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Photos and Sports briefs courtesy of Bryn Mawr and Haverford Athletics. BRYN MAWR Basketball Gettysburg, Pa. – The Bryn Mawr basketball team’s struggles on the road continued on January 31, as the Owls could not hold back an impressive Gettysburg offense. The Bullets seemingly could not miss, shooting over 50 percent from the floor in […]
Michael F. Schwarze, Staff Writer On Wednesday January 28 at 7:30 PM, former Duke University basketball star Jay Williams came to Haverford’s Stokes Auditorium to give a presentation. Like most of the crowd, I was fairly excited for the presentation, yet Jay Williams delivered a speech that blew away my expectations. I left inspired and energized to […]
Lizzie Siegle, Staff Writer After two weeks of fun in the sun in Melbourne, what tennis fans had already known to be true was reaffirmed. Serena Williams, though thirty-three years old and still just three Grand Slams away from tying Steffi Graf’s record for most Slams in the Open Era, has already done enough to […]
Zoë King, Contributing Writer In rowing, there is no such thing as an off-season. Fall season focuses on longer races, which test endurance, while the spring season consists of shorter sprint-style races. The winter is used for intense indoor fitness training to prepare for the spring, which is definitely the higher priority of the […]
Lizzie Siegle, Staff Writer You know something exciting is going to happen when a whole eight-month season culminates in one night, one game, one play. You also know this won’t be any ordinary game when it’s between two wild card teams (only one other World Series has been between two wild cards). One team had […]
Lizzie Siegle, Staff Writer Dynasty—n. a succession of people from the same family who play a prominent role in business, politics, or another field. When one thinks of a sports dynasty, a few teams probably come to mind–the Yankees in the late 1990s-early 2000s with manager Joe Torre and shortstop Derek Jeter, the UCLA […]
Lizzie Siegle – Staff Writer On Wednesday December 3, the Bryn Mawr swim team hosted their annual “Owls Swim for a Cure” relay to raise money for breast cancer, prior to their hosting Cabrini College in the Owls’ last home meet before winter break. Team members wore pink shirts that said “Cancer Sucks,” and there […]
Photos and Sports briefs courtesy of Bryn Mawr and Haverford Athletics. BRYN MAWR Basketball Baltimore, Md. – The Bryn Mawr basketball team opened their 2014-15 campaign earlier Saturday afternoon by taking part in the Women’s College Tip-Off Tournament, hosted by Notre Dame (Maryland). The Owls took on the host Gators in the opening game of […]
BRYN MAWR Cross Country Haverford, Pa. – The Bryn Mawr cross country team got their postseason off to a great start on the afternoon of November 1. The Owls took home a sixth-place finish in the 2014 Centennial Conference Championship, just points shy of Muhlenberg. Johns Hopkins took home the conference crown with a 20-point […]
Lizzie Siegle, Staff Writer Thousands of young kids dream of being professional athletes when they grow up. A young Derek Sanderson Jeter was one such kid, who boasted in an elementary school paper that he would don the Yankee pinstripes as their starting shortstop—and then he actually went out and made it happen, forever changing […]
Lizzie Siegle, Staff Writer Almost a month ago, the top tennis players in the world descended upon Flushing Meadows, New York for the 134th US Open. Although Customs Week and the beginning of classes made it difficult for Haverford and Bryn Mawr students to follow the tournament, the world sat stunned as seeded players fell […]
By Rachel Genovese and Lily Lopate Managing Editor, Staff Writer After a season of transition, Interim Head Coach Rebecca Tyler has given Bryn Mawr’s basketball team a fresh start. Coach Tyler assumed her new position after Coach Deb McLaughlin resigned last fall. Coach Tyler came to Bryn Mawr after serving as the academic recruiting and […]