While the rest of the student body enjoyed the reprieve of spring break, Tufts played Stevenson University, Colby and Trinity, the latter two being significant as conference match-ups. On Tuesday night, they competed in a fourth game against Western New England University (WNE). The games resulted in three ...
While spring sports teams opened their seasons, the men's and women's swimming and diving teams wrapped up their seasons over the first weekend of spring break at the 2016 NCAA Div. III Championships in Greensboro, N.C., which ran from March 16 to March 19. Senior tri-captain Michael Winget, ...
The men's tennis team got into form quickly to start its spring campaign, posting a strong 5-2 record during their California trip over spring break. The team beat Vassar College 7-2, Whitman College 5-4, UC Santa Cruz 8-1, Stevens College 8-1 and Colby 7-2. The team only dropped a pair of matches to ...
As students across the nation return to campus this week, so do the best international soccer players to their respective clubs. However, instead of a week enjoying the sun (and maybe a drink or too), players will spend the week with their countrymen on international duty. As a fan of the Premier League, there are no two words I dislike hearing more than “international break.”
Tufts' current senior class has beaten every other NESCAC team except for Trinity. Until this Saturday, that is. In a true nail-biter, the No. 11 women's lacrosse team failed No. 10 Trinity 10-9 on Saturday in front of a home crowd at Bello Field. Leading 8-7 through the first half, the Jumbos ...
Fresh off a spring break that saw the Jumbos go 6-3 on their annual road trip through the South, the baseball team is back in New England preparing to face off against Mass. Maritime Wednesday in addition to its first NESCAC series this weekend against Bates.“We go down [to the South] to try and ...
For 75 seconds, no words were spoken. The crowd roared, the stadium shook and the players jumped around in the pure and unfiltered joy that only accompanies the occurrence of the impossible. For the second consecutive night, in that city, in that ballpark, the dynasty refused to go peacefully; in the ...
The No. 22 women's tennis team got its spring season off to a great start over spring break, winning three of its four contests in California ahead of a busy April and a host of NESCAC matches. The team beat Pacific University 9-0 on Sunday, March 20 and went on to upset higher-ranked opponents ...
The entire premise of higher education is to allow for the mind to explore and develop, and to provide a place for students to discover their true passions to prepare them for their professional careers. That’s what we’ve all been told right? So why don’t colleges allow for their student-athletes ...
Tufts softball is 7-4 to start off the 2016 season after finishing its annual spring break trip to Clermont, Florida, with a relatively disappointing start for the three-time consecutive NCAA Div. III national champions who went undefeated last season. The four losses, the most the team has suffered ...
The men's and women's track and field teams began to ease into the spring outdoor season over spring break as a number of athletes from both teams competed at various meets across the country. Less than two weeks after the NCAA Div. III Indoor Track and Field Championships on March 11 to 12, ...
Things were uncharacteristically up in the air at the beginning of the 2015-2016 season for the Tufts women's basketball team, which had won back-to-back NESCAC championships and made consecutive Final Four appearances. A loss by 18 points to conference foe Bowdoin just four games into the season, ...
Tufts alumnus and former men's ultimate frisbee captain Tyler Chan (LA '15), less than a year after playing for the Tufts "E-men," has already made a name for himself on the national ultimate frisbee scene. Playing his rookie season last spring and summer, Chan exceeded expectations, ...
"In a way, I'm probably immortal."In the 14th minute of the Netherlands-France friendly on Friday, the world stopped to pay tribute to a maverick. Johan Cruyff was perhaps the most famous player to have ever donned the No. 14 shirt, at a time when most players in the first team wore the ...
The co-ed sailing teams had a successful weekend in the water in just the second week of racing this spring season, with victories in all three of their regattas.The team sent contingents to a pair of away regattas — the Ice Breaker event at Conn. College and the Rudkin Team Race at Roger Williams ...
As most Tufts students leave campus for spring break, Tufts sports teams will be busy preparing for the spring season over the next week.Women's basketball headlines this weekend as the team made it back to the NCAA Div. III Championship Final Four for the third straight year. The Jumbos are in ...
With the 2016 season about to start, Tufts softball is getting very close to cementing its legacy as one of the most successful programs in the history of college athletics. As back-to-back-to-back Div. III national champions, softball is undoubtedly Tufts' current strongest athletics team, though ...
After starting the 2016 season winning its first two games decisively, the women's lacrosse team fell to 2-2 on the season after a pair of losses this past week to some of the best teams in the nation in the final two matches of its season-opening four-game homestand. Nationally-ranked No. 9 Tufts ...
The Jumbos gained an early lead against the Middlebury Panthers on Saturday and never lost it to take the win in their first conference game of the season. Despite Middlebury dominating statistically, No. 1-ranked Tufts outscored Middlebury 12-10 and improved its record to 3-0 so far this season and ...
On the verge of a new season, the baseball team is ready to shake off last year's disappointing performance in the NESCAC tournament as it sits in a strong position to get back to the postseason and claim its first NESCAC title since 2011. The Jumbos are about to kick off the season in full swing ...
