The Hopkins men’s lacrosse team went out last Saturday for a high-profile matchup against the men’s lacrosse team, the Syracuse University Orange.
Over the course of this University’s storied athletic history that dates back well into the past century, there have been many talented and dedicated athletes who have proudly sported the blue and black. These competitors have lead their teams to Conference Championships, national titles, have set numerous school records, and have represented the Blue Jays with class, dignity and professionalism during their time on the field and continuing well after graduation into their professional endeavors. To commemorate the achievements of these remarkable alumni, the Johns Hopkins University established its Athletics Hall of Fame in 1994. Now in its 22nd year of operation, the hall has commemorated the athletic achievements and contributions made by 176 former athletes, coaches and administrators who now are forever immortalized in Blue Jay lore. The 2016 class is composed of eight new members who will be inducted into the Hall on Saturday, April 30.
Baseball is back! Happier words have never been spoken. Well, it was a wild off-season. The Kansas City Royals took home their first World Series title since 1985.
In 2005, a quiet 19-year-old Spaniard took the men’s professional tennis tour by storm. Rafael Nadal — or, more belovedly, “Rafa” — quickly built a passionate fan base with his absolute domination of the season’s clay court swing quick ascent to world No. 2. He was a wild-card. Not literally, but in the sense that his play style was so wild, so unique and so unheard of that no player could beat him with ease. For one, Nadal plays left-handed, giving him an immediate advantage over most right-handed players whose forehands are usually stronger. His heavy topspin pushed players back, out of their offensive comfort zones. He was quicker, stronger and possessed more innate grit than anyone had seen from a player since the likes of Lendl or Borg.
Tess Meehan is one of seven Hopkins athletes who will be competing at the 2016 NCAA D-III Indoor Track & Field Championships held on March 11 and 12.
I remember Steph Curry from his early days at Davidson College in North Carolina. He was a skilled and athletic scorer who propelled his small school to the national spotlight when the Wildcats reached the 2008 Elite Eight, where they fell just two points shy of the eventual national champion Kansas Jayhawks in a March Madness classic.
This past Saturday, the Hopkins men’s lacrosse team came through with a 17-7 win against Princeton University. The home game was well-attended by students and alumni, and the win brought the team to a 2-2 record for the season.
This past weekend, both the men’s and women’s track and field teams brought home Centennial Conference titles from competitions hosted by Ursinus College in Collegetown, Pa. While the Jays came out on top, the Haverford College Fords did offer some competition. Along with the team titles, the Jays saw many record-breaking individual performances during the two-day event.
This past weekend, both the Hopkins men’s and women’s fencing teams were in action, participating in several matches. The men’s team played five matches on Sunday at the Philadelphia Invitational, winning four of the matches. One of Sunday’s victories came against ninth-ranked Duke University. The women’s team also traveled to Pennsylvania for the Philadelphia Invitational and faced stiff competition. They were able to pick up one victory out of four and faced three teams which are currently receiving votes for the CollegeFencing360.com Coaches’ Poll.
The Blue Jays Baseball team opened up its 2016 campaign in two hard-fought contests, first losing to the Keystone College Giants and then failing to capitalize on an eight-run lead in a tie with SUNY New Paltz.
A week ago, the Hopkins women’s lacrosse team experienced what many sports teams have experienced before: a delay. Unfortunately for the Lady Jays, it was a weather delay that forced them to wait for almost three hours to finish the game.
Last week, senior captain and midfielder Dene’ DiMartino was one of three Hopkins Lacrosse players named to the Tewaaraton Watch List.
The Hopkins men’s tennis team opened up their spring season with a commanding 9-0 win versus the University of Delaware Blue Hens in Baltimore this past Friday. The win snapped a nine-game losing streak against Delaware and dropped the Blue Hens to 0-6 to start the season.
Coming off a Conference Championship win last season, the Hopkins baseball team has big goals for 2016. In a five-game series last May, the Jays defeated the Franklin & Marshall College Diplomats for the conference title.
This past weekend, the Hopkins men’s basketball team closed out their season with a bang as they cruised past Centennial Conference foe, the Washington College Shoremen, by a score of 82-65. With the victory, Hopkins finished their season with an overall mark of 13-12 (10-8 CC), while the Shoremen dropped to 3-22 (1-17 CC) in what has been a very tough campaign. The Jays ended up placing tied for fifth in the final Conference standings, finishing a game behind the fourth-place Gettysburg Bullets in the race for the final playoff spot. The season was certainly not a failure by any means since the Jays were consistently competitive and remained in contention for the playoffs until the final contest of the year. However, the Jays returned with a plethora of seniors from a team that won 25 games last season and advanced to the Sweet Sixteen of the D-III playoffs. With much of that talent returning, there was a hope that the Jays could once again be a dominating unit. While that did not happen, there is no question that this team faced significant adversity and still managed to be a formidable, albeit rarely dominant Conference challenger capable of beating any team in any given contest.
The 16th-ranked Hopkins women’s lacrosse team picked up a pair of dominating wins last week, both at home against the American University Eagles on Wednesday and the Rutgers Scarlet Knights on Sunday.
This week’s athlete of the week is Haley Schweizer, a junior on the women’s lacrosse team, who started the season with a record of 3-0. The most recent victory for Hopkins came against Rutgers College, with a win of 14-2. The scoring was led by Schweizer, who had six goals to her name.
Despite starting in late October, the NBA season is said to unofficially begin on Christmas Day. Likewise, with the Super Bowl in the rearview mirror and baseball still around the corner, mid-February is the time when the basketball season really takes off. Before the beginning of the stretch run though, the league’s best headed north of the border for an All-Star Weekend in Toronto that exhibited the best that basketball has to offer — and they did not disappoint.
