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All-Ivy Softball (2008)
Princeton sophomore and 2008 Ivy Co-Player of the Year Jamie Lettire led the League with 14 homers, powering the Tigers to an NCAA berth, while Penn senior Christina Khosravi becomes only the fourth player in Ivy history to win the award twice.

All-Ivy Women's Lacrosse (2008)
After running the table in the Ivies for the second straight season, the Penn women's lacrosse team placed six players on the 2008 All-Ivy teams. Senior goalkeeper Sarah Waxman was named the Player of the Year — the first Quaker to receive the honor since 1989.

Ivy League Gets Two into Women's Lacrosse Field
Princeton will join the Ivy League Champion Penn Quakers in the field of 16 for the 2008 NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship. The 8th-seeded Tigers will host Vanderbilt while the No. 2 Penn Quakers entertain Colgate.

All-Ivy Men's Lacrosse (2008)
Brown goalie Jordan Burke becomes the first Bear to win Ivy Player of the Year since 1995, while Princeton freshman Jack McBride becomes the third Tiger in the last five years to take home Rookie of the Year honors.

Lions Roar in Decisive Third Game
Rome wasn't built in a day, and the Ivy League Baseball Championship certainly wasn't decided in one. After a postponement from the weekend, and two high scoring affairs, the Columbia Lions took the deciding game, 7-5.

Ivy Baseball Championship Still Too Close to Call
On a day that saw 70 total hits and 49 runs, the Ivy Baseball Championship still has not been decided. Game One went to Columbia before Dartmouth forced a rubber match with a victory in Game Two. The game will be take place on Wed., May 7th, 2008 at 1 pm from Red Rolfe Field.

Shoemaker Featured on Wheaties Box
Former Dartmouth Cross-Country Heps champion Jarrod Shoemaker is being honored by Wheaties, "The Breakfast of Champions," with a new, limited-edition package featuring the 25-year old triathlete from Sudbury, Mass.

Ivies Score Yet Again
After scoring very well in the NCAA team-by-team Academic Progress Report analysis two weeks ago, the Ivy League has scored big again as the Association has released its sport-by-sport report today. Of the Ivy League sports that are also NCAA sports, the Ivy League has the nation's top APR average in more than 65 percent (19 of 29).

Ivy Baseball Championship Set For Midweek Series
The Ivy League Baseball Championship, originally scheduled for May 3rd-4th has been rescheduled due to weather complications in Hanover, N.H. over the weekend. The Championship will begin today, Tue., May 6th, at 12 noon.

Ivy Weekly Women's Lacrosse Awards 10 - 5/5
Holly McGarvie had five goals and an assist in two Princeton games this week and also combined for seven draw controls against Maryland (5) and Georgetown (2). The junior midfielder also had a team-high three goals against Maryland and a pair of goals and an assist against the Hoyas.

Ivy Weekly Men's Lacrosse Awards 10 - 5/5
Brown goalie Jordan Burke (pictured) was huge, only giving up 5 goals with 13 saves, while Bears freshman Andrew Feinberg scored the two biggest goals of the year, as Brown beat Princeton, 6-5, to earn a share of its first Ivy title since 1995.

Tigers Sweep, Take Softball Championship
The Princeton Tigers swept two games — 4-2 and 5-1 — from Ivy North division champs Harvard today to claim the Ivy League Softball title and an NCAA Tournament Bid.

Cornell Earns Ivy Automatic NCAA Bid
With Brown’s 6-5 victory over Princeton this afternoon, the No. 8 Cornell men’s lacrosse team became the Ivy League’s automatic qualifier for the NCAA tournament by virtue of its victory over co-champs Brown last weekend.

Brown Earns Share of Ivy Crown
Brown downed Princeton in men's lacrosse on Saturday to claim a share of the Ivy League Championship, its first Ivy title since 1995. The Bears won 10 of their last 11 regular season games to finish tied with Cornell at 5-1 in Ivy play.

Follow Each Championship Series this Weekend
Free web streaming is available for the Ivy League Baseball Championship Series in Hanover this weekend, while a live, free broadcast will be made available for the Softball Championships in Princeton. Update: The Baseball Championship has been postponed until May 6th because of weather.

All-Ivy Women's Tennis -- 2008
New ground was broken around the Ivy women's tennis circuit this season, first as the Yale Bulldogs won the Ivy championship outright for the first time since 1981. In response, the eight Ivy coaches named Eli junior Janet Kim as the Ivy Player of the Year, the first such award granted to a Yalie.

All-Ivy Men's Tennis -- 2008
Princeton's Peter Capkovic emerged from a tight field to earn the Ivy Player of the Year Award in balloting of the eight Ivy League head coaches, but NCAA-bound Harvard was the only squad with two first-team selections in Ashwin Kumar and Chris Clayton.

Harvard Men, Yale Women To NCAAs
The Ivy League tennis champions learned their NCAA Championships assignments this week as the Harvard men will play No. 17 Texas Tech in Ann Arbor, Mich., in the first round on May 10 while the Yale women will face off against No. 2 seed Georgia in the first round on May 9 in Athens, Ga.

Penn Women's Lacrosse Earns No. 1 Ranking
In addition to snapping Northwestern's 36-game winning streak, Penn women's lacrosse also ousted the 'Cats from the No. 1 position in the Inside Lacrosse media poll after 17 straight No. 1 rankings. The Quakers and Wildcats shared first place position in the IWLCA poll.

Princeton set to Host Ivy Softball Championship Series
Ivy League South Division champions Princeton will host the Ivy Softball Championship Series this weekend when they welcome in Harvard to Class of 1895 Field for a best-of-three series.

Ivy Weekly Softball Awards 8 - 4/29
Jamie Lettire was huge for Princeton, as she hit the go-ahead home run in game one Sunday against Cornell and the game-winning homer in game two to power the Tigers to a doubleheader sweep of the Big Red and clinch an Ivy South title.

Ivy Weekly Baseball Awards 8 - 4/29
Princeton's Spencer Lucian raised his batting average by 23 points to .433 following a weekend against Cornell in which he went 6 for 10 (.600) with five rbis and seven runs scored. Lucian highlighted the weekend with four extra base hits and Player of the Week honors.

Dartmouth to Host Lions for Ivy Baseball Championship
The Dartmouth baseball team has earned the chance to host the Ivy League Championship Series after winning a tie-breaker and will host Columbia in a best-of-three beginning on Saturday with a twin bill at 12 p.m. at Red Rolfe Field. Game 3 will be held Sunday, if necessary.

Ivy Weekly Women's Lacrosse Awards 9 - 4/28
Sarah Waxman returns as the Defensive Player of the Week after making seven big saves for Penn against No. 1 Northwestern. The Wildcats entered the game averaging 16.80 goals per game but Waxman kept a clean sheet in the second half and only surrendered seven goals in an 11-7 win.

Ivy Weekly Men's Lacrosse Awards 9 - 4/28
Dartmouth goalie Michael Novosel had the game of his life, carrying the Big Green to an upset win over No. 10 Princeton. The sophomore came up huge with 16 saves for a .640 save percentage in the 11-9 victory in Hanover.

Three-time WLAX Champs Get Penn-alized
The Penn women's lacrosse team did what no other team could in 36 previous games — beat No. 1 Northwestern. The Quakers shut out the three-time defending national champion in the second half to take away a 11-7 victory.

Ivies Impressive in 2008 APR Ratings
Ivy League student-athletes again have the nation’s best records in the annual NCAA Division I Academic Progress Report ratings for enrollment from the 2003-04 through 2006-07 academic years, which was issued today. The APR measures semester-by-semester records for every Division I team with regard to each members’ continuing eligibility, retention and progress toward graduation.

All-Ivy Men's & Women's Golf -- 2007/08
Princeton junior Susannah Aboff became the fourth Tiger women's golfer to win the Ivy League individual title Sunday, claiming the title by 11 shots at Atlantic City Country Club. On the men's side, Penn's Michael Blodgett took top All-Ivy honors.

Ivy Weekly Baseball Awards 7 - 4/22
Harvard's Shawn Haviland earned a win and a save over the weekend as part of a four-game sweep of Brown. The senior also threw a scoreless inning of relief at Fenway Park against Northeastern. For the week, he threw 9.1 innings, struck out eight and did not allow an earned run.

Ivy Weekly Softball Awards 7 - 4/22
Jenna Campagnolo powered Cornell to their 18th straight win and a tie with Princeton for the Ivy South Divisional lead. The senior hit .667 with three home runs, a triple and two doubles for nine RBI on the six-game week.

Ivy Weekly Men's Lacrosse Awards 8 - 4/21
Princeton defender Charlie Kolkin led a Tiger defense that stifled Cornell's high-powered attack, en route to a huge Ivy win over the previously Ivy-unbeaten Big Red. The win snapped a four-game losing streak against Cornell.

Ivy Weekly Women's Lacrosse Awards 8 - 4/21
Penn's Ali DeLuca scored eight points in two vital wins against Princeton and Brown that gave the Quakers a second consecutive outright Ivy League title. The performance also included a career night against Princeton for the defending Ivy League Rookie of the Year.

Harvard, Yale Snare Tennis Titles
Both the Harvard men and Yale women hit the road on Sunday and returned to their respective campuses as the 2008 Ivy League Champions. For the Bulldogs, it was the program's first outright title since 1981.

Columbia takes Men's Golf Crown
Columbia won the 2008 Ivy League Men's Golf Championship today, beating Yale by nine strokes at Galloway National. It is the second Ivy title in program history, with the first coming in 1999. Penn junior Michael Blodgett became the first Quaker to win the individual title.

Harvard Wins Historic First Ivy Women's Golf Title
The Harvard women's golf team today won the Ivy League Women's Golf Championship for the first time in school history. The Crimson did it in style, winning the event by 10 strokes over second-place Columbia.

Yale Leads Ivy Men after Day One
After Day One of the 2008 Ivy Men's Golf Championships, it is Yale leading the pack, up two strokes on Columbia. It was a historic day at Galloway, as Brown's Larry Haertel set a new course record (previously held by three-time U.S. Open champ Hale Irwin) with a first round score of 67. Penn's Michael Blodgett matched the mark in round two.

Harvard Leads Ivy Women's Golf After Two Rounds
The Crimson shot a team total of 585 (9-over-par) to take the lead over second-place Princeton and third-place Columbia. The event is taking place at scenic Atlantic City Country Club.

Ivies Descend on Atlantic City Links
The 2008 Ivy League Golf Championships will take place Saturday and Sunday, with the the men's event to be held at Galloway National Golf Club in Galloway, N.J., and the women's at the Atlantic City Country Club in Northfield, N.J.

Deja Vu, Red and Blue — Penn Repeats in WLAX
The No. 6 Penn women's lacrosse team downed its rival and No. 2-ranked Princeton, 9-5 to clinch a share of the Ivy League title. The Tigers entered the game with an undefeated record and the pride of a win streak over the Quakers in Princeton that lasted for more than two decades. Both are no more. The Quakers also secured an NCAA automatic bid.

Ivy Weekly Baseball Awards 6 - 4/15
Dartmouth senior Damon Wright finished a 4-1 week for the Big Green with a .471 batting average. He drove in six runs, courtesy of two home runs, and scored six more runs of his own. For the week, the Player of the Week had 15 total bases to go along with an .882 slugging percentage.

Ivy Weekly Softball Awards 6 - 4/15
Ivy Pitcher of the Week Jen Meunier of Cornell was stellar once again this week for the 11-1 Big Red, going 4-0 with 20 strikeouts — all while stifling League opponents to a mere .167 batting average.

Ivy Weekly Men's Lacrosse Awards 7 - 4/14
Co-Players of the Week Jordan Burke of Brown and Bob Schneider of Princeton virtually willed their teams to victories this past week, while Rookie of the Week Jack McBride set a Princeton freshman record with six goals in a win over Penn.

Ivy Weekly Women's Lacrosse Awards 7 - 4/14
Cornell's Katherine Simmons was dominant on both ends of the field as the Big Red swept Brown and No. 17 Stanford on the weekend. Simmons posted seven goals and three assists and added six draws, five ground balls, five caused turnovers in the games. She even claimed a NCAA record for good measure.

USA Takes Gold Over Canada in World Championship
In a game with 10 total Ivies between the two rosters, it was Team USA downing Team Canada, 4-3, in the gold medal game of the 2008 IIHF World Women's Championship in Harbin, China.

Two Ivies Earn NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships
Dartmouth's Nick Christman and Yale's Alan Kimball have been named as recipients of NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships. The scholarships are awarded for academic and athletic excellence to student-athletes in the last year of competition.

Matheson Headed to Beijing with Team Canada
Princeton senior Diana Matheson has helped guide the Canadian national soccer team to its first Olympic Games berth later in the summer. Team Canada will face the United States for the CONCACAF title on Sat. April 12th. Both teams will be in the Beijing Olympics field.

Cowher Named Second-Team Lowe's Senior All-America
With balloting for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award complete, Meagan Cowher earned a spot on the second-team Senior All-America, the award's organizers announced this week. The senior led the Ivy League in scoring for a second year in a row with 17.7 points per game.

Robinson Steps Down as Brown Men's Basketball Coach
Brown men's basketball coach Craig Robinson has stepped down as head coach of the Bears to become the head coach at Oregon State University of the Pac-10 Conference. Robinson led Brown to a school-best 19 wins this past season.

Ivy Weekly Baseball Awards 5 - 4/8
Penn's Steve Gable continues to provide consistent offense at the top of the order for Quakers. He is on an 18-game hitting streak and has hits in all but two of Penn’s 23 games. He leads the Quakers with a .465 batting average and is the Ivy Player of the Week selection.

Ivy Weekly Softball Awards 5 - 4/8
Princeton sophomore Jamie Lettire was stellar for the Ivy-unbeaten Tigers, hitting .571 (8-for-14) with two home runs, a double and four RBI for a slugging percentage of 1.071 in Princeton's four-game sweep of Yale and Brown.

Ivy Weekly Women's Lacrosse Awards 6 - 4/7
Princeton's Katie Cox utilized tenacious defense to pace the Tigers to a 2-0 week. In the much anticipated match-up with Yale, Cox shut down the vaunted Bulldog attack and shut out her primary defensive responsibility. Her exploits have earned the Defensive Player of the Week nod.

Ivy Weekly Men's Lacrosse Awards 6 - 4/7
Cornell's Ryan Hurley continued his offensive onslaught this weekend, leading No. 5 Big Red with five goals and one assist as Cornell defeated Harvard, 11-7. It was the fourth time in five games that Hurley has scored at least four goals.

Outdoor Heps Schedule Announced
The schedule for the 2008 Outdoor Heps Championship has been released and is available at the Ivy League's track and field blog. This season's outdoor championships will be contested at Cuyler Field and Dwyer Track in New Haven, Conn., on May 10-11.

Brown Athletics to Host "Race & Sport " Talk
Brown Athletics will host a panel discussion titled "Reflections on Race & Sport In America" on April 14, featuring New York Times columnist William Rhoden along with head coach Craig Robinson and track standout Nicole Burns (pictured).

Ivy League Men's Swimming Excels at NCAAs
The Ivy League men's swimming contingent represented the Ancient Eight well at the 2008 NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships. Harvard's Geoff Rathgeber, Princeton's Doug Lennox and Yale's Alex Righi had near-world class swims and were rewarded with All-America status.

Ivy Weekly Baseball Awards 4 - 4/1
Junior Michael Pagliarulo has been a main contributor to the recent success for Dartmouth — which enjoyed a 5-0 week. He sported a robust .545 average with eight runs, seven RBI, two home runs and a double. His efforts are rewarded with Co-Player of the Week honors, sharing with Yale's Ryan Lavarnway, who was also impressive.

Ivy Weekly Softball Awards 4 - 4/1
Penn shortstop Christina Khosravi tore it up this weekend, hitting a combined nine-for-11 with two home runs and nine RBIs in four League games — all while leading the Quakers to a 3-1 Ivy mark.

Louis Dale Named AP All-American
Cornell sophomore Louis Dale has been named to the Associated Press honorable mention All-America team. The 2007-08 Ivy League Player of the Year helped lead the Big Red to its first Ivy title and NCAA tournament berth in 20 years.

Ivy Weekly Women's Lacrosse Awards 5 - 3/31
Lauren Vitkus enjoyed a career week and played a huge part in pacing Brown to a 2-0 record — with wins over Marist and the Bears’ upset of #20 Dartmouth. Her two goals and an assist lifted Bruno over the Red Foxes 13-12 and three second half goals ignited the 8-5 win against the Big Green.

Ivy Weekly Men Lacrosse Awards 5 - 3/31
Princeton's Alex Hewit was stellar in goal in two hard-fought Tiger wins, making a total 27 saves while allowing only 13 goals — including a point blank save with six seconds left to preserve a 7-6 win over Rutgers.

Six Ivy Leaguers Named to Opening Day Rosters
As the 2008 Opening Day Major League Baseball rosters were finalized, the Ivy League has added to its growing list of professional baseball players. All in all, the League has six on active 25-man rosters.

Phils Turn to Princeton for Relief
Recently, Ivyleaguesports.com reported on a feel good story about former Princeton catcher, Tim Lahey, who became a pitcher after being drafted by the Minnesota Twins. Today, the career minor-league journeyman pitcher, landed on 2008 Opening Day roster for the Philadelphia Phillies.

Winter Academic All-Ivy Teams Announced
The Ivy League has released its list of student-athletes selected for All-Ivy Academic honors in winter sports. The 80 men and women were starters or key reserves on a officially recognized varsity team with 3.0 cumulative grade point averages.

North Dakota Stymies Tiger Attack in NCAA Hockey
The final score sheet will show that North Dakota defeated Princeton men’s hockey 5-1 in the first round of the NCAA Regional, but Princeton doubled the Fighting Sioux in shots and carried the play against the region’s top seed for most of the day.

Aemisegger and Co. Have Strong Swims at NCAAs
The Princeton women's swimming and diving team had an excellent showing at the 2008 NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships. The Tigers finished in 24th place with 41 total points. Five Tigers, including sophomore sensation Alicia Aemisegger, earned All-America honors.

Dartmouth's Scott Awarded Charles T. Stoner Scholarship
The Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) has selected Dartmouth senior Sydney Scott as the winner of this year's Charles T. Stoner Law Scholarship Award. The scholarship is named for the former legal consultant for the WBCA and is presented annually female collegiate basketball player intending to pursue law.

Dartmouth Duo Helps Kiwis Punch First-Ever Olympic Bid
Dartmouth men's soccer players Craig Henderson and Daniel Keat have helped their native New Zealand seal a bid for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The pair helped the Kiwis seal an Olympic bid for soccer after going 5-0 in qualifying.

Vaillancourt Wins Patty Kazmaier Award
Harvard junior forward Sarah Vaillancourt, a 2006 Olympic gold medalist with Team Canada, was chosen as the 2008 recipient of the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award as America’s top women's college hockey player.

Leen Wins National Title
Cornell 157-pounder Jordan Leen has won the national title by beating Illinois' Michael Poeta, 5-4, at the NCAA Championships in St. Louis, Mo. The No. 8 seed in the tournament completed his unlikely run by knocking off the top two seeds en route to capturing the title.

Executive Director Jeff Orleans To Retire
University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann, Chair of the Council of Ivy Group Presidents, announced today that Jeffrey H. Orleans will retire as the Council's Executive Director on June 30, 2009, and that a national search for his successor will begin in fall 2008.
The Ivy Feature...
Extreme Makeover: Brown
Members of the Brown football team joined up with Extreme Makeover: Home Edition to provide an early Christmas present to the Silvia Family of Warwick, R.I. The show aired May 4th, 2008.

Old Friends
They have anchored the Princeton defense for virtually every game the past four years. They've also been fellow All-Americans and best friends since the sixth grade. Click here to read about Tiger seniors Dan Cocoziello and Alex Hewit.

Catching A Draft
In late April every year, there are Ivy Leaguers who are fully prepared to move into the professional career that they have been preparing for in the classroom. But as Judy Battista of the New York Times discovers, an increasing number have hopes to delay that career for one in the NFL.

Living the Dream
Brown water polo coach Felix Mercado is living the dream. Newly married with a baby on the way, Mercado has worked his way through the ranks as high school coach before coming over to Providence from MIT. Click here to read Coach Mercado's story.

Buenos Yalies
Continuing Yale's tradition of expanding horizons through international travel, the Bulldogs field hockey team spent spring break in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Team members documented the trip with regular updates for fans back home.

The Boys of Spring
Former Penn baseball standout and Academic All-American Doug Glanville has now been out of Major League Baseball for three seasons, but the change of season from winter to spring makes a rookie all over again.

Dividing and Conquering
When Cornell recruited Jeomi Maduka, it was primarily for her ability to jump horizontally, not vertically. Track, not basketball, seemed to be her best sport. But tomorrow she leads her Big Red hoops squad against UConn.

ESPN Celebrates Historic Upset
It was an NCAA tournament first. And it happened 10 years ago today. Not since the inception of the 64‑team field for the women (1993-94) or the men (1984-85) had it been done. Not in 71 previous tries — or in 72 tries since.

Ivy Football Doc Complete
For Love & Honor Productions is proud to announce the completion of Eight: Ivy League Football and America, an original feature-length documentary film (TRT 96 minutes). A world premiere, hosted by the Ivy Football Association, will be held on Thursday, April 24, at the Yale Club in New York City.

 

 
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