LIU Post Pioneers

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LIU Post Pioneers
LIU Post Pioneers logo.svg
University C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University
Conference East Coast Conference
Northeast-10 Conference
(Northeast Conference starting in 2019)
NCAA Division I
Athletic directorBryan Collins
Location Brookville, New York
Varsity teams19
Football stadium Bethpage Federal Credit Union Stadium
Basketball arena Pratt Recreation Center
Baseball stadiumLIU Post Baseball Field
Softball stadiumLIU Post Softball Complex
Soccer stadiumPioneer Soccer Park
NicknamePioneers
ColorsGreen and gold [1]
   
Website liupostpioneers.com

The LIU Post Pioneers (also Long Island–Post Pioneers and formerly the C.W. Post Pioneers) were the athletic teams that represented the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, located in Brookville, New York, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports through the 2018–19 school year. The Pioneers most recently competed as members of the East Coast Conference for most sports; the football team was an affiliate of the Northeast-10 Conference. LIU Post has been a member of the ECC since 1989, when the league was established as the New York Collegiate Athletic Conference.

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The LIU Post Pioneers passed into history after the 2018–19 school year when LIU merged the Pioneers with the LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds, the Division I program of the school's Brooklyn campus. The current LIU program now competes as the LIU Sharks, with the new nickname having been selected by polling of alumni and students of the two campuses. [2] Since LIU Brooklyn was a long-established Division I program, the Division II LIU Post teams for sports that had not been sponsored by LIU Brooklyn immediately moved to Division I without the usual transition period for an institution moving to a different division. Teams for sports sponsored by both campuses were merged, and D-II athletes unable to make the D-I teams were allowed to either continue their athletic scholarships without competing or to be granted waivers that allowed them to transfer to another D-II school without having to sit out a season. The LIU Sharks inherited the Northeast Conference membership of the Brooklyn campus. [3] [4]

Varsity teams

Facilities

The Pratt Center is also a venue for Nassau County and New York State high school basketball playoff games, both men's and women's, along with the Clark Center at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury.

History

Classifications

Football conferences

National championships

Team

AssociationDivisionSportYearOpponentScore
NCAA Division II Women's Lacrosse [5] 2001 West Chester 13–9
200715–7
201217–16
2013 Limestone 10–7

Individual sports

Baseball

In baseball, future Major League Baseball outfielder Richie Scheinblum batted .415 in 1964, and set the C.W. Post records in career triples (12) and batting average (.395). He was inducted in the college's sports Hall of Fame in 2005. [6]

Football

In 1993, future NFL quarterback Perry Klein played for the C. W. Post Pioneers, throwing for 38 touchdowns. [7] [8] Klein was named the Division II Player of the Year, after throwing for an NCAA Division II record 614 yards passing (623 yards total yardage), 35 completions, and seven touchdowns in a single game, and a Division II record 3,757 regular season yards passing and 4,025 regular season yards in total offense, while also setting a school single-season records of most touchdowns. [9] [10] [7] [11]

Lacrosse

LIU Post won three NCAA Division II Men's Lacrosse Championships. Their first title came in 1996 when they defeated Adelphi 15–10 in the championship and their second came in 2009 when they defeated Le Moyne 8–7 at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. The third title came in 2010 when they defeated Le Moyne 14–9 in a rematch of the 2009 title game at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore.

The LIU Post women's lacrosse team had a perfect, undefeated season and won the NCAA Division II Women's Lacrosse Championship in 2007.

Sports clubs

LIU Post is the only college campus on Long Island to maintain an Equestrian Center for horseback riding.[ citation needed ]

LIU Post has a nationally ranked ACHA ice hockey club team that competes in the Great Northeast Collegiate Hockey Conference.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. ↑ LIU Post Athletic Brand Guidelines (PDF). May 30, 2017. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Welcome to the Shark Tank: Long Island University Chooses the Shark as New Mascot" (Press release). Long Island University. May 15, 2019. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
  3. ↑ "LIU combining Post and Brooklyn athletic programs". Newsday. October 3, 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  4. ↑ "#OneLIU website". Long Island University. Archived from the original on 21 August 2019. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  5. ↑ "Division II Women's Lacrosse Championship Results" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. Retrieved January 10, 2016.
  6. ↑ LIU Post Pioneers Mobile – LIU Post Athletic Hall of Fame
  7. 1 2 "Football History and Record Books". LIU Post Athletics.
  8. ↑ Rob Fernas (June 30, 1994). "Scramblin' Man : Quarterback Perry Klein Has Been Vilified for Switching Schools--But That Was Before the NFL Called". Los Angeles Times.
  9. ↑ Shel Wallman (January 12, 1994). "Sports Scene Great, growing grid corps". Jewish Post.
  10. ↑ Berkowitz, Steve (November 11, 1993). "Notebook". The Washington Post.
  11. ↑ "Records", 2011 Football Media Guide, C.W. Post; Long Island University, p. 74.
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