She might have been the national champion last spring, but after falling in the semifinals of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) New England Championships this past weekend, senior co-captain Julia Browne knows too well how each year brings a new set of competition and a new uphill battle.
The 2009 season started off on the wrong foot for the women's cross country team. Top runner Stephanie McNamara, a senior, was injured prior to the start of the season, leaving only two senior runners to lead the squad, neither of whom consistently scored points for the Jumbos. The team pushed on without McNamara at the forefront but has expressed disappointment with the overall results.
The commuter rail rumbled past on the nearby train tracks, the filming tower's motor simultaneously emitting a deafening whir. Moments later on the football team's adjacent practice field, a roar went up from the baby−blue−and−white−clad players, an audible sign that football season is near.
The men's cross country team enters its season with what could be its strongest squad in history. Between a powerful returning team of upperclassmen and a large, promising group of freshmen, the Jumbos are confident of their potential.
The National Football League (NFL) is back. The season's first week gave us the usual share of touchdowns, big hits, concussions, celebratory chest beating, upward angle shots of cheerleaders and any other aspect of football that has been absent since the Super Bowl. Fantasy football is relevant again, as is the gleam of Terry Bradshaw's bald head. The return of professional football makes homework very hard to finish on Sundays because one can sit on the couch and watch televised coverage — pre−game and post−game included — nonstop between 11 a.m. and midnight. And that is wonderful.
It was just the first contest of her Tufts career, but it only took Maeve Stewart a little over 10 minutes to produce.
Living up to its preseason hype turned out to be a pretty easy task for the field hockey team.
After a disappointing Friday at the Emory Classic in Georgia this past weekend, a strong recovery on Saturday showed that the No. 22-ranked volleyball team knows how to deal with adversity. Whether this team is good enough to repeat its 2009 trip to the NCAA tournament, however, remains up in the air.
With beautiful conditions at Kraft Field, a new coach at the helm and a renewed spirit among the players, the men's soccer team was optimistic that it would erase the memories of a disappointing 2009 season in Saturday's season−opening match against Middlebury College. And despite losing a 1−0 decision to the Panthers for the second straight year, the Jumbos remain confident that they are moving in the right direction.
For the past two seasons, the women's soccer team has been on the brink of the NESCAC's top tier. In 2008, a heartbreaking shootout in the conference quarterfinals ended its run, while in 2009, overtime struggles during the regular season led to a fourth seed in the NESCAC tournament and an eventual semifinal exit against top−seeded Williams.
To say the men's soccer team's 2009 season was a disappointment would be a massive understatement.
Two months ago, football fans around the country debated whether the Big East would disappear with the seemingly inevitable creation of the "super-conferences."
If the incoming freshman class was frustrated to have missed out on the spectacle of the men's lacrosse team's national championship last spring, it needn't be worried.
The past school year was arguably the most exciting in recent memory for Tufts athletics and, ever since the Learfield Sports Directors' Cup standings were released at the end of June, it seems that recognition of the Jumbos' success has spread throughout the nation.
Welcome to the NESCAC, the strongest Div. III conference in the country and home to national powerhouses across the board. The 11 members of the New England Small College Athletic Conference, including Tufts, took a combined six 2009-10 national championships: Tufts in men's lacrosse, Williams in women's tennis and crew, Trinity in men's squash, Amherst in women's hockey and Middlebury in men's tennis. In addition, NESCAC schools took four of the top six spots in the final Directors' Cup standings: Williams (1st), Amherst (2nd), Middlebury (4th) and Tufts (6th). Any Div. III athletic knowledge starts and ends with the NESCAC; so without further ado, the Daily brings you a brief look at the 10 other schools that share a conference with the Jumbos.
Baseball is a business and, like in all other businesses, the goal is to make money.
10. Watching games won't cost you a cent. You may need to take out a loan to attend a Yankees game, but you can cheer on your classmates for free at fields across Tufts' Medford/Somerville campus.
The AFC East has recently belonged to the New England Patriots. But with a fortuitous run to the conference championship and an overly active off-season profiled by HBO's television miniseries "Hard Knocks," the New York Jets have become division favorites as well as the most interesting team in the National Football League.
In its final race of the season, the women's crew novice eight boat took first place and a gold medal at the ECAC National Invitational Championships on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass. on May 9.
