About Hartwick Basketball

Oneonta, New York, United States
Hartwick is among the North East’s elite liberal art colleges both academically and athletically. Hartwick has a reputation of academic excellence and offers a most diverse selection of degree programs, with a strong emphasis on a liberal arts education. Our campus is truly beautiful. We are located on a scenic 425-acre site on the northern slopes of New York’s Catskill Mountains, in Oneonta, a town considered by some experts to be among the top ten best college towns in America. Hartwick offers a small college atmosphere; as the student/faculty ratio is 11 to 1, and the average classroom size is 15. Yet we are only 70 minutes from the state capital, Albany, and two and a half hours from New York City. This setting provides an ideal atmosphere academically, athletically, and socially for the aspiring student-athlete. Combine these facts with tremendous facilities, a great schedule, and a major commitment to the basketball program, and you can see why Hartwick basketball has made the final four and is a true Division III Giant! As a member of the Empire 8 Conference, Hartwick competes successfully in one of the premier Division III conferences in the country.

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Meet the Hartwick Hawks- Freshman Sam Young


My name is Sam Young, and I am from Warner, NH. Currently, I am a freshman at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY. Warner is roughly four and a half hours from Oneonta, but the geographic layout is about the same so it has not been too much of a change location wise for me.

In my next four years here at Hartwick, I intend to accomplish a lot. First I hope to find a subject that I love, considering I will be spending my next 40 years doing whatever it is I do. Second I hope to have an enjoyable basketball career. Finally, I hope to meet people I have never met and do things I never would have thought to do in the previous chapters of my life.

Over the summer I worked for my friend’s father haying and I worked for Mas-Con Masonry Company. In my spare time I like to play basketball, ride motorcycles, hike, hang out with friends, swim, and fish with my father.