Category: "AU Sports News Archives"
Archived news about the American University Eagles teams and athletes.
- Can’t win: AU men’s soccer finishes non-conference slate with 2 losses, 3 draws, and 2 goals
- Men’s basketball inks recruit…
- AU builds 10-point second half lead, defeats Patriot League leader Colgate on the road…
- Up by as much as 20, AU fizzles in 75-73 home loss to St. Francis (PA)…
- Duane Simpkins era begins with 90-63 loss at Villanova…
- Basketball head coach Duane Simpkins builds coaching staff…
- Mike Brennan out as AU men’s basketball coach…
- American University basketball defeats Georgetown for the first time since 1982…
- WaPo profiles volleyball coach Barry Goldberg…
- Alum chips in another $10M for new athletics facility…
- AU women’s basketball coach poached by Wake Forest…Takes two assistants with her...
- One and done: Michigan women triple AU’s 1st half points 39-13 on way to 74-39 drubbing…
- AU men’s basketball wins first Patriot League tournament game in six years…
- AU grad Keira D’Amato sets marathon record…
- Men’s basketball snaps 7-game skid…
- AU men’s basketball open season with OT win over Marist…
- AU hires assistant basketball coach with Big 12 experience…
- AU wrestling nabs Stanford coach after Stanford eliminates program…
- With no games to play, AU athletes send Valentines instead…
- Four weeks into the season, AU men’s basketball: 4 games, 4 COVID postponements, 4 overtime periods, 2 wins, 2 losses…
- Men’s basketball opener postponed by COVID…Women postponed, too...
- Patriot League announces shortened basketball season…No non-conference games...
- Men’s basketball gains commit for 2021-22 season…
- Majority-black men’s basketball team comes out against racism…Women's soccer team: Me too...
- Sa’eed Nelson named Patriot League Player of the Year…
- Up 11 points with 8:20 to go, AU men’s basketball blows lead, loses to Lafayette by 12…
- Buzzer beater lifts AU’s men’s basketball to biggest win of season…
- Men’s basketball builds 20-point lead vs. Mount St. Mary’s…...allows MSM to close the gap to 1 point......before AU goes on to win 82-76
- Up by 6 with 3:21 left, men’s basketball falls to St. Francis 79-76…
- Men’s basketball takes 16 point lead over William & Mary; loses by 9…
- AU in top 25 for NCAA graduation rates…
- Men’s basketball coach Mike Brennan inks 2 year contract extension…
- Entire women’s basketball team qualifies for Patriot League academic honor roll…
- American U basketball alum Simon McCormack named assistant coach at Northern Kentucky…
- Basketball star Sam Iorio to transfer from American U…Headed to South Alabama...Fourth transfer out since 2017...
- Women’s basketball Patriot League regular season co-champs, with Bucknell…
- Cecily Carl scores school-record 37 points in women’s basketball victory…
- Women’s basketball coach Megan Gebbia signs contract extension…
- American University volleyball 1-5 vs. the state of California in 2018 season…
- American U. men’s soccer opens season with victory over George Mason…
- AU basketball star reaches NBA…
- Women’s basketball wins Patriot League Title…
- All hat: AU volleyball skunks underdogs; can’t handle big dogs…
- AU highlights trans cross-country runner..
- AU blows 13-point second half lead, falls to Holy Cross…
- American blows 11-point 2nd half lead, falls to Georgetown in OT
- Athletic director Billy Walker to retire…
- Duane Simpkins named head basketball coach at American University…
- Men’s basketball slide continues with loss to Lehigh…...Started season 12-3; 3-9 since then...
- AU men’s soccer sunk by Navy in Patriot League championship…
- AU volleyball coach garners 800th career victory…...As coach battles cancer...
- Ugh…another ex-Princeton coach hired to run AU’s failed Princeton offense…
- “They” lands on Patriot League men’s track all-league team…
- Alum/foreign soccer coach struggles to continue race lawsuit against AU…
- Women’s basketball coach Megan Gebbia gets record 151st win…...men's coach Mike Brennan, hired at the same time, has only 104...
- New year, same result: AU Eagles men’s basketball blows 19-point lead, shoots 6-15 free throws in 2-point loss to Lehigh…
- Men’s basketball losing streak reaches 6 games…
- Former soccer player David Nakhid’s lawsuit against American U dismissed…
- Men’s soccer star David Coly featured in Washington Post…
- AU basketball gains transfer from George Washington…
- ALL AU sports on hold for 10 days due to increasing COVID cases…
- Wrestling coach Teague Moore out suddenly, immediately…
- AU nabs another $3 million for planned Center for Athletic Performance…
- Patriot League expected to cancel non-conference basketball this season…
- With no sports, AU student-athletes focus on racism…
- Basketballer Mark Gasperini goes to UMass as grad transfer…
- Sa’eed Nelson sets record for career points in win over Lafayette…
- American U swim teams named Scholar All-America Teams for 50th straight semester…
- AU hires Marsha Harper as women’s soccer coach…
- Men’s basketball blows 19-point lead in 68-64 loss to Albany…
- Women’s basketball hosts LGBTQ+ Pride Night…
- Former soccer player David Nakhid sues American University for discrimination because he wasn’t considered for head coaching job…Resume lists no collegiate coaching experience...
- Alum Jack Cassell donates $3 million to American University for Center for Athletic Performance…Alan Meltzer chips in $5 million (plus another $2 million for Center for Israel Studies)...
- American University men’s basketball releases 2019-20 schedule…
- American U men’s soccer team announces nine recruits for 2019…
- AU alum Matthew Wilson named basketball coach at prestigious John Cooper School…
- AU women’s basketball falls to Bucknell in Patriot League title game…Qualifies for WNIT vs. Penn......Gets thumped...
- American University women’s basketball snaps 15-win streak…
- Zach Samol named new American University men’s soccer coach…
- AU men’s basketball wins season opener for first time since 2010…
- Men’s soccer suffers humiliating 6-0 defeat vs. GWU; worst loss in 32 years, since 6-0 loss to UCLA in 1986…
- 2018-19 Men’s Basketball Schedule…
- Women’s basketball falls to UCLA in NCAA tourney…
- Ouch: AU men’s basketball to face North Carolina, Virginia…
- New athletics director at American University…
- AU men’s basketball falls to worst team in Patriot Leage, at home…Season low scoring...
- 1st-year coach Duane Simpkins grabs first head coaching victory of his career…
- Villanova, Georgetown, Virginia Tech on AU men’s basketball schedule this year…
- Long-time AU volleyball coach Barry Goldberg dies after year-long cancer battle…
- Winning AU men’s basketball gets noticed by local news…
- Basketball opening night: Leading at halftime, men fall to Marist…...women shellacked by DePaul...
- Former AU field hockey player wins $1.8M lawsuit stemming from concussion suffered while playing for AU…US Army doctor on loan to AU at fault for misdiagnosis...She also sued AU, but that lawsuit was dismissed...Update: Army appeals; player tries again to sue AU...
- Assistant Tiffany Coll named head women’s basketball coach at American University…
- Championship banner is not enough: Four women’s basketball players seek to transfer…
- American U. women’s basketball wins Patriot League tournament, advances to NCAAs…
- 17-point first half dooms AU basketball vs. Navy…Now second worst team in Patriot League...
- COVID comes for AU basketball:Men's game vs. Siena canceled......and Lafayette postponed......and Colgate postponed......and Holy Cross postponed...Women's game vs. Howard postponed......and Lehigh......and Lafayette...
- Season-long atrocious free-throw shooting finally costs AU a win…69% foul shooting in 1-point loss to Western Carolina...
- AU Men’s soccer opens season with win…
- Men’s soccer wins Patriot League tournament for first time since 2004…Will face Jacksonville in NCAA play-in game; winner to get #1 Clemson...
- Basketball star Jamir Harris to transfer…...to Seton Hall...
- 6 of the 10 scheduled AU basketball games have been postponed due to COVID…
- AU men’s basketball team now infected…2 more games postponed…May be the last Division 1 program to start it's season...
- 36-year-old AU grad seeks to break 10-mile run record…...and does it!
- Men’s basketball gets another commit…
- Fall sports canceled…
- Patriot League cancels all spring sports…
- Men’s basketball blows 18 point lead, loses to Boston U on national TV…
- OT victory gives AU men’s basketball 3-game win streak…
- AU men’s basketball gives up 14-point halftime lead; loses to Stony Brook 77-74
- After compiling 30-82-16 record over 7 seasons, women’s soccer coach Anabel Herring finally steps down…
- After 0-2 start, men’s basketball defeats GWU for first victory of season…
- AU’s Sa’eed Nelson tabbed as Patriot League Pre-Season Player of the Year…
- AU sports teams finish the weekend a combined 1-9…
- Wrestling coach Teague Moore’s contract extended…
- AU women’s basketball coach Megan Gebbia gets contract extension…
- AU wrestling team second in nation in academics…49th in wrestling...
- Men’s basketball falls to lowly Navy in Patriot League quarterfinals…Ends another mediocre season at 15-14...
- American U men’s basketball team in late-season skid…Lost five of last seven games...Meanwhile, women keep rolling...
- AU men’s soccer coach Todd West to leave after 19 seasons…
- American University men’s basketball picked 7th in pre-season Patriot League poll…
- Women’s volleyball loses to #1 Stanford in straight sets; sets home attendance record
- Jamir Harris transfers from U of Minnesota…
- Wrestling closes season at NCAA tournament…