

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,...

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