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New coaches, goalie look toward promising season

Each season, teams change —  seniors graduate, first-year recruits arrive and, sometimes, new coaches are hired. But the field hockey team has undergone a more significant overhaul this past summer than usual, hiring Head Coach Jill Reeve and Assistant Coach Jillian Brown and adding eight ...


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Hockey players rescue teens at beach after Irene

Like many adventurous Rhode Islanders, six Brown hockey players headed to the beach last Tuesday to test the choppy Atlantic Ocean churned up by Tropical Storm Irene. But for Mike Wolff '12, Jeff Ryan '13, Dennis Robertson '14, Mike Borge '14, assistant captain Bobby Farnham '12 and former Bear forward ...


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Bears struggle in first game, fall to Friars

Coming off of an impressive 2010 season that lasted until the third round of the NCAA Tournament, the No. 11 men's soccer team (1-1-0) stumbled out of the gate with a loss to Providence College (3-1-0) Friday, falling to the Friars 1-0 at the Ocean State Soccer Classic. But even with a squad depleted ...


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Women's crew wins national championship

There are very few dynasties in college sports history — UCLA men's basketball under John Wooden, Alabama football under Paul "Bear" Bryant and Connecticut women's basketball under Geno Auriemma. Brown women's crew under Head Coach John Murphy added itself to that list by claiming its seventh ...


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Bruno struggles in Ivy championships

The men's and women's golf teams concluded their seasons in New Jersey last weekend at their respective Ivy League Championships. The men finished seventh in a field of eight, and the women earned sixth in a seven-team field.


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Athletes join teams for love of the game, not money

By accepting less than 9 percent of its nearly 31,000 applicants, Brown is able to pick and choose the best and brightest from across the nation and even around the globe. And yet when recruiting elite athletes, the University often finds itself at a disadvantage. As a member of the Ivy League, Brown ...


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Squads hit the road, compete separately

The men's and women's track and field squads split their forces this weekend as a majority of the members competed at Princeton's Larry Ellis Memorial Invitational, and a small group of athletes traveled down to Louisiana State University for the Alumni Gold tournament. Both meets were not scored, but ...


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Taekwondo wins first national title

Correction appended. Twenty-five members of the Brown Taekwondo team brought home medals galore, trophies and, for the first time, the national title at the National Collegiate Taekwondo Association Championships April 9-10. The national tournament at the University of California at Davis hosted more ...


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Sheehan: End-of-Year Awards

I have been so transfixed these last few weeks with the drama on the court, ice and field on which Boston's teams tread, that I didn't see the end of the year coming.


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Students, coaches vow to fight

Seventy students across four teams—wrestling, men's and women's fencing and women's skiing — learned yesterday that their teams will not exist next year if President Ruth Simmons and the Corporation accept the Athletics Review Committee's recommendations to cut their programs. Students' and coaches' ...


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Bruno breezes by Gaels to snap losing streak

The women's lacrosse team (6-7, 1-4 Ivy) snapped a five-game losing streak Tuesday at Stevenson Field, dismantling the St. Mary's College of California Gaels, 26-6. Nine different Bears contributed to a potent offensive effort that overwhelmed the Gael defense. Kaela McGilloway '12 set the pace for ...





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