Look out NESCAC, because the men's track and field team is gearing up to host the conference championships on Saturday at the Ding Dussault Track.
With championship season looming, the women's track and field team headed to the MIT Spring Invitational last weekend hoping to work out all the kinks in its final tune-up before the most important competitions of the season. And despite the cold and rainy weather conditions, the Jumbos enjoyed a number of quality performances, earning eight victories and numerous high finishes at the event.
The women's tennis team started out its season on a strong note. But over the last week, as the level of its competition has risen, Tufts has been just a step behind.
After 20 years under Ralph Ferrigno, the men's soccer team will be heading in a new direction come next fall. And athletic director Bill Gehling thinks he has found just the man to lead it: Carl Junot.
Playing its final two tournaments of the year last week, the golf team put forth a couple of solid but unspectacular efforts to close out its spring season.
The NBA playoffs always promise to deliver excitement, and this year's matchups have provided fans with just that. Most games have been competitive, but the trend so far has been the higher seeds coming out victorious in these earlier stages.
Editor's Note: Evan Cooper is a sophomore, a sports editor for the Daily and an aspiring professional cyclist. He races for the Tufts Cycling Team and for the elite amateur squad Team Ora presented by Independent Fabrication. This series will chronicle his season as he tries to make racing into more than just a hobby.
For the co−ed sailing team, it's all about Charleston.
As a general rule, I'm all for drafts. Fantasy football drafts with my friends mark some of the best times of the year, drafts allow me to proofread my papers, and I even enjoy the occasional draft of wind on a hot summer day. If I were old enough to drink, I'm sure draft beer would be delicious. Logic would follow, then, that the NFL Draft, beginning this Thursday, will be an absolute delight for me.
Over the first two weeks of April, the women's tennis team proved that it is light years ahead of the competition at the bottom of its conference.
After a 13−10 defeat of Western New England College last Tuesday, the men's lacrosse team — ranked No.6 in the latest national poll — held an all−time school−best record of 10−0 as it traveled to New London, Conn. for a Saturday match−up with national No. 8 Connecticut College, the only other conference team with an undefeated mark.
She's a role model for young girls and budding gymnasts everywhere, not to mention for celebrities hoping to score an appearance and the ultimate victory on Season Eight of "Dancing With the Stars." But Shawn Johnson, winner of a gold medal and three silvers at the 2008 Summer Olympics, still finds time to travel across the country, giving lectures to her fans in the hopes of inspiring them to follow their dreams. The Daily's Alex Prewitt caught up with Johnson following her talk at Tufts on Wednesday to discuss gymnastics, being a star and the possibility of being a Jumbo.
The bullet points on Shawn Johnson's résumé read more like a laundry list of childhood fantasies than that of a shy 18-year-old from Iowa: One gold and three silver medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, winner of Season Eight of "Dancing With the Stars" (2009), two-time guest star of "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" (2008), participant in the Celebrity Softball Game at the MLB All-Star Weekend and appearances on many more talk shows and commercials.
The bullet points on Shawn Johnson's résumé read more like a laundry list of childhood fantasies than that of a shy 18−year−old from Iowa: One gold and three silver medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, winner of Season Eight of "Dancing With the Stars" (2009), two−time guest star of "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" (2008), participant in the Celebrity Softball Game at the MLB All−Star Weekend and appearances on many more talk shows and commercials.
For the past five years, the softball team has been the cream of the crop in the NESCAC East. But its reign could come to an end this weekend as the Trinity Bantams come to town for a three−game series that will likely decide the regular−season title.
Apparently Tiger Woods isn't the only one who likes the ladies.
