Columbia will add M. and W. Squash
Finally, every university in the Ivy League will have squash.
Columbia, fresh off jumpstarting a $100 million athletic-fundraising campaign, announced yesterday that it make its club squash teams varsity ones.
The promotion process will end in fall 2011, when the team will officially begin full varsity competition. The teams will continue on the club level from 2007-2009, and will exist as "emerging varsity teams" from 2009-2011.
"Columbia prides itself on being a truly international campus, so it makes sense to offer a sport that is popular around the globe," said Lions athletic director Dianne Murphy.
Columbia's current squash courts are built to the North American specifications, not the International ones used by varsity college teams. Plans are already underway to build a new facility.
- Sebastien Angel
M. Golf eighth at the Big Five Classic
Penn men's golf beat Drexel, Villanova, Temple, St. Joseph's and La Salle last weekend.
But it didn't win the Big Five Classic.
That honor went to Cornell, which beat out 14 other teams that came from places as far away as Massachusetts and Maryland.
Penn placed eighth in the annual event at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, finishing 44-over-par at 612 strokes. The Big Red (595, +27) beat runners-up Seton Hall by four strokes.
Junior Brett Rendina took top honors individually for the Red and Blue, posting a score of 147 over two rounds.
- S.A.
F. Hockey stunned by upstart Columbia
The field hockey team has a couple of big triumphs to its name; wins over Delaware and Cornell, to name two.
Now, they can add to that a big loss.
Columbia, a perennial doormat that nonetheless has given Penn problems, upset the Quakers in New York 1-0 Saturday.
The game was scoreless throughout regulation, but Lions forward Ariel Leon put a stop to that after 8:40 of overtime. She deflected the ball across the line to give the Lions their first win over Penn field hockey in five years.
The win puts Penn at a precarious 2-2 in the Ivy League with a difficult game against Princeton still to play. Columbia also moved to 2-2 after the win.
- S.A.
Heavyweight rowers run on Schuylkill
The heavyweight rowing team put out three boats for the Navy Day Regatta, held last weekend on the Schuylkill river.
Of those three, a boat in the Frosh/Novice race fared the best, placing third out of 17 boats.
- S.A.
