The Middlebury College Rugby Club traveled to Pittsburgh last weekend to compete in the Division II National Championship round of the DII men’s rugby playoffs. After hanging on for the win against a surging Salisbury side in the semifinals, the second-ranked MCRC faced off against top-ranked Wisconsin-Whitewater ...
The top-seeded Middlebury Panthers tennis team lost for just the second time all season Saturday, falling 6-3 to fourth-ranked Amherst. The Panthers fell to 16-2 (6-1) on the season while the Lord Jeffs set a new team record with their 29th win of the year, which includes their fall season. The loss ...
The Middlebury women’s lacrosse team had an intense past week, walking away with a well-earned victory and falling in a tough loss, both in games decided by one goal. On Friday, April 29, Middlebury traveled to Williams for its regular season finale, beating the Ephs 11-10. The Panthers took an ...
The Middlebury Track and Field team came through with an outstanding performance this weekend at NESCAC Championships at Wesleyan University. The women’s team came in second, beat only by Williams, while the men came in third behind Williams and Bates. There were many standout performances in the ...
Despite dropping two games to Trinity over the weekend, the Middlebury College baseball team will be heading to the postseason for the first time since 2006, the same year that they won their first and only NESCAC championship. The Panthers’ playoff fate was out of their hands entering the weekend, ...
After quelling the early momentum of a spirited Williams squad and prevailing, 12-9, on Friday, Middlebury faced off against Colby in a NESCAC quarterfinal game at Alumni Stadium on Sunday. The efforts of a strong underclassmen core combined with outstanding goalkeeping lifted the Panthers past the ...
The women’s softball team secured a spot in the NESCAC playoffs last weekend with a triple win over the Lord Jeffs: 3-2, 5-0, 8-0. The Lady Panthers also secured the fourth 20-win season in Middlebury softball history. The first game went into extra innings to break a 2-2 tie, with the Panthers coming ...
Middlebury will host the NESCAC women’s tennis championship tournament this coming weekend. This tournament will take place after the Middlebury women were beaten by the Amherst Lord Jeffs 8-1 at home this past Saturday. On Friday, however, the team shut out Skidmore 9-0 at home advancing their overall ...
Consider this hypothetical situation. In an attempt to boost Middlebury’s rankings in the Princeton Review, President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz decides, under pressure from professors and administration, that the following changes will be implemented for the upcoming school year: The grading ...
The Middlebury track and field Team managed to shake off the disappointment of its only home meet being postponed due to bad weather and come up with impressive performances at the Larry Ellis Invitational at Princeton University on Friday night. By the end of the meet, four school records had been ...
The women’s tennis team suffered two hard felt losses this week to two NESCAC rivals. On Wednesday, the women were defeated by Williams at home, and then traveled to Tufts where they lost 7-2. These losses brought an end to a five game winning streak and brought them to 8-3 overall, 4-2 in league. Against ...
While the women’s golf team had an off weekend, the men’s team competed in the Williams invitational, coming away in first place. The invitational, named Williams NESCAC Spring Opener hosted six NESCAC schools in the last competition before the NESCAC Championships next weekend at Middlebury. Five ...
The Middlebury College baseball team swept Hamilton last weekend and, in the process, may have just swept their way into their first postseason appearance since 2007, and only their second appearance of all time. The victories over the Continentals helped the Panthers improve their record to 12-9 on ...
The Middlebury Panthers advanced to 9-4 last week with two strong wins over Skidmore and Tufts. On April 21, the Panthers trumped Skidmore 19-2 on Kohn Field, furthering their streak of now 24 wins against the Thoroughbreds. The Panthers scored 14 goals in a row, including netting two in an impressive ...
The men’s tennis team demonstrated yet again why it’s deserving of the number one spot in the country over the weekend with two dominant performances over Skidmore (8-7) and tenth-ranked Williams (8-3, 3-2 in NESCAC). With the pair of wins the Panthers improved to 16-1 (6-0) on the season and have ...
After 14 years of service to Panther swimming and diving, men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach Peter Solomon announced his resignation on Monday night, April 25. The members of the swim teams were informed Monday night and have since been instructed by members of the athletic department administration ...
Heading into last week’s play, the Middlebury men’s lacrosse team was 10 games into the season, and with their two losses only by a combined three goals, the team looked to be playing some of its best lacrosse with the NESCAC tournament looming in the near future. This past week saw the Panthers ...
I arrived at Middlebury College almost four years ago. I had just spent my senior year of high school in Israel, hiking, washing dishes, attending rallies, exploring cities, learning another language and another way of being. Arriving in Vermont, I was skeptical as to how much I could learn about the ...
Sometimes the most fruitful forums are those that yield no concrete solutions. The forum in McCullough this past Tuesday addressed alcohol use and dorm damage through a faculty-student discussion in an attempt to address some recurrent issues. The quality and breadth of the dialogue is both promising ...