SWARTHMORE, Pa. – The Swarthmore College badminton team (3-1) completed a season sweep of Bryn Athyn College, defeating the Lions 8-1 on Monday evening from Tarble Pavilion.
SWARTHMORE, Pa. – The Swarthmore College women’s basketball team will host its annual “Pink Zone” (formerly “Think Pink”) game on Wednesday, February 17 when it hosts Bryn Mawr College. The game is set to begin at 7:00 p.m. from Tarble Pavilion. The WBCA Pink Zone® initiative is a global, unified effort for the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association’s (WBCA) nation of coaches to assist in raising breast cancer awareness on the court, across campuses, in communities and beyond.
The second major snow storm to hit the Mid-Atlantic in less than five days has forced the postponement of tonight’s scheduled home basketball doubleheader versus Washington College. The games will now be played on Friday, February 12 (6:00 p.m./8:00 p.m.) The postponement is the fourth for the Swat basketball teams in the last week.
CHESTERTOWN, Md. – Senior All-American Anne Miller stole the show from snowy Washington College, breaking the Casey Swim Center record and earning an NCAA B-cut time in the 200 butterfly (2:07.84), as the Swarthmore College swim teams earned a split against Centennial rival Washington, with the men earning a 121-77 victory and the Swat women (4-6, 2-5) falling to the Shorewomen 120-84 on Tuesday evening.
TARBLE PAVILION – This week on the Garnet Sports Update, men’s basketball captain Matt Allen visits the show to tell us a little bit about his basketball career at Swarthmore. Victor hits the court again this week as Allen tries to teach him how to take a charge. Tune in next week for senior swimmer Anne Miller.
SWARTHMORE, Pa. – For a third time, winter weather has postponed Swarthmore’s scheduled men’s and women’s basketball doubleheader versus Johns Hopkins. Tonight’s scheduled games have been moved yet again – this time to Monday, February 15 at 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. from Tarble Pavilion.
HAVERFORD, Pa. – Sophomore Nicole Cox earned a first-place finish in the women’s high jump, while senior Lauren DeLuca missed first place by the slimmest of margins in the 800 meter run to lead the Swarthmore College women’s indoor track team at the Haverford Quad Meet on Sunday evening.
Cox’s jump of 4’11.75″ was good for first place at the quad meet and eighth-place all-time at Swarthmore College. The jump – tied for the best in the Centennial Conference this season – also easily met Centennial qualifying standards.
HAVERFORD, Pa. – Sophomore Daniel Ly jumped into the Swarthmore all-time Top 10 list with a triple jump of 42’11″ to lead the Swarthmore College men’s indoor track team at the snow-delayed Haverford Quad Meet on Sunday evening. Along with Ly, freshman Matthew Heck continued the impressive start to his Swarthmore career, earning a seventh-place finish amongst Division I competitors in the 400 meter dash with a time 53.57.
CARLISLE, Pa. – It’s a split on Super Sunday for the Swathmore men’s and women’s swimming teams, as the Garnet men (5-3, 4-1) earned their third consecutive victory, defeating Dickinson 114-91 for a crucial Centennial Conference win just 12 days before the Conference championship, while the women (4-5, 2-4) – led by another 3-for-3 performance from senior All-American Anne Miller (200 freestyle (2:01.32), 500 freestyle (5:24.4) and 1,000 freestyle (11:17.82) – were narrowly edged by the homestanding Red Devils 110-95.
SWARTHMORE, Pa. – The major snowstorm that dumped over two feet of snow across the Mid-Atlantic has postponed Sunday’s home basketball games versus Johns Hopkins for a second time. The games – originally scheduled for Saturday afternoon but moved to Sunday because of the storm – will now take place on Monday, February 8th. The women’s game will begin at 6:00 p.m. from Tarble Pavilion, with the men’s game taking place at 8:00 p.m.