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N E W S L E T T E R
Tuesday, October 08, 2002
=================================================================News Articles of Interest
Women’s Ice Hockey Poll Has Ivy Flavor
Special Night For Ivy Trio
History And Future
5,000 Miles
Ivy Weekly Football Report 4 - 10/7
Ivy Weekly Women's Soccer Report 4 - 10/7
Ivy Weekly Men's Soccer Report 4 - 10/7
Harvard Earns ECAC Tennis Title
Gessner Claims National Award
Noonan To Guide Columbia Softball
Ivy Weekly Field Hockey Report 4 - 10/8
Ivy Weekly Volleyball Report 4 - 10/8
Pomp & Circumstance
When Sports Illustrated ran "America's Best Sports Colleges" in the Oct. 7 issue, we pulled out our calculators here at Ivy Central. We found that all eight Ivy schools were ranked in the top 200 (SI ranked the top 200 and then alphabetized the remaining 124).
The Ivy League was one of eight conferences to have all of its members ranked in the top 200, joining the ACC, Big 10, Big XII, PAC-10, SEC, Big East and Mountain West. In terms of average position, the Ivies were seventh, ahead of the Mountain West and just behind the Big East. (Actually on the field last year, the Ivy League fared even better -- finishing sixth in average position in the Sears Directors Cup -- ahead of the Big East).
But the place that the League stood out the most in the Sports Illustrated rankings was in graduation rates. The Ivy League was the ONLY one out of the 33 Division I conferences to earn a perfect score for graduation success. SI awarded a mortar board to the schools graduating at least two-thirds of its student-athletes and the League was eight-for-eight. (In fact, all Ivy programs graduate student-athletes at a rate far higher than 67 percent). The League makes up eight of the nation's top 50 programs with the aforementioned graduation rates.
YES Please!
This weekend will feature the first broadcast of the Ivy Football Package on the YES Network as Harvard hosts Cornell from Harvard Stadium at 1 pm on Saturday. The YES Network is available to DirecTV subscribers who have purchased the SportsPack on Channel 622. Spero Dedes will handle play-by-play duties with former Ivy League great Keith Elias providing color commentary.
There will be a complete preview and program available on the Ivy website by Friday and there is an easy and colorful way to let Ivy interested fans know about the package as well. Simply click on the 'Send A Postcard' feature at the top of this newsletter and click into the option "Ivy League." The postcard shown here will be available.
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
Field Hockey ... Carolyn Steele, Dartmouth (Sr., Clinton, N.Y.)
Football (offense) ... Chas Gessner, Brown (Sr., Hyattsville, Md.)
Football (defense) ... Blake Perry, Princeton (Jr., Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.)
Football (special teams) ... Trevor MacMeekin, Cornell (Soph., Phoenix, Md.)
Women's Soccer ... Emily Behncke, Princeton (Fr., Williamsburg, Va.)
Men's Soccer ... Lindsey Williams, Yale (Soph., Columbus, Ohio)
Volleyball ... Angela Barbera, Cornell (Sr., Emmett, Idaho)
ROOKIES OF THE WEEK
Field Hockey ... Cecilia Carriquiry, Penn (Montevideo, Uruguay)
Women's Soccer ... Emily Behncke, Princeton (Williamsburg, Va.)
Men's Soccer ... Einar Benediktsson, Columbia (Kopavogur, Iceland)
Volleyball ... Leigh Martin, Brown (Freelton, Ont.)
P.S. -- While it doesn't come with an award, congratulations to Dartmouth junior Shannon Rogers, who sank her first career hole-in-one in the midst of competition at the Huskie Women's Golf Classic in Huntley, Ill. The Center Barnstead, N.H., native aced No. 8, a 142-yarder, with a six-iron in cold, windy conditions.
Women’s Ice Hockey Poll Has Ivy Flavor
 Harvard, Dartmouth and Brown are each among the top five in the 2002-03 preseason USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Women's College Hockey Poll. Brown, ranked fifth, fell in the NCAA title game last year to Minn.-Duluth, which has claimed the top spot in the poll.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=1840
Special Night For Ivy Trio
 New England is the birthplace of basketball, so it is only fitting then that it had its own Hall of Fame. The inaguaral class of the New England Basketball Hall of Fame has three names the Ivy League is very familiar with.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=1841
History And Future
 Luke Mraz looked to both the past and future when making his selection to play football at Yale. And now he is making the most of the present as his Bulldogs make another run at the Ivy League title.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=1842
5,000 Miles
 Kainoa Fialkowski traveled a long way to play volleyball at Dartmouth and traded in the surf for the snow. A star for the Big Green, she has found the trip has many rewards.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=1843
Ivy Weekly Football Report 4 - 10/7
 Brown's Chas Gessner joined Jerry Rice in the NCAA recordbook to earn Ivy Offensive Player of the Week honors. Cornell won its first game of the season thanks to the foot of sophomore Trevor MacMeekin, who is the Special Teams Player of the Week.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=1845
Ivy Weekly Women's Soccer Report 4 - 10/7
 Princeton remained undefeated and untied at 9-0-0 after notchng League and non-League victories this past week. Emily Behncke tallied the game-winner in a 1-0 win over Columbia earning Player and Rookie of the Week.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=1848
Ivy Weekly Men's Soccer Report 4 - 10/7
 The first week of Ivy play has brought out the best in some, including Yale's Lindsey Williams and Einar Benediktsson (pictured) of Columbia. Click below to see who else has been inspired by the start of League competition.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=1849
Harvard Earns ECAC Tennis Title
 The second-seeded Harvard Crimson defeated top seed Virginia Tech, 4-2, to capture the 2002 ECAC Division I Men's Tennis Championship at the United States Tennis Association (USTA) National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=1850
Gessner Claims National Award
 The accolades keep rolling in for Brown wide receiver Chas Gessner as The Sports Network named him co-Offensive Player of the Week after he caught 24 passes for 207 yards and two touchdowns in Brown’s 38-28 loss at Rhode Island.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=1851
Noonan To Guide Columbia Softball
 Kayla Noonan has been named Columbia's interim head coach for softball for the 2002-03 season. Noonan, who has been the assistant coach since the program began two years ago, will remain the interim head coach until after the 2003 season.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=1852
Ivy Weekly Field Hockey Report 4 - 10/8
 Dartmouth's Carolyn Steele did more than earn herself Player of the Week with her six-point performance against Penn. It kept her Big Green squad one game behind Cornell, Harvard and Princeton who are all tied for the League lead at 3-0.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=1853
Ivy Weekly Volleyball Report 4 - 10/8
 Cornell turned up the heat as League play went underway over the weekend. Claiming back-to-back wins against Columbia, Player of the Week Angela Barbera was instrumental in both Big Red victories. Meanwhile, Rookie of the Week Leigh Martin (pictured) stepped up to help Brown defeat Yale.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=1854
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