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Running backs Jayden Cook (left) and Ty Son Lawton (right) stand on the sideline in a game against William & Mary on Oct. 1, 2022. After losing its top five backs to injury last year, the Stony Brook football team looks to have a bounce back year running the ball. TIM GIORLANDO/THE STATESMAN

Stony Brook football’s running game has bounce-back opportunity ahead

Anthony DiCocco August 18, 2023
Following a season riddled with injuries, offensive line struggles and poor quarterback play, the Stony Brook football team will look for its running game to return to form in 2023.
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Wide receiver Khalil Newton celebrating a touchdown with his teammates on Saturday, Nov. 12. The Stony Brook football team fell to 2-8 after losing its home finale to Towson. TIM GIORLANDO/THE STATESMAN

Stony Brook football ties single-season record for losses

Mike Anderson November 12, 2022
In their home finale, the Seawolves fell 21-17 to the Towson Tigers in a game that went down to the wire. In what was a field position battle for most of the afternoon, the game took a dramatic turn in the final three minutes.
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Head coach Chuck Priore in Stony Brook footballs season opener. Priore is currently in the last year of his contract. TIM GIORLANDO/THE STATESMAN

2022 is a make or break year for Stony Brook’s Chuck Priore

Mike Anderson September 4, 2022
As the second football head coach in Stony Brook history, Priore has helped transform the program from a state of mediocrity into one of respectability. However, the 62-year-old coach is now in the final year of a contract extension from 2018.
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Stony Brook football head coach Chuck Priore during a game in 2016. EVAN YUSON/STATESMAN FILE

Priore inks deal to remain head coach through 2022

Ethan Tam November 3, 2018
Director of Athletics Shawn Heilbron announced on Thursday, Nov. 1 that head coach Chuck Priore has agreed to an extension through the 2022 season.
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Nick Tropeano pitching for the Seawolves.PHOTO COURTESY OF AMERICA EAST 2014

Eight alumni inducted into Stony Brook Athletics Hall of Fame

Kenneth Fermin October 21, 2018
Stony Brook Athletics inducted eight new members into the Rita & Kurt Eppenstein Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday. The 17th class is the largest to be inducted in the university’s history.
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Bello, other former SBU athletes attain success in and out of sports

Bello, other former SBU athletes attain success in and out of sports

Kunal Kohli March 30, 2016
Stony Brook Athletics is no stranger to producing success stories.
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ARCHIVES: Encouraging Words from the Dean of the Division of Athletics: Chance to Enter Conference, TV Deal, Two Stadiums Possible says Laskowski (1994)

ARCHIVES: Encouraging Words from the Dean of the Division of Athletics: Chance to Enter Conference, TV Deal, Two Stadiums Possible says Laskowski (1994)

August 15, 1994
After having two applications rejected by the New York Collegiate Athletic Association (NYCAC), Stony Brook now may have a choice of two athletic conferences to enter. The news came in a series of bizarre twists over the last week, but no one in the Division of Physical Education and Athletics is complaining. 
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