After two straight weeks of friendly scrimmages without a single match, the women's squash team came away from the Epps Cup (D Division) at Yale University with a strong performance, defeating nationally ranked No. 32 Boston College and No. 28 Northeastern before falling to a talented opponent in No. 26 Columbia.
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With the NCAA Championships just two weeks away, the women's track and field team's goal at this weekend's All−New England Championships at Boston University (BU) was to qualify as many athletes as possible for the national meet.
Andrea Caruth, Women's Track and field - In the next-to-last meet before the NCAA Championships, Caruth turned in some of her best performances of the year at this past weekend's All-New England Championships. Caruth, a junior, posted a time of 58.58 seconds in the 400-meter dash, a personal record for the third-year. Yet, in running on the banked track of Boston University, Caruth's time was adjusted up by four-tenths of a second, bumping her showing past the 58.64-second provisional qualifying time necessary to race in the NCAAs in the upcoming weeks. Caruth also ran the second leg of the 4x400-meter relay squad, which turned in a ninth-place finish, 11 seconds behind first-place Connecticut. Caruth teamed up with senior co-captain Andrea Ferri, sophomore Kayley Pettoruto and junior Kaylee Maykranz to post a time of 3:59.16, though the final mark was adjusted by 1.6 seconds, which once again caused Caruth to miss the NCAA qualifying time. Caruth's efforts helped the Jumbos tie for 16th place at the meet and will have her final chance to qualify for NCAAs this weekend at the ECAC Championships.
As Olympic hockey in Vancouver took a break on Saturday, the hockey team took to some Olympic−sized ice when it visited Middlebury at Kenyon Arena for the first round of the NESCAC postseason tournament. Unfortunately for the Jumbos, Tufts struggled to find its Olympic spirit and fell 6−2 to the No. 2−seeded Panthers, ending its season and hopes for a longer playoff run.
In every season since it joined the NESCAC, the ice hockey team has never made it past the first round of the conference tournament. This year, as the seventh seed, the Jumbos have a stiff task ahead of them if they hope to break that trend.
Needless to say, it's been a strange few days for the women's basketball team.
The men's swimming and diving team started its rigorous workout schedule earlier than usual this season. Four months ago, in mid−October, senior Lawrence Chan and his fellow quad−captains were leading the team in grueling practices and weightlifting sessions.
As expected by many — due to the upcoming free agent class this summer — last Thursday's NBA trade deadline was one of the most action−packed in recent years.
As everybody knows, 2009 was a bad year for celebrities. Among the dozens of literal casualties were Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Brittany Murphy, Natasha Richardson, Dom DeLuise, Billy Mays, Steve McNair, Walter Cronkite, Ted Kennedy, Patrick Swayze and, of course, Eddie Fatu.
While most Major League Baseball fans continue to freeze, the players annually spend their late February and March warming up for the upcoming season in Arizona and Florida. So far, each team's pitchers and catchers have made the trip south, and the position players are to follow in the coming days.
With the women's squash team's season coming to a close, the Jumbos still have one hurdle ahead of them that could define their success this season: nationals.
Don't look now, but there could be a team from Connecticut making noise in the NCAA Tournament come March — outside of the one everyone already knows.
The old adage in any sport is that defense wins championships.
Sophomore Valerie Eacret earned her fourth All-Conference award at Friday's NESCAC Championships in the 50-yard butterfly, joining senior diver Lindsay Gardel as Tufts' two honorees.
As the women's NESCAC basketball tournament kicked off this weekend, it became apparent that this year's title is very much up for grabs.
I told myself I wasn't going to write about it. I told myself that, when Tiger Woods finally emerged from his self−inflicted divot and addressed the media about his various transgressions, I would keep my opinions to myself. After all, who am I to condemn one of the most dominant athletes of my time, a person who's inspired millions of people and made even more in dollars?
Nearly a year ago, the North Carolina Tar Heels (UNC) were on top of the world. The storied program had just won its fifth national championship — its second out of the last five years. Senior forward Tyler Hansbrough had completed his mission of bringing his school a title. It was a storybook ending, and perhaps a sign of things to come for one of the strongest basketball programs in the country.
1- Seed of the U.S. men's hockey team in the Olympic tournament after a stunning 5-3 win on Sunday over Canada. In Vancouver, the Americans rode a 45-save effort from goalie Ryan Miller and two goals out of nowhere from Brian Rafalski to stun the Canadians and advance to the quarterfinals of the tournament. Thanks to a 3-0 win by Sweden over Finland, the United States will next take the ice on Wednesday against the winner of Switzerland-Belarus, having upset Canada, the heavy gold-medal favorite.
Before this weekend's three−match slate in the Summers Cup at the College Squash Association (CSA) Team Championships, members of the men's squash team told themselves that their showing would determine the overall success of the season.
