As any literary scholar will tell you, spring is the time of rebirth — frost gives way to green, buds give life to the trees and the lingering rays of the evening sun shed a feeling of hope over everyone emerging from their winter malaise. For optimists, this axiom rings true in the realm of baseball: ...
The Bears had a successful home opening weekend, beating Columbia 11-10 and Manhattan College 10-4. The two victories leave Bruno undefeated both overall and in conference play. “I think our success is just a product of the hard work we put in all fall and preseason,” said co-captain Lindsay Minges ...
Briana Borgolini ’14 broke her own school record from 2011 in the 200-yard breaststroke and recorded the highest individual finish for the Bears last weekend at the Women’s Swimming and Diving Ivy League Championships — finishing second with an NCAA “B” cut time of 2:13.97. Borgolini also ...
In the fall of 2010, Vince Tumbleson ’13.5 suffered a concussion in a football game. “I took a hit in the first half, got kind of dizzy but didn’t think anything of it because I had never had a concussion before,” Tumbleson said. Tumbleson continued to play through the second half when he ...
The men’s and women’s fencing teams competed at the Ivy League Championship tournament at Harvard over the weekend, with the women’s squad finishing fourth and the men’s placing sixth. The women’s team went 3-3 over the weekend — the best it has fared in four years. During captain Cory ...
The women’s swimming and diving team scored 678.5 points to finish seventh at the Ivy League Championships in Princeton’s DeNunzio Pool. The crown was won by the Tigers, who scored 1474.5 points. During the three-day competition this weekend — which was the team’s last meet of the season — ...
Dan Mellynchuk ’14 was not used to finding the back of the net as a midfielder for the men’s lacrosse team. That changed Saturday, as Mellynchuk led Brown to a 9-8 overtime victory over No. 5 UMass Amherst with the first two goals of his career — including the game-winner. “It was incredible,” ...
The scene could not have been more satisfying for the seniors on the men’s ice hockey team. On Senior Day, with their families in attendance, Bruno’s upperclassmen led the squad to a 5-1 victory over Colgate University, securing home-ice advantage in the opening round of the ECAC tournament for ...
The men’s basketball team posted two big road wins in Ivy League play this weekend, toppling Cornell Friday and Columbia Saturday. Rafael Maia ’15 and Tucker Halpern ’13.5 led the Bears (12-14, 6-6 Ivy) against the Big Red (13-15, 5-6), netting 22 points each in a 84-65 win. Halpern was Bruno’s ...
A few weeks ago, “His Airness” and “Sir Charles” reached new milestones in their careers. Michael Jordan proved he was still the best Michael on his own underachieving team, while Charles Barkley finally got his total cholesterol under 300. Oh, and they also both turned 50. “But with advances ...
The Brown women’s lacrosse team traveled to Fairfax, Va., last weekend to play the Patriots of George Mason University in Bruno’s first regular-season game. The Bears (1-0) conquered the Patriots (0-3) 15-10, with co-captain Bre Hudgins ’14 tallying six points to lead the Bears to victory. “I ...
As her time in college comes to a close, Sheila Dixon ’13, co-captain of the women’s basketball team, can look back on an impressive career characterized by dedication and accomplishment. An integral player for the women’s basketball team since her freshman year, Dixon led the team in scoring ...
Bruno’s baseball season will begin in Baton Rouge, La., this weekend, as the Bears face off against the No. 4 Louisiana State University Tigers tonight at 8 p.m. “It will be a great experience for many of the players to play against a top-10 team in front of 10,000 people,” said Head Coach Marek ...
The men and women of indoor track and field competed at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships held at Harvard this past weekend, with the men’s team finishing fourth and the women’s finishing eighth. “The atmosphere at Heps is difficult to describe in words,” said co-captain Olivia Mickle ...
The Brown men’s squash team competed last weekend in the College Squash Association’s Team Championships at Yale. The squad (8-12, Ivy 1-6) lost each of its matches, 8-1 to No. 9 Dartmouth, 7-2 to No. 12 Penn and 7-2 to No. 14 Navy. The previous weekend the women’s squad dropped all of its games ...
The women’s basketball team had a mixed weekend on the road playing Ivy League rivals Harvard and Dartmouth. Bruno (8-16, Ivy 2-8) dropped a 77-71 decision to the third-ranked Crimson (15-8, 6-3) Friday night. But the Bears ended their weekend on a high note with a 59-39 win over the Big Green (6-17, ...
After falling to Rensselaer and Union last weekend, the men’s ice hockey team bounced back in two key ECAC matchups on the road. Brown (10-11-6, ECAC 6-8-6) ended the weekend with a 4-1 victory over Princeton and a come-from-behind 3-3 tie against No. 1 Quinnipiac. The results were a repeat of ...
The men’s basketball team split games against Ivy League opponents for the second weekend in a row, falling to Harvard Friday night and taking down Dartmouth Saturday. Bruno (10-14, Ivy 4-6) could not handle the Crimson’s (16-7, 8-1) high-pressure defense, coughing up 19 turnovers in the course ...
The Brown gymnastics team captured the annual Ivy Classic at Yale’s John J. Lee Amphitheater Saturday afternoon. The Bears’ score of 193.925 points out of 200 beat out Cornell’s 193.025, Penn’s 191.600 and the Bulldogs’ 191.100 to win the team the Ivy title for the first time since 1990. The ...
Originally hailing from the Czech Republic, Alena Polenska ’13 serves double duty as co-captain of the No. 12 Czech national women’s ice hockey team and co-captain of Bruno’s ice hockey squad. The Kutna Hora native recently scored her team-leading eighth goal of the season in a 5-2 victory last ...
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