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BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS HIGHLIGHTS
A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DIVISION I SPORTS
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ERA HIGHLIGHTS
AUG. 31, 2001 Binghamton begins its Division I era when men’s soccer and women’s soccer compete in road tournaments. The women post the school’s first win at D1 with a 4-1 victory over Duquesne.
MARCH 23, 2002 Swimmer Yun Qu becomes the school’s first AllAmerican in any sport when she places 13th in the 200 butterfly at the NCAA Championships.
FEB. 16, 2003
NOV. 15, 2003
Men’s swimming and diving
Men’s soccer edges Northeastern, 3–2,
becomes the school’s first
in a shootout at West Gym Field to
team to capture an America
capture the program’s first America
East championship.
East title. One week later, the team defeats host and 13th-ranked FDU, 1–0, in the NCAA first round.
SPRING 2005
MAY 21, 2007
Men’s tennis defeats archrival
Baseball wins the first of
Stony Brook, 4–3, for the third
four consecutive America
straight year in the America East
East regular season titles.
championship match, returning to NCAAs.
DEC. 16, 2001
MARCH 6, 2002
Men’s basketball draws national attention
Women’s basketball standout
and an ESPN highlight by taking ACC
Sarah Cartmill becomes the first
power North Carolina to the final buzzer
Binghamton athlete to be named
in a 61-60 loss in Chapel Hill. Senior
America East Player of the Year.
forward Jeffrey Daws hits a career-high six 3-pointers (19 points) and Binghamton had three potential game-winning shots in the closing 10 seconds.
2002–03
2002–03
The golf team wins seven
Despite playing just 23 minutes a game,
tournaments – the most of any
sophomore center Nick Billings compiles
collegiate team in the nation at any
a school-record 117 blocked shots to rank
level. The Bearcats win the America
second in the nation (4.3/game). He is
East and ECAC titles, produce a
named America East Defensive Player
161–40–4 record against the field
of the Year.
(80%) and earn the program’s firstever NCAA Division I regional berth.
JAN. 31, 2004
MAY 1, 2004
Men’s basketball hosts Hartford
In just its third season as a varsity
in the first game played at the
sport, men’s lacrosse wins the
Events Center. Binghamton
America East regular season title
posts a 75–68 victory in front of
with a 9–8 victory at UAlbany.
a standing-room-only crowd of 4,660.
MARCH 14, 2008
MARCH 14, 2009
Pole vaulter Rory Quiller
Before a sold-out Events Center crowd of 5,342 and
becomes Binghamton’s first
a national TV audience on ESPN2, men’s basketball
NCAA champion when he clears
topples UMBC, 61–51, to capture its first conference
18-feet-1/2 inch to win the
title in 63 years of sport sponsorship. Five days
NCAA Indoor title at University
later, Binghamton faces No. 2 seed Duke in the first
of Arkansas.
round of the NCAA Tournament in Greensboro, N.C., in a game televised on CBS. The Bearcats fall, 86–62, despite 20 points from D.J. Rivera.
MARCH 19–21, 2009
MAY 30, 2009
Junior 184-pound wrestler Josh
One week after winning its first
Patterson wins five matches to place
America East tournament title,
seventh at the NCAA Championship in
baseball records its first-ever NCAA
St. Louis to become the program’s first
postseason win with an 11–6 victory
Division I All-American. Patterson leads
over No. 30 George Mason at the East
the nation in wins (46) and pins (22) in
Carolina Regional.
2008–09.
JUNE 10, 2010
FALL 2010
Men’s tennis earns a final national
Tennis All-American Sven Vloedgraven
ranking of 49th after an historic 25–2
wins his second straight ITA Northeast
season that includes an America East
Region singles titles and is the No. 1
title and No. 2 ranking in the ITA
ranked player in the region.
Northeast Region.
JUNE 5, 2012
JUNE 12, 2015
Pitcher Mike Augliera is drafted in the
In a race aired live on ESPN, Jesse
fifth round by the Boston Red Sox.
Garn finishes fourth in the men’s
He becomes the highest draft pick in
800 meters at the NCAA Outdoor
school history.
Track & Field Championships to earn first-team All-America honors.
MAY 24, 2017
MARCH 14, 2018
Men’s lacrosse crowns two
Women’s basketball wins a
All-Americans for the first time
national tournament game
when Tom Moore and Garrett
with its 70–59 victory over
Waldron earn national honors
Youngstown State in the
from USILA.
WBI. It gives the team a 20win season — its most wins in 17 years.
JAN. 31, 2010
MARCH 18–20, 2010
Erik van Ingen becomes the first
Wrestler Justin Lister storms through
Binghamton athlete to break the four-
the NCAA Championship bracket
minute mile barrier when he wins the
enroute to a fourth-place finish at
Penn State National Open in 3:59.58.
Nebraska-Omaha. Unseeded at 157,
The time earns him a spot in the NCAA
Lister becomes the first Binghamton
Indoor Track & Field Championship in
wrestler to reach the semifinals and
March, where he places 11th.
pins two of the top-four seeds in dramatic fashion.
JULY 18, 2011
MARCH 17, 2012
Scott Diamond becomes the first
Wrestling crowns two All-Americans
Binghamton baseball player to reach
and places 14th at the NCAA
the major leagues when he makes
Championship — the highest finish in
his debut for the Minnesota Twins.
program history. Donnie Vinson wins
In front of 40,000 fans at Target
a tournament-high seven consecutive
Field against Cleveland, Diamond
matches to place a program-best third
pitches 6.1 innings.
at 149.
MAY 27, 2016
MARCH 3–5, 2017
Catcher Jason Agresti hits a walk-off
Baseball completes a four-game
grand slam to complete a stunning
series sweep of No. 19 Virginia Tech
nine-run ninth inning that rallies
on the road. It’s the first time the
baseball past Hartford, 9–6, in the
ACC-member Hokies have ever lost a
America East semifinals. One day later,
four-game series at home. Binghamton
Binghamton defeats Stony Brook,
finishes the regular season with a
6–3, to capture the program’s third
30–11 record and RPI of 58 out of 299.
conference title in four years.
AUG. 27, 2018
MAY 23–25, 2019
Murphy Smith makes his MLB debut with the
Shane Marshall sets an America
Toronto Blue Jays after pitching 10 years in the
East baseball record by homering
minor leagues. Smith enters in the seventh
in four consecutive postseason
inning at Baltimore and retires all four batters
tournament games at the America East
he faces. He becomes the oldest player (31) in
Tournament, hosted by Binghamton.
Toronto history to make his MLB debut and becomes the second Bearcat baseball player to reach the pinnacle of professional baseball.
2021
SPRING 2021
The men’s swimming &
With COVID condensing the sports seasons,
diving team produces
distance runner Emily Mackay produces two
a perfect 5-0 dual
record-setting All-America performances in a
meet season and then
four-month span. Mackay becomes Binghamton’s
captures the program’s
first Division I female cross country All-American
first America East title
when she places 14th at the NCAA Championship.
in 18 years by edging 12-
She then places seventh in the 5,000 meters at
time champion UMBC.
the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
SPRING 2022
NOV. 3, 2022
Emily Mackay concludes her historic
Reserve goalkeeper Nicole
cross country and track career with three
Scott stops three of four
All-America honors, highlighted by a
penalty kicks to lift women’s
sixth-place finish in the women’s 1,500 at
soccer to a semifinal shootout
the NCAA Outdoor Track Championships.
win over UAlbany and
Mackay also achieves the rare feat of
advance Binghamton into the
qualifying for all three NCAA track and
conference championship for
cross country meets during the year.
the second time in three years.
2022–23
2022–23
Binghamton produces All-
Volleyball wins its first-ever
Americans in three different
America East regular-
sports for first time in its
season title and hosts the
Division I era: volleyball player
conference tournament for
Tsvetelina Ilieva, men’s lacrosse
the first time. The Bearcats
midfielder Thomas Greenblatt
also play in a national
and track steeplechase runner
postseason tournament
Aziza Chigatayeva.
(NIVC).
MAY 5, 2024
AUG. 8, 2024
Women’s lacrosse wins its first-
Emily Mackay competes
ever America East title — 12–11
in the semifinals of the
over UAlbany in the conference
women’s 1,500 meters at
finals — and advances to the NCAA
the Paris Olympics.
Tournament for the first time. The Bearcats also win a share of the America East regular-season title for the first time in program history.
MARCH 6, 2022
SPRING 2022
Lou DePrez wins his third
In the same season it opens
consecutive EIWA Wrestling
its $60 million home complex,
Championship and advances to
the baseball team wins its fifth
the NCAA Championships for the
America East title and competes
fourth straight year.
at the NCAA Stanford Regional.
JUNE 7, 2023
OCT. 27, 2023
Binghamton wins its first-ever
Women’s cross country
America East Commissioner’s Cup
wins its first-ever America
as the No. 1 overall program in the
East championship.
conference during 2022–23 and repeats as champion in 2023–24.
FALL 2023
APRIL 14, 2024
Women’s soccer goes unbeaten
In its first season in the
in conference play enroute to
Northeast Conference (NEC),
its second straight America East
men’s tennis wins the first
regular-season title.
of two straight conference championships.
2024–25
FEB. 23, 2025
Tsvetelina Ilieva becomes a three-time
Men’s swimming wins its
volleyball All-American, three-time
second straight America East
America East Player of the Year and
championship and third title in
three-time Binghamton University
five years.
Athlete of the Year. She also earns America East Scholar-Athlete honors with a Binghamton student-athletebest 3.99 GPA.
FEB. 23 AND MARCH 15, 2025
MAY 2025
Men’s lacrosse attackman Liam
East regular season and
Ferris earns a spot at No. 4 on
tournament titles, advances
ESPN’s Top Plays – the first
to the NCAA Regionals and
Bearcat athlete to make two
earns a final ranking of No.
appearances on SportsCenter in
17 in the D1Softball.com
the same season.
Mid-Major Poll.
Softball sweeps the America
JUNE 11, 2025
JULY 14, 2025
Marcus Johnson becomes the school’s
Catcher Zach Rogacki is selected in
first Division I All-American hurdler.
the ninth round of the Major League
Earlier in the spring, he is named the
Baseball Draft by the Colorado Rockies.
Most Outstanding Track Performer at
He is the highest-drafted Binghamton
the America East Championship.
position player in 35 years.
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