For some college athletes, graduation marks the end of their sporting careers. But thanks to the Capital Alumni Network (CAN), many Jumbo alums in the Washington, D.C. area have far from left their athletic glory days behind.
Since its inception in the 1998 season, the BCS selection system has provided the college football faithful with frustration and disillusion as the often nebulous criteria for selecting teams for the national championship game has left many worthy teams on the outside looking in.
The odds are stacked against Tufts' Taekwondo Club: the team participates in five tournaments per year, where it faces opponents from up to 25 other schools; it is the second-smallest team in its league, the Ivy Northeast Collegiate Taekwondo League (INCTL); the team's opponents are primarily from larger, Div. I schools; and the team is completely self-sufficient, meaning all expenses are paid out of the individuals' pockets.
For the women's track and field team, which won the New England Div. III Championship last winter after finishing second for five consecutive seasons, this year, the goal remains the same: beat Williams.
After claiming its fourth Div. III New England title at the end of last season, the men's indoor track and field team will kick off its new campaign Saturday at the Husky Carnival at Northeastern with hopes of emulating past achievements -- and of being seen as a legitimate contender throughout the winter.
Forget about records. Forget about prestige. And forget about the Tennessee Titans.
In a Sunday matinee against Brandeis, the men's basketball team stumbled through 40 minutes of play, scoring a season-low 56 points, shooting just under 23 percent from the floor in the second frame and ultimately falling 80-56.
The women's basketball team (4-1) won its fourth game of the season last night, defeating the host Salem State Lady Vikings (1-3) 66-62 to rebound from a loss to Brandeis suffered on Sunday. The Jumbos -- who led by 12 at the break -- held off a second-half charge from Salem State to secure the victory.
This is where I'm supposed to write something about Plaxico Burress. I just know it.
The field hockey team may not have an NCAA title to show for its unprecedented run to the championship matchup, and it may not even have a NESCAC title to show for its dominance against top-notch conference competitors. Tufts has two-time national champion Bowdoin to thank for both of those losses.
After putting together 112 minutes of dominant play over the weekend, the ice hockey team was incapable of holding on for just eight more.
September 6 Behind hat tricks from forwards sophomore Tamara Brown and junior Michelle Kelly, the Jumbos open the season with a resounding 10-1 victory over Wesleyan, setting a new school record for goals in a game in the process.
Junior Tom Tassinari had already been named to the All-NESCAC football First Team for the second consecutive year, but this fall, the accolades didn't end there.
The Mid-Atlantic has long been considered the most dominant region in Div. III field hockey, and with good reason. Since the inception of the NCAA Tournament in 1981, programs like The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), which boasts a record nine championships, and Salisbury, which earned three consecutive titles between 2003 and 2005, have solidified their region's reputation.
The NBA is sometimes a predictable league. The Los Angeles Lakers will always be a part of the Christmas Day doubleheader, Stephon Marbury will always do something that makes you shake your head and big men will always be at a premium.
The PAL/Stovepipe Cup didn't end as well as it started for the ice hockey team (1-3), as the squad fell 4-3 in devastating fashion in the waning seconds of yesterday's contest against the UMass Boston Beacons in Manchester, N.H.
The women's basketball team put together a convincing 92-67 victory against Endicott on Tuesday night, bolstered by 38 percent shooting from the floor. Five days later, the result looked disappointingly dissimilar for the Jumbos as they fell victim to a Brandeis Judges team 81-76 -- a team they held to 21 percent scoring from the floor en route to a 57-43 victory last year.
It appears the men's basketball team may have awoken a sleeping giant yesterday.
The winter squads on the Hill are off to a fast start, and now, the rest of the conference has taken notice. The NESCAC awarded members of Tufts' athletics community weekly honors in men's basketball, men's swimming and diving and women's swimming and diving. A look at all of the Jumbos' award winners:
Before Saturday, a victory over NESCAC foe Middlebury had proven elusive for the 10 seniors on the women's swimming and diving team. They didn't let that fact loom over their final year for long, however, as the group, along with the rest of the squad, notched a convincing 175-123 victory over the Panthers.
