Building a Tradition of Excellence:
CIA Athletics
Something's really heating up on the Hyde Park campus of The Culinary Institute of America, and it's not the day's next entrée. Students are taking to the fields and courts to help build a proud tradition of intercollegiate athletics at the world's premier culinary college.
The CIA is pleased to offer four high-level competitive sports opportunities for both male and female students, with intercollegiate soccer, basketball, cross country, tennis, and volleyball teams. All CIA athletic teams are co-ed, and students must maintain a 2.0 grade point average to participate.
The CIA Steels
A true intercollegiate program at the CIA began in 2004, when the college's soccer and basketball programs joined the Hudson Valley Men's Athletic Conference. Today, the CIA Steels participate in five sports as members of both the HVMAC and the Hudson Valley Women's Athletic Conference, comprised of colleges from Albany, NY to New York City and Long Island, NY. Conference foes include the Albany College of Pharmacy, Berkeley College, Cooper Union, Pratt Institute, Sarah Lawrence College, St. Joseph's College, Vaughn College of Aeronautics, and Webb Institute.
Find out more about the growing CIA athletics programs:
Meet the Teams:
Student-Athlete Spotlights
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 Allyson Bayless '13
When it comes to life, Allyson Bayless wants to taste as many difference experiences as she can. That's why she chose The Culinary Institute of America for her formal education, and it's also why she enjoys competing in sports so much.
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 Brittany Ronan '12
For Brittany Ronan '12, CIA cross country is much more than just a championship team, and her fellow student-athletes more than just teammates who helped win conference titles.
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 John Kosko '12
If life is a journey, then John Kosko '12 has been all over the map. As a member of the CIA's cross country team, he's generally heading in one direction from start to finish. But that's hardly the way his life had gone prior to coming to Hyde Park.
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 Megan Jacob '11
As a CIA student-athlete, Megan Jacob is excited to be in on the ground floor, establishing a new tradition at the college for the sport she loves—volleyball.
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 Christopher Parise '11
Were it not for a strict company policy, this spotlight might be appearing on the website of MIT, not the CIA. But looking back, Christopher Parise couldn't be happier that things turned out the way they did in his sophomore year at Nashua High School in New Hampshire.
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 Dereck Surges '11
"The CIA's soccer program really sold my mom," Dereck explains. "She told me, 'soccer is your life, it'll keep you busy especially during those times when you might be homesick.' So I talked to Murph (CIA soccer coach Michael Murphy) on the phone and that clinched it."
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 Kevin Bender '12
Kevin Bender has been stepping onto tennis courts since he was 10 years old, but it was a different kind of court that caught his eye when he was first considering career choices.
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CIA Steels—Origin of a Team Name
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Why "Steels"? In the kitchen, a steel is used to sharpen a chef's most indispensable tool—the knife. Also known as a sharpening steel or honing steel, this vital instrument helps smooth out the roughness of the blade, leaving a nice straight edge for a better cut. Similarly, intercollegiate student-athletes on the CIA Steels hone their skills on the court or field, sharpen their work ethic and sense of teamwork, and become better people in their careers and lives.
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