On its annual spring break trip, the Tufts baseball team played nine games in 10 days. The Jumbos went 5–4 in that stretch, scoring 92 total runs and posting a team batting average of .282. Tufts fell short in the final game of the trip, losing by 12 runs to Virginia Wesleyan, 25–13."I ...
The No. 17 Tufts men’s tennis team continued its strong start to the season over spring break, recording a 3–1 record during its week-long trip to the West Coast.Tufts triumphed over Connecticut College (7–2), Sewanee (5–4) and Whittier (7–2).After a three-match win streak to open ...
March Madness has truly lived up to its name this year.There have been upsets, overtime and last-second shots in abundance. There is one Cinderella team that has caught many a fan’s heart: Loyola University Chicago.The Ramblers are a No. 11 seed and are slated to play in the Final Four on Saturday, ...
In a historic weekend for Tufts swimming and diving, the men’s team captured seventh place in the Div. III NCAA Championships in Indianapolis — its best finish since 1982. The team's superb performance was buoyed by a plethora of strong individual performances, All-American honors and program ...
Anfernee Simons, one of the top-ranked high school basketball recruits, decided this week to forgo his college eligibility and declare for the NBA draft.Since Simons had taken a postgraduate year, in which he spent his fifth year of high school at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., he is already 19 ...
The No. 8 Tufts women’s tennis team went 2–1 in its three matches in Southern California over spring break, bringing its record to 3–2 on the season.The Jumbos began their trip in Northridge, Calif. on March 18 with a 7–2 win over the No. 27 Whitman College Blues.Coming off a 9–0 victory ...
For Tufts senior co-captain Anna Kimura, there was no better way to finish off her collegiate swimming career than to compete at her first national championship. Kimura, the only member of the women's team to travel to the NCAA Championships, competed in the 200-yard individual medley, the 100-yard ...
Although a powerhouse on the world stage, the U.S. Women’s National Team’s (USWNT) success has not translated to success in domestic club markets.The first fully professional women’s soccer league, the Women's United Soccer Association started shortly after the USWNT’s 1999 World Cup victory ...
After an unsatisfactory end to last year's campaign, the Tufts softball team is back with a score to settle. Tufts coach Cheryl Milligan described the team's 2017 season as one of their worst in its recent history: the Jumbos' 65-game unbeaten streak in the NESCAC East Division was snapped ...
The Tufts sailing team participated in three competitions in the Boston area over the weekend.The Jumbos took second place in the Wood Trophy Team Race at Harvard, first at the MIT Team Race Invitational and posted the top three finishes at the Icebreaker Fleet Race at Tufts' home venue of Mystic ...
For one member of the Tufts women’s swimming and diving team and 11 members of the men’s team, spring break will be anything but a break.The NCAA Championships, held in Indianapolis at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Natatorium, will start on Wednesday and extend for four ...
After winning the program’s fifth overall NESCAC championship — and second in as many years — and making strides in another NCAA tournament run, the Tufts men’s baseball team will return to the diamond on Friday in Virginia for the debut of its 2018 season. The Jumbos dominated last season, ...
On the first weekend of its spring season, the Tufts women’s tennis team went 1–1, falling 6–3 to Middlebury at home on Saturday and defeating Wellesley 9–0 in an away match on Sunday.On Sunday, the Jumbos visited the Blue for their second match of the weekend.Last time the two teams met, ...
On Sunday, the Tufts' women's fencing team ended its 2017–18 season at the NCAA Northeast Regionals.The Jumbos traveled a few miles to Brandeis' Gosman Athletic Center in Waltham, Mass. to compete against fencers from all across the region.The Northeast Regionals were different from ...
We're eight games from the end of the Premier League season, and as Manchester City is just about crowned champion already by everyone, it's less certain for the positions that matter.The top six has almost certainly become five — Arsenal are eight points behind fifth-place Chelsea and 12 ...
The No. 7 Tufts men’s lacrosse team cruised to its third win of the season on Saturday with a decisive 16–7 victory over the Stevens Institute of Technology.The Jumbos were only winning by two goals at halftime, but with a stifling defensive effort in the second half, they were able to shut out ...
The No. 17 Tufts men’s tennis team traveled to MIT on Saturday to compete in its first match of the 2018 season.The Jumbos won all three doubles matches and three out of the six singles matches, winning with a final score of 6–3.Having lost to MIT in 2016, the Jumbos were thrilled to exact revenge ...
"Don’t call it a comeback." LL Cool J immortalized those words nearly 30 years ago. He did not want anyone to think that he had been gone and was now returning; no, he was always there. That is not the case in sports. There are clear falls and there are even clearer comebacks. There are ...
Senior co-captain Brittany Bowman won the 5,000-meter race to lead the Tufts women’s track and field team to a tie for 11th place at the NCAA Div. III Indoor Track and Field Championships over the weekend.The two-day meet — hosted by Birmingham-Southern University and held at the CrossPlex complex ...
On Friday and Saturday, the Tufts men’s track and field team competed at the NCAA Div. III Championships held at Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Ala. It was a strenuous weekend for the Jumbos, but the athletes competed at the top level and placed highly in their respective events. Led ...
