DUDLEY, Mass. – Former Nichols College Director of Athletes and current Visiting Assistant Professor for Sport Management Charlie Robert will be inducted into the SUNY Cortland C-Club Hall of Fame later this year. She was previously inducted into the Oxford High School Hall of Fame in 2012 (field hockey & softball) and the Nichols College Hall of Fame in 2015.
 
A 1978 graduate of with a Bachelor of Science degree in physical education, Robert was a four-year student-athlete in field hockey and lacrosse at SUNY Cortland. She was a member of the Red Dragons 1975 & 1976 New York State Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (NYSAIAW) Championship field hockey team as a midfielder and back, and also participated in three Eastern Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (EAIAW) Tournaments (1975-77).
 
The field hockey team posted a four-year mark of 30-19-7 (.598 winning pct.) during Robert's time in upstate New York while the women's lacrosse program – for which Robert played defense and cover point – went 17-12-1 from 1976-78, highlighted by a second-place finish in the NYSAIAW Tournament in 1976, the program's second year of varsity competition. Robert served as team captain as a senior for both programs and was a member of Theta Phi Alpha from 1976-78 while in Cortland.
 
Robert will join Stanley Kowalski '69 (lacrosse), Jack McGetrick '72 (lacrosse), Terry Febrey '82 (soccer), Frank Ciliberto '83 (soccer), Tony Zawadzki '86 (football), and Stefan Mascoll '99 (track) in the SUNY Cortland Hall of Fame Class of 2019.
 
The head field hockey coach at Union College (N.Y.) from 1983-96, Robert was named the New York Collegiate Female Coach of the Year in 1988 after guiding the Dutchmen field hockey program to an undefeated season and an Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championship. In addition, she coached at the Empire State Games from 1977-89. Robert later guided the field hockey team at Nichols from 1996-2002, posting 62 victories during that span – the third highest total in school history.
 
Named the 2008 ECAC Jostens Female Administrator of the Year in recognition of outstanding and meritorious service to the organization, Robert took over the helm of the Nichols athletics department on November 9, 1998 before accepting a role in the Sport Management Department. Under Robert's leadership, Nichols won 13 Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) titles, three ECAC Northeast Hockey titles, and hosted the 2011 NCAA DIII Field Hockey championship. 
 
In 2014-15 – Robert's final season at the helm of the department – the Bison captured a conference championship in the fall (men's soccer), winter (men's ice hockey), and spring (men's tennis) for the first time in school history. The Bison won the ECAC Northeast championship for the third time in seven seasons while men's tennis captured its fourth-straight CCC Championship. They also advanced to the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament for the third time in four seasons. Robert received the ECAC President's Award in 2015 for meritorious service to the ECAC and an ECAC member institution demonstrating significant accomplishment in her chosen professional field.
 
During her final three academic years as AD, six programs – field hockey, men's basketball, men's golf, women's and men's tennis, and men's soccer – advanced to the CCC Championship. In 2010, the men's soccer and women's tennis teams won CCC titles for the first time in program history, and the men's golf team added its third conference crown (2001, 2007).Overall, the men's tennis team has been crowned CCC champion six times (2000, 2001, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015) during Robert's tenure while the women's soccer (2002) and field hockey (2009) programs also claimed conference titles.
 
During the 2007-08 season, Nichols won the Worcester College Cup for the first time in the 10-year history of the trophy, awarded annually to the most successful varsity athletics program among eight colleges in Worcester County by the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. Since then, the Bison have posted a combined overall win percentage hovering around the .500 mark each year.
 
Robert helped oversee the construction of a new athletic center in 2000 and a new multi-purpose stadium, Michael J. Vendetti Field, in 2005. An advocate for women's sports, Robert added women's lacrosse and women's ice hockey as varsity sports. In 2014, Nichols broke ground on a brand new fitness center and athletic training facility as well as new tennis courts.

A member of the NCAA Division III Management Council, Robert has chaired the Membership and Student Legislative Relief Committees. She has served on NCAA sport committees and concluded her terms in field hockey and women's lacrosse as the chair. Robert presently serves as the Chairperson for the Colleges of Worcester Consortium Directors of Athletics and is on the Advisory Board for the Woman's LeadHERship Symposium for the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. She has been a member of the ECAC Field Hockey and Officiating Negotiating Committees and serves the CCC as the women's basketball and SWA liaison.

Robert went on to earn her Master of Science degree in sport management administration from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 1983, where she served as an assistant coach for both the field hockey and lacrosse programs in 1981-82.