Tufts will face the top-seeded Trinity Bantams in the quarterfinals of the NESCAC Championship this weekend. The Jumbos finished their regular season with an 8-14-2 record, the team’s best since the 2011-12 season, when the team won 12 games. While the Jumbos are facing the intimidating 21-2-1 Bantams, ...
Owen Elliott has had an exceptional sophomore year. Not only has he established himself as Tufts' premier golfer,but he also cemented his position in the starting lineup on the men's squash team; he is en route to joining the select group of Jumbos that call themselves multi-sport athletes.Although ...
On Saturday, the Jumbos competed in the Div. III New England Indoor Track and Field Championships, held at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. Although collectively the team did not compete as well as it had hoped it would, it still posted some solid performances and gained some new All-New England ...
The men’s squash team traveled to Trinity College last weekend to play in the College Squash Association’s (CSA) Team Championships. The Jumbos competed in the D division in the hopes of winning the Conroy Cup and a higher national ranking than their current one, No. 28.The Jumbos opened up play ...
After three days of racing this weekend, the men’s swimming and diving team finished the 2015 NESCAC championships in the same position as last year. Tufts ended with 1,086 points for fourth place behind perennial champion Williams (2,065.5), Amherst (1,579) and Connecticut College (1,323).Unsurprisingly, ...
When Jose Mourinho was christened "The Chosen One" during his first stint at Chelsea, he must really have internalized the sobriquet, evident in the way he now metes it out quite liberally, a modern King Midas, having convinced himself -- and trying to us -- that not only he, but the teams ...
Just over two weeks after battling Hamilton down to the final minutes of regulation and escaping with a win in overtime, the No. 5 women's basketball team posted a definitive 64-43 win over the Continentals in the NESCAC quarterfinal matchup on Saturday. Hamilton, led by NESCAC leading scorer, junior ...
The men’s basketball team entered Saturday’s NESCAC quarterfinal meeting against Amherst as the No. 4 seed and with a 27-point road win in an earlier matchup under its belt. This game would not go as swimmingly for the Jumbos, as the Lord Jeffs shot 56.4 percent from the field in a 92-66 victory ...
The 2015 catcher situation is quite similar to the situation from years past. There are about 10 solid number-one catchers, followed by 15 almost interchangeable players. Then there are some unusable starters and minor league prospects rounding out the bottom of the list.Buster Posey and Jonathan Lucroy ...
The San Diego Padres have been one of the most active teams this offseason. After trading for Matt Kemp, Justin Upton, Wil Myers, Derek Norris and Will Middlebrooks, they signed righty James Shields two weeks ago to a four-year, $75 million deal. These moves have led some to believe the Padres are now ...
Tufts (8-14-2 overall, 5-11-2 in conference) defeated Colby (5-16-3, 2-13-3) on Friday at Alfond Arena 4-1 to clinch a playoff berth as the eighth seed before falling to Bowdoin (14-7-3, 8-7-3) 4-0 on Saturday. The Jumbos have not made the NESCAC playoffs since their '11-'12 season, when they ...
Jumbos' Starting Lineup:PG Lauren Dillon (FY)G Emma Roberson (JR)G Hannah Foley (SR)C Michela North (SO)F Hayley Kanner (SR)https://twitter.com/TuftsDailySport/status/569236277322756097First Half:18:50 - Jumbos strike first with a layup from Kanner, and then the tri-captain comes up with a huge ...
Updates:Jumbos start the game with an inside basket from sophomore tri-captain Tom Palleschi. Tufts follows it up with a steal on defense.https://twitter.com/TuftsDailySport/status/56921698492944793718:11 - Junior Connor Green scores six straight for the Lord Jeffs. Amherst leads 6-4.9:41 - Amherst ...
For many collegiate swimming and diving programs, swimming often receives more attention than diving. But at Tufts, it’s the divers that have stolen the show in recent years, dominating the competition in the NESCAC and claiming a number of NCAA titles under the tenure of diving coach Brad Snodgrass.Last ...
Entering college, most students hope to find their future calling in the classroom. John Wawer, however, found his on the hardwood.Wawer, a senior majoring in international relations, is currently in the middle of his second season as Director of Basketball Operations for the men's basketball team. Wawer, ...
The stage is set for the men’s basketball NESCAC quarterfinals match-up at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 21 between the Jumbos and the Amherst Lord Jeffs. Although Amherst finished 18-6 compared to Tufts’ record of 13-11, both teams ended 6-4 in the conference and Tufts beat Amherst handedly back ...
The 64th NBA All-Star game took place on Sunday night in New York City, and the Western All-Stars defeated the Eastern All-Stars in a high-scoring affair, 163-158. Since the NBA has taken a break and some players have returned to their collegiate stomping grounds, I too will take a peek into the college ...
Despite having been snowed out of several practices leading up to the Collegiate Squash Association's (CSA) Team Championships, the women's squash team defied the odds and concluded its season with a stellar spate of performances at Harvard this past weekend.Sitting at 6-13 overall heading ...
Last year proved to be a milestone season for coach Carla Berube's women's basketball team, as the Jumbos captured the first NESCAC championship -- after not dropping a single game to a conference opponent all season long -- in program history, subsequently advancing as far as the NCAA Championship ...
At Boston University’s David Hemery Invitational this past Saturday, junior Mitch Black reset the Tufts 800-meter record with an impressive time of 1:49.16.It replaced the standing school record (1:51.14) set by Black last season.“It wasn’t something I was looking to break," Black said, "I ...
