Before the men’s soccer team can effectively chase its goal of an Ivy League Championship, it must do something that it took five games to do last season — win a game. The Bulldogs begin their season this Sunday against Maine (1-1) at 1 p.m. at Reese Field.
Despite Maine’s pre-season ranking of last in the nine-team American East...
After just missing the cut for the NCAA tournament last season, the women’s soccer team is ready to take on the new season with vengeance. “We really played our best soccer towards the end of last season, so our returning seniors are a little ticked off about being one win away from being Ivy League champs,” head coach Rudy Meredith said. The team will be led by...
Sunday at 1 p.m., the field hockey team will open their 2008-’09 season on the road against Providence. Although the Friars topped the Bulldogs in last year’s opener by a score of 2-1, Yale hopes to herald in a strong season. For 10 months, the Elis have been working to develop their skills both at home and abroad in Argentina. The team is led by captain and forward...
The football team is entering the 2008 season surrounded by familiar hoopla and high expectations, but it’s never too early to begin preseason dissection. Like 2007, the preseason Bulldogs were chosen by the media to finish at the top of the Ivy League — but this time, they are not alone. Defending champion Harvard was also chosen to finish at the top. The Crimson...
WINDSOR, England — A trio of Yale polo players, sheathed in unsullied white uniforms, chatted anxiously on the sideline of a Guards Polo Club field, not far from equally garrulous Harvard opponents. But the two teams were having very different conversations. The Crimson discussed strategy. The Bulldogs wondered whether they would have enough players to take the...
Men’s soccer captain Alex Guzinski ’09 sits down with the News to discuss preseason progress and the team’s outlook for the fall. The Elis finished 4-8-5 overall last year, with a 2-3-2 Ivy League record. Q What is the team’s preseason mood like? A I think it has been great. Our team is very optimistic. We’ve put a lot of hard work in, but the tough...
BEIJING, China — A handful of Yale-bred athletes were among the elite in Beijing this summer. Five Yale alumni and one current Bulldog participated in athletic competition at this summer’s 29th Olympiad in China. Sada Jacobson ’06 won two fencing medals — silver and bronze — and Josh West ’98 rowed with the British eight to a silver-medal finish...
As someone who has obsessively watched almost every hour of NBC’s Olympic broadcast coverage in recent memory, I would be making a gross understatement by saying that I was excited to spend this past summer in Beijing, host to the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Through a series of very fortunate events, which include sitting in the 10th row of the Bird’s Nest and running...
To most Americans, Iran is a far away place of sand, camels, terrorists and, most recently, nuclear ambitions. Should Iran be bombed, cities with names like Mashhad, Tehran, Shiraz and Isfahan will only become names on the battlefield map. Few will remember the shining strips of fruit lace and floating walnuts sold in the cool hills of North Tehran, the smiling families...
On the morning of June 1, Yale women's crew, defending NCAA varsity eight champions, knew that the upcoming races would not be easy. They did not have a perfect record — Brown shattered that possibility with its late-season victory. They did not have a boat full of seniors — the varsity eight boasted just one, No. 5 seat Jamie Redman '08. They did not have the...
Three members of the 2008 Yale baseball team — which finished the season 20-24-1 (9-10-1 Ivy) and second in the Rolfe Division — were selected in last week’s 47-round Major League Baseball first-player draft. Catcher/outfielder and Second-Team All-Ivy performer Ryan Lavarnway ’09 was the only Bulldog taken on the draft’s first day. The World Series champion...
