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 ...
"My most memorable moments as a Jumbo were being able to step on the field with my brothers on the biggest stage twice and bring two national championship trophies back to Tufts," Greenwood said.
For the third time this season, the Jumbos fell to the Wesleyan Cardinals in the third round of the NCAA tournament, 17-8. The first quarter saw Tufts quickly fall behind 4-0, and the lead ballooned to six points at the half. The Jumbo offense never got off the ground, unable to score more than three ...
“Four years really flies by,” graduating senior tri-captain and standout diver Matt Rohrer said. “I couldn’t be happier with the team this year. I wouldn’t have wanted to go out with any other group."Rohrer is perhaps one of the most accomplished Jumbo athletes in the class of 2017. ...
While the Tufts athletics program sees hundreds of students pass through its doors every year, the handful of international students that represent the Brown and Blue across the country in various sports can go unnoticed.Two of those individuals are rising juniors Mina Karamercan and Julia Keller, both ...
Well, so this a little awkward ... but this is actually my final column of the semester. Since I talked last time about some big picture ideas including a list of the remaining majors and dates, I will stick with that theme.The next major on the schedule is the U.S. Open. This year the tournament will ...
In February I was hired part-time by MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM) as a stats stringer. I'm one month into the job and I wanted to share my experience.We're responsible for entering data into MLB’s software following the outcome of every pitch. MLBAM then posts that data real-time on MLB Gameday ...
Tufts sailing had an up-and-down year throughout the fall and the spring seasons. Both the women’s and co-ed teams still have the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) Championships to come, events for which they’ve been preparing since the end of the regular season in April.For the co-ed ...
The 2016–2017 season was a dominant year for Jumbo athletics. Following a strong fall campaign, Tufts was No. 2 in Div. III in the Learfield Director's Cup standings. Following an equally impressive winter campaign, Tufts athletics remained a top-three force nationally. These dominant seasons ...
For the first time since 2000,the Jumbos (22-14) failed to qualify for the NESCAC conference playoffs. Nevertheless, the strong performances of multiple first-year players demonstrate that the team’s rebuilding efforts should pay dividends for years to come. Coach Cheryl Milligan explained that while ...
It's a familiar, eye-roll-inducing cliché: Athletes regularly describe themselves and their teammates as members of a "family." The explanation lies in the fact that players commonly live together, eat together, study together and more, despite already seeing hours of each other at ...
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Tufts athletics owes its existence to hundreds of athletes and coaches, each of whom leaves a mark on the school. Each year, however, the Daily recognizes a number of these athletes who exceeded every expectation and made their presence known to opposing teams week after week. These athletes represent ...
