The Hofstra Pride (formerly the Hofstra Flying Dutchmen) are composed of 17 teams representing

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in intercollegiate athletics, including men and women’s basketball, cross-country running, golf, lacrosse, soccer, tennis and track and field. Men’s sports include baseball and

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. Women’s sports include volleyball, field hockey, and softball. The Pride compete in the

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and have been members of the

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in most sports since 2001. They were previously members of the

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. Until 2001, Hofstra's nickname was the Flying Dutchmen (shortened to simply "Dutchmen" or "Dutch"), an homage to the Dutch heritage of university founder

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played for the team in 2012-13. The team most recently won the 2020 Colonial Athletic Association Championship. Speedy Claxton, the star on the 2000 team, was named the head coach in April.

Baseball

The Hofstra Pride baseball team represents Hofstra University in

college baseball. The team plays its home games at University Field in

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. The Pride qualified for its first

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by winning the CAA baseball tournament.

Wrestling

The Hofstra University Pride Wrestling team competes in the

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in the

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. In 1977, Hofstra wrestler Nick Gallo won the NCAA National Championship in the 126 lb weight class and was a member of the 1976 and 1980 U.S. Olympic Freestyle Wrestling teams, he was also given the title "Most Outstanding Wrestler" in the 1977

. Dennis Papadatos is the current head coach. The Pride wrestling team competes on campus in the Mack Sports Complex. Former Pride wrestler

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was a 2-time

All-American (6th in 2006 & 3rd in 2007, both at 197 lb) and is a former UFC Middleweight Champion. Hofstra can claim 30 All-American honors among 19 wrestlers through 2018. Hofstra’s wrestling team was formerly a member of the CAA like all other Pride teams until the CAA ended sponsorship of wrestling in 2013.

Discontinued sports

Football

The school fielded a

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team from 1937 to 2009, when the sport was cancelled due to costs and declining attendance. The team was an associate member of the

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from 2001 until 2009. Funds previously used for the football program went into the creation of the medical school, and enhancing a variety of programs, including hard sciences and engineering.

Conference history

Metropolitan New York Conference Membership Regular season champions Men's basketball *1934 *1935 DNP *1936 *1937 *1938 *1939 Long Island *1940 DNP *1941 DNP *1942 DNP *1943 St. John's *1944 DNP *1945 DNP *1946 / *1947 *1948 *1949 / *1950 CCNY ...

(1942–1943) *

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(1965–1994) (some sports competed as independents) * North Atlantic Conference/America East Conference (1994–2001) *

(2001–present) (football competed in the

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until 2006)

References in popular culture

Two of

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's early comedy albums include routines about a game between the now-defunct Hofstra football team and

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. The routines are "TV Football" (from ''

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'') and its expanded re-telling "Hofstra" (from ''

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''). An entire episode of ''

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'' was devoted to a main character, Frank Barone, catching a record-setting field goal ball kicked by a Hofstra player at a game against

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that Ray Barone predicted to be a " tickle fight".

References

External links

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