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Wagner
Seahawks Updated 03/18/24 |
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Location: Staten Island, NY Enrollment: 1,750 Cost of Attendance: $72,500 Venue: Spiro Sports Center Arena Capacity: 2,100 Conference: NEC (6th) Record: 16-15 (7-9) NET Rank: 290 Committee Rank: 68 Tournament History Appearances: 1 Final Fours: 0 Championships: 0 Win-Loss: 0-1 Most Recent:
2003 as #15 seed, lost to #2 Pitt, 61-87 |
Wagner College
Wagner College is a private liberal arts college in Staten Island, New York City. It has an undergraduate enrollment of 1,750 students. This is smaller than some high schools. Wagner College was founded in 1883 in Rochester, New York, as the Lutheran Proseminary of Rochester. Its purpose was to prepare young men for admission to Lutheran seminaries and to ensure that they were sufficiently fluent in both English and German to minister to the large German immigrant community of that day. The school's six-year curriculum (covering the high-school and junior-college years) was modeled on the German gymnasium curriculum. In 1918, the college moved to Staten Island, and in the 1920s, the curriculum began to move toward an American-style liberal arts curriculum. The college admitted women in 1933. About the Seahawks The Wagner Seahawks are composed of 23 teams. Sports sponsored for both men and women are basketball, cross country, golf, lacrosse, tennis, track & field (both indoor and outdoor), and water polo (women's team ranked #18). Sports sponsored only for men are baseball and football. Women-only sports are fencing, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, triathlon, and field hockey. Keep in mind this school only has 1750 students. How does this student population support this many teams? They must not have any intramural sports. Everybody is automatically on varsity. About the Seahawks Basketball
Team The Seahawks have appeared in the NCAA Division I
Tournament once before in 2003 as a No. 15 seed, losing to No. 2 seed Pitt in
the First Round, 61-87. They appeared in the National
Invitation Tournament (NIT) four times (combined record 1 4) and the NCAA
Division II Tournament three times (3 3). They are
coached by Donald Copeland who played basketball under Bob Hurley (father of
current UConn coach Dan Hurley) at St. Anthony High School where he helped
lead the team to two New Jersey state titles, while also earning all-state
honors. He played collegiately at
Seton Hall before playing professionally in Europe and Puerto Rico. This is his second season as head coach at
Wagner. A notable
former head coach and Scranton, PA, native is P.J. Carlesimo. Carlesimo coached Wagner from 1976-1982,
then went to coach Seton Hall to the National Championship game in 1989,
losing to Michigan in overtime. He
then spent most of his professional career coaching in the NBA. The
Seahawks are only one game over .500 with a 16-15 overall record. Not good. Worse yet, they
finished with a NEC record of 7-9, finishing sixth in the 9-team conference
that consists of powerhouses such as Merrimack, Le Moyne, St. Francis (PA),
and Stonehill. How
did they come up with the nickname Seahawks? Wagner
College was founded in Rochester, New York, and moved to Staten Island in
1918. Intercollegiate athletic competition began just after
the move with the debut of their men s basketball team in 1920. Their new campus was situated atop Grymes
Hill (sounds clean), among the highest points on Staten Island, so
their first teams were primarily known as the Hilltoppers, though being
called by their Green and White school colors was also common. The football team debuted in 1927 and was sometimes
called the Green Wave. In 1947,
they decided to have student competition to come up
with a new nickname. Present students
picked between Eagles, Green Dragons, Pandas, and Sea Hawks.
By an apparent overwhelming majority , the winner was Sea Hawks ,
which was shortened to the one-word Seahawks almost immediately. Wagner s
current mascot is a costumed seahawk known simply as The Seahawk. Do you want to be The Seahawk?
Spirit
stipends are available of $500/semester! You would be expected to be available for
football and basketball home games, as well as for special events on campus
hosted by other departments. The only
other DI basketball team with the nickname the Seahawks is UNC Wilmington. Wagner NET
ranking is 290 out of 362. UNCW NET
ranking is 118. Yeah. Definitely the
wrong Seahawk team is playing in this year's tournament. #GoHawks |
