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About
Fall Open House
Join us for our last Fall Open Houses and experience our beautiful, riverfront campus firsthand. Learn more about Marist’s academic experience, the admissions process, and get an inside look at life as a Red Fox! You'll have the opportunity to hear directly from students, faculty, and staff about what makes the Marist Community so special. Register Below:
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Academics
Fall Open House
Join us for our last Fall Open Houses and experience our beautiful, riverfront campus firsthand. Learn more about Marist’s academic experience, the admissions process, and get an inside look at life as a Red Fox! You'll have the opportunity to hear directly from students, faculty, and staff about what makes the Marist Community so special. Register Below:
Academics
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Admission & Financial Aid
Fall Open House
Join us for our last Fall Open Houses and experience our beautiful, riverfront campus firsthand. Learn more about Marist’s academic experience, the admissions process, and get an inside look at life as a Red Fox! You'll have the opportunity to hear directly from students, faculty, and staff about what makes the Marist Community so special. Register Below:
Admission & Financial Aid
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Student Life
Fall Open House
Join us for our last Fall Open Houses and experience our beautiful, riverfront campus firsthand. Learn more about Marist’s academic experience, the admissions process, and get an inside look at life as a Red Fox! You'll have the opportunity to hear directly from students, faculty, and staff about what makes the Marist Community so special. Register Below:
Student Life
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Leander Schaerlaeckens
Senior Professional Lecturer, Sports Communication; Assistant Director, Center for Sports Communication
Bio
Leander Schaerlaeckens has been a lecturer in sports communication at Marist since 2017, teaching sports communication and journalism and specializing in writing classes. Leander started and remains the faculty advisor for Center Field, a website covering Marist sports in depth.
Leander writes regular columns on soccer and other sports for The Guardian and longer stories for The Ringer. He was previously a full-time soccer writer for ESPN, FOX Sports and Yahoo Sports and has covered three FIFA World Cups. His book on the United States men's national soccer team, The Long Game, will be published by Viking Books (an imprint of Penguin Random House) in May 2026.
Leander was born in the Netherlands, grew up in Belgium, went to college in London, and attended graduate school in Washington, D.C. before settling in the Hudson Valley with his wife, son, and mutt, Eleanor Roosevelt. He is fluent in English, Dutch, and French.
He has a love-hate relationship with the New York Mets. At the moment, he isn’t talking to them.
Education
MA, Broadcast Journalism and Public Affairs, American University
BA, Print Journalism and Economics, City, University of London
Research Interests / Areas of Focus
Soccer, sports journalism, history of sports, sports and politics, journalism, longform non-fiction writing
Selected Publications
Awards/Honors
Noted in Best American Sports Writing anthology in 2012, 2017, 2021 and 2023.
