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The Empire Eight (or E8) is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA’s Division III. Member institutions are all located in the State of New York. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often said NC-Double-A) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletics programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ...
State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki (R) Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² (27th) - Land 122,409 km² - Water 18,795 km² (13. ...
Current members
Alfred University Fiat Lux Seal image © Alfred University Alfred University (Alfred) is a small, comprehensive university in the Village of Alfred in western New York State, USA, an hour south of Rochester and two hours southeast of Buffalo. ...
Elmira College is a coeducational, liberal arts college located on the Southern Tier of New York, south of the Finger Lakes. ...
// History & Overview Hartwick College is a nationally ranked, selective, private four year liberal arts and sciences college located in Oneonta, New York. ...
Ithaca College is a private liberal arts college in Ithaca, New York, founded in 1892 as a music school, the Ithaca Conservatory of Music in downtown Ithaca. ...
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is a private higher education institute, with emphasis on career preparation, in Rochester, New York founded in 1829. ...
Saint John Fisher College is a Catholic college in Rochester, Monroe County, New York. ...
Utica College is located in Utica, New York. ...
Sports The E8 sponsors intercollegiate athletic competition in men's baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, women's field hockey, men's football, men's golf, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women’s soccer, women's softball, men's and women's swimming and diving, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's track and field, and women's volleyball. Baseball is a team sport, in which a fist-sized ball is thrown by a defensive player called a pitcher and hit by an offensive player called a batter with a round, smooth stick called a bat. ...
Basketball is very popular in U.S. colleges. ...
The term cross-country, when used by itself, can refer to: Cross-country running Cross-country skiing Cross-country equestrianism Cross-country or XC mountain biking Fell running also known as hill running and mountain running This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might...
A game of field hockey in progress Field hockey is a popular sport for men and women in many countries around the world. ...
An Australian rules football match at the Richmond Paddock, Melbourne, in 1866. ...
Golfer teeing off at the start of a hole Golf is an outdoor sport where individual players or teams play a small ball into a hole using various clubs. ...
High School lacrosse action. ...
Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ...
Softball is a team sport in which a ball, eleven to twelve inches in circumference, is thrown by a player called a pitcher and hit by an offensive player called a batter with a round, smooth stick called a bat. ...
Swimming is the method by which humans (or other animals) move themselves through water in a method not involving simply walking on the bottom. ...
Diving has several meanings:- Jumping or falling deliberately, often acrobatically, into water. ...
Tennis balls This article is about the sport, tennis. ...
Athletics, also known as track and field or track and field athletics, is a collection of sport events. ...
Volleyball is a popular sport where teams, separated by a high net, hit a ball back and forth between the teams. ...
External link - Official site of the Empire Eight
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