After more than 15 years since splitting its membership between the NESCAC and upstate New York's Liberty League, Hamilton College is now a full member of the NESCAC.
Before the start of every NFL season, every sports website, whether it is ESPN.com or CBSSports.com, runs a grid featuring its respective self-proclaimed "experts" and their preseason Super Bowl predictions. While their insight is often valuable and sometimes correct, the most entertaining way to assess a team's chance at lifting the Lombardi Trophy is to look no further than its betting odds in Sin City. The Daily takes a look at how those odds, through two weeks, are matching up to reality.
The women's cross country team opened the season in stellar fashion at the Maine Invitational at Bowdoin College on Saturday. Facing teams who bested them at the end of last year, the Jumbos made a statement to start off the fall, taking the team title over a field containing several quality squads.
The men's cross country team had an impressive showing at its season opener, the Maine Invitational, hosted by Bowdoin.
Over the course of the past few decades, the No. 5 women's tennis team has come up short many times in its attempts to unseat No. 1 Williams, the perennial power of the NESCAC.
The football team has found its new starting quarterback.
Love was in the air in Rhode Island this weekend, and the men's tennis team took full advantage.
In a game that the women's soccer team controlled for nearly the full 90 minutes, senior co-captain Lauren O'Connor lifted the Jumbos up-and-over the visiting Wesleyan Cardinals with a goal early in the second half, giving Tufts its first outright NESCAC victory and lifting the team to a 2-0-1 overall record.
The volleyball team continued its strong start to the season this weekend with convincing victories over NESCAC opponents Williams and Hamilton at Connecticut College, boosting its overall record to 5-0 and lifting the squad into a tie for first place in the conference standings.
The No. 8 field hockey team seems to have hit its stride. With its first NESCAC win under its belt after Saturday's 2-0 victory over Wesleyan, the Jumbos seem to have put any early season uncertainties behind them and found their formula for success in 2011.
As the women's soccer team earned a well-deserved 1-0 victory over Wesleyan on Saturday, they had the support of an exceptionally large crowd as a result of the inaugural Fan the Fire event, which proved to be an unquestionable success.
Until Saturday, everything seemed to be going right for the men's soccer team.
ere's a little Zach Drucker history lesson for you: I was born on July 11, 1990, the first child and only son of Mara and Jon. As the first-born son, I was granted passage into the world of sports fandom by my father, starting with a rattling Jets football, a beaten-up Knicks cap and a Mets teddy bear cluttering my crib. My manhood was judged, not on how I performed in youth basketball leagues, USTA tennis tournaments or travel baseball games — after all, I'm an awkward, white, Jewish kid from New York suburbia, who never quite lived up to his "professional athlete" hype — but in how much I knew about Patrick Ewing's wingspan and Mike Piazza's stat line from the previous night. My dad weaned me on the Knicks, Mets and Jets, and my mom simply made sure I distinguished between being a fan and a fanatic.
On paper, the Tufts women's soccer team's match against Wesleyan looks just like any other the team will play this year: nothing more than an early-season game against a familiar middle-of-the-pack NESCAC foe.
After one of the program's youngest and deepest years, the men's cross country team looks to pick up where it left off last fall, this time with a more experienced squad and a drive to best its eighth−place Regional finish.
Last season was a historic one for the women's tennis team, as the Jumbos successfully climbed from a national No. 9 ranking at the start of the season up to a program−best No. 5, and then reached the national quarterfinals for the first time in school history. It might come as a surprise, then, that after such an exciting season, the Jumbos are starting off the fall on a worrisome note.
After a summer of intense training, the women's cross country team looks to take advantage of its fitness and improve on its eighth−place finish at the Div. III New England Regional Championships. Even with the graduation of All−American Amy Wilfert (LA '11), the team comes into the year with valuable experience and a core group of talented sophomores and juniors itching to prove themselves on the national level.
After a groundbreaking 2010-11 campaign, in which the men's tennis team won its most matches in 15 years and reached the NESCAC Championships for the first time since the tournament went to a six-team format in 2006, the Jumbos' program appears to be on the rise. With a deep roster that returns almost all of last year's starters, the squad is set to begin its fall season under the direction of new head coach Jaime Kenney.
Though the No. 8 field hockey team took a two-spot skid in the national rankings after Saturday's loss to then-No. 10 Middlebury, it didn't play like a team down on itself in a 5-0 rout of Babson on Tuesday.
Defensive coordinator Scott Rynne makes no excuses for the way his unit performed last season, when the football team lost its final seven games after a season-opening win at home against Hamilton.
