Athletics News

LANCASTER, Pa. – Six Swarthmore student-athletes were named to the fall All-Centennial Conference Sportsmanship Team today. The Centennial’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee created the team to emphasize sportsmanship within the Conference. All institutions elected one member from their team who displays good sportsmanship throughout the season to be a member of the All-Centennial team.

SWARTHMORE, Pa. – The 2009-2010 edition of the Garnet should be much improved over last year (3-21 overall, 2-16 conference) when they suffered from a numbers problem and lack of experience, exacerbated by an unusual rash of injuries and sickness. The loss of their only senior, center Raul Ordonez, will certainly be felt. He finished in the top ten in the Centennial Conference in both scoring (12.7 ppg.) and rebounding (8.3 rpg.), and tied the Swarthmore single-season record of taking charges (22).

SWARTHMORE, Pa. – With the return of four starters – including the reigning Centennial Conference Player of the Year – and several key reserves from last season, the 2009-10 Swarthmore College women’s basketball team looks like it has the potential to be one program’s best in recent memory.

Down 1-0 with less than 5 minutes to go in the game and possibly Swarthmore’s season, Morgan Langley powers through a defender and rips a shot into the back of the net to send it into overtime. Then in the second overtime, Philippe Celestin sprints down the field untouched, jukes two defenders and blasts the game-winning goal past Hobart keeper in the 107th minute to advance the Garnet to the NCAA Sweet 16. Take a look!

ALTOONA, Pa. – Junior Kirsten Peterson netted the game-winning goal in the 56th minute to lead the Swarthmore College women’s soccer team to its third consecutive ECAC South Region Championship, defeating PSU-Behrend 1-0 on Sunday afternoon from Altoona. The Garnet end the season with the three-peat and a 16-4-1 record.

ALTOONA, Pa. – The Garnet women continued their ECAC dominance on Saturday afternoon defeating the Stevenson Mustangs 1-0 with a perfectly placed goal to the top left corner by senior Julia Luongo from 25 yards out. The win advances Swarthmore to its third straight ECAC Tournament championship game on Sunday.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Freshmen John McMinn, Jacob Phillips and Brian King led the pace for the Swarthmore men’s cross country team in the NCAA Mideast Regional meet; all finishing in under 27 minutes. Sophomore Melissa Frick made an impressive return to competition for the Garnet women, pacing Swarthmore with a 23:09 run good enough for 35th place. The Garnet men finished 14th of 53 teams and the women finished 9th.

LANCASTER, Pa. – Freshmen Daniel Duncan (200 freestyle) and Jacob Benveniste (500 freestyle) each won individual races for the the Garnet men while senior Anne Miller (200 butterfly) won her individual race for the women but both teams fell short of victory to a tough F&M team. The men (1-2) lost the meet 117-88 and the women (2-1) lost 122-78.

LANCASTER, Pa. – The Swarthmore College volleyball team had two student-athletes named to the All-Centennial team – sophomore Genny Pezzola and freshman Kat Montemurro – while head coach Harleigh Chwastyk was named the Coach of the Year, the conference announced Thursday. Pezzola was named to the first team – marking the first time in program history that a member of the Swarthmore College volleyball team has received first-team honors – while Montemurro earned second-team honors. This is Chwastyk’s first Coach of the Year honor in her eight-year coaching career at Swarthmore.

CHESTER, Pa. – Swarthmore (19-11, 6-4) lost 3-1 to Widener (22-15, 5-2) in an all out offensive shootout in its opening round ECAC tournament match on Wednesday night at Widener. Sophomore Genny Pezzola led the Garnet with 16 kills and 15 digs. The loss closes out the Garnet’s most successful season in program history.