CUNY Ayhletic Conference

Of all fourteen CUNY Athletic Championship sites on the calendar each year, none is more beautiful than historic Van Cortlandt Park at the end of October when the 2010 CUNY Athletic Conference / OAI Cross Country Championship will be held at the ‘mecca’ of the sport. On Halloween morning (October 31, 9:30 am start). All ten senior colleges and three of the community college is CUNYAC will compete for their respective titles.

The 2010 CUNYAC/HSS Championship will get underway on Tuesday, October 19 with four quarterfinals at the higher seeded team’s home courts. Then on Friday, October 22, the action moves to the world-renowned USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows for the semifinals at 4:00 pm with simultaneous side-by-side serves and slams. The final match, which will determine CUNYAC’s representative in the 2011 NCAA Women’s Tennis Championsip (May 13) will be played there on Saturday, October 23 at 2:00 pm.

The 2010 CUNYAC / Applebee's Women's Soccer Championship will be contested on Saturday, November 6 (2:00 pm) at the Metropolitan Oval in Maspeth, Queens, overlooking the Manhattan skyline. For the first time since 2005, the initial season of the Championship event, there are four Conference members competing for the crown, with the return of John Jay College, elevating the event to the level of the other 23 CUNYAC Tournaments. Secondly, the College of Staten Island is not the defending champions, as City College won the title over the Medgar Evers College, 1-0 last year.

Pierre, a Bronx native became a CUNYAC 1st team All-Star in her first year at Baruch in 2009 after transferring from nearby Mount St. Vincent College. The 5'11" senior is ready to pace the Bearcats if the opening of the season is any indication.