The Bates Bobcast

This week on the Bobcast we’re talking about the football team’s 33-10 win at Tufts.

Plus, the nationally ranked cross country teams continue to dominate and a trio of women’s golfers qualified for the NESCAC Championships this spring.

Hear from our student-athletes and coaches on the only podcast dedicated to Bates athletics! 

Interviews this episode:

1:08 -- Ed Argast, Interim Head Coach, Football.

6:54 -- Spencer Adams '23, Linebacker, Football. (NESCAC Defensive Player of the Week)

12:52 -- Brendan Costa '22 (Male Bobcat of the Week) and Sean Bryant '23, Quarterback and Wide Receiver, Football.

23:53 -- Isabel May '24, Women's Cross Country. (Female Bobcat of the Week)

29:50 -- Andrew Mottur '25, Men's Cross Country.

40:03 -- Nerea Barranco Aramburu '25, Alex Voight-Shelley '24 and Maddy Kwei '25, Women's Golf.

This week we’ve got a jam packed Bobcast, including interviews with student-athletes and coaches from EIGHT different sports. It’s the height of fall sports season and we’ve got it all covered, on the Bates Bobcast! 

Interviews this episode:

1:14 -- Custavious Patterson, Senior Associate Head Coach and Offensive Coordinator, Football.

12:24 -- Curtis Johnson, Head Coach, Men's Cross Country.

20:19 -- Jillian Richardson '23, Women's Cross Country (Female Bobcat of the Week and NESCAC Cross Country Runner of the Week).

26:04 -- Bruce David '25, Men's Soccer Goalkeeper (Male Bobcat of the Week).

32:43 -- Kat Nuckols '22, Women's Soccer Goalkeeper.

38: 10 -- Emma Eide '24, Volleyball Setter.

44:36 -- Alex Voight-Shelley '24, Women's Golf.

49:18 -- Anna Rozin '22, Women's Tennis.

55:52 -- Sean Bryant '23 and Derek Marino '22, Football Wide Receivers.

This week we introduce you to one of our 13 club sports at Bates: rugby! The rugby squad plays the University of Maine this Friday night at 7pm on Garcelon Field.

Plus, our recap of the week that was in varsity athletics, including interviews with standouts from the Bates field hockey, volleyball and men’s tennis and golf programs. All that and more, on the Bates Bobcast!

Interviews this episode:

0:57 -- Ed Argast, Interim Head Coach, Football.

5:07 -- Alyssa Lowther '25, Volleyball. (Female Bobcat of the Week)

10:09 -- Nick Forester '23, Men's Tennis captain. (Male Bobcat of the Week)

17:23 -- Bridget Thompson '22, Field Hockey.

24:36 -- Jack Howard '22, Men's Golf captain.

33:33 -- George Schouten '22 and Tim Hunter '22, Club Rugby.

This week on the Bobcast we are celebrating our cross country teams winning the Bates Super Cross Country Shootout, including the women's squad outracing No. 5 Tufts. Plus, the field hockey team earned its first NESCAC win in convincing fashion and football battled Amherst to the wire. All that and more!

Interviews this episode:

1:27 -- Ed Argast, Interim Head Coach, Football.

6:32 -- Mohamed Diawara '23, Wide Receiver, Football. (Male Bobcat of the Week)

14:37 -- Riley Burns '22, Field Hockey captain. (Female Bobcat of the Week)

21:15 -- Tara Ellard '22, Women's Cross Country captain.

27:57 -- Jackson Donahue '22, Men's Cross Country.

33:26 -- Simon Redfern '22, Placekicker, Football. (NESCAC Special Teams Player of the Week)

43:05 -- Paul Gastonguay '89, Head Coach, Tennis.

This week we get you ready for the football team’s home opener Saturday against Amherst, as we chat with fifth-year seniors Brendan and Anthony Costa. Plus, the men’s soccer team is off to a great start and a pair of Bobcats earned NESCAC honors last week!

Interviews this episode:

1:21 -- Rex Lane '25, Men's Soccer. (NESCAC Player of the Week and Male Bobcat of the Week)

8:26 -- Jill Richardson '23, Women's Cross Country. (NESCAC Performer of the Week)

12:35 -- Maddy Kwei '25, Women's Golf. (Female Bobcat of the Week)

17:02 -- Brendan Costa '22 and Anthony Costa '22, Football season preview.

This week we remember All-American thrower Peter Goodrich '89, who died in the attacks of September 11, 20 years ago.

Teammate Matthew Schecter '89 shares his memories of Peter and tells us more about the Peter Goodrich Memorial Scholarship.

Plus, we continue our fall sports previews with volleyball, field hockey and football.

Interviews this episode:

0:46 -- Matthew Schecter '89. Remembering Peter Goodrich '89, Men's Track and Field.

11:33 -- Emily Hayes, Head Coach, Volleyball. Season preview.

19:17 -- Dani Kogut, Head Coach, Field Hockey. Season preview.

27:10 -- Ed Argast (Interim Head Coach), Custavious Patterson (Offensive Coordinator), Keith Davis (Defensive Coordinator), Football season preview.

This week we preview the 49th annual cross country and track and field alumni meet, with women’s head coach Jay Hartshorn. Plus, we get our fall sports previews rolling with women’s and men’s soccer!

Interviews this episode:

1:08 -- James Peter '22, Owen Keleher '22 and Alec Szwarcewicz '22, Men's soccer captains.

6:58 -- Joe Vari, Head Coach, Women's soccer.

16:40 -- Jay Hartshorn, Head Coach, Women's cross country and track and field.

This week we chat with the men’s cross country and track and field team’s third head coach in the last 70 years, Curtis Johnson.

Plus, meet the new directors of Bates golf, including a Maine Sports Hall of Famer!

Interviews this episode:

1:16 -- Curtis Johnson, head coach, men's cross country and track and field.

15:24 -- Brendon Croteau and Abby Spector, directors of Bates golf.

It’s the seventh season of the Bates Bobcast, our weekly podcast where we take a look at the week that was, in Bates athletics!

This week we welcome two of our new head coaches to Bates! Emily Hayes and Renee Olsen are on campus and ready to lead the volleyball and women’s lacrosse programs respectively.

This week we are celebrating this year’s virtual reunion with a special trip down memory lane with Bobcats from years past. We’ll hear from student-athletes who graduated as recently as 2016 and as far back as 1976, as they reflect on their times at Bates.

Interviews this episode: 

1:08 -- Ahmed Abdel Khalek '16, Two-Time National Champion, Men's Squash.

8:27 -- Rebecca Waldo '11, Three-Time All-American, Women's Rowing.

20:28 -- Pat Williams '11, Men's Squash Captain, Executive Director, SquashDrive.

29:21 -- Julie Roche Simplicio '91, Two-time ECAC Champion, Volleyball and Honorable Mention All-American, Women's Basketball.

37:52 -- Jeff Helm '76, Co-Founder, Men's Lacrosse.

47:26 -- Claudia Turner '76, Team Captain, Field Hockey, Women's Basketball and Softball.