CNB SPORTS: Top-ranked Middlebury scored the first seven goals of the game en route to a 21-4 victory over #18 Rowan in the Third Round of the NCAA Division III Women’s Lacrosse Championship. The Profs end the season with a 15-5 record, having reached the final 16 of the NCAA Championship for the second year in a row.Â
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26 men and three women will represent Rowan at the 2026 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championship as selections were announced on Friday.
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is the host of the three-day event that runs Thursday, May 21st through Saturday, May 23rd at the Veteran’s Memorial Field Sports Complex in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
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#16 Rowan fought its way back to the NCAA Tournament Regional Final with a 5-1 win over St. Thomas in an elimination game Friday evening at the Marshall Regional on the campus of East Texas Baptist.
The Profs (37-9) move on to take on the host #6 Tigers needing two wins to advance to the Super Regional round tomorrow starting at 11:00 a.m. (CT) / 12: 00 p.m. (ET) with the ‘if necessary’ game 30 minutes after.
Continue reading “Rowan Softball Stays Alive In NCAA Tournament”Rowan’s Elaina Corson, Leah Corkhill, Alexis Lowry, Madison Rothwein have been named to the IWLCA All-Boardwalk Region First Team while Fiona Lockhart and Jenna O’Neill were named to the All-Region Second Team.
This marks Corson’s third consecutive year on the All-Region First Team while Corkhill, Lowry, Rothwein, Lockhart and O’Neill are earning the honor for the first time.Â
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GLASSBORO, NJ – Rob DePersia has been named the head men’s basketball coach at Rowan University, marking a return to the program for the 2019 alumnus. Director of athletics Shawn Tucker announced the appointment as DePersia becomes the 14th head coach in the Profs’ history.
DePersia returns to Glassboro after spending seven years at the Division I level. He worked for a total of five seasons with the Villanova University basketball program, including two with Naismith Hall of Fame coach Jay Wright, while also gaining experience at Fordham University, and most recently, at the University of New Haven.
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#17 Softball will take on St. Thomas (Texas) to begin the 2026 NCAA Division III Softball Tournament as selections and regional pairings were announced on Monday.
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The Profs, who are making its 32nd appearance all time in the national tournament and fourth in as many seasons, will battle the Celts, out of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC), at the regional host East Texas Baptist on Thursday. First pitch is slated for 2:30 PM ET/1:30 PM CT (local time). Rowan returns to Marshall, Texas, home of ETBU for the first time since back-to-back appearances in the Division III Championship Tournament in 2023 and 2024. The Profs added a third-straight championship tournament appearance last season and this year look to make it a fourth.
The fifth-ranked Rowan baseball team will begin play in the 2026 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship in the Gorham, Maine Regional on May 15-17. The Profs will face RIT in the first game, with host Southern Maine and Babson rounding out the field in the double-elimination regional.
Rowan and RIT (24-13) will face off in Game 1 of the regional (time tba) with Southern Maine (30-10) hosting Babson (26-13) in Game 2, with the tournament consisting of three games on Saturday and possibly two on Sunday.
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Elaina Corson and Madison Rothwein combined for five unanswered goals in the fourth quarter as #18 Rowan rallied to an exciting 13-11 win over #12 Scranton in the Second Round of the 2026 NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Championship. The Profs now advance to the Third Round next weekend at top-ranked and defending champion Middlebury.
Rothwein netted three straight goals, to tie the game and then give Rowan (15-4) a 12-11 lead. That goal on a free-position shot with 3:50 to play proved to be the gamewinner and Corson added the insurance goal at 1:26, her 79th goal of the season, to secure the victory.
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#2 Rowan swept four of the five marquee awards as a total of 30 student-athletes were selected all-conference by the New Jersey Athletic Conference in its year-end men’s outdoor track & field honors.
Damitrius Hester was named the Thomas M. Gerrity Most Outstanding Athlete while Angel Gonzalez was chosen as the NJAC Outstanding Track Athlete and David Brown earned the NJAC Rookie of the Year. Head Coach Dustin Dimit and his staff were awarded the Bill Fritz Coaching Staff of the Year as well.
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Yasmin Harris of Rowan women’s lacrosse team has been named to the 2025-26 Allstate NACDA (National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics) Good Works Team (Spring), as part of a group of 20 student-athletes who lead in their sport, academics and in communities across the country.
The Allstate NACDA Good Works Team was created to spotlight student-athletes for their meaningful community service. Honorees include men and women from NCAA Divisions I, II and III, NAIA and junior/community colleges, with student-athletes recognized each season across spring, fall and winter sports.
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