The Jumbos hope to build on their momentum from last season as they prepare for their first game on the road on Wednesday. Last season, Tufts posted a 27–4 overall record, including a 10–0 regular season in-conference, and won the title of New England’s best team after defeating Springfield ...
Tufts looks to build on its improved offensive performances last year, the first season after moving from a 4–2–3–1 to a 3–5–2 formation. In doing so, the team improved from a 6–8–2 record in 2015 to 7–6–3 in 2016, and in the process of doing so, scored 24 goals, up 10 from 2015,while ...
The 2016 Div. III National Champions will be a team to watch this season after winning their second national title in three years — the first came in 2014. Tufts entered the NCAA tournament unranked last season, and by the end was ranked No. 1 in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America ...
While we were away, many of our Jumbos continued to represent us at various sporting events. Here are some of the highlights.Men's Track and FieldTufts placed 16th overall at the NCAA outdoor meet held in Geneva, Ohio over the weekend of May 27. In some of the highlights, junior Josh Etkind finished ...
Tufts University is a Div. III athletic powerhouse. Last year, the Jumbos placed third in the 2016-17 Learfield Directors' Cup with 926.75 points. The Directors' Cup aggregates points for 18 different sports — nine women's and nine men's — over all three athletic seasons to rank ...
Amherst CollegeFounded in 1821, Amherst College resides in its namesake Massachusetts townless than 100 miles from Medford. The recently christened Mammoths — renamed after they abandoned their previous mascot, the Lord Jeffs, due to its connections with white oppression — sport purple and white ...
VolleyballFresh off an appearance in the NCAA championships' Elite Eight, just the second time in program history the team had made it that far, the Jumbos are eyeing even greater success. They return five of their starters, most of them concentrated in strong sophomore and junior classes including ...
FootballWith a 7-1 record -- their best performance as a program since 1998 -- the Jumbos finished as the NESCAC runners up. In doing so, the members of the senior class completed a remarkable turnaround from their 0-8 mark during their first season here. Tufts was undefeated at the Ellis Oval, with ...
With nationals still to come starting Thursday, expectations are as high as ever for the Jumbos, who’ve put together an impressive spring following a dominant showing in the indoor season.During the indoor season, the Jumbos battled in a number of meets leading up to the New England Div. III Championships. ...
This is my last column ever for The Tufts Daily *cue sad music.* I’ve been informed that it won’t print until Commencement where “hundreds of parents will read it, so you better not be inappropriate again.” Oops, wasn’t supposed to include that last bit.I’ve had an awesome time writing for ...
Rounding out her career in impressive fashion, Elizabeth Ahrens, the four-year starting middle hitter from Richmond, Va. earned an All-NESCAC first team selection and an All-American honorable mention in her final season as a Jumbo. Ahrens posted 1.96 kills per set during her senior season while hitting ...
Unless they are granted an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament, the Jumbos will have finished the 2017 season with an overall record of 10-6, 5-5 in the conference. At the beginning of the season, graduating senior quad-captain Olivia Veillette noted that this was a transition year for the team after ...
Tufts women’s basketball head coach Carla Berube has yet another accolade to add to her already impressive resume in the basketball world. She has been named the head coach of next year's USA Basketball Women’s U16 National Team. She will be assisted by Steve Gomez of Lubbock Christian University ...
According to the rowers on Tufts' men's crew team, this year has been one of growth for the Jumbos."I can't think of a single athlete who didn't grow as a rower and as a person this year," graduating senior tri-captain Zach Merchant said. "The team is primed for even bigger ...
Tufts improved its regular season record to 15-7 this year, making 2016–2017 one of the program's best seasons under coach Kate Bayard. This year’s roster of 14 players is also one of the deepest that Bayard has had in her 12-year tenure at Tufts.The team started the spring season off strong during ...
The Tufts Women’s track team came in with one goal this year — to learn how to be a successful team together after graduating several key runners. “I think that wanting to prove we could be as good a team as before without relying on the ‘heavy-hitters’ was a huge motivation for our team,” graduating ...
Tufts hockey will be losing a fantastic goal-tender this year in graduating senior Mason Pulde.In 2016, the Lexington, Mass. native was awarded the Academic All-America At-Large Honors, an award that recognizes student athletes for peak athletic and academic performance. To qualify, athletes must have ...
Speros Varinos grew up on baseball. The graduating senior pitcher and Middleton, Mass. native played a variety of sports in high school, but baseball was always his focus. Growing up just a half hour outside of Boston, Varinos was attracted to the prospect of playing for Tufts."I chose to play ...
The Jumbos saw a great deal of success in the spring racing season. In its final regular season regatta, Tufts traveled to Cambridge, Mass. for the MIT Lightweights. There, the Jumbos swept the Engineers, going 3-0 in their races on the day, finishing up a successful regular season.Prior to the MIT ...
The No. 16 Jumbos flashed plenty of potential throughout the 2017 season, but a few missed opportunities proved costly with a schedule that had little margin for error. In splitting its final two matches against No. 19 Brandeis (a 6-3 victory) and No. 7 Bowdoin (a 5-4 loss), the team solidified a ...
