The 2017-2018 basketball season signaled a big step onto the national stage for Marist and it’s athletic department. The school, along with all of their Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference counterparts, began broadcasting all basketball games on ESPN3.
Category: Men’s Sports
From beyond the grave, James J. McCann continues to perpetuate Marist Athletics through his foundation, the James J. McCann Charitable Trust.
The threat of rain could not stop the Marist baseball team from their third straight…
Marist baseball defeated Monmouth in the rubber match of a three game series on Sunday afternoon thanks to a Randy Taveras walk-off single.
After five straight weekends of traveling down south with grueling 9 to 12 hour bus rides to play warm weathered competition, Marist finally got a home series on their schedule, splitting a doubleheader against Monmouth on Saturday.
The Marist Men’s Lacrosse team rebounded from a four-game losing streak defeating the Manhattan College Jaspers with a final score of 12-4 on Saturday afternoon at Tenney Stadium.
The football team has a field, the basketball teams have a court, but the track team has to trek to Vassar College to practice during the spring season. The athletic department has not given any direct explanations to the program as to why this is the case.
Perhaps he took a second look at the state of the program and decided it was time to make a change. Maybe he came to the realization that a winning program under Maker was not possible under the current circumstances. The reasoning behind it will likely never be known or truthful.
The Marist College Athletic Department has announced that they have fired head basketball coach Mike Maker after four seasons with the program. The decision comes just under a week after Athletic Director Tim Murray told Center Field that Maker would be staying on for another season.
Despite interest from bigger-conference teams, star freshman midfielder Allen Gavilanes wants to win a MAAC Championship with Marist.