With 29 new first-years joining the squads, the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams look formidable going into the winter season. New members include two-time Ohio state champion Kingsley Bowen, two-time West Virginia finalist David Nason, two-time Mississippi state champion Alexandra Good ...
The Jumbos are at a crossroads. They have not posted a winning record since the 2011-12 season (12-11-2), yet last year's 9-15-2 regular season finish belies their postseason success. Tufts defeated eventual national champion Trinity 2-1 in the NESCAC quarterfinals before falling to future ...
On Nov. 9, the Jumbos gathered and watched the NCAA Div. III tournament selection show, hoping that their name would be called. The selection committee decided to give Tufts a chance to defend its national title. Two games later, a pair of defeated teams probably wish that the committee had thought ...
Once again, an important cog in a high-powered NFL offense succumbed to injury. This week, Julian Edelman suffered a Jones Fracture in his foot and is expected to miss the remainder of the regular season. Having already lost Dion Lewis to a torn ACL, the Patriots' deadly passing attack is suddenly ...
Tufts traveled to Conn. College on Saturday to race for the 2015 NCAA New England Region Championship. Fifty-fiveteams and 380 runners competed at Harkness Memorial State Park in Waterford, Conn. Tufts recorded its best finish since 2007, finishing third behind Williams and Amherst, who took first ...
No. 16 Tufts finished its season with a defeat in the NESCAC semifinals to arch-rival Middlebury. It seemed like an all-too-familiar feeling, as Tufts lost at the same stage last year in the championship.Overall, the Jumbos could be reasonably pleased with their year, finishing with an 11-6 record ...
Tufts defeated Middlebury 31-28 in a tense, high-scoring battle to finish in third place in the NESCAC for the season. The win brings Tufts' record to 6-2 -- their best since 2001 and the first time Tufts has defeated Middlebury in 14 years. The Panthers drop to 5-3 and tie with the Wesleyan ...
This past weekend at the NCAA Div. III New England Championships in Waterbury, Conn., the women's cross country team had one goal in mind: to qualify for NCAAs for yet another year.The team had a phenomenal day on Harkness Memorial State Park's fast six-kilometer course, narrowly edging out ...
Tufts' fate was in the hands of the selection committee as the team sat and watched the selection show on Monday for the Div. III national tournament. The Jumbos were fighting for one of 19 at-large bids for the tournament and were hoping that their resume was good enough to receive one, even ...
Expectations were sky-high for the Men’s A team of the Tufts University Football Club (TUFC) after a 2014 season that saw the group become the only Div. III school to advance to the National Tournament in Memphis, Tenn. This year, the team was unable to replicate that success and fell short of a return ...
Tufts continued its successful season, finishing fifth place out of 40 teams at the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Div. III Cross Country Championship at Mount Greylock High School on Saturday.First-year Dylan Jones led the team, finishing in seventh place. He ran the eight-kilometer ...
With just one week remaining in the regular season, the 5-2 Jumbos will look to achieve their best record since 2001 with a win over the 5-2 Middlebury Panthers at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday.
Tufts saw its season end with a loss at the hands of Middlebury on Friday, Nov. 6.In their NESCAC quarterfinal rematch, the Jumbos fell three sets to one, knocking the team out of the conference tournament.After the loss, the only way for Tufts' season to continue would have been through an ...
The third-seeded Jumbos were unable to avenge their regular season defeat against the Panthers, as they fell 4-1 to the three-time defending champions in the NESCAC semifinals on Saturday at Bowdoin.Tufts came into the game on the back of a victory over Trinity last weekend, while Middlebury had beaten ...
For the second consecutive season, Tufts entered the NESCAC tournament seeded seventh and traveled to face second-seeded Bowdoin. For the second year in a row, the Jumbos were defeated to end their season. They finished with a record of 6-8-2 (4-5-1 within the NESCAC), scoring 14 goals over the course ...
On Saturday, Tufts traveled to Williams for the annual Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championships. The Jumbos, like most other top programs in the region, sat out their top seven runners and instead ran runners eight through 14. Tufts showcased its depth by winning this meet for the ...
Ryan Tannehill led all quarterbacks this week...in receiving yards with nine. Despite his unimpressive debut as a receiver, Tannehill is a mid-tier QB1 with a good matchup.Drew Brees only has two games under 300 yards passing this season and has thrown a touchdown in every game. A week 13 home game ...
In the fall of 2013, then-sophomores Nick Cary and Roy Peleg tried out as walk-ons for the Tufts men's varsity tennis team. Little did they know that they would soon be permanent team members and that by their senior year they would be selected as team captains.In 2013, extenuating circumstances ...
Steph Curry of the Golden State Warriors is off to one of the hottest starts any player has had in NBA history. He is clearly the No. 1 player in the world right now, (sorry Mr. James) and is leading the Warriors to an undefeated season thus far. His shooting numbers are off the charts, and his per ...
Seven seasons. A combined record of 11-45. Multiple 0-8 seasons. The Jumbos' futile and heartbreaking seasons from 2008 to last year's respectable 4-4 finish loom over each new season, threatening to invalidate the tremendous effort expended every year. These ghastly memories were exorcised ...
