The Hopkins women’s track team has continued a recent hot streak into the cold months and fought the snow and deep freeze.
Going into their third game of the season, the No. 5 Blue Jays took on Villanova at the Wildcats’ home field. Already having home field advantage, the Jays also had to conquer the snow as the Villanova stadium held about five inches of snow throughout. The weather seemed to effect the Jays as they started off the game slowly.
Going into their third game of the season, the No. 5 Blue Jays took on Villanova at the Wildcats’ home field. Already having home field advantage, the Jays also had to conquer the snow as the Villanova stadium held about five inches of snow throughout. The weather seemed to effect the Jays as they started off the game slowly.
After an up and down 4-12 regular season, the Blue Jays were led by an individual champion and a runner-up en route to a 5th place finish at the Centennial Conference Championships this past Saturday at McDaniel College in Westminster, Md.
The Blue Jay baseball team will be playing on a field befitting of its storied history for the first time this upcoming season since the construction of Babb Field at Stromberg Stadium was completed this summer. Bob Babb’s squad is looking to turn out a season that lives up to its beautiful new digs.
On an emotional Saturday afternoon, the Hopkins men’s lacrosse season began with a victory, the celebration of the life of a beloved teammate, and a historic win for its head coach.
The Hopkins women’s basketball team held Swarthmore without a bucket for the game’s first seven minutes and kept up a stellar defensive effort all day Saturday en route to a convincing 67-49 win.
The resolve and determination of the Hopkins men’s basketball team was on display once again this past Saturday against Swarthmore, as the team rallied from a 20-point deficit in the second half to improve to 19-2 on the season and 13-1 in the Centennial Conference. The win marks the 16th straight victory for the Blue Jays.
The Hopkins women’s lacrosse team took the field at the University of Houston this past Sunday to face the Golden Eagles of Marquette. The game was the first ever D-I women’s lacrosse game to be held in Houston.
Freshman fencer Matthias Philippine has had quite a strong season in his first year fencing at the college level. In his debut in December, Philippine exploded onto the scene with a 10-2 performance in the Brandeis Invitational in Waltham, Mass.
The Hopkins wrestling team split its matches in its last Centennial Conference dual meet portion of its season on Saturday. The Blue Jays were beaten by 23rd-ranked Ursinus 27-9 and then defeated Muhlenberg 28-10, giving the Jays a 3-5 Centennial Conference record on the season.
The Hopkins women’s track team followed up an impressive performance a week ago with another strong outing in the McElligot Invitational. The team traveled to Haverford, Pa. to take on a field of very competitive D-I and D-III programs. The two-day event began on Friday, Feb. 6, and continued through the day on Saturday, Feb. 7.
The men’s track team split up once again this weekend as it took on competition in both Haverford, Pa. and New York City. The day was full of personal bests for the Blue Jays.
While the winter continues to get colder and colder, baseball’s Hot Stove has been burning since December. For baseball fans, the winter is a time where we all pump up our expectations and think every move made will make our team the next World Series Champion. Although this typically is not the case, many teams have made drastic improvements this off-season.
This past Tuesday marked the beginning of the new NFL year, and with it, the start of free agency.
This past Friday, the George Kennedy Aquatic Center held its last home meet of the season, hosting the Eagles of Mary Washington. The fourth-ranked Hopkins women’s swim team cruised right past the Eagles with a dominating 135-57 win.
On Jan. 7, the men’s basketball team went on the road to square off against Centennial Conference foe Haverford. In that contest, the Blue Jays raced off to an early 25 point lead thanks to some lights-out shooting performances and attacking perimeter defense. In a similar fashion, the 17-2 Jays erupted out of the gate on a 20-5 run against the same Haverford squad at home on Saturday, led primarily by the scoring efforts of standout sophomore forward Ryan Curran.
One foot in front of the other. Every time I would try to justify running track in high school, I would tell myself that it was just one foot in front of the other. For a long, long time, I would try to justify becoming a sprinter.
ll team entered Saturday’s contest in dire need of a win. After suffering two disappointing losses against conference foes McDaniel College and Muhlenberg College, the Lady Jays needed to secure a victory in order to maintain their position in the conference standings with the conference tournament quickly approaching.
Senior Frances Loeb has been a staple on the Hopkins women’s cross country and track teams since she arrived to campus in 2011. For the cross country team, she was selected to be on the Centennial Conference’s second team in 2011 and first team in 2013, and she made the conference’s Academic Honor Roll in 2012 and 2013. In 2012, Loeb was the number seven runner on the National Championship team, and in 2013 she was its number three runner. At this year’s National Championship, Loeb was the number four runner and earned her second straight All-American honor as the team took home its third straight National Championship.
