Officials at Marist College in Poughkeepsie say the team was practicing earlier this week when the coach spotted a large object floating near the river's west bank.
Heavy snow caused serious travel problems across the Hudson Valley, as the state closed Interstate 84 to truck traffic and Metro-North railroad was shut down.
Dozens of applicants to Vassar College were mistakenly told they had gotten into the school when they checked a website that had been set up for students applying for early decisions.
One of the three people who died in a fast moving house fire in Poughkeepsie has been identified as Eva Block, 21, a student of Marist College from Woodbridge, Connecticut.
One of the three people who died in a fast moving house fire in Poughkeepsie has been identified as Eva Block, 21, a student of Marist College from Woodbridge, Connecticut.