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1971: The New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) was founded. Charter members included Amherst College, Bates College, Bowdoin College, Colby College, Hamilton College, Middlebury College, Trinity College, Tufts University, Union College, Wesleyan University and Williams College, effective beginning the 1971–72 academic year.
Bowdoin College currently fields teams in fourteen men's sports and sixteen women's sports. The polar bear team name was selected to honor Robert Peary of the class of 1877 who lead the first expedition that reached the North Pole. [3] All Bowdoin Polar Bears sports teams compete in NCAA Division III, and 25 of 30 teams compete in the NESCAC ...
Basketball Base-ball Soft-ball Ice hockey Soccer M W M W M W Bates Bobcats: Bates College: Lewiston: NESCAC: Bowdoin Polar Bears: Bowdoin College: Brunswick: NESCAC: Colby Mules: Colby College: Waterville: NESCAC: Husson Eagles: Husson University: Bangor: North Atlantic [a] Maine–Farmington Beavers: University of Maine at Farmington ...
She coached the Bowdoin Polar Bears women's basketball team to a 281-68 (.805) record, two New England Small College Athletic Conference championships, 11 NCAA Tournament appearances, and back-to-back NCAA Division III title game appearances. Shibles stepped down in May of 2021 and left Bowdoin as the winningest coach in the programs history. [4]
The Women's Rowing team is headed by Peter Steenstra, who was awarded the 2015 Division III Coach of the Year Award by the College Rowing Coaches Association, after also receiving Men's and Women's Coach of the Year honors from both the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) and the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC). [29]
The Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium (CBB) is an athletic conference and academic consortium between three private liberal arts colleges in the U.S. State of Maine. The group consists of Colby College in Waterville , Bates College in Lewiston , and Bowdoin College in Brunswick .
They compete as a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III level, primarily competing in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), of which they were a founding member in 1971. The mascot for all Bowdoin College athletic teams is the Polar bear, generally referred to in the plural, i.e., "The ...
1998 - The NEW-8 offered men's sports and was rebranded as the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC), beginning the 1998–99 academic year. 1998 - Springfield College and the United States Coast Guard Academy (Coast Guard) were the 1st schools with men's and women's sports to join the newly branded NEWMAC in the 1998–99 ...