Robert Morris category, Page 7
Edmonds runs for 99 yards and 2 TDs, leads Robert Morris over WagnerVideo
NEW YORK — Tyvon Edmonds Jr. ran for 99 yards and two touchdowns to lead Robert Morris to a 21-14 victory over Wagner on Saturday. The victory is the Colonials’ first in the Northeast Conference since 2019. Wagner’s Jake Cady threw a 20-yard touchdown pass to Teree McDonald that ended...
Robert Morris beats Wagner in return to Northeast Conference
Tyvon Edmonds Jr. scored a pair of touchdowns to lead Robert Morris to a 21-14 victory over Wagner on Saturday in the Colonials’ return to Northeast Conference competition. Robert Morris (2-2, 2-0), which played in the NEC from 1996-2019, played the last three seasons in the Big South Conference. Wagner...
Anthony Chiccitt torches Mercyhurst in Robert Morris win
MOON TOWNSHIP — Anthony Chiccitt threw for 307 yards and five touchdowns, Noah Robinson had 116 yards receiving and two scores and Robert Morris beat Mercyhurst, 55-28, on Saturday. Robert Morris scored the opening 21 points of the game and then closed the first half with two scoring drives in...
Robert Morris AD, Edinboro football coach share hometown bond as teams square off
Jake Nulph has had Saturday circled on his calendar from the moment he took over as football coach at Edinboro in 2020. Chris King isn’t surprised one bit. After all, Robert Morris’ athletic director figures that when you get a chance to return to your alma mater, you’re bound to...
Robert Morris men’s basketball will open Horizon schedule Dec. 4 against Youngstown State
Robert Morris men’s basketball will begin its fifth season in the Horizon League with a home game Dec. 4 against Youngstown State at the UPMC Events Center. Overall, the Colonials will play 20 conference games, meeting each of their 10 opponents once at home and on the road, according to...
Robert Morris hockey looks to move from back on the ice to back in contention
Robert Morris hockey players took the ice last week to begin practices for the second season of the rebooted program. The sense of being a newly constructed team has faded a bit after 2023-24’s return to the ice. And that’s exactly how the players want it. “Expectations will be a...
Robert Morris’ Rob Carter Jr. lands No. 1 highlight on SportsCenter’s Top PlaysVideo
Robert Morris defensive back Rob Carter Jr. might have made the best play of the college football season, just as the season got under way. Carter’s acrobatic acrobatic, one-handed interception just before halftime Saturday night in a 36-14 loss at Utah State was No. 1 on SportsCenter’s Top Plays after...
Utah State pulls away from Robert Morris in 2nd half
LOGAN, Utah — Backup quarterback Bryson Barnes passed for two touchdowns and ran for another Saturday night, Kyrese White caught three balls for 131 yards, including touchdowns of 57 and 53 yards, and Utah State beat Robert Morris, 36-14, in the season opener for both teams. Nate Dreiling, who was...
Bolstered by veterans, transfers, Robert Morris excited for return to NEC
Robert Morris finished its last football season in the Big South with a 2-4 record and a 4-7 mark overall. The Colonials will look for better results this season as they return to the NEC, a conference they helped start in 1996. The Colonials finished 6-1 in the NEC in...
Urban-Bennett Memorial Classic highlights Robert Morris’ nonconference schedule
Robert Morris men’s basketball will embark on its 49th season at the Division I level in Morgantown to take on West Virginia on Nov. 4, marking its first clash with the Mountaineers since 2010. It will be the first of 11 nonconference games for the Colonials. On Nov. 10, just...
Duquesne pegged to repeat as NEC champion in preseason coaches poll
Football coaches of the Northeast Conference voted Duquesne to defend its conference title in their preseason poll Wednesday during NEC media day at MetLife Stadium. This is the Dukes’ 14th consecutive season ranked in the top three in the preseason coaches’ poll, which includes earning at least one first place...
Entering Year 2 of their return, Robert Morris happy to ‘just get back to being Colonial hockey’
For Robert Morris men’s hockey, the second season of the program’s reboot doesn’t begin on the ice until October. It’s feeling real now, though. The schedule was released Tuesday. The roster is set. After a return to play from a two-year hiatus last fall, the rhythm is back. The cycle...
New Castle native Anthony Richards joins Andy Toole’s coaching staff at Robert Morris
New Castle native Anthony Richards has joined the Robert Morris men’s basketball program as an assistant coach, the university announced Monday. “I have known Anthony since he was in junior high school. He has always impacted winning at every level as a player and now as a coach,” head coach...
Robert Morris rower dies in Washington County crash
An 18-year-old woman was killed in a crash Sunday morning in Washington County. The crash happened just after 3 a.m. along Interstate 70 near the West Virginia state line. The Washington County coroner said Kaylee Ogea of Shawboro, N.C., lost control of her vehicle, which then rolled over. She was...
Penn-Trafford soccer goalie Rease Solomon commits to Robert Morris
Rease Solomon will be stopping shots in the Horizon League. The rising senior soccer goalkeeper at Penn-Trafford announced a verbal commitment to Robert Morris. Solomon, a Pittsburgh Riverhounds Academy player, was an all-section performer last season. She allowed 16 goals, made 113 saves and posted six shutouts for the Warriors...
Robert Morris hires assistant coach George Aramide, who will bring international experience to basketball program
George Aramide, who was born in London, played in Spain and coached in Canada and the U.S., was named Monday as an assistant men’s basketball coach under Andy Toole at Robert Morris. “We are excited to add George to our coaching staff,” Toole said in a statement. “He has been...
Former Duquesne assistant Kim Lewis joins Robert Morris’ men’s basketball staff
Kim Lewis, who spent two seasons on former Duquesne coach Ron Everhart’s staff from 2006-08, has joined Andy Toole at Robert Morris. Lewis has coached in Division I men’s basketball for more than two decades. “Kim is an excellent and experienced teacher, recruiter and coach of the game,” Toole said...
Robert Morris receives $450K gift to support hockey programs
A Robert Morris graduate is gifting his alma mater $450,000 to support the school’s men’s and women’s hockey Division I teams. Welling Fruehauf, a 1963 RMU graduate and president and CEO of his company, Fruehauf Manufacturing Group LLC, also made a $250,000 contribution to help rejuvenate the programs, which returned...
Robert Morris coach Andy Toole adds ex-N.C. State guard Kam Woods to 2024-25 roster
Kam Woods, a 6-foot-2 guard who played at N.C. State last season, will join his fifth collegiate basketball program in five years this season after committing to Robert Morris. last one ???? let’s get it ???????? pic.twitter.com/6rrbD7fAi1— Kam (Glizzy) Woods (@KamGlizzzy3) June 1, 2024 His playing time this past season...
Robert Morris adds 2nd prospect to its 2024 basketball recruiting class
Robert Morris coach Andy Toole added another verbal commitment to his class of 2024 when 6-foot-4 point guard Dilen Miller announced on the social media site X his plans to enroll this year. Since opening my recruitment back up, I’ve had the opportunity to find a new home. Big shout...
Whirlwind year brings Hampton grad closer to home for coaching job
Former Hampton star Laryn Edwards made national headlines over the winter when she transitioned from coach to player for the Providence women’s basketball team. Little did she know, in a roundabout way, it would bring her all the way home. “I would never have thought this was going to happen,...
Robert Morris coach Andy Toole restocks roster with 3 more transfers
After losing six players to the NCAA transfer portal since the end of the basketball season, Robert Morris coach Andy Toole added four transfers of his own, including three who verbally committed in recent days. ALL GLORY TO GOD ????????HOME=RMU pic.twitter.com/gbEx5rzIXz— Amarion Dickerson (@BT_mar3) May 3, 2024 Toole added to...
Robert Morris receives 7-figure gift to boost men’s, women’s basketball programs
Robert Morris graduate Russ Olsen (Class of 1982) has made a seven-figure gift — called “transformative” by university officials — to boost several elements of the RMU men’s and women’s basketball programs. The Olsen Basketball Excellence Fund will enhance special projects, nutrition initiatives, recovery tools, equipment and technology, facilities, travel...
Robert Morris, Penn State, Mercyhurst hockey teams join new conference
Hockey teams at Robert Morris (men’s and women’s), Mercyhurst (men’s and women’s) and Penn State (women’s) will be part of a new conference starting with the 2024-25 season. The Atlantic Hockey and College Hockey America conferences have merged to form Atlantic Hockey America. That union was announced Tuesday. Robert Morris’...
Duquesne, Robert Morris alter football schedules, add Mercyhurst for 2024
Duquesne and Robert Morris announced scheduling alterations to their 2024 football season Friday, with both teams now set to face the Mercyhurst in the Lakers’ inaugural campaign at the Division I level. Mercyhurst revealed earlier this month that 24 of its athletic programs would be making the jump from the...
