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Bentley Falcons

{{Short description|Intercollegiate sports teams of Bentley University}}

{{Infobox college athletics

| name = Bentley Falcons

| logo = Bentley univ athletics logo.svg

| logo_width = 200

| university = Bentley University

| conference = NE-10 (primary)
AHA (men's ice hockey)

| association = Division II

| director = Vaughn Williams

| location = Waltham, Massachusetts

| first season =

| teams = 24

| mens_teams = 12

| womens_teams = 12

| coed_teams =

| stadium = Bentley University Field

| icehockeyarena = Bentley Arena

| baseballfield = Robert DeFelice Baseball Field

| softballstadium = Bentley University Softball Field

| mascot = Flex the Falcon

| nickname = Falcons

| fightsong =

| pageurl = https://bentleyfalcons.com/

}}

The Bentley Falcons are composed of 24 teams representing Bentley University in intercollegiate athletics, including men and women's basketball, cross country, lacrosse, soccer, swimming & diving, tennis, and track and field. Men's sports include baseball, football, golf, and ice hockey. Women's sports include field hockey, softball, and volleyball. The Falcons compete in NCAA Division II and are members of the Northeast-10 Conference for all sports except the men's ice hockey team, which competes in Division I as a member of Atlantic Hockey.{{cite web| title=Bentley|publisher=bentleyfalcons.com| url=http://www.bentleyfalcons.com/|access-date=2016-10-17}}

Teams

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{{CollegePrimaryHeader|team=Bentley Falcons|Men's sports|Women's sports}}
BaseballBasketball
BasketballCross country
Cross countryField hockey
FootballGolf
GolfLacrosse
Ice HockeySoccer
LacrosseSoftball
SoccerSwimming & diving
Swimming & divingTennis
TennisTrack & field†
Track & field†Volleyball
colspan="2" style="{{NCAA secondary color cell|Bentley Falcons }}" | {{small|† – Track & Field includes both indoor and outdoor.}}

History

Bentley's mascot is Flex the Falcon. The university has 23 men's and women's varsity teams. All of the teams compete in the Northeast-10 Conference at the NCAA Division II level, with the exception of the men's hockey program, which was one of the original six founding teams of Atlantic Hockey at the Division I level.

Bentley is also home to one of the best rugby programs in the Northeast, winning two national Division III titles as well as the 2008 Beast of the East tournament.

In 2001, the Bentley field hockey team won the NCAA Division II national championship.

In 2012, the Bentley men's cross country team finished 26th in the nation at Division II XC Nationals. Likewise in 2015, the Bentley men's cross country team qualified for the NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships and finished 30th in the nation.

After beating Saint Michael's College by a score of 85–65 on February 23, 2008, the Bentley University men's basketball team set the record for the longest regular season winning streak in Division II history. Additionally, Bentley has men's, women's, and co-ed intramural programs for the fall, winter, and spring semesters.

The Bentley women's basketball team completed the 2013–2014 season with a 35–0 record, winning the NCAA Division II National Championship. Their appearance in the 2019 NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament was their 35th in team history, having only missed just three since the first NCAA women's tournament; they have the most appearances in the history of the NCAA women's tournament. {{Cite web |title=Division II Women's Basketball Championships Records Book |url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/w_basketball_champs_records/2019/D2.pdf |website=National Collegiate Athletic Association}}

The Bentley men's ultimate frisbee team won USA Ultimate's Division III College Championship in 2014.{{cite web |last=Starkey |first=Erick |date=May 18, 2014 |title=Bentley Wins Men's Division at the 2014 D-III College Championships |url=http://www.usaultimate.org/news/bentley-wins-mens-division-at-the-2014-d-iii-college-championships/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402140804/http://www.usaultimate.org/news/bentley-wins-mens-division-at-the-2014-d-iii-college-championships/ |archive-date=2015-04-02 |access-date=2015-03-16 |website=USA Ultimate}}

The Bentley Falcons football team has made two Division II playoff appearances in back-to-back seasons in 2003 and 2004.

National championships

=Team=

class="wikitable"
align="center"

{{CollegePrimaryHeader|team=Bentley Falcons|Sport|Association|Division|Year|Opponent/Runner-up|Score}}

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|rowspan="1"| Field hockey (1)

|rowspan="1"| NCAA

|rowspan="1"| Division II

|2001

|East Stroudsburg

|4–2

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|rowspan="1"| Basketball (1)

|rowspan="1"| NCAA

|rowspan="1"| Division II

|2014

|West Texas A&M

|73–65

Notable people

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= Coaches =

References

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External links

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  • {{Official website}}

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{{Rugby Northeast}}

{{Massachusetts Sports}}