Simon Schmieder '26 (he/him) is a Senior Sports Editor.
Simon is an avid runner and biker and enjoys spending time outdoors. He is a philosophy and political science joint major with a minor in German, in addition to being a Philly sports fan.
In approximately 50 seconds, you could circle E Lot and find that no parking spots remain, or watch your bagel burn as you send it through the Proc toaster a second time when you knew you shouldn’t have, or ride the Ross elevator in claustrophobic and quiet silence from the first to sixth floor. ...
In the middle of the night, Nathan Szubin ’29 woke up and brought the couch cushions to the kitchen. He arranged the cushions lengthwise on the floor, repositioned his inflatable pillow and slipped back into his sleeping bag as he drifted off again. It was the night before the regional championship ...
2026 Winter sports previews.
Odds are that if you’ve ever looked into the Virtue Field House around 5:30 p.m. this time of year, you’ve been captivated by all the action. Pole vaulters doing backflips on the mat, sprinters flying around the tight corners of the indoor track and throwers catapulting heavy objects towards a net ...
Ducking under ropes and weaving between team tents, we cheered. The herd of runners stormed by, and frenzied fans cut across to the next sector of the race, only to barely catch sight of the stampede before sprinting along a new shortcut for another close-up glimpse. Amid warlike chaos, loyal Middlebury ...
When I was in middle school, my travel soccer coach told me to stop “playing scared.” I kept playing scared, so I quit soccer and inevitably became a runner. Yet there is plenty to be scared of in cross country and track, and soon I learned that you generally can’t outrun your fears in sports. ...
People say a dog resembles its owner, and a similar relationship often holds true for cars. At the Middlebury Car Show & Fall Festival on Sunday, Oct. 12, Middlebury resident Diane Mott, the owner of an orange 1973 Volkswagen Type 2 camper van, wore a peace sign baseball cap of a matching shade, ...
Swing left off Vermont Route 22A just shy of Vergennes, zigzag between old homesteads and silos along dirt roads and soon you will be tumbling towards Lake Champlain. Drive a little further and you will find a brown boathouse adorned with a blue pennant: the home of the Middlebury College Sailing Club. ...
The Middlebury women’s tennis team hosted the ITA New England Regional Championships this past weekend, bringing three days of tennis, 19 teams, and over 100 players to campus. The tournament saw Elsie Van Wieren ’28 and Gusty Beveridge ’28 reach the quarterfinals of the A singles bracket, while ...
Foliage radiating across the mountains beyond the soccer pitch, large swaths of the football team squeezed into the film room, and packs of cross-country runners circling the glass fields into dusk are a few of the familiar fall sports sights at Middlebury. Yet none of these are as attention-grabbing, ...
