Most collegiate teams will send their No. 1 player to the CSA Individual Tournament this weekend at Dartmouth College. Yet Tufts coach Belkys Velez decided two weeks ago to bypass No.1 Alix Michael to send junior co−captain Mercedes Barba, the team's No.3 player this season, to the national tournament instead.
The men's lacrosse team may not have any scrimmages lined up for the last Saturday before the start of its regular season, but that hardly means a weekend off for the Jumbos. On Sunday and Monday, the team will hit the pool deck, the gym and the practice field, as it participates in its second−annual Judgment Day training program, as the team has dubbed it.
The course of Tufts athletics history was changed forever in the quaint conference area in Halligan Hall nearly eight years ago on a sunny afternoon in June. From the outset of the family's vacation, one of their myriad road trips up and down the East Coast, the Grosses shuttled back and forth between their black 1998 Toyota Sienna minivan and collegiate meeting rooms, breaking from this standardized routine only for the obligatory tour or information session. The majority of schools were nice but unimpressive.
In watching soccer over the years, I have learned to expect the unexpected. Whether it's Liverpool coming back against AC Milan to win the Champions League in 2005, or Birmingham beating Arsenal in the Carling Cup final last Sunday, you can never quite tell what's going to happen next, no matter how unreasonable the outcome might seem. I mean, who would ever think that FIFA would award a World Cup to a country the size of Connecticut with no stadiums built for the event and an average summer temperature of 106 degrees? (I'm still seething about that.)
Monday's NHL trade deadline brought the customary annual excitement for hardcore hockey fans. As 3 p.m. drew closer and closer, pundits and fans feverishly monitored Twitter and refreshed browser windows, waiting for a game-changing trade to happen at any moment.
Seniors Colleen Hart and Vanessa Miller each earned one last NESCAC accolade yesterday when the All-Conference squads were announced. Hart was named to her fourth All-NESCAC team and third consecutive All-Conference First Team, while Miller won a second straight Defensive Player of the Year honor.
Three playoff appearances in 41 seasons. That's all the Milwaukee Brewers can boast. But a thrilling offseason has the fans at Miller Park wondering if 2011 just might be their year.
With the NBA season just over two-thirds complete, basketball fans can't help but ask themselves: Who will win this season's NBA Most Valuable Player Award?
Though the men's basketball team's 70?47 loss to Trinity in the first round of the NESCAC tournament occurred nearly two weeks ago, for most of the Jumbos it feels as if the final buzzer just sounded.
This past weekend's NESCAC men's basketball tournament was not the most thrilling in recent memory. Only two out of the seven contests were decided within single−digits. Three of the four quarterfinal games were won by at least 20 points. And with the exception of the championship game, there were no upsets. But for a Middlebury squad that had one goal in mind, the results of the weekend were very exciting.
Sophomore Jeff Marvel and junior Connor Rose took full advantage of an famously fast track this weekend at the All-New England Championships at BU. Both Jumbos stepped on the track Friday night in the fourth and final heat of the preliminaries for the 800-meter run, and when they stepped off, both had set new personal records (PRs), broken the school record and qualified for NCAAs.
W ith The Oscars officially over, I have nothing left to do except wallow in sadness that 363 days remain between now and the next installment of the world's greatest spectacle. Forget March Madness or Opening Day; I'd rather watch Natalie Portman. Who cares about the NBA Playoffs or the potential NFL lockout when the award for Best Live Action Short is on the line? Green outfields pale in comparison to red carpets.
Williams prolonged its reign over the NESCAC men's swimming and diving world this weekend in the conference championships at Bowdoin, winning its ninth-straight title and 10 out of the last 11. The Ephs earned 1,741.5 points to edge out the Amherst Lord Jeffs (1,614.5), while the Jumbos finished third with 1,318.
The women's basketball season officially came to an end yesterday afternoon with the announcement of the 64-team NCAA tournament field. Though four NESCAC teams were awarded bids, including two that will be hosting first- and second-round games, the Jumbos — ranked ninth in the region and sixth out of NESCAC sides — were denied entry for the first time since 2007, a season only senior guard Vanessa Miller was around to see.
The men's lacrosse team is a talented group of players. No one can deny it; The Jumbos are the reigning NESCAC and NCAA Div. III Champions.
The All-New England Championships provide an opportunity for the women's track and field team to compete against some of the best athletes in New England, spanning Div. I to Div. III, and often result in personal or season-best times. Even with only a few athletes competing, the Jumbos did not disappoint.
It's been a while since the No. 1−ranked men's lacrosse team has taken to the turf at Bello Field, yet the Jumbos looked anything but rusty during Saturday's two home scrimmages. Both the first−stringers, who played against Keene State, and the second−stringers, who played against Wheaton College, dominated the opposition. The Jumbos were explosive on offense, taking down the Owls 19−7 and dismantling the Lyons 15−8.
The women's lacrosse team, coming off a season in which it went 11−4 overall and lost to Amherst in the first round of the NESCAC Tournament, began gearing up for its 2011 campaign over the last two weekends in early−season scrimmages against Stonehill College on Feb. 19 and Merrimack College on Saturday.
