The women's swimming and diving team struggled last season, losing six straight meets to open the season before salvaging a win in its seventh and final non-tournament meet against Wheaton College. Though Tufts has a young team this year, the Jumbos are optimistic they will be able to build off ...
Although the men's basketball team is coming off a year in which it went only 4-6 and snuck into the NESCAC playoffs as the No. 7 seed, those numbers belie the promise that the 2014-2015 season holds.Last season, the expectations were set high for a Jumbos team that had finished 7-3 in the NESCAC ...
In a cruel twist of fate -- or, alternatively, a shot at redemption -- the men's hockey team will play the same five teams, in order, against whom it kicked off last season. Four of these teams -- Trinity, Williams, Middlebury and Wesleyan -- hail from the NESCAC, which saw six players selected ...
The fifth-ranked co-ed sailing team competed in the Hap Moore Team Race over the weekend, hosted by Coast Guard. The Jumbos compiled a two-day record of 8-6 and finished in third place out of the 12 teams at the regatta.Saturday came with great conditions for sailing, with a breeze of 4-7 knots that ...
Last night, the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Houston Rockets faced off in an NBA game in Mexico City. If you can remember as far back as last season, the Wolves were slated to play a game in Mexico City against the Spurs, but smoke inside Mexico City Arena prevented the game from being played. Before ...
The nationally ranked No. 26 women’s squash team will enter its 2014 winter campaign with the Wesleyan Round Robin in Middletown, Conn. this weekend. Tufts will take on Wesleyan and William Smith College on Saturday as well as Smith College and Mount Holyoke College on Sunday.“We should do well ...
After strong preseason practice and training, the members of the men’s squash team feel that it is ready to once again take to the courts for a successful season. Tufts finished 6-18 last year, and is looking to begin with a bang in their season opener at Wesleyan on Saturday.Two veteran players ...
This season, tri-captains Kelsey Morehead, Hayley Kanner and Hannah Foley will be returning for their senior years as anchors of the women's basketball team -- a team that is coming off of its most successful season in program history. The 2013-2014 Tufts team recorded an unprecedented 21-game ...
Tufts traveled to Middlebury on Saturday for its last game of the season, but the visiting Jumbos were unable to defeat the Panthers and their high-powered offense.“We had some injuries early in the second half,” coach Jay Civetti said. "[Defensive backs sophomore Mike] Stearns and [sophomore ...
The Tufts men's cross country team finished second at the ECAC Div. III Championship meet for the second year in a row on Saturday. Tufts historically fields a deep cross country roster and this year was no different, as those who competed in the ECAC meet were all part of the team's second ...
The Tufts volleyball team lost only one game on its home court all year, and it was the NESCAC championship game against Williams College on Sunday.Sunday's showdown between the top two teams in the NESCAC was thrilling from start to finish, reflecting just how evenly matched the opponents were. ...
On Saturday, members of the women's cross country team traveled west to Stanley Park in Westfield, MA for the annual ECAC Div. III Championship. Since the ECAC meet takes place the week before the NCAA Div. III Regional meet, most of the top squads rest most, if not all, of their top seven, and ...
The Tufts field hockey team had a chance to be a great Cinderella story, one about unexpectedly taking down the perennial favorite on its own turf in a dramatic postseason run to the Championship. Unfortunately, that was not the story that prevailed when the final whistle blew Saturday afternoon on ...
Ten of the 21 head coaches at Tufts are female. That’s refreshingly a far cry from the national norm, for which only one in five head coaches is female. A look at the head of Tufts Athletics Department, Athletics Director (AD) Bill Gehling, could shed light on why Tufts is ahead of the game. While ...
Saturday will mark the end of the season for the Tufts football team. The upcoming game against Middlebury will be a bittersweet affair for the Jumbos, especially for the seniors, who may never have another opportunity to play organized tackle football.“Senior leadership [has been crucial all year]," ...
The most awaited games in the first week of the NBA season unsurprisingly included two of the most influential players of our era: Kobe Bryant and LeBron James. Many fans were excited to have Kobe Bryant, the future Hall-of-Famer, back with the Los Angeles Lakers after an entire season on the sidelines ...
The Tufts women’s and co-ed sailing teams were in action over the weekend, competing in a total of three regattas and earning mixed results. The women’s team sailed in the Victorian Coffee Urn regatta, hosted by Dartmouth, while the co-ed team participated in the 74th annual Erwin Schell Trophy, ...
The Barclays Premier League is just past the one-quarter mark in the season, and it would have been difficult to foresee the teams that have emerged as contenders, or the ones that have struggled.Chelsea leads Southampton by four points, and is six points ahead of title holders Manchester City. Chelsea looks ...
On Sunday, the Patriots honored former players who had been part of the three Super Bowl winning teams from a decade ago. Among them was fan-favorite running back Kevin Faulk, who donned a hoodie emblazoned with the words “University of Belichick.”It proved fitting, because coach Bill Belichick ...
After taking down Amherst in the quarterfinals Saturday, Tufts is once again set to enter NESCAC semifinal action this weekend in a high-powered matchup against Bowdoin that will feature two of the conference’s perennial leaders.Taking down the defending Div. III National Champions, however, would ...
