Women’s Water Polo Team Wins Division III Championship
On April 13, The Connecticut College Women’s Water Polo Team won the Division III Championship, beating their rivals and previous winner Grov City College. The final game had the Camel’s ahead 4-1 during the first three quarters, but in the final quarter each team scored two points. The final two points scored for Conn were [...]
Conn Hosts Annual Silfen Invitational
On April 20, Men’s and Women’s Track and Field competed on their home turf at the Silfen Invitational, a meet held annually at Conn. The women placed second out of fourteen teams, while the men placed fifth out of twelve. The day was mostly cloudy, with some sun poking through on occasion, as if wishing [...]
A Trip to the Gym!
One of my friends just told me a horror story of his first time at the gym. It involved an iPod, a treadmill and a high speed collision with the floor. The story ended something to the effect of “Yeah I haven’t gone to the gym since”. Someone else confirms that this is one of [...]
Gladiator! (Minus Russell Crowe)
A few weeks ago, in an NFL game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens, Chiefs starting quarterback Matt Cassel suffered a concussion after receiving a crushing hit from Ravens defensive end Haloti Ngata. Cassel was knocked out; he spent a significant amount of time on the ground before being helped off the [...]
Nude Art, Brought to you by CCFC
In the past week, a lot of brouhaha has arisen over one seemingly controversial piece of Harvestfest merchandise: The Men’s Club Soccer Calendar. This year, as in years past, the team’s innovative approach to the “what-the-hell-are-we-going-to-sell-at-Harvestfest” problem caught the eye of the student body and parents. Naked calendars! The reaction? A general mix of pride [...]
Fantasy Football Stock Market
Do you devote your Sundays to relentlessly checking NFL box scores online? Does your main form of procrastination involve shouting profanities at ESPN’s scoreboard? Do you force your nauseous, hung-over self to wake up at 12:45 in the afternoon to make any last minute scratches to your injury-ridden lineup? If any or all of these [...]
Men’s Soccer Makes Late Push
To the casual observer, the Connecticut College Men’s Soccer team’s season thus far looks mediocre at best. The Camels have won just a single NESCAC game. The story of the season has been Conn’s six ties. That is not a typo. Conn has ended six of their conference games level with their opponents. The aforementioned casual observer [...]
Fran Shields, Athletic Director
Ben Schachtel Perched atop a tall bookshelf in the corner, a mud-caked hat seemed out of place. The rest of the office was clean, save for a veritable mountain of paperwork on the desk. The man who had been sitting across the table from me had risen now and was walking towards the hat, which, [...]
The NHL Has Done it Again
Not three months after hockey fans got to see one of the most riveting Cinderella story victories in Stanley Cup history, the league entered into its fourth work stoppage in the last twenty years. Let the absurdity of that fact settle in for a moment. In my lifetime, I have seen four work stoppages, three [...]
Wiffle Ballers Stay Luce
By Alex Cammarata & Marina Stuart Team Stay Luce defeated team New London Arboritos in the final round of Connecticut College’s first annual Wiffle Ball Tournament on September 23. Stay Luce came out on top 1-0 after six innings of overtime to win a $100 dollar gift card to Paul’s Pasta. Eight teams, each with [...]
Conn Bids Head Athletic Trainer Cathy Horne Farewell
At the end of the school year, Connecticut College will say goodbye to Cathy Horne, our head athletic trainer. Since August 1983 when Horne first arrived on campus, her job, as well as the athletic program as a whole, has evolved greatly. Back then, the trainer’s room was a small space inside of the health [...]
The Connecticut College NFL Mock Draft
As a Cleveland Browns fan the most exciting day of the year does not take place in January or February but in late April during the NFL draft. Since returning to Cleveland in 1999 the Browns have made the playoffs exactly once and have earned picks at number 1, 1, 3, 3, 3, 4, 6, [...]
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