Other Athletics
Robert Morris also has a widely respected bowling team, as they have produced several well-known professional bowlers and also were the 2007 National Runner-Ups.
The football and lacrosse teams play in Joe Walton Stadium, named in honor of football team head coach Joe Walton, formerly the head coach of the NFL's New York Jets in the 1980s, and who has coached the team since the football program's inception in 1993, and has led the team to the first Northeast Conference championship in 1996, guided it to a perfect 10-0 season in 2000. Also, in 2010, Walton coached the Colonials football team to the NEC's inaugural bid to the FCS Playoffs with their league-high sixth regular-season championship. . The school's soccer teams both play on the North Athletic Complex, and the hockey teams play their games at the RMU Island Sports Complex, just down the road from the campus on Neville Island.
On February 14, 2009, the Men's lacrosse team defeated Penn State 12-11 in double overtime in the program's biggest victory at Joe Walton Stadium.
On November 6, 2010, The Colonials won the NEC championship by defeating the Central Connecticut State Blue Devils 42-24. In addition, Robert Morris won a berth to compete in the Football Championship Subdivision for the first time in school history, the same year the Northeast Conference first earned an automatic bid to the Division I Championship playoffs.
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