NCAA National Soccer Semis & Final, Greensboro 12/5 and 12/6
The first details are out on the Women’s NCAA Division III Soccer National Semifinals & Finals
December 5-6, 2008
Macpherson Stadium at Bryan Park
Greensboro, North Carolina
Host: Greensboro College
Hosted by Greensboro College and the City of Greensboro
Friday, December 5
5:00 PM – Williams (19-0-1) vs. Wheaton (IL) (21-3-2)
7:30 PM – William Smith (16-1-5) vs. Messiah (22-0-2)
Saturday, December 6
5:00 PM — Friday’s winners meet for NCAA title
The games will be videocast for free on a CBS College Sports connection provided by the NCAA. The D3 men’s games will precede the women’s, and the current schedule is confusing because it only lists the men’s games. This may change over the interim, but look to the Williams Sports site for updates and clarifications. Cross your fingers that the video feed will work: I have a 50% success rate with this broadcaster this season.
The Williams Sports page reminds us that the Williams women last appeared in this tournament in 1999, when Williams hosted and the team finished third.
Women’s Soccer (updated: WINS, 2-0!!) NCAA Elite 8 vs. Ithaca at 1 PM EST, Cole Field
The Williams women’s soccer team takes on the Ithaca Bombers today at 1 PM EST on Cole Field for the NCAA Elite 8/sectional final. Audio for the game will be available for free on Teamline, with the team’s regular online announcer Will Slack broadcasting.
The soccer parents will be picking up the NCAA admission fees for all Williams students who come down to Cole Field. Yesterday had quite a loud and loyal fan section, thanks in part to a similar parental funding incentive.
It will be another cold day, but may be a little bit warmer than it was yesterday. Expect rough, slippery going for the players as the temperature is not expected to reach above 29; as Will points out, cleats don’t work well on frozen ground. There may be flurries.
Go Ephs!
LAST UPDATE: Williams wins, 2-0. Looks like William Smith beat Amherst 1-0 in OT (but Amherst was the better team on stats — as we learned last year, anything can happen in these games).
UPDATE: At the start of the broadcast, Will just said it was 10 degrees warmer than yesterday (and I don’t hear the wind howling the way it did yesterday Will says it’s very windy, and I hear it now), but still extremely cold. He expects the footing to be much improved. They’ve moved over to the men’s field today (because they chewed up the women’s field in yesterday’s semis). There is a good-sized Ithaca parent section present, in addition to very vocal Eph students, parents, and other fans.
Here’s what the end of the second half looked like yesterday:
photo by Kris Dufour, copyright Williams College
X-Country: Both Men and Women 3rd in Cross-Country (Updated)
The Williams men came in third at the cross-country national finals today, behind teams from SUNY Cortland and North Central College. Edgar Kosgey and Jeff Perlis earned All-American honors, finishing 10th and 26th respectively.
Middlebury won the national championship on the women’s side, followed by Calvin College and then the Ephs in third. Lauren Philbrook placed 19th, earning her All-American honors after a terrific season.
Williams Soccer Wins Sweet 16, Advances to Play Ithaca (Updated)
In such heavy snowfall that broadcaster Will Slack was having trouble seeing some of the last plays, the Eph women’s soccer team has won the Sweet 16.
Everything is up in the air. The weather is so bad that the other sectional semi may not be playable today.
But congratulations to the Ephs and the Lions for great play under worsening conditions. Hats off to Will for bringing it to the fans at home, and to the soccer fans (including a dedicated group of parents) for a great show of support at Cole Field.
LATEST UPDATE: The Ephs will face the Ithaca Bombers, winners of this afternoon’s frigid skating match on an icy Cole Field, tomorrow in the NCAA sectional final/Elite 8 round.
The Amherst women, too, will play tomorrow. Having defeated Otterbein 1-0 today, they face William Smith in the Elite 8. Time will tell….
UPDATE: The broadcast has just come back on, with the other semi (Ithaca Bombers vs. Lynchburg Hornets) going forward in snowy, 20-degree Williamstown. If they can finish it, the winner of this one is scheduled to meet Williams tomorrow (time uncertain — I’ve heard two things, which may have to do with the weather) on Cole Field for the sectional finals. Will is reporting that the field is well-dusted but the snowfall has abated; conditions remain extremely slippery, as well as cold.
photos by Kris Dufour, copyright Williams College
NCAA X-Country Sat. @11 and 12 EST
Tomorrow (Saturday) watch the Williams men (12 PM EST) and women (1 PM EST) [times corrected to account for time zones] compete in the NCAA cross-country championships here on CBS College Sports/NCAA.com.
Go Ephs!
Photos by Kris Dufour,
copyright Williams College
Williams Women’s Soccer vs. TCNJ 11 AM Sat., Cole Field
Williams Women’s Soccer vs. The College of New Jersey in the NCAA Sectionals at 11 AM Sat. on Cole Field. Audio available at no charge on Teamline (I think Will Slack ‘11 will be announcing the tournament). More information on the tournament here.
Go Ephs!
A Reach
photo by Kris Dufour, copyright Williams College
Tomorrow (Thursday) night, the Williams volleyball team will play Northern Ohio in the NCAA Elite 8 at Illinois-Wesleyan. The tournament will be webcast. The Ephs’ game will be at 9:30 PM EST, the last match of the day’s four.
This will be a reach, but this team has poise and heart. They’ve been on a remarkable streak, and have managed a string of striking upsets. May their momentum continue.
The semis will take place Friday night, and the final Saturday night.
Go Ephs!
Peanut Butter Pillows and Wilderness Fantasy Cookies
Courtesy of Laura ‘92 (her flickr stream is here). Made by the Clarksburg Bakery baker. Are they still available?
UPDATE: The cookies, Chunky Cheese Bread, and other baked goods once sold at the late, lamented Clarksburg Bakery on Spring Street are made by former Clarksburg baker Jamie Ott at Cricket Creek Farm, a dairy farm with a farm store off Sloan Road in Williamstown, about a mile from the Store at Five Corners. The farm also produces artisanal cheeses (available for online purchase), pasture-raised beef, eggs, and milk, and has a barn space available as a small rental party place.
If you go to the farm’s website, you’ll see a list of stores (including Wild Oats, the co-op on Rt. 2) and restaurants that carry or use some of their items, as well as a weekly bread baking schedule.
Thanks to Tom Bernard ‘92 for the heads up.
Another Top Ranking: Morty’s Salary in the Top 10
The Berkshire Eagle reports that “… a new survey puts Williams College’s Morton O. Schapiro ninth on the list of top-paid leaders at private schools that primarily award bachelor’s degrees. Schapiro’s compensation for the 2006-07 academic year was $514,744, including $62,729 in deferred compensation benefits, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s annual survey, released yesterday. Schapiro’s compensation total for the previous year was $474,518….”
Do I see both an excellent opportunity for leadership and a bit of a cost-cutting or hold-the-line possibility here?
Another interesting note: Rep. Grassley (he of the move to force more take down of endowments; I guess we already took care of that, unintentionally) was all over the rise in college presidents’ compensation.
Breaking News - Soccer
photo copyright Williams College
The sleet came down but the Ephs triumphed. They will take on the College of New Jersey next weekend in the Sweet 16.
UPDATE: Williams will host the sectionals. In addition to the Williams-TCNJ match, Ithaca will play Lynchburg. All games will be available online FOR FREE at Teamline. These being NCAA games, there will be a small charge for attending in person at Cole Field.
A Williams Gem
Fran Vandermeer celebrates her team (photo copyright Williams College)
The honors have been rolling in for the members of the volleyball team during the last week. They are young (they lost only one senior to graduation last year and will again lose one this year), so their poise and perseverance through a rocky mid-season — where they were losing more than they were winning–and their improbable upsets and streak are all the more admirable. They are now 28-12, with 12 of those wins coming in the last 12 games. Congratulations to regional tournament MVP Kate Anderson and to fellow All-Tournament Team member Nichole Ballon-Landa (both sophomores) and to their very worthy All-Tournament Team member peers Alice Cummings and Jessica Duff of Wellesley.
The remarkable Coach Fran Vandermeer deserves special congratulations. She has an extraordinary connection with her team. She tries to sit through the sets the way the other coaches do, but she can’t. She doesn’t yell or stamp, but she’s always there at the edge of the court and you can see her energy and passion flowing over the line to her girls. You can sense the connection in her strategic use of time outs and the knowledge of her team embodied in it; other coaches try to do this but she almost never fails to steady her girls and send them roaring back. And she seems to keep the focus forward, something that carries over in the girls’ poise (you won’t see them getting frustrated or turning on each other the way some other teams do). As I watched her make big changes in rocky moments during the Tufts, Springfield, and Wellesley games, I kept thinking about the trust she’s built among the girls: they implemented the changes with unhesitating confidence that the new arrangement was just the thing to turn the tide (often it seemed to become a self-fulfilling prophecy).
In her 19th or 20th year as a Williams coach, Vandermeer is one of the gems of Williams College. So is Cross-Country Head Coach Pete Farwell ‘73, whose harriers again did so well yesterday but who is to be equally honored for the huge deep, smart, no-cut program he runs. Thankfully, there’s something about Williams, other NESCAC schools, and remnants of the Seven Sisters that nurtures these vital, longtime non-academic teachers.
Vandermeer steadies her team (photo copyright Williams College)
Volleyball - Williams vs. Wellesley
And Williams is going to the Elite 8 in Illinois next week. Wellesley played an outstanding game and almost took them.
The mantra of the game was, as the announcers kept saying, “No one’s going down easily in this one.” The lead went back and forth all game, and the recoveries were quite admirable.
The team with the NCAA New England Regional Championship trophy
[And a big shout out to another Eph team tonight: congratulations to men's basketball and Coach Maker for winning their first game. Nice way to welcome your coach, guys. May this be the start of a long and productive run.]
*********
The volleyball NCAA New England regional championship game is on Jumbocast right now.
(in reverse order)
The fourth set went to Williams.
Williams came out firing in the third set, taking it to 7-1. Then they slipped, and it was a back and forth slog that Williams ultimately took, 25-23. Anderson is affected by the injury, but still fighting.
Wellesly took the second set, 25-17. Williams standout Kate Anderson was hurt in the first set, missed part of the second, and then played hurt. Wellesley found a weakness in the Williams service return and worked it hard in the beginning of the set, wearing Williams down. This was a tough one with a lot of mistakes by Williams, and Wellesley is following the pattern that has twice before brought success in this tournament. I think having to use up both of her time outs early in the set greatly hindered Fran from being able to do her usual great job of steadying the team.
Williams took the first set, 27-25, after a remarkable rally by the Blue. Williams has admirable poise. Wellesley has astonishing perseverance. Each has found and has been picking away at the other’s weaknesses.
The Tufts anouncers/commentators are doing a great job. They really understand the game.
Men and Women Advance to NCAA Championships
Hosting NCAA New England regionals today, both Eph cross-country teams had very successful outings despite the rain. They’ll run on a much flatter course next weekend at the NCAA championships at Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana.
On the men’s side, Edgar Kosgey won the 8K event, followed in by four other Ephs in the top 15. Their score of 36 placed them far ahead of second place Amherst, who, with a 122, also earned an automatic championship berth. Several other NESCAC schools may be granted at-large slots, depending on the results in other regions.
Edgar Kosgey (left runner); copyright Williams College
On the women’s side, only Amherst’s Elise Tropiano managed to get past Eph Lauren Philbrook, who is having a phenomenal year. Middlebury won this 6K event with a 57, while Williams tallied a 87 for second. Both teams earned automatic championship berths and could be joined by at-large invitees from New England.
Lauren Philbrook (left) (copyright Williams College)
REMINDER: Williams volleyball plays Wellesley at 7 PM tonight at Tufts for the NCAA regional championship (round 3). The game will be on Jumbocast.
Wintry Light
As winter approaches, one of the things I remember most from my time in Williamstown is the mesmerizing, ever-changing play of the light on the campus buildings and the Purple Valley mountains.
(copyright Dread Pirate Ruth; linked to her flickr stream)
(copyright Ledges; linked to her flickr stream)
Sign on the ‘62 Center (a/k/a on EB as Trump’s Pompadour)
(copyright stenz; linked to his flickr stream)
One of my favorites from the williamscollege flickr pool.
Chunky Cheese Bread
photo copyright MiniLaura
Sometime in the last few weeks, we were talking about Clarksburg Bakery, late of Spring Street, and their cheese bread, which is now available from Wild Oats. From a MiniLaura submission to the flickr pool, here’s a picture.
UPDATE: The cookies, Chunky Cheese Bread, and other baked goods once sold at the late, lamented Clarksburg Bakery on Spring Street are made by former Clarksburg baker Jamie Ott at Cricket Creek Farm, a dairy farm with a farm store off Sloan Road in Williamstown, about a mile from the Store at Five Corners. The farm also produces artisanal cheeses (available for online purchase), pasture-raised beef, eggs, and milk, and has a barn space available as a small rental party place.
If you go to the farm’s website, you’ll see a list of stores (including Wild Oats, the co-op on Rt. 2) and restaurants that carry or use some of their items, as well as a weekly bread baking schedule.
Thanks to Tom Bernard ‘92 for the heads up.
Onward!
The Ephs with their NESCAC championship plaque last week
photo copyright Williams College
The Eph volleyball team has just defeated Springfield, 3-0, to advance to tomorrow’s 7 p.m. NCAA regional final against the winner of tonight’s contest between Tufts and Wellesley. The regional championship game will be webcast on Jumbocast.
If you follow volleyball, you may remember that Williams had an upset victory against #1-seeded Tufts to advance to their NESCAC championship game against Amherst last week. Williams will once again be playing at Tufts so, if you are in the Boston area, try to make it out to support the team. A loud fan section seems to make a big difference in volleyball.
Other Williams NCAA events this weekend: the Ephs host the men and the women in the New England Division III regional cross country meets on Sat. and on Sun. Williams hosts round 2 of the women’s soccer tournament.
Go Ephs!
Volleyball Update: In the regional finals, Williams will face Wellesley, the winners of a persistent, hard-fought 3-2 semifinal victory over Tufts. Small, but scrappy, Wellesley came into the tournament on an at-large bid, while Tufts had been a powerhouse and was playing on their home court. To get to the finals, the Wellesley team had to play 10 matches (two five-set games), while Williams played a total of six. Hard to know which will dominate on Wellesley’s part tomorrow: the exhaustion or the exhilaration. Tomorrow’s winners will play in the Elite 8 at Illinois Wesleyan. Go Ephs!
Vintage Chapin Hall
This is a postcard of Chapin Hall, dating back to about 1915. Constructed in 1911-12 and named in honor of Grace Chapin, the wife of Alfred Chapin of the Class of 1869, the building was originally called “Grace Hall.”
Until I saw this photograph, I missed out on a lot of the ways this building shares features and motifs with both Stetson and the Williams/Sage pair (I seem to remember that Chapin was constructed first among that “neighborhood” group).
I am experimenting with posting pictures (thanks to help from Ronit, Diana, and others), so please bear with me. My goal is to pull up from time to time and post some of the photographs from the “williamscollege” flickr pool that rarely come up on the EphBlog sidebar.
Secondary School Educators
In addition to alumni accomplishments in many other fields, Williams is known for producing leaders in secondary education. I thought of that this morning as I read the obituary for Bruce McClellan ‘45, the long-time head of the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey.
The obituary notes that, “During his tenure the school underwent major changes, most notably with a student body that became both coeducational and increasingly diverse. Mr. McClellan was the driving force behind the admission of black students in 1964 and girls in 1987.” In addition, he greatly increased the school’s endowment, enabling Lawrenceville to offer institution-altering levels of financial aid and to provide impressive facilities and curricular offerings.
An outstanding student, a varsity athlete, and a student leader at Williams during World War II, McClellan also managed to serve as a summer warrior: “Between his sophomore and junior years at college, Mr. McClellan served as a pilot in the Army Air Corps and was separated from service in September 1945 with the rank of captain. He saw combat service over Europe with the 8th Air Force and earned the Air Medal with clusters and the Distinguished Flying Cross.”
McClellan then went on to take up a Rhodes, and returned to Williams for a year as an assistant dean before leaving to teach English at Lawrenceville, where he became Head Master at 35. His work there would eventually win him honorary degrees from several colleges, including his alma mater.
As with many of the most effective leaders in secondary education, McClellan always kept his hand in as a teacher: “Mr. McClellan continued to instruct English through his time as head master, explaining, ‘It feeds my spirit to teach.’”
Secondary school teachers and administrators labor in something of a backwater, largely unrecognized, and yet providing vital services and having an enormous impact on our whole society’s future. Williams recognizes this with various programs designed to help students who plan to enter the field and with its acknowledgement that “we stand upon the shoulders of giants” in the form of granting the Olmsted Prize for Excellence in Secondary School Teaching at Commencement to four high school teachers who have made a difference to graduating Williams seniors.
Often, more cherished than any institutional award are the thanks of, and being remembered by, former students. Sadly, the mentors of our youth seem to pass away all too soon while we are off pursuing our careers and busy with raising our children. The upcoming Thanksgiving season would be a good time to write a note or pick up the phone to call one of your (or your child’s) former teachers or coaches.
Volleyball!
Go Ephs!
Tech Questions About Photographs
I know there’s a tech thread, but I thought it would be helpful to consolidate tech questions and answers about pictures in a separate thread. I’ve been thinking about it because of the trouble I had with the medal pictures yesterday.
Here are my questions:
1) When we switch to a new blogging program, will the link to flickr that displays photographs tagged ”williamscollege” still work? If not, can we set up a similar system for automatically displaying pictures from the pool on a sidebar or in the banner area?
2) I opened up the pool and noticed that there are lots of photographs that are rarely, if ever, posted, while others seem to loop around with frequency. The newest postings tend to be displayed the most often, which makes sense, but the display rate among the older ones is quite inconsistent. Does anyone understand how the application works and how to make it work better? Or should we try something else?
3) Would it work better, or be better for some reason, if EphBlog had its own flickr pro account (unlimited picture storage for $25/year - but I’m not sure people would upload their pictures to it so that extra step might doom it)?
4) Is there a primer on posting photographs within EphBlog threads for a very non-techy person like me (preferably mac/Safari/iPhoto sensitive instructions)? No use answering that if the primer won’t work with the new blogging program we are going to start using; I’d rather wait and get answers that wokr with the new program. Does the picture have to be at the start of a thread or is there a way to slice in a photo by placing it in a comment instead of a main thread opening post? How do I control size? And how can I vary text size so that I can put in an appropriately-sized caption? How do I place the photo “below the fold” on a thread posting?
[And, although it is not particularly relevant to pictures except as it applies to captions, would someone please tell me how to block quote?]
If others have questions about photographs and this blog, I hope they will add them here.
Thanks in advance to my rescuers.
Remembered
This is the Williams Service Medal from the Great War.
RIP, Ephs.
(click for larger)
Kudos
When things go wrong, we are quick to criticize the administration, the social systems, and even the students. Too often, we say nary a word when things go right. A weekend ago, it was both Halloween and Homecoming, yet everything seems to have gone very smoothly, in sharp contrast to the problems of the fall of 2007. Kudos.
The following are condensed versions of two articles that appeared in the Record.
Homecoming celebrations go off without a hitch
By Elleree Erdos - Staff Writer (Record)
Event organizers began and ended Homecoming weekend in celebratory fashion, hosting a number of concerts and themed parties without glitches. Party planners were pleased with the turnout at events in celebration of both Halloween and Homecoming.
ACE took charge of Friday night’s lineup, starting the night off with a concert in Lasell, featuring hip-hop artist Charles Hamilton and Grammy Award-winner Rhymefest….
Halloween-themed events followed the concert, beginning with a Freaky Friday dance in Goodrich from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. and the Late Night Thriller party in Brooks from 12 a.m. to 3 a.m….
During the day on Saturday, the neighborhoods held a Cluster Cup tailgate competition, which Spencer won with its spread of KFC chicken and biscuits, homemade caramel, white chocolate and chocolate-dipped mini apples, cookies, chips and dip, mini molten lava cakes and cheesecakes.
“In my opinion, the weekend couldn’t have gone smoother,” said Franny Barrett ’12, the Wood Neighborhood social chair. The neighborhoods hosted two parties on Saturday night following the football game: the Masquerade Ball in Goodrich featuring DJs Dirty Deeds and D-Lo and the Late Night Trick or Treat in Prospect Basement.
This year all four neighborhoods sponsored both of Saturday’s events. Instead of having simultaneous parties, the events were staggered throughout the night to allow for greater turnout. “The Late Night Trick or Treat gave people something to do until 3 a.m., so a lot more people stayed out later,” said Ali Barrett ’09, ACE president….
Weekend sees few incidents, damages
By Yue-Yi Hwa - News Editor (Record)
“From our point of view, this weekend was amazing,” said Bea Miles, director for Facilities. According to Miles, the only billable incident this weekend was in Tyler Annex. “They broke a chair and had a bio-cleanup,” she said, adding that there were brownies scattered around the area.
Miles also noted that kitchens in dorms were slightly messy Monday morning as students had done a lot of cooking over the weekend, but “it’s nothing we’ll complain about.”
…“Overall we would like to thank the campus for a wonderful weekend,” she said.
Jean Thorndike, directory of Security, also offered a positive assessment. “The weekend went smoothly and there weren’t any major security issues,” she said. “It was relatively uneventful and the calls we handled were similar to incidents that occur on a regular basis.”
Thorndike added that none of the incidents stood out as significant or specifically related to Homecoming. “During past Homecomings, there was usually more activity on campus,” she said, noting the difficulty of comparing Homecoming weekends “because every other year we host Amherst.”
Kyle Johnson, Williamstown Police Department (WPD) chief, agreed that the weekend had been quiet and uneventful. “This has become the norm since the alcohol policy at the football game has changed,” he said, noting that he was only aware of one summons for an alcohol violation and no arrests.
On Saturday, two WPD officers had been assigned to patrol and four more were on duty at the football game. That evening, three officers were on patrol and two additional officers were assigned to the event at Eastlawn Cemetery….
Upcoming NCAA Events
Williams hosts the NCAA CROSS-COUNTRY Regionals at its Mt. Greylock High School course on Sat., beginning at 11 AM.
This is a huge undertaking, joyfully pursued. It should be a fun spectator event, with the fans scrambling from vantage point to vantage point. There are two flights: the men’s 8,000 at 11 and the women’s 6,000 at noon.
VOLLEYBALL begins the NCAA Tournament on the 13th at 1 PM at Tufts against Keene State.
If any of you are in the Boston area and can get to that game, your presence could contribute to the outcome. Watching online as the NESCAC championship upset game was held in that same venue, I could hear the Williams fans drumming up energy as they waved their golden signs. The announcers repeatedly referred to the strong presence of the Williams fans.
If you can’t be there, you should be able to watch the game online through Jumbocast. Look for the link through the Tufts website if you don’t see it on the Williams website. The announcers know the game (and are especially familiar with the NESCAC teams) and do a good job. Even if you don’t follow volleyball or if you find the frequent rule changes confusing, you’ll be able to follow the contest with those guys.
Also competing in NCAAs will be the WOMEN’S SOCCER team.
I don’t have details about that yet. Williams has the automatic NESCAC slot. I’m expecting Amherst to get the other slot – their play in the last two outings against Williams merits it.
Holiday Gift Suggestion
The Williams Outing Club has revised its “North Berkshire Outdoor Guide,” the area trail guide. The publication announcement singles out two special Ephs, Katie Craig ‘08 and Bob Quay ‘04 “who in their short time at Williams gave enduring inspiration to many members of the community.” Craig’s art appears on the cover and in the book and I’m sure that the bridge on Mt. Greylock named in Quay’s memory receives prominent mention. RIP, good friends of the WOC.
Wouldn’t this make a wonderful holiday gift for your favorite Eph? And, if you can manage it, how about adding in a 2009 trip “home” with other Ephs to make use of the guide?
Middlebury Cancels Two Overseas January Courses
Middlebury has announced that it is canceling two overseas Jan. term courses due to the financial situation. Both courses - one to London and one to Nepal - were designed to allow lower-income students to travel abroad, and had heavy financial aid components. I did not see any details on their endowment.
Are similar cuts on the table for Williams?
And will the stipends for summer travel and internships be cut?
An Eph ‘02 Casts Her First Vote
Lest we forget, here, thanks to Dick Quinn, is a reminder of part of what it is all about. After you watch the video, read Selma Kikic’s story.
The Quinn profile was from 2000. Does anyone know what Ms. Kikic is doing these days?
UPDATE from DK: Selma Kikic is a analyst at JP Morgan Chase in New York.
Eph Broadcasters
The College’s sports website is running a great series on Eph ex-athletes who are now in broadcasting. So far, it includes:
I wish the series were signed or had some background, as I’d be interested to know how it came about and whether we can expect more installments. Excellent work. Dick Quinn runs quite a shop. Kudos.
Other Endowments Suffer
In a news blurb, the daily online version of The Chronicle of Higher Education reports estimates of endowment losses, both from state systems: “The value of the University of Virginia’s endowment fell by about $600 million, or 11 percent, in the fiscal quarter that ended September 30, and had dropped by an additional $600 million, or 20 percent, in the first half of October, The Cavalier Daily and The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. The newspaper accounts, citing a report by the University of Virginia Investment Management Company, said that the decline in the quarter ended September 30 was the biggest ever in actual dollars, and matched in percentage only by drops in 1990 and 1987. The Daily Texan reported that the combined investments of the University of Texas System had dropped by $1.6 billion in the month of September alone.”
Crew Triumphs
The men’s and women’s A boats have just won the Collegiate 8+ events at the Head of the Charles Regatta, and the women’s B boat has moved up from 14th to 4th. This is very big for the women’s A boat and HUGE for a recently soaring men’s team and for the women’s B boat (demonstrating continuing strong breadth of team on the women’s side that really helps at NCAAs, where the D3 championship is based on the combined finishes of the A and B boats). On the women’s side, Trinity seems to be in a building year and Bates continues to build on last year’s remarkable improvement, sure to be a strong contender in post-season competition next spring.
Among the HOCR announcing team is Williams’s own first female Olympian Nancy Storrs, who coaches for the Canadian National Team and is a legend in the sport.
Yesterday, Williams Women’s Head Crew Coach Justin Moore repeated at silver in the Masters doubles with his friend Coach Andy Card of Yale. There were also several alumnae on the course in various events but I haven’t tracked down their results yet.
Look for very strong Williams men’s and women’s teams this spring.
Go Ephs!
