Harold Alfond Athletics and Recreation Center, opened in 2020
The Harold Alfond Athletics and Recreation Center is the center of athletic life at Colby, and home to the Colby Mules. In addition to athletic offices, it contains:[3]
The Margaret M. Crook Center (Men's and Women's Basketball, Volleyball)
The Jack Kelley Rink at the O'Neil|O'Donnell Forum (Men's and Women's Ice Hockey)
The Boulos Family Fitness Center
Aquatics Center
Squash Center
Indoor Competition Center
Aidan's Climbing and Bouldering Wall
Colby Outdoor Venues:
Harold Alfond Stadium new in 2008, contains an illuminated 400-meter, 8-lane track, with area for the long and triple jump, new discus and hammer cage and separate areas for shot put and javelin competition.
Seaverns Field, inside the stadium, is an illuminated synthetic turf field used by the football, soccer, and lacrosse teams.
Bill Alfond Field is an illuminated synthetic turf field for field hockey and men's and women's lacrosse.
The Alfond-Wales Tennis Courts – 10 hard-surface courts, including the Klein Tennis Pavilion
The Colby soccer field and Loebs Field, two full-size playing fields west of the soccer field for soccer practice as well as intramural sports and summer sports camps.
Crafts Field (Softball) and Coombs Field (Baseball) make up the Baseball and Softball Complex.
The Campbell Cross Country Trails are used for cross-country running and skiing.
In addition to the on-campus facilities, the Mules also utilize:
The Colby-Hume Center, located on Messalonskee Lake for Colby's crew and sailing teams. It is also open to the Colby community.
The Sugarloaf Ski Resort is home to the Alpine Ski Team, and is used extensively by recreational skiers from Colby because of its proximity to campus, about 50 miles away.
Quarry Road Trails for Nordic Skiing, Cross Country.
The Colby alpine ski team received varsity status in 1986 and won five Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association (EISA) Division II titles between 1987 and 1992.[4] That success prompted the college to upgrade the program to Division I status in 1993. Abbi Lapthrop '06 captured the NCAA giant slalom title at the NCAA Skiing Championships at Steamboat Springs, Colorado, in 2006. Lathrop is the first Colby athlete to compete against Division I schools and win a national title.[5]
In 2000, the Mules won the first ever NESCAC Championship-the only time in school history this has happened.
On November 28, 2017, 6 year coach Jonathan Michaeles resigned after leading the Mules through a tough 1–8 season. Colby recently announced UMaine Veteran Jack Cosgrove as the new head coach.
On November, 10th, 2018, during the Colby vs Bowdoin game, there was a reunion of the 2000 NESCAC Champion Mules, the only team in school history to have claimed the title. At half-time of the game, there was a ring ceremony celebrating the 18-year anniversary of the all-time greatest team.
Woodsmen's Team competes against other schools in the Northeast and Canada
Nickname, symbol, and mascot
A retired version of the Colby Mules logo.
The White Mule was adopted as Colby's mascot in 1923 when Colby Echo editor Joseph Coburn Smith '24 suggested in an editorial that the success of the football team had made its customary "dark horse" label obsolete. In 2002, the name was shortened to Mules.[11] As for a mascot, currently there's a costume with a giant mule's head, known to students as "Morty".
