The Bates Bobcats are the athletic teams of Bates College largely based in Lewiston, Maine and the surrounding areas. The college's official mascot has been the bobcat since 1924, and maintains garnet as its official color. The school sponsors 32 varsity sports (16 men's, 16 women's), most of which compete in the Division III New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC). Bates has rivalries with Princeton in Squash and Dartmouth in Skiing and selected hockey bouts. The college also competes with its Maine rivals Bowdoin and Colby in the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium (CBB). This is one of the oldest football rivalries in the United States. This consortium is a series of historically highly competitive football games ending in the championship game between the three schools. Bates has won this championship at total of twelve times including 2014, 2015, and in 2016 beat Bowdoin 24–7 after their 21–19 abroad victory over Colby.[ 3] [ 4] Bates is currently the holder of the winning streak , and has the record for biggest victory in the athletic conference with a 51–0 shutout of Colby College. The three colleges also contest the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Chase Regatta . The college is the all-time leader of the Chase Regatta with a total of 14 composite wins, followed by Colby's 5 wins, concluded with Bowdoin's 2 wins.
The Bates football, lacrosse, track & field, running, soccer, and frisbee teams all practice and compete on Garcelon Field .
Bates maintains 31 varsity teams, and 9 club teams, including sailing, cycling, ice hockey, rugby, and water polo.[ 5] According to U.S. Rowing , the Women's Rowing Team is ranked first in the NESCAC, and first overall in NCAA Division III Rowing , as of 2016.[ 6] [ 7] In April 2005, the college's athletic program was ranked in the top 5% of national athletics programs.[ 8] As of 2018, the college has graduated a total of 12 Olympians, one of whom won the Olympic Gold Medal rowing for Canada.[ 9] The Bobcats have broken records on the state, regional and national level. In the 2015 season, the women's rowing team was the most decorated rowing team in collegiate racing while also being the first to sweep every major rowing competition in its athletic conference in the history of Division III athletics . The ice hockey team is the first team to win the NESCAC Club Ice Hockey Championships four times in a row. In 2015, the men's rowing team had the fastest ascension in rankings of any sport in its athletic conference and was named the NESCAC Rowing Champion.[ 10] Bates has the 5th highest NESCAC title hold , and holds the top titles in women's and men's rowing. Bates follows Bowdoin's 30 NESCAC titles with its 16, and its followed by Colby's 9 titles.
The men's football team competes in the Division III New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC). The football team is led by head coach, Matt Coyne.[ 11]
Year
Competition
Record
Result
Cite
2016
CBB Championship
Bates won with a 24–7 win over Bowdoin, after their 29–19 victory over Colby.
Won
[ 12]
2015
CBB Championship
Bates won with a 31–0 win over Bowdoin, after their 10–9 overtime home victory over Colby.
Won
[ 13]
2014
CBB Championship
Bates won with a 10–7 win over Bowdoin, after their 34–28 win over Colby.
Won
[ 14]
2012
CBB Championship
Bates won with a 14–6 win over Bowdoin, after their 31–6 win over Colby.
Won
[ 15]
2002
CBB Championship
Bates won with a 48–28 win over Bowdoin after their 19–14 win over Colby.
Won
[ 15]
1999
CBB Championship
Bates won with a 38–7 win over Bowdoin after an overtime victory of 20–17 with Colby.
Won
[ 15]
1986
CBB Championship
Bates won with 36–0 shutout over Bowdoin, after a 21–6 win over Colby.
Won
[ 15]
1981
CBB Championship
Bates won with a 23–1 win over Bowdoin after their 10–6 win over Colby.
Won
[ 15]
1978
CBB Championship
Bates won with a 24–14 win over Bowdoin after their 27–20 win over Colby.
Won
[ 15]
1974
CBB Championship
Bates won with an 18–7 win over Bowdoin after a 16–14 victory over Colby.
Won
[ 15]
1970
CBB Championship
Bates won with a 21–3 win over Bowdoin after a 14–7 win over Colby.
Won
[ 15]
1968
CBB Championship
Bates won with a 41–14 win over Bowdoin after a 28–12 victory over Colby.
Won
[ 15]
1967
CBB Championship
Bates won with a 38–24 victory over Bowdoin after a 38–14 win over Colby.
Won
[ 15]
1966
CBB Championship
Bates won with a 35–13 win over Bowdoin, after a win over 28-7 Colby.
Won
[ 15]
1956
Maine State Series
Bates won five straight games to capture the state title.
Won
[ 16]
The Bobcats played Toledo in the 1946 Glass Bowl , losing 21–12.[ 17]
The college's main basketball courts are located in Alumni Gymnasium (pictured ).
Bates College's men's basketball team is led by head coach Jon Furbush, and in 2015 he led the team to the semi-finals of the NCAA Division III Basketball Championships . He is the youngest head coach in the history of the team and was named the 2014–15 Maine Coach of the Year by the Maine Men's Basketball Coaches and Writers Association.[ 18]
The men's lacrosse team is led by head coach, Peter Lasagna, who has been head for the past 16 seasons. In 2015, Lasagna won his third NESCAC Coach of the Year and has led the Bobcats to five appearances in the NESCAC Championship .[ 27] In 2015, the team reported 156 points scored, ranking them 6th in-conference, and 5th overall.[ 28]
The Men's Rowing team is headed by Peter Steenstra, who was awarded the 2015 Division III Coach of the Year Award by the College Rowing Coaches Association, after also receiving Men's and Women's Coach of the Year honors from both the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) and the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC).[ 29] Alumni, Andrew Byrnes (class of 2005), won the Olympic Gold Medal while rowing for the Canadian National Team, in 2008 in the Beijing Olympics .
Year
Competition
Record
Result
Cite
Year
Competition
Record
Result
Cite
2016
NESCAC Men's Squash Championship
The competition has been won by Trinity College for every year it has been in the athletic conference, competing against Williams College for first spot. In 2016, breaking the pattern, Bates defeated Williams and secured the second place after a loss to Trinity.
2nd place
[ 59]
2015
National Squash Championship
The winning student being the first in the history of the athletic conference, to be named the All American all four years he played for the college.
Won
[ 60]
2015
DIII Men's Individual Squash Championship
The first national squash title for the college.
Won
[ 61]
2015
Boston Round robin
vs. Stanford University held at Harvard University , in Cambridge, Massachusetts . Score: 9 – 0; vs. Wesleyan University , Score: 9 – 0
Won
[ 62]
2015
Pioneer Valley Invitational
vs. Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts . Score: 8–1
Won
[ 62]
2014
CSA Individual Squash Championship
vs. Columbia University , at Princeton University , in Princeton, New Jersey . Score: 3–2
Won
[ 63]
2013
CSA Team Squash Championship
vs. Williams College , at Northeastern University , in Boston . Score: 6–3
Won
[ 64]
2012
Boston Round robin
vs. Wesleyan University , at Massachusetts Institute of Technology , in Boston . Score: 5–4
Won
[ 65]
2011
CSA Team Squash Championship
vs. Brown University , at Princeton University , in Princeton, New Jersey . Score: 7–2
Won
[ 66]
The Women's Rowing team is headed by Peter Steenstra, who was awarded the 2015 Division III Coach of the Year Award by the College Rowing Coaches Association, after also receiving Men's and Women's Coach of the Year honors from both the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) and the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC).[ 29] The women's rowing team is the first rowing team to sweep every major rowing competition in its athletic conference in the history of Division III athletics , a feat completed in 2015. According to U.S. Rowing , the Women's Rowing Team is ranked 1st in the New England Small College Athletic Conference , and 1st overall in NCAA Division III Rowing , as of 2016.[ 67]
Women's track & field
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Year
Competition
Record
Result
Cite
2016
Bates' Invitational
1st out of 4 Division III schools.
Won
[ 74]
2016
Maine State Meet
1st out of 6 Division III schools, at Bowdoin College , in Brunswick, Maine .
Won
[ 74]
2015
Bates' Invitational
1st out of 6 Division III schools.
Won
[ 74]
2015
USM Invitational
2nd out of 10 Division III schools.
2nd place
[ 74]
2015
Aloha Relays
2nd out of 8 Division III schools, at Bowdoin College , in Brunswick, Maine .
2nd place
[ 74]
2015
Maine State Meet
1st out of 6 Division III schools, at Bates College , in Lewiston, Maine .
Won
[ 75]
2014
Bates' Invitational
1st out of 6 Division III schools.
Won
[ 76]
2014
USM Invitational
2nd out of 11 Division III schools.
2nd place
[ 76]
2015
Snowflake Classic
2nd out of 24 DIII schools, at Tufts University , in Medford, Massachusetts .
2nd place
[ 77]
2014
Maine State Indoor Championship
1st out of 6 Division III schools.
Won
[ 76]
2013
Bates' Invitational
1st out of 6 Division III schools.
Won
[ 78]
2013
Maine State Championship
2nd out of 6 DIII schools, at Bowdoin College , in Brunswick, Maine .
2nd place
[ 79]
2013
Aloha Relays
2nd out of 7 Division III schools, at Bowdoin College , in Brunswick, Maine .
2nd place
[ 79]
2013
Fitchburg State Meet
1st out of 11 Division III schools, in Fitchburg, Massachusetts .
Won
[ 79]
2012
Colby Invitational
2nd out of 5 Division III schools.
2nd place
[ 80]
2012
Maine State Indoor Championship
2nd out of 6 Division III schools.
2nd place
[ 80]
2011
Colby Invitational
2nd out of 5 Division III schools.
2nd place
[ 81]
2010
USM Invitational
1st out of 6 Division III schools.
Won
[ 82]
The 2004 women's basketball team was ranked first in the United States for most of February 2005 and finished the year ranked number six by the USA Today /ESPN Today 25 National Coaches' Poll.[ 86] The women's basketball team earned the top seed in the NESCAC in 2005, and competed in the finals with Bowdoin for three consecutive years until 2008.[ 87]
Women's cross country
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Year
Competition
Record
Result
Cite
2014
Bowdoin Invitational
At Bowdoin College , in Brunswick, Maine , 1st out of 7
Won
[ 88]
2013
Roy Griak Invitational
2nd out of 29 Division III schools, in St. Paul, Minnesota.
2nd place
[ 89]
2013
Maine State Championship
1st out of 10 Division III schools, in Waterville, Maine .
Won
[ 89]
2012
RPI Invitational
1st out of 12 Division III schools, in Troy, New York .
Won
[ 90]
2012
Maine State Championship
1st out of 10 Division III schools, at the Narragansett School in Gotham, Maine
Won
[ 90]
2010
Codfish Bowl
1st out of 21 Division III schools, in Franklin Park, Boston
Won
[ 91]
As of 2016, the men's club ice hockey team is ranked #5 in the Northeast, and #25 overall in the NESCHA rankings .[ 93]
Underhill Arena is an on-campus ice arena. It was built in 1995 and has a seating capacity of 1,000. It features a 200-foot by 85-foot ice surface.[ 95] [ 96]
The entrance placard of the Bates College Sailing Club's boathouse , 2016.
The college's sailing team is based at the Taylor Pond Yacht Club, in Auburn, Maine . The team sails in the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) conference with its main competitors being Bowdoin , Tufts , and Massachusetts Institute of Technology , among the other 40+ schools in the conference.[ 97] The team regularly competes at the largest collegiate keelboat regatta in the Western Hemisphere, the Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta (IOR) held at Larchmont Yacht Club by the Storm Trysail Foundation. The team regularly updates their website and their social media platforms.
Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium
edit
As of 2018, the college has graduated a total of 12 Olympians, one of whom won the Olympic Gold Medal rowing for Canada.[ 100]
Athletics facility
Capacity
Sport
Year
Notes
Cite
Alumni Gymnasium
1,200
Basketball, Volleyball
1928
The Alumni Gymnasium is 34,000 square feet.
[ 101]
Merrill Gymnasium
N/A
Track & Field
1980
The field house has a 200-meter track which encloses four tennis and volleyball courts.
[ 102]
Russell Street Track & Field
N/A
Track & Field, Soccer
2001
The track has an eight-lane European bi-radial track with a 10-lane straightaway.
[ 103]
Bates Squash Center
N/A
Squash
2004
The center features five international-sized courts.
[ 104]
Wallach Tennis Center
500
Tennis
2000
The center is used for men's and women's tennis.
[ 105]
Campus Avenue Field
N/A
Field hockey, Lacrosse
2000
The Campus Avenue has internal lighting structures allowing play day or night.
[ 106]
Garcelon Field
3,000
Soccer, Football
2010
The field was originally constructed in 1899, and is one of the oldest football pitches in the United States; it had a major renovation in 2010.
[ 107]
Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building
N/A
Multi-purpose
1927
Informally known as the "Gray Cage", the building is the second largest athletic facility on campus, which has a batting cage and room for a full infield baseball practice.
[ 108]
Davis Fitness Center
N/A
Fitness
1926
Full service weight room located beneath UnderhiIll Ice Arena.
[ 109]
Leahey Baseball Pitch
N/A
Baseball
2003
Outdoor baseball field.
[ 110]
Lafayette Street Pitch
N/A
Softball
2001
Outdoor softball field.
[ 111]
Underhill Arena Ice Rink
N/A
Ice hockey
1995
The ice rink features "a 200-by-85-foot ice surface."
[ 112]
Rowing Boathouse
N/A
Rowing
1988
Houses women's and men's rowing teams.
[ 113]
Tarbell Pool
300
Swimming & Diving
1980
The pool features "eight lanes and an underwater window, and can be configured into 25-meter or 25-yard lane lengths."
[ 114]
Sailing Boathouse
N/A
Sailing
2003
The boat houses the college's 13 Dinghy fleet .
[ 99]
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