After a difficult start to the season, the women's softball team earned two bounce-back victories last Sunday over Dartmouth, thanks in large part to the offensive power of shortstop Stephanie Thompson '13. Thompson is currently one of the best batters in the nation, sitting in second place nationwide ...
Being an athlete in college requires practicing for three to five hours a day, competing and potentially traveling on weekends - all in addition to attending class and doing homework. Balancing these athletic commitments alongside academics is normally a sufficient challenge for anyone, but for four ...
Brunonians are not known for being passionate sports fans - but do not tell that to Chris "Boomer" Berman '77 P'08 P'09. The former history concentrator, a long-standing anchor for ESPN and one of the most well-known personalities in contemporary sports media, returned to College Hill Wednesday ...
The time is first semester of this school year. One of my housemates and I gather in our living room on a Monday night. He opens up his laptop, and I grab one of the three felt-tipped markers we have lining the base of our giant whiteboard. This whiteboard will go on to host a giant Final Four bracket ...
The men's golf team fell flat last weekend at the Princeton Invitational hosted at the par-71 Springfield Golf Club. The team shot a 54-hole 905, putting them in 11th place in a field of 14, which was led by Yale's 858. It was a step backwards for the Bears after an impressive showing in their previous ...
The women's softball team hosted Ivy League rival Dartmouth for two doubleheaders this weekend. The Bears dropped both Saturday games to the Big Green (10-15, 3-7 Ivy), but regained focus and came back with two walk-off victories, 5-4 and 4-3, the following day. Bruno (8-20, 5-7 Ivy) is currently in ...
The No. 6 men's crew team enjoyed a successful weekend on the Charles River in Boston, topping No. 9 Northeastern to claim the Dreissigacker Cup.
The Bears protected their home turf Saturday as both the men's and women's track and field teams clawed their ways to first-place finishes at the annual Brown Invitational. The men earned 165 points, placing them atop the six-team field. The women, finishing with 173 points, narrowly beat the University ...
After a crushing 16-8 loss to Harvard April 7, the women's lacrosse team rebounded with a 15-5 win against Sacred Heart Saturday at the Berylson Family Fields.
For the swimming and diving and water polo teams, the benefits of the new swimming facility go far beyond the water. The opening of the Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center ushers in a new era for Brown athletics, offering stability to aquatic teams that have endured four years of uncertainty. Though ...
It took four periods of overtime for the men's lacrosse team and Yale to settle the score at Stevenson Field Friday night. But in a game with Ivy League playoff implications, the Bulldogs' (6-4, 3-2 Ivy League) Deron Dempster finally found a breakthrough after 14 minutes of scoreless extra time to lift ...
The Katherine Moran Coleman Center opens to the public today, but the water sports teams have already made a splash in what is now the fastest aquatic center in the Ivy League and in the Northeast.
The women's track team had an incredible weekend at the Stanford Invite in Palo Alto last Friday. That night, Olivia Mickle '13, who hails from Sacramento, Calif., ran the 10,000 meter in 33.59 minutes, breaking the Brown record by more than 40 seconds. For her record-setting performance and her likely ...
It's pretty awkward that the NHL playoffs have started. With the Boston Red Sox on pace for 135 losses this season and the Boston Celtics re-emerging as the team I knew they could be, I forgot to hold true to my hockey-watching pattern this year. The NHL, though I regularly enjoy watching a Boston Bruins ...
The women's softball team (6-18, 3-5 Ivy) fell to in-state rival University of Rhode Island (16-19) Wednesday afternoon at the URI Softball Complex. The Bears narrowly lost to the Rams 2-1 in the first game, before being routed 10-1 in five innings in game two.
The baseball team's Ivy season continued at home this weekend as the Bears dropped both games of a doubleheader against Cornell Saturday and split two games with Princeton Sunday.
The men's and women's golf teams are moving into the end of their spring schedules after the women's team came in second over the weekend in its home tournament and the men's team placed fifth, with a 623, at the 36-hole Yale Spring Invitational.
The track and field teams had a busy weekend as they split forces to compete at three different meets across the country. Traveling the farthest were nine distance runners who competed Friday evening at the Stanford Invite in Palo Alto, Calif. Dan Lowry '12, Olivia Mickle '13 and Heidi Caldwell '14 ...
The women's softball team went 1-3 in league play this weekend in doubleheaders against Cornell and Princeton. The Bears dropped two games to Cornell (16-13, 7-1 Ivy) before losing a one-run decision to Princeton (9-20, 5-3) in game one Saturday. But in game two, Bruno (6-16, 3-5) bounced back to salvage ...
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