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Navy Club Sports
In addition to the varsity athletic program, the Naval Academy offers a variety of opportunities to participate in a very competitive Club Sports program.
CLUB SPORT'S UPDATE
Interviews with coaches from all 13 club sports can be viewed on this website (click on "Coach's Corner" link on the left navigation panel); interviews can also be seen on City TV on
Verizon channel 34 and Comcast channel 99/100 on Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays at 7:00 P.M. and on Saturdays at 1:00 P.M and by clicking on Coach's Corner on the left navigation bar
Navy Men's Rugby is also aired on City TV and on this page under Game Videos on the left navigation panel.
THIS WEEK IN CLUB SPORTS - October 10, 2011
Boxing
Last Week: Defeated Air Force, 8-3
This Week: at US vs. UK (Friday-Sunday, London, England)
Cycling
Last Week: Finished first, second at third at the VCU Short Track; finished first, third and sixth in Men’s Cross Country
This Week: Idle
Hockey (5-0)
Last Week: Defeated Indiana (Pa.), 5-2
This Week: at Rhode Island (Friday-Saturday, 7:00 PM and 4:00 PM, Kingston, R.I..); at Northeastern (Sunday, TBA, Boston Mass.)
Judo
Last Week: Idle
This Week: Idle
Marathon
Last Week: No results reported
This Week: at Chicago Marathon – (Sunday, 8:30 AM, Chicago, Ill.)
Men’s Rugby:
Last Week: Defeated Air Force, 24-10
This Week: at Mt. St. Mary’s (Saturday, 12:00 noon, Emmittsburg, Md.)
Pistol
Last Week: No results reported
This Week: Idle
Softball (5-2)
Last Week: Defeated Air Force, 7-6; lost to Air Force, 2-1
This Week: Idle
Triathlon
Last Week: Finished second
This Week: Idle
Men’s Volleyball (2-2)
Last Week: Lost to Air Force, 2-1; defeated Army, 2-0
This Week: Idle
Women’s Golf
Last Week: Idle
This Week: at Richmond (Sunday-Tuesday, 8:00 AM, Midlothian, Va.)
Women’s Rugby (2-0)
Last Week: Defeated Air Force, 37-7
This Week: Idle
Navy's boxing team took care of Air Force on Friday, winning eight of 11 matches. (October 3, 2011)
Five of those Navy fighters now are headed for competition in London,
where Navy coach Jim McNally is taking a squad of Mids and five Marines
to fight boxers from the Royal Navy, Army and Air Force on Friday night
for the U.S. vs. U.K. Combined Armed Forces Boxing Invitational.
The event is scheduled for the famed Royal Albert Hall.
Navy's victorious fighters against Air Force included: Adam Locklear
(119 pounds), Halan Thaw (132), Antonio Roa (139), Noah Weintraub (147),
Adam Levey (156), Jack Morado (175), Sean Hunt (175) and Mike Bruno
(195).
Air Force v Navy Game Honors Hero
For about six years now the US Naval Academy and US Air Force Academy have traded visits between their rugby teams, the trips usually coinciding with their respective football teams also making a visit.
The rugby teams play on Friday, spend time together, and attend the football game the following day.
It’s an important game – every match between Service Academies is – and it’s also a chance to revel in the brotherhood of the game, and the calling the players will answer in the years to come.
This year, Navy defeated Air Force 24-10 in a hotly-contested match at the Prusmack Rugby Center at the Brigade Sports Complex. Jon Prusmack, who owns USA 7s and RUGBYMag.com, is also a big supporter of rugby in the military. However, another important name was associated with this match for the first time, and a wholly appropriate association it is.
Kevin Shea attended the Air Force Academy on a football scholarship beginning in 1984. At 6-4, 230 pounds he was an imposing force on the team, and later on the rugby field as well, helping Air Force to a national title in 1989, his senior year.
Upon graduation Shea cross-commissioned, which meant he asked for, and received, a commission in another branch of the military (that option remains open to Service Academy grads, but now they must find someone at another academy to take his or her spot). He became an officer in the US Marine Corps, and served in Operation Iraqi Freedom in the early 1990s.
Upon returning to the USA, Shea joined the US Naval Academy staff and was a coach for the Navy rugby team. He was respected by everyone who knew him.
Shea was deployed to Iraq in the second Iraq war, and was killed in action on his 40th birthday, September 14, 2004. Shea could have been home then, but had deferred that return in favor of other, younger Marines.
On Friday, the trophy awarded the winner of the Navy v. Air Force game was named after Lt. Col. Kevin Shea.
“It was very important that we did that,” said Navy Head Coach Mike Flanagan, who knew Shea. “ he has a connection with both academies. There’s a statue of him at the Air Force Academy. His brother Tom and other members of his family came to the game; he was a special person. He epitomized the warrior ethos, and I get choked up just thinking about him.”
The trophy is a small token of honor for a member of the rugby community who died serving his country.
“In the end we played a game, and it’s just a game,” said Flanagan. “But when you use it to honor someone, and come together like that, it becomes more than a game. I think Kevin would appreciate that. We will play for it every year.”
NAVAL ACADEMY TRIATHLON CLUB ALUMNUS TO RACE IN IRONMAN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN KONA, HI
Tim O'Donnell ‘03, will be competing in the professional field of the Ironman World Championships on October 8 in Kona, Hawaii. O'Donnell was a varsity swimmer for Navy through his youngster year, then led the Navy Triathlon Club Team to National Championships in 2002 and 2003. As a member of the EOD community, he represented Navy in triathlons and won six U.S. Armed Forces Championships. He spent most of 2011 ranked as number one or two in the KPR, also known as the qualifications points system for the Ironman World Championships. He was also the U.S. Ironman Champion, a title he won in his Ironman debut at Ironman Texas in May. Inside Triathlon featured O'Donnell on the cover of its July/August edition, denoting him as the next "hope" for the U.S. to win the Ironman World Championships.
Although, no longer in the active service, O'Donnell is working on giving back to the military community and its veterans as he works as an ambassador for the non-profit organization Team Red White and Blue.
links:
www.ironman.com
www.timothyodonnell.com
http://triathlon.competitor.com/2011/06/news/julyaugust-inside-triathlon-magazine-on-newsstands-now_31326
www.teamrwb.org