The nets are getting ready to be stretched across the gym floor as the Garnet prepare for the 2009 volleyball season. In her eighth season, coach Harleigh Chwastyk and the Garnet are back and ready to hit the court. Swarthmore will look to rebound from last seasons 6-19 record and fight for a spot in the Centennial Conference Championships.
Entering his 11th season at Swarthmore College, cross country head coach Peter Carroll enters the 2009 season with a large stable of runners on both the men’s and women’s teams, with both squads hoping to compete for a Centennial Conference title as well as a top-ten finish at the NCAA Mideast Regionals.
After winning the ECAC South Region Championship for the second consecutive season, the Swarthmore College women’s soccer team is regrouped, refreshed and ready to defend its title in 2009. With many familiar faces returning in key positions, the Garnet will look to improve upon last season’s 10-4-6 record and make a strong a push towards a Centennial Conference championship.
INDIANAPOLIS – Former Swarthmore College student-athlete Caitlin Mullarkey has been selected as a semifinalist for the NCAA Woman of the Year award. Mullarkey is one of 30 women remaining in the contest, which has been narrowed down from 132 representatives covering all three NCAA divisions and multiple sports.
It was a magical run for the Swarthmore men’s soccer team in 2008. In the program’s best season in 25 years, the Garnet captured the program’s first Centennial Conference Championship, advanced to the third round of the NCAA Championship after making the program’s first appearance in the tournament since 1991, and set program records for Conference victories (8) and longest unbeaten streak (13). But that was last season. This is a new season – and despite being tabbed as the preseason favorite by the Centennial Conference coaches – nothing will come easy for the Garnet in their quest to defend the Conference championship.
Despite the loss of five seniors from last year’s squad, the Swarthmore College field hockey team has plenty of reasons to be optimistic heading into the 2009 season. All of the optimism stems from a productive offseason that saw the Garnet develop a dynamic new offensive attack while stressing more emphasis on improving defensive fundamentals.
LANCASTER, Pa. – Coming off its first Centennial Conference championship in program history, the No. 13 Swarthmore men’s soccer team has been picked to defend the title in 2009. In a vote by the conference’s head coaches, the Garnet are tabbed to finish first in the Conference, receiving four first-place votes and a total of 72 points. The Garnet edged out 2008 Centennial Conference runners-up Johns Hopkins, who was picked to finish second with four first place votes and a total of 70 points.
SWARTHMORE, Pa. – The reigning Centennial Conference champion Swarthmore men’s soccer team will enter the 2009 season ranked No.13 in the NSCAA Division III Preseason Poll, the association announced on Tuesday. The Garnet – coming off the program’s most successful season in 25 years – is one of two Centennial Conference teams ranked in poll; Johns Hopkins – who the Garnet defeated in the 2008 Centennial Conference championship game – is ranked No. 16.