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- Our post-graduation survey found that 98% of 2022-23 bachelor degree recipients were either employed or enrolled in graduate school. Our placement is higher than the national average for similar schools (92%) and, on average, higher than colleges and universities in New England (94%). We're pretty excited about that, and we know our graduates are, too.
- All of our full-time head coaches also are professors and understand the academic rigors that our student-athletes face. In the fall of 2022, our 700-plus student-athletes had a cumulative GPA of 3.43 during the fall semester, with 87 earning a perfect 4.0 GPA.
- In 2022-23, Springfield College had 32 student-athletes earn All-America honors and 94 student-athletes were selected to All-Conference teams.
Springfield College finished 87th nationally in the final overall standings of the 2022-23 Division III Learfield Directors’ Cup, marking the 14th consecutive time the Pride has ranked in the top 100 of the 440 Division III athletic programs in the country. - In 2023, for the seventh-consecutive year, a Springfield College student-athlete was chosen to participate in the NCAA Division III Student Immersion Program in conjunction with the NCAA Convention.
- Our alumni go on to do big things. From world-renown entertainer and Make-A-Wish volunteer John Cena to inventor of the game of basketball James Naimsmith, we're proud of our graduates.
- James Naismith invented the game of basketball at Springfield College in 1891 when he was a graduate student and instructor at the College, which was then known as the International YMCA Training School.
- William G. Morgan, an 1894 graduate of Springfield College, then known as the International YMCA Training School, invented the game of volleyball in 1896 in nearby Holyoke, Mass., when he was serving as the physical director of the Holyoke YMCA.
- Robert Roberts, an employee of Springfield College in 1887 while it was still known as the School for Christian Workers, was the individual who coined the phrase “body building” while authoring books on weight lifting, exercise, and bodybuilding.
- David Allen Reed founded Springfield College in 1885. A Congregationalist minister who assisted evangelist and publisher Dwight Moody in religious revivals, Reed founded the tuition-free School for Christian Workers, at Winchester Square in Springfield, Mass., in 1885. The young minister was elected president and led the institution from 1885 to 1891. The school was dedicated to the training of Sunday School teachers, and included a Young Men’s Christian Association Department. Reed raised the funds to launch the school with its own building and, according to YMCA historian Howard Hopkins, “maintained it against great odds through its pioneer years.” Reed chose Robert Ross McBurney, who had strong YMCA connections, as vice president, and appointed Moody to the board.