Author: Kate Nerenberg The Middlebury women's lacrosse team came out running on Saturday against Colby College, the first test that the defending national champs faced. Led by junior Char Glessner, who registered four goals, the Panthers sealed the win by holding Colby to one goal in the second half.Although ...
Author: Scott Palmer The 2002 men's tennis season started according to plan for the Panthers. While the squad has not qualified for the Division III national tournament in the history of the program, if the start to the season is any indication, this fact could change very soon. The season began with ...
Author: Peter Yordan It was Shakespeare who said heavy rests the head that wears the crown, but for the men's hockey team there will be no coronation this year. Middlebury, the nation's number one ranked team and the host of the NCAA Championship, suffered a stunning and painful 5-2 loss to Norwich ...
Author: Peter Yordan The Middlebury men's hockey team came up short in their bid for a sixth national championship this year, but for the team's seven seniors their loss is just a final sour note to four years of great hockey. The seniors, the final link to the championship teams of the late 1990s, ...
Author: Erich Kahner Eleven runners lined up for the women's 5000-meter race last weekend at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships. Eleven, out of thousands of competitors across America, ran the extra mile or endured an additional hour in a stuffy fieldhouse to make it to this ...
Author: Peter Yordan In a two-game series over the weekend, the Middlebury men's hockey team defeated their NCAA quarterfinal opponent, Wentworth Institute of Technology, by margins of 6-0 and 9-1. The scores served as a poor indication of how lopsided the contests were. Outshooting their opponents ...
Author: Andrew Zimmermann On the slopes of the Alyeska Resort tucked in the Chugach Mountains near Anchorage, Alaska, the Middlebury alpine ski team in conjunction with its nordic counterpart, finished 11th out of 23 teams at NCAA National Skiing Championships. Over the course of four days Denver University ...
Author: Andrew Zimmermann Skiing amongst the top programs in the United States, the Middlebury nordic team skated its way to an 11th place result in the 2002 NCAA Skiing Championships. Denver University, which won the overall competition, dominated the men's nordic events while Colorado and the University ...
Author: Alison Hertel At their home horse show held at The Equestry in New Haven on March 9, the Middlebury equestrian team came in third in the point standings, a considerable improvement from their sixth place finish the weekend before at Bates/Bowdoin Colleges. Middlebury was just four points behind ...
Author: David Lindholm As students, we should all have a weight hanging on our conscience. Why? Because our section of students, which sadly, included myself, was horrendously mean throughout the entire men's hockey two-game series against Wentworth this past weekend. No, not mean to each other, but ...
Author: Peter Yordan function openSlideShow() { window.open(slideshowpath + 54, 'selectUser',config='height=320,width=310,scrollbars=No,resizable=Yes');} SLIDESHOW: 2002 NESCAC ChampionsAlthough hockey is generally considered to be one of the most team-driven of competitive sports, this may be the ...
Author: Alison Hertel Seven members of the Middlebury equestrian team traveled to Durham, Maine, to compete in the Bates/Bowdoin Intercollegiate Horse Show at the Chez Chevaux Equestrian Center on March 2, placing sixth out of a competitive field of nine schools, just three points behind Dartmouth College. ...
Author: rich Kahner The Middlebury women's distance medley entered the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) championships last Friday with one goal in mind: to put themselves in a position to qualify for the national championships. En route to shaving a remarkable 14 seconds off their season ...
Author: David Lindholm The New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) honored both the men's and women's hockey teams, as four players from each squad were included in the annual All-NESCAC schools. For the men, goaltender Christian Carlsson '02, forward Kevin Cooper '04 and defenseman ...
Author: Ben Wessler Middlebury's annual In a Blender climbing competition was held Saturday at the Nelson Arena Climbing Wall. This competition, part of the Northeast College Climbing Competition Circuit, drew some of the best climbers and pitted them against one of the region's greatest climbing walls. ...
Author: Alison Hertel Holly Haertel '05, Sarah Herrup '02 and Casper Reske-Nielsen '02 traveled to Princeton University to face the tough competition of the Individual Squash Nationals, held Friday, March 1 to Sunday, March 3. Trinity College swept the individual squash nationals, with Amina Helal taking ...
Author: Kate Nerenberg and David Lindholm The Middlebury women's hockey team's season came to a quiet finish Tuesday night versus Bowdoin, following a disappointing showing in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) tournament last weekend. The Bowdoin Polar Bears beat the Panthers ...
Author: Andrew Zimmermann In the first of what is hoped to become an annual event, the Middlebury Snow Bowl ski patrol took part in a friendly competition against its Dartmouth counterpart in a match of ski talent and skill Saturday at the College's mountain. The competition came a week after Carnival ...
Author: David Lindholm The UEFA Cup, one of soccer's most prestigious trophies, is now in its quarterfinal stage. And some of Europe's biggest clubs are there: Valencia of Spain, Inter Milan and A.C. Milan of Italy, Borussia Dortmond of Germany, Feyenoord and PSV Eindhoven from Holland and Hapoel Tel-Aviv ...
Author: Shannon Egan In 1966, the men's swimming and diving team from Williams College began a 35-year New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) winning streak. It lasted until Sunday. Now, thanks to the men from Middlebury, it's over. For the first time in as long as anyone can remember, ...