Athletics
In 1981 and 1986, under Hall of Fame Coach Jerry Welsh, the Potsdam Bears basketball team won the NCAA Division III National Championship. In 1979, 1982, and 1982, the Potsdam Bears were national runners up for this title. The SUNY-Potsdam men's ice hockey team has competed in the NCAA for 27 years, from 1976 to the present. Most recently they played in the State University of New York Athletic Conference, which is a Division III athletics conference.
SUNY Potsdam athletics were recently placed in NCAA probation due to an inadvertent error in the awarding of international student grants was noticed. The teams affected by the NCAA are the Men's and Women's hockey teams, Women's Volleyball, Men's and Women's Lacrosse, and the Women's Soccer team.
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