Anna Maria Amcats

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Anna Maria Amcats
Anna Maria Amcats logo.svg
UniversityAnna Maria College
Conference
NCAA NCAA Division III
Location Paxton, Massachusetts
Varsity teams13
Football stadiumAMCAT Field]]
Basketball arenaFuller Activities Center
MascotAMCAT
NicknameAMCATS
Fight songNone
Colors Cardinal Red and White
   
Website www.goamcats.com
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The Anna Maria Amcats is the nickname of the intercollegiate athletic teams of Anna Maria College, located in Paxton, Massachusetts. The school's teams participate in 13 intercollegiate sports at the NCAA Division III level.

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Twelve of Anna Maria's teams are members of the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC), while football plays in the Eastern Collegiate Football Conference (ECFC). The AMCATS name is derived from the acronym Anna Maria College Athletic Team Sports.

Sports sponsored

Men's sportsMen's sports
BaseballBasketball
BasketballEquestrian
Cross countryCross country
Football Field hockey
Ice HockeyIce Hockey
LacrosseLacrosse
SoccerSoccer
Softball
Volleyball
Co-ed sports
eSports

Football

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AMCAT Field

AMCATS football is one of the most recent additions to the Anna Maria Athletics arsenal. Founded in 2009, the team won its first and second football games at the end of the 2011 season. [1] [2] They won their first ECFC football championship on November 13, 2021 after going 7–2 in regular season play (5–1 in ECFC play) therefore receiving their first NCAA Division III Football Championship appearance. In their final regular season game of the year the Amcats defeated the SUNY Maritime Privateers 31–7. [3] to clinch the ECFC title. The Amacts will face the Delaware Valley Rams on November 20, 2021 in the NCAA Division III Football Championship first round.

References

  1. ↑ Pennington, Bill (December 27, 2019). "Adding Football Saved One College. Dumping It Boosted Another". The New York Times . ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved December 28, 2019.
  2. ↑ "2011 Football Schedule".
  3. ↑ "Football Claims First-Ever ECFC Championship". 2021-11-13.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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