Nichols to add two new varsity sports

DUDLEY, Mass. – Nichols College Director of Athletics Charlie Robert has announced the addition of men’s and women’s cross country and men’s and women’s track and field as varsity sports for the 2013-14 academic year.

Nichols becomes the eighth Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) institution to sponsor men’s cross country, joining Eastern Nazarene, Endicott, Gordon, Roger Williams, Salve Regina, University of New England, and Western New England. The women, meanwhile, will compete against the eight aforementioned schools, along with Curry, which does not sponsor a men’s cross country program.

The CCC does not sponsor track & field as a sport, but rather hosts an invitational each spring for the member institutions which sponsor a program: Gordon (m/w), Roger Williams (m/w), and Salve Regina (w).