Sports
The college raises a variety of sports teams from the school's general population. Most are under the direction of administrative staff and faculty. Paul Smith's has intercollegiate basketball, rugby, soccer and cross country teams.
The college also offers sport programs reflecting its outdoor character, such as snowshoe racing, co-ed woodsmen's and Nordic skiing teams, and canoe racing. In the warmer months students may rent canoes to use on Lower Saint Regis Lake, located on the southern side of campus. Due to liability issues students are not allowed to swim in the lake.
The newly renovated Saunders Sports Complex houses the Bobcat fitness center, a gymnasium, dance studio, and campus pool. It is home to the school's SCUBA and dive training programs, the kayaking club's whitewater training, and log birling practice, an event in woodsman lumberjack sports competitions.
The facility is open to the general public for a nominal fee. A 32-foot (9.8 m)-tall climbing wall was opened in the adjacent Buxton Annex gymnasium in 2010.
Timbersports take place in both Fall and Spring semesters, with teams practicing every month of the school year. Events include pole climbing, log birling, chopping, splitting, sawing, pulp toss, ax-throw, and pack-board relay.
The Paul Smith's woodsmen's team's nine-year winning streak (from 1957-1966) in the sport's biggest event, the Spring Meet, is the longest in the history of intercollegiate lumberjack competition. The school's highly-regarded squad travels to meets throughout the Northeast and Ontario, Canada.
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