The Citadel Reaches Two-Week Spring Practice Mark; Spring Game March 27

The Citadel announced Feb. 27 that its football program completed seven of a planned 14 on-field spring sessions, marking the two-week point of spring training and setting the calendar toward the Bulldogs’ annual Spring Game scheduled for Friday, March 27 in Charleston. The update notes seven successful practices over the past fortnight as the program moves into the second half of its on-field schedule.

The halfway tally comes amid a busy late-February athletics window for the Citadel. The baseball team entered a road series against the nationally ranked Florida State Seminoles with a 4-2 record while Florida State was listed at 5-2 and ranked No. 21 for the Feb. 27–March 1 series. Inclement weather in Tallahassee forced postponement of the opening matchup, and the two programs announced plans to make up the contest as a doubleheader, though specific times and game-day details were not included in the spring-practice update.

Men’s basketball also appeared in the athletics feed during the same span, with Citadel listed at 9–21 overall and 6–11 in Southern Conference play as it traveled to face Wofford, 19–11 and 11–6 in SoCon, at Jerry Richardson Indoor Stadium on a Saturday afternoon to close the regular season. The proximity of those postseason-clinching weekend dates to the spring-training window highlights the athletic department’s overlapping winter-to-spring calendar, with spring practices progressing even as other teams finish conference competition.

On the track front, Citadel men’s and women’s teams were slated to compete at the Southern Conference Indoor Championships on Feb. 27–28 at VMI’s Corps Physical Training Facility in Lexington, Va., providing league-level competition for distance and field athletes as the football program continued its controlled on-field work in Charleston.

Campus news items appearing alongside the athletics posts included institutional updates: a presidential search committee announcing four finalists, presentations of prestigious Cincinnati and MacArthur awards to Citadel cadets, and the Moore Art Gallery opening an “All Hands on Deck” World War II naval photography exhibition. Photo roundups titled “Photos from campus: January in review” and “Photos from campus: February in review” and an “Upcoming News from The Citadel – March 2026” listing were also published in the same late-February feed.

With seven of 14 scheduled practices complete, head-counts, positional battles and special-teams evaluations will carry through the remaining sessions as the program prepares for the March 27 Spring Game. That exhibition will serve as the on-field bookend to the spring schedule and a first extended look for evaluators at where the Bulldogs stand after two weeks of organized work.