United States Coast Guard Academy - Department of Athletics

Coast Guard Academy athletes took home 28 of the 53 awards at the Individual Proficiency Awards Ceremony as part of the graduation week festivities.

The Class of 2012 Distinguished Graduate Award winner Katie Schumacher, captain of both the cross country and track and track and field teams, led the way winning seven awards while Sarah Jane Otey a member of both the swimming and crew teams took home three awards.

Schumacher was named the Distinguished Graduate as well as winning the Captain Charles A. McAllister Memorial Award, the Daughters of Union Veterans of Civil War Award, the Eagle Award, the National Society of New England Women Award, the National Society Daughters of the American Colonists Award and the USCG Auxiliary Award.

Senior Diver Orlando Morel

Senior diver Orlando Morel, who graduated today, says he would probably be dead had the Coast Guard not found him and his fellow migrants when he was 6 years old and he and his mother left Haiti on a crowded small wooden boat destined for America.

For more about Morel's story CLICK HERE

Softball - Coast Guard Retires Feindel's #16

Hayley Feindel became the first Coast Guard player to have her number retired.

For the first time in school history, the Coast Guard Academy will retire a uniform number as senior All-American softball pitcher Hayley Feindel's number 16 will be retired sometime during the Fall it was announced last night at the Annual Athletic Awards Reception

Feindel, who missed 16 games with a broken finger and still led the Bears to a third straight NEWMAC tournament championship and fourth straight NCAA tournament appearance, led the conference with 21 wins and 251 strikeouts. She was 21-10 with a 1.80 ERA and nine shutouts. She also earned a spot on the NCAA tournament All-regional team as she posted a 1.69 ERA and snapped No. 2 Eastern Connecticut’s 40-game unbeaten streak by pitching a shutout during the regional.

Feindel will be featured on WFSB 3, the Connecticut CBS affiliate, tonight at 6 p.m. and then the full piece will air at 11:15 pm on WFSB Sports Final.

Read a column on the retirement of Feindel' number by CLICKING HERE

Holly Madden and the Bears are heading to the NCAA Division III Championship.

NEW LONDON, CONN.--(5/14/12)--For the first time since 2008, the Coast Guard Academy women’s crew team is heading to the NCAA Division III Championship as the Bears Varsity 8 received an at-large bid on Monday night.

In 2008, the Bears made history when they became the first Division III at-large eight to make reach the grand final and finished sixth. Coast Guard’s best finish since a fifth place finish in 2004.

The championships will be held May 25-27 at Lake Mercer in West Windsor, N.J., with the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and Rider serving as hosts.

“This has been our goal for four years ,” said head coach Jen Meuse in her fourth season. “I am so proud that we kept working toward the goal of an NCAA bid. Each year they picked up where they left off the year before and our theme this year has been one step at a time, I couldn’t be happier and now we have the opportunity to race against the best the crews on the national stage.”

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