Hartford Hawks | |
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University | University of Hartford |
Conference | America East Conference |
NCAA | Division I |
Athletic director | Mary Ellen Gillespie |
Location | West Hartford, Connecticut |
Varsity teams | 17 |
Basketball arena | Chase Arena at Reich Family Pavilion |
Baseball stadium | Dunkin Donuts Park |
Soccer stadium | Al-Marzook Field at Alumni Stadium |
Lacrosse stadium | Al-Marzook Field at Alumni Stadium |
Mascot | Howie the Hawk |
Nickname | Hawks |
Fight song | "Fly High" |
Colors | Scarlet and White |
Website | www |
The Hartford Hawks are the athletic teams of the University of Hartford, located in West Hartford, Connecticut. The school sponsors seventeen NCAA Division I varsity sports. The men's and women's tennis teams were discontinued at the end of the 2016 season, and women's lacrosse was added.
A member of the America East Conference, Hartford sponsors teams in eight men's and nine women's NCAA sanctioned sports with the men's golf team competing as an affiliate member of the Big Sky Conference, and the women's golf team as an associate member of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.
America East Conference Champions: 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007
America East Conference Champions: 2005
America East Conference Champions: 2011, 2016
America East Conference Champions: 1991, 1992, 1999
America East Conference Champions: 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2014 (regular season champions)
America East Conference Champions: 1989, 1990, 1994–1995, 2001–2002
America East Conference Champions: 1993
From Hartford's athletic website: "Hartford, which has posted a combined GPA of 3.0 or higher in each of the last 15 semesters, saw an average of 70 percent of its student-athletes record a 3.0 in one or both semesters last year. In addition, 43 percent of Hawk student-athletes notched at least a 3.5 while five percent registered perfect 4.0 GPA's for the 2012–13 academic year." "The University of Hartford clinched its second-straight America East Academic Cup in 2012–13 after posting the highest grade-point average of any school in the 18-year history of the award. Compiling a 3.24 GPA in 2012–13, the Hawks won their third Academic Cup all-time."