The Castleton Spartans are the athletic teams that represent
Castleton University. The Spartans compete in 28
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III intercollegiate sports.
Sports sponsored
NCAA Division III sports
Men's basketball
From 1983 to 1986,
Stan Van Gundy
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(later head coach of the
Orlando Magic
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and the
Detroit Pistons) coached Men's Basketball at Castleton.
Men's soccer
Castleton's men's soccer team were declared 1963 NAIA co-champions (along with
Earlham College of Indiana) after the championship and consolation games at
Frostburg State University in Maryland were cancelled due to snow.
Ice hockey
The men's and women's Castleton Spartans hockey teams compete at the Spartan Arena in the site of the former
Diamond Run Mall in
Rutland
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Its greatest len ...
.
They compete in the
New England Hockey Conference
New England Hockey Conference (formerly the ECAC East) is a college athletic conference which operates in the northeastern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division III as a hockey-only conference.
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History
The New England Ho ...
(NEHC),
Football
The Castleton Spartans
football
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team represents the school in NCAA Division III. The team has been coached by Tony Volpone since 2014. Volpone replaced Marc Klatt, who resigned in December 2013.
It has been part of the
Eastern Collegiate Football Conference
The Eastern Collegiate Football Conference is a football-only intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III. Founded in 2009, it combines six schools spread across the states of Massachusetts, Vermont, and New York ...
(ECFC) since its inaugural season in 2009.
References
College sports teams in Vermont
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