Author: Erich Kahner Last weekend the Middlebury track teams made the trek north to compete in the NESCAC Championships, held at Bates College in Maine. The first day of competition saw the athletes ride a strong tailwind toward fast times, and spirits were high when the heptathletes capped off Saturday's ...
Author: Ashley Elpern Medals showered down upon the Middlebury crew team last weekend at the New England Fours Championship at Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass., as the rowers claimed many victories in their penultimate 2,000-meter race of the season, with the New England Rowing Championships (NERC) ...
Author: Jeff Martin The Panther golf team culminated its two-match spring schedule this past Saturday with a strong fourth place finish at the District One Shootout, hosted at the Taconic Golf Course in Williamstown, Mass. The Shootout was confined to a single-day event after inclement weather cancelled ...
Author: Jeff Martin The Panther golf team finally knocked the dust off their bags this past weekend to commence their grueling spring schedule. The team shot an inspiring 311 to finish third at the Williams Spring Challenge, held at the Taconic Golf Course.On Sunday, the best golfers from Middlebury ...
Author: Karen Nerenberg This past week, the Middlebury women's lacrosse team improved to 10-0 with two wins over non-conference opponent University of Vermont (UVM) and NESCAC challenger Trinity College. The Panthers overcame UVM by a score of 17-3 and topped the Bantams, 16-9.Earlier in the week, against ...
Author: Erich Kahner Throughout the long track season, which has stretched as far as November for some people, resilience has been the key for the Panther tracksters. The team has had to deal with many injuries, including an inimical epidemic of IT band inflammations. From Friday to Monday, nature ...
Author: Els Van Woert It was an exhibition of some the best women collegiate players in the nation this weekend as Middlebury hosted the 11-team NESCAC tennis playoffs. Once again, Williams proved its dominance with a sweep of the three singles and three doubles brackets (earning 35 points) of the tourney, ...
Author: Ashley Elpern It was a winning weekend for the Middlebury crew team at Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass., with four first places between the women's teams and both men's teams turning in solid performances, just one week before the New England Four's Championship.The varsity women showed ...
Author: Dan Russel The Middlebury College Rugby Club returned to the campus thoroughly exhausted and with a profound sense of victory and accomplishment after traveling down to Jonesville, Ark. to play Stanford in the National Championship quarterfinals on Saturday. Under the most unforgiving conditions ...
Author: David Lindholm For a small section of the American population, anticipation is running especially high right now. Bruce Arena, on Monday night, announced his 23-man squad for this year's Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup, which will start on May 31 in Korea ...
Author: Nick Ferrer On Saturday, the men's lacrosse team made a statement. In its first game since a dismal weekend in Maine that stripped the team of its number one national ranking, the Panthers devoured perennial NESCAC powerhouse Trinity College, 20-8, and showed that its one loss is already in ...
Author: Jen Bloomer An important part of the Middlebury College ultimate frisbee team has gone relatively unheralded of late — the women. After losing the game that would have sent it to Nationals last year by 2 points to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Lady Pranksters have continued ...
Author: Scott Palmer Last Saturday the Middlebury men's tennis team faced the Amherst Lord Jeffs in a NESCAC showdown with post-season implications for both teams. Tennis records showed that the Panthers had not defeated the Lord Jeffs in the past 30 years, and possibly even beyond that. Nevertheless ...
Author: Andrew Zimmermann The Middlebury softball team left little to chance this past week by playing its best ball of the season going 4-2 in a race to make the NESCAC postseason. Megan McCarthy '05, the team's stopper, who had pitched in every Panther win coming into the week, got some needed help ...
Author: David Lindholm A busy stretch for the baseball team ended on Tuesday as the team held on for a 6-5 victory at Forbes Field over Skidmore. In the week before Tuesday's game, the Panthers had played five games, including four against NESCAC foes, and came away with two wins. The Panthers now ...
Author: Scott Palmer The Middlebury men's tennis team took three giant steps towards their goal of making it to Division III Nationals this past week, defeating regional foes Skidmore, Bowdoin and Connecticut College.Against Skidmore, the Panthers quickly grabbed the doubles point behind wins from junior ...
Author: Els Van Woert It is the home stretch for Middlebury women's tennis as the spring is well upon us, and with it, NESCAC playoff time. Middlebury will host the division tournament this upcoming weekend and have a go at a chance to compete in NCAAs. This spring has brought many successes, learning ...
Author: Nick Ferrer After cruising through the first half of the season and just days after blowing away a tough Tufts team 17-6, the men's lacrosse team finally met its match in Maine. On Saturday, the nation's top-ranked Panthers found themselves in an unfamiliar situation when they took the ...
Author: Erich Kahner As the dreary winter months came to an end this weekend, the clouds parted allowing sun to shine down on Middlebury and spring to finally commence. Along with the trees and flowers, the Middlebury track team began to blossom last Saturday at the Williams Relays with many breakout ...
Author: David Lindholm It's an exciting time of the year for sports. We're well into spring at this point (Tuesday's weather even showed us a glimpse of summer), and everyone is outside. A walk across Battell Beach now means dodging Frisbees and golf balls, soccer balls, footballs and people littered ...