One of Ithaca’s former basketball captains is still courtside these days. Dane Fischer ’02, a former point guard and team co-captain for the Bombers, has been successfully pursuing a career in men’s college basketball since 2003. Fischer was recently named assistant coach at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania.

Fischer came to Ithaca College from Rochester,...

Ithaca College recently hosted its first ever ballroom dance competition, the Cayuga DanceSport Challenge. More than 180 competitors from 20 different schools danced in the collegiate competition. The Ben Light Gymnasium was filled with the music of cha-cha, bolero, mambo, rumba, and swing. Ithaca College students placed in many events, winning more than 40 ribbons in all.

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The Bombers have had a year to be proud of: Ithaca's athletic teams have received recognition across the board.

IC won the Empire 8 Commissioner’s Cup ... again. IC has won the Cup all seven years it has been awarded. The Commissioner’s Cup is awarded annually to the best overall athletics program in the Empire 8 conference.

Our football team has...

Ladies, grab your golf clubs. Ithaca College has added a women’s golf team to its intercollegiate sports lineup, making it one of 155 schools in the country to offer the sport.

The team will compete year round, including a yearly invitational at the Ithaca Country Club and the NCAA women’s golf championships in the spring.

Former Senior PGA Tour champion Dan Wood...

It’s below freezing on the lake at seven o’clock in the morning, but sweat still streams down my face and into my eyes. My breath is short and labored. My legs and arms are screaming for me to stop, and my brain agrees. Still, I push on backward through the mist and cold, heart in overdrive. Why do I do this sport again?

Rowing is a backward sport. Predawn...