When James Madison entered the Sun Belt Conference this past July, one question swirling around the athletic department and the Dukes’ fanbase was how the purple and gold’s baseball team would fare in year one.

James Madison women’s tennis coach Shelley Jaudon resigned from her post to accept the same job at the University of Kentucky, Dukes athletic director Jeff Bourne announced on Thursday.

After James Madison knocked off then-No. 23 Coastal Carolina 47-7 in the Dukes’ season finale at Bridgeforth Stadium in late-November, the purple and gold celebrated as if they won the Sun Belt Conference Championship.

Throughout James Madison’s three games in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament, shortstop Mason Dunaway found ways to create offense after an 0-for-4 showing in the Dukes’ opener.

In the first meeting between James Madison’s lineup and Southern Miss ace Tanner Hall, the Dukes logged 12 hits off the right-hander in Hattiesburg, Miss. in mid-April.

After he induced a leadoff flyout in the ninth inning, James Madison left-handed pitcher T.R. Williams wore a big grin across his face as his pitching coach, Jimmy Jackson, walked out to the mound.

With a record number of football season tickets sold and the sales on the packages paused until the four-year reseating takes place this summer, expanding Bridgeforth Stadium has crept into James Madison Athletic Director Jeff Bourne’s mind.

With James Madison up two runs and the chance to take the season series against Old Dominion earlier this month, Dukes coach Marlin Ikenberry turned to his hard-throwing righty, Joe Vogatsky, to close the game out.

On a spring day during Marlin Ikenberry’s junior year at the Virginia Military Institute in 1994, Keydets head coach Chris Finwood approached his catcher during batting practice and had a simple question in mind.

When James Madison joined the Sun Belt Conference last July, there were three sports that the league didn’t sponsor and the Dukes did — field hockey, swim and dive and women’s lacrosse.

In the week leading into James Madison’s trip to play at Louisville last season, Aaron Gunn sat in the Cardinals’ meeting rooms studying the Dukes’ defensive front.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Facing an onslaught of shots from No. 2 Syracuse’s high-powered attack in the NCAA Quarterfinals, James Madison goalie Kat Buchanan kept the Dukes in the contest with acrobatic saves and point-blank saves — one after another.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — James Madison’s stout defense held Syracuse’s elite attack scoreless for the first 13 minutes, but its own offense couldn’t take advantage to generate quality looks.

This time, a comeback wasn’t in the cards. Nor was a trip to the NCAA semifinals.

James Madison waded further into the new era of college sports Thursday with the official launch of the Montpelier Collective, an organization technically independent of JMU Athletics that aims to provide more Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) opportunities for the JMU athletes.

This time last year, James Madison didn’t have the conference tournament at the end of the tunnel to look forward to.

Maddie Epke went a stretch of 10 games in the middle of the season with only two goals — both of which came in a 20-10 win over then-No. 23 Richmond in early April.

For as long as Shelley Klaes has been at the helm of James Madison’s lacrosse program, she’s continued to build the Dukes into a national power.

Todd Centeio wasn’t sure he’d be in this position six years ago.

After a breakout inaugural season in the Sun Belt Conference, the buzz around James Madison is palpable — and it’s been felt by the Dukes’ ticket office.

In a relative down period based on the program’s previous decade of success, James Madison softball is in what could be considered a rebuilding cycle after ending the 2023 season last week in the Sun Belt Conference quarterfinals.

A year ago, James Madison did something it hadn’t since 2011: beat Virginia Tech.

While he waited for his phone to ring, former James Madison kicker Ethan Ratke had to get creative to find a place to workout as he tried to keep his leg in shape in case a pro team came calling.

Caitlin McElwee hasn’t had consistent playing time for James Madison this spring, but she's taken advantage of each day in practice. So when her number was called against Maryland, she was ready.

After James Madison dropped three of its first four Sun Belt Conference series, including a trio of losses at Southern Miss in mid-April, the Dukes’ lineup started to take shape.

For much of this season, James Madison attacker Isabella Peterson has been humble about moving up the Dukes’ goal-scoring record book.

James Madison banged on the door for 30 minutes before breaking through, a testament to the first-half play of Army goalie Lindsey Serafine.

Before the James Madison women’s lacrosse team had finished celebrating in front of cameras that broadcast the reaction to receiving the No. 7 overall seed in the NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Tournament worldwide to an ESPNU audience, JMU staffers were in the background of the scene at the Atlantic…

Since Rachel Matey arrived in Harrisonburg, she hasn’t played past the NCAA Tournament’s first weekend.

After he spent the last two years waiting for a phone call, former James Madison kicker Ethan Ratke’s professional opportunity finally arrived on Wednesday.

Avery Pinder wasn’t sure whether or not she wanted to keep playing collegiate softball after she finished her fourth year at Division III Bridgewater College last spring.

They say nothing’s free in this world.

A couple of weeks before East Carolina’s season opener against UCF during Taji Hudson’s freshman season, the Pirates needed a tall wide receiver on their scout team to replicate a big-framed wideout in practice.