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 ...
The men’s basketball team returned home after a five-game road trip, competing against Ivy foes last weekend, beating Columbia and losing to Cornell. The Bears (9-13, 3-5 Ivy) hit big shots at the end of regulation to down the Lions (10-12, 2-6) in dramatic fashion. Bruno came close to coming back ...
Men’s baskeball team co-captain Sean McGonagill ’14 made history Saturday night by scoring his 1000th point against Penn at the Palestra in Philadelphia, wrapping up a five-game road trip for the Bears. McGonagill, Bruno’s starting point guard, became the 25th player in school history to reach ...
Three months ago, goalie Anthony Borelli ’13 was watching ice hockey from Brown’s bench. Now, he is leading the Bears to victories over top teams in the nation. In his most recent effort, Borelli recorded a career-high 44 saves Tuesday night at home, guiding Brown (9-9-5, 5-6-5 ECAC) to a 1-0 upset ...
Taking basketball from a childhood passion to AAU stardom to D-I dreams to a career is a journey very few ever complete. Almost everything has to go right — you essentially need to take the best qualities from Jude Law and Ethan Hawke’s characters in “Gattaca” — perfect genetics and unrelenting ...
The Brown women’s basketball team fell to Ivy League competitors Princeton and Penn in back-to-back home games this weekend. Bruno (7-13, 1-5 Ivy) lost to the Tigers (14-5, 5-0), who maintained their position on top of the Ivy League with a 68-37 win. The Quakers (10-9, 3-2) also managed to edge out ...
In a weekend full of unexpected twists, the men’s and women’s squash teams were able to halt losing streaks in the Ivy League heading into the postseason. The No. 17 men’s team (8-9, Ivy League 1-6) and No. 9 women’s team (12-6, 2-5) both fell to the visiting teams from Harvard but were victorious ...
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