2024-25 Drexel Athletics Annual Report

Greetings from the DAC,

The 2024-25 marketing campaign for the Dragons noticed widespread success all year long. We are pleased with a staff of coaches and employees who’ve led, supported and rooted our applications within the mission of the college and division. It is with this care and execution that 11 of our 18 varsity applications completed the 12 months throughout the prime three of their respective conferences, by means of common season end and/or postseason efficiency, highlighted by our Field Hockey program, which garnered the CAA Regular Season Championship and completed the season ranked seventeenth. The Women’s Lacrosse staff secured 10 straight victories on its technique to a CAA Championship look and closing rating throughout the prime 25 nationally. It was the very best postseason end in CAA historical past for the Golf program after forcing a playoff on the CAA Championships. These outcomes are a press release of our purpose to realize aggressive excellence, one we are going to look to proceed as a typical every year.

We take nice pleasure within the tutorial achievements of our student-athletes, whose devotion to their research is obvious by producing a cumulative GPA higher than 3.4. The transformative progress that transpires exterior of the aggressive traces exemplifies their dedication to tutorial and private improvement. The Men’s Swimming & Diving program continues to steer by instance after boasting the second-highest GPA within the nation amongst its swimming & diving friends.

The division and its student-athletes proceed to exhibit a dedication to the group by a number of civic engagement initiatives.

Intramurals and Club Sports supply one other outlet and leisure strategy to impression the coed physique by athletics. The completion of the Buckley Turf Field and Buckley Bubble throughout the Vidas footprint created further alternatives for the whole scholar physique.

The 12 months concluded in document trend as our fundraising efforts set new heights. Through participating a various base of over 2,000 distinctive donors, greater than $2 million of money was raised in operational help for our applications. We welcomed numerous alumni, pals and supporters again to campus, highlighted by the induction of the 2025 Hall of Fame class.

We are excited to construct on the momentum from this previous 12 months and welcome new management in President Antonio Merlo, PhD, together with new Dragons who will enter the fold. Guided by Drexel Athletics’ mission to foster tutorial, athletic, and private excellence, we stay dedicated to growing student-athletes holistically and providing a platform of experiential studying that aligns with the college’s ethos. With a shared imaginative and prescient, we sit up for advancing our impression each on and off the sphere.

Go Dragons!

 

Maisha Kelly

Vice President, Director of Athletics and Recreation

Drexel University 

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