There are no athletes driving towards the basket—or fans cheering them on—in Spaulding Gym this summer, but there’s plenty of activity happening there. The gym’s getting a makeover. After 43 years of heavy pounding and abuse from basketball shoes, volleyball players, and all the other shoes that run, jump, slide, and walk across the gym, and after the heavy commercial sanders from 43 annual refinishings, the floor had worn thin. So it’s coming up, and a new one is going down.
When the crew started tearing up the old floor, they realized that the bleachers, too, had seen better days (lots of them), and also needed replacing. So, the “student” side of the gym is getting bleachers with 968 molded seats. The “team” side is getting 470 chair-back seats. They fold up, the same as regular bleachers, but the chair backs pop up when the bleachers are pulled out for seating. Fans can now thrill to the excitement of Owl action in improved comfort!
The Little East Conference’s annual Little East Spring All-Academic teams honor student-athletes from baseball, men’s and women’s lacrosse, softball, men’s tennis, and men’s and women’s outdoor track and field. To earn a spot on the all-academic teams, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore academically and athletically, have a cumulative grade point average of 3.3, and be a full-time member of a varsity team.
With the 2000–09 decade coming to a close, the Keene State College Sports Information Department invites you to help pick the top Owl team of the past 10 years. We have created a list of teams, with their highlights, from each of Keene State’s 18 programs from 2000–09. Please use 
