Robert Morris

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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,...

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 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...

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 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...

Robert Morris lost two players from its men’s basketball roster to the NCAA transfer portal, according to Rivals Portal, but added one in coach Andy Toole’s efforts to rebuild from a 10-22 season. Sophomore wing T.J. Wainwright and freshman guard Alfredo Boglio entered the portal while Toole received a verbal...

Oakland Catholic girls basketball coach Eddie Benton, who led the Eagles to consecutive section titles, is leaving for a job at Robert Morris. The university announced Tuesday that Benton was joining the Colonials women’s basketball team as an assistant under recently hired head coach Chander McCabe. Benton, a veteran college...

Significant change is coming to the Robert Morris men’s basketball program after four players, including three who started at least 19 games this season, and two assistants left the program. In the wake of a 10-22 record (6-14 in the Horizon League), players Josh Corbin, Stephaun Walker, Jackson Last and...

Robert Morris has a new women’s basketball coach. Athletic director Chris King announced Chandler McCabe as the seventh head coach in program history Monday. McCabe joins the Colonials from Central Florida, where she served as an assistant for the 2023-24 campaign. Previously, she spent two years at George Mason as...

Bill Hillgrove retired after 30 years as the voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers last week. However, he will remain as the play-by-play man of the Pitt football and men’s basketball teams. He has been a part of both of those broadcasts for more than 50 years. The news of Hillgrove’s...

Just over a year ago, Robert Morris hosted a Horizon League tournament game at UPMC Events Center in Moon for the first time since making the jump from the Northeast Conference ahead of the 2020-21 season. The Colonials put together a four-game winning streak toward the end of the regular...

As the regular season comes to a close, Robert Morris’ position within the 11-member Horizon League is solidified heading into the upcoming conference tournament. The Colonials (10-20, 6-13) will be the league’s No. 9 seed when the tournament begins March 5. Given that circumstance, not much was on the table...

Robert Morris University wants to build a $28 million arena on campus for its Division I men’s and women’s hockey programs and is seeking $10 million from the state for the project. If it comes to fruition, the state-of- the-art venue would hold 2,500 people through general spectator seats “with...