The 2018 outdoor season for the Tufts men’s track and field team was chock-full of first-place finishes and nationally ranked times. The Jumbos also finished third overall at the NESCAC Championships in late April and fifth overall at the New England Div. III Championships.Tufts hit the ground running ...
As the No. 17 Tufts women’s track and field team prepares for the final meet of its season, the NCAA Championships, it can reflect on a season replete with strong performances up and down the roster, stretching all the way back to the middle of March.The squad kicked off the 2018 outdoor season ...
After clinching the No. 1 seed in the NESCAC East division with an 8–4 conference record, the Tufts baseball team won two of its four games in the conference tournament. The Jumbos defeated the Wesleyan Cardinals on May 11 and May 12, sandwiching a 9–2 loss to the Amherst Mammoths. The next day, ...
Men’s Cross CountryThe men's cross country team capped a successful season at Div. III New England Regionals in Gorham, Maine on Nov. 11. The Jumbos earned top-10 finishes in their seven meets this season, culminating in an eighth-place resultout of the 55 teams at the regional meet.Rising ...
The Tufts men’s tennis team stormed out of the gates in its 2018 season, but several runs of misfortune, as well as a failure to capitalize on key opportunities, ended its campaign prematurely. Tufts split its final two matches against No. 3 Bowdoin (an 8–1 loss) and Colby (a 7–2 victory), ...
Following a disappointing 2017 campaign, the Tufts softball team got back on track in 2018, finishing the regular season with a 28–7 record en route to reclaiming its spot among Div. III’s upper echelon. Despite losing 5–1 to the Williams Ephs in the NESCAC semifinals, the Jumbos earned an ...
The Tufts men’s crew team took part in five regular-season regattas this spring — three at home on the Malden River in Medford and two in Worcester, Mass.These races came prior to the team’s two championship regattas: the New England Rowing Championships and the National Invitational Rowing Championships, ...
The Tufts golf team finished third at the NESCAC Qualifier and seventh at the New England Championships in October. The former result earned the team a spot in the NESCAC Championship in April, where the Jumbos placed fourth of four participating teams.Tufts’ fall season saw a mixture of successes ...
The Tufts women’s tennis team continued to demonstrate its strength as a NESCAC powerhouse this season, finishing the regular season with an overall record of 11–5.Its 6–3 mark in conference play equaled last season’s performance and earned the Jumbos the fourth seed going into the NESCAC ...
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, important milestones for most two-year-old children include walking alone and using “two- to four-word sentences.” By that point in her life, Anna Kimura was already learning how to swim.“My mom asked if I could enroll early because I think you ...
The ever-competitive Tufts women’s basketball team will be losing two of its decorated graduating seniors, guard Lauren Dillon and forward Melissa Baptista. Both players have factored greatly into the team's dominance over the last few years, which included playing in back-to-back NCAA championship ...
10. McDonald throws for 336 yards in win over Williams (Oct. 21)Coming off of a close loss to Trinity one week prior, the Tufts football team needed to rebound against Williams to keep alive any hopes of a NESCAC title.Rising senior quarterback Ryan McDonald delivered with a career-high 336 passing ...
Graduating senior co-captain Drew DiMaiti has been the backbone of the Tufts men’s track and field team this year. DiMaiti, consistently a top performer for the Jumbos, garnered numerous first-place finishes throughout the 2017–18 season and is a big reason why the indoor and outdoor teams have ...
A few weeks ago, on April 20, people across the country participated in what has become known as the "weed holiday." On the same day, Bleacher Report released several videos featuring former NBA and NFL players discussing their use of marijuana and use throughout those leagues, as they were ...
It’s not often that a Div. III athlete gets selected to represent their country on an international stage. However, that is exactly what happened in the case of graduating senior and co-captain Andrew MacMillen of the Tufts men’s crew team.MacMillen, or “AMac” as his friends and teammates call ...
Graduating seniors Conor Coleman and Matt Zinner anchored the defense for a Tufts men’s soccer team that conceded just two goals throughout the entire 2017 season.The center back and left back, respectively, leave an impressive legacy, which includes the program’s firsttwo national titles and ...
It’s here, it’s happening and I know, we’re not going, but we were never going to make it past the round of 16 anyway, right? The FIFA World Cup kicks off on June 14, thus commencing the most popular sporting event in human history. There are too many storylines to count. This is Messi’s last ...
Triumphant is one of my favorite words. In no situation is it better than when talking about an against-all-odds story in sports. Appalachian State, unranked, beating No. 5 Michigan at the Big House.Leicester City overcoming 5,000-to-1 odds to win the Premier League in 2015–16.The "Miracle ...
I think my Dad might actually enjoy this, but I’ll grudgingly support Liverpool in this year’s Champions League final. Yes, those Reds fans will probably be obnoxious on Facebook should their team lift the trophy on May 26, but at least I can continue to hope their top division title drought continues.Because ...
After downing Bowdoin 19–11 in its regular-season finale, the No. 5 Tufts men’s lacrosse team cruised to a 16–12 win over Middlebury (9–7, 5–5 NESCAC) on Saturday in the quarterfinals of the conference tournament.Just one week after the Jumbos defeated the Panthers 13–10 on the road, the ...
