Author: Ryan Reese The winter is now upon us and, among other things, it brings to us a brand new slate of sports. One of these new cold-weather games is women's squash. Contrary to popular belief, this sport does not include acorns, gourds or any affiliation with the mushy vegetable that is commonplace ...
Author: Mike Kennedy The Middlebury women's ice hockey team begins its season this Friday night expecting to contend for both the NESCAC and national crowns. Coming off an impressive 19-3-4 mark of last season, which included the NESCAC title, the Panthers look to improve upon that and reclaim the NCAA ...
Author: Tom McCann Cricket. All too often that word carries connotations of a boring, slow paced, silly English game. While it is slow, it is inherently English and can at times be intensely boring, it remains a game played by a huge percentage of the world population, and Middlebury College has a team, ...
Author: David Lindholm The Middlebury Men's Squash Club began its 2003-2004 season with a good showing in its first weekend, winning twice and dropping one match at Colgate University. The team left on Friday afternoon and barely made it to Hamilton, N.Y., after a blizzard and faulty directions left ...
Author: Andreas Apostolatos As the perennially dominant Middlebury men's hockey team awaits the opening bell for its 2003-2004 campaign, it seems a common trend that returning forces will be pivotal to the program's success this year. Among the many players coming back from the 2002-2003 roster is the ...
Author: Sean Breen While winter has yet to make its mark on Middlebury's campus, the alpine ski team's preparation for the 2003-2004 season is well underway. The Middlebury Snow Bowl does not open until Friday, Dec. 5, but Killington Mountain is already open, with hundreds of skiers and boarders packing ...
Author: Tom McCann The Middlebury women's field hockey team is going to the Final Four of the National Championships in Pennsylvania next weekend. Montclair, and then even the defending champions, could not slow down the momentum of the Panthers as Montclair fell 3-2 on Friday before Rowan were rolled ...
Author: David Lindholm The Middlebury Indoor Track and Field team is looking forward to another season of Bubble training, road trips, and some standout individual performances. While the athletes have already started training, the team's first competition does not come until January 11, when the team ...
Author: Dan Russell The Middlebury College men's basketball team came off its best season in recent memory last year, going 15-10 and qualifying for the NESCAC tournament, narrowly losing out to Tufts University in the first round. While departed senior Eric Bundonis's leadership, size and scoring will ...
Author: Peter Yordan On the cusp of greatness once again, Middlebury's women's cross country dynasty will seek to further burden their overflowing trophy case when the team attempts to garner its third national championship in the last four years this weekend. The team earned its plane tickets to Indiana ...
Author: Tom McCann Middlebury College has an equestrian team. Few people know about it, even fewer are actually on it, but those that are, do not ask for much publicity, but instead go about doing something that they love dearly, riding horses. Despite remaining a club sport, the riders regularly competing ...
Author: Jack Donaldson As the swimming season nears its start, both the men and women are gearing up for runs at the NESCAC crown, building off strong team chemistry and a crop of talented first-years to help them jump to the top of their respective fields. The women's team will need its young guns ...
Author: Jack Donaldson The long road to glory came to a premature end for the Middlebury Rugby team this past weekend, their bid for a national championship ending a few months early in a loss to old foes the U.S. Coast Guard in the Regional finals. The Coast Guard, a big and powerful team that Middlebury ...
Author: Peter Yordan The mother of Middlebury sports is finally leaving the College this winter, and with her goes the end of an era for the athletic department. For 37 years Winnie Ryan, assistant to the athletic director, has been the quiet controlling force behind the scenes in Middlebury athletics. ...
Author: Tom McCann Last Saturday the men's and women's cross-country teams took their season on the road to Grafton, Mass., for the East Coast Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championship. The women, coming off a phenomenal performance two weekends ago to claim the NESCAC Championship, put in an equally ...
Author: Sally Hartman The future of the women's rugby team looks bright - very bright. Although last Sunday marked the end of the squad's official season, the unity and growth that occurred throughout the course of the fall will continue under the guardianship of underclassmen who demonstrated potential ...
Author: Tom McCann The Middlebury women's field hockey team won the NESCAC Championship last weekend. It seems like that sentence has been destined to introduce a field hockey article since the start of the season, but the expectation has finally become a reality. Coming off the back of two consecutive ...
Author: Dave Freedman At 1:48 into overtime John Rusten '05 fell to the ground outside Bowdoin's 18 and put his hands to his face in his disbelief. His body language conveyed just how stunned Middlebury's men's soccer team was after Bowdoin scored its second goal of the match in sudden death to end ...
Author: Dan Russell The Middlebury College women's volleyball team saw their season come to a disappointing end this past weekend at the NESCAC tournament held at Williamstown, Mass. The Panthers, seeded seventh, faced Bates College in the first round. Although the Panthers fought valiantly against ...
Author: Ryan Reese This Saturday, the Middlebury women's cross country team added to their already impressive collection of championships, titles and overall domination of the opposition. On a day that was almost as beautiful as the outcome of the race, the women's squad won the 2003 NESCAC Women's ...