KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Junior Megan Colombo and senior Julia Luongo of the Swarthmore College women’s soccer team have both been named NSCAA All Mid-Atlantic Region Selections, the organization announced on Monday. Colombo is a second-team selection while Luongo appears on the third team.
CHESTER, Pa. – Widener’s B.J. Smith scored a game-high 11 points and pulled down a game-high nine rebounds to lead a balanced scoring attack that saw 12 different players score as the Pride defeated the Swarthmore College men’s basketball team 66-44 in non-conference action on Monday night from Widener University.
LANCASTER, Pa. – Junior Kathryn Stockbower of the Swarthmore College women’s basketball team and freshman Will Gates of the men’s team have each been named the Centennial Conference Performers of the Week in their respective sports for the week ending December 7, the conference announced Monday afternoon.
CAPE COD, Mass. – Senior Julia Luongo of the Swarthmore College women’s soccer team has been named an ECAC South Division III second team all-star, the organization announced recently.
SWARTHMORE, Pa. – Not even a mid-game power outage could deny the Swarthmore College men’s basketball team of its first win of the season.
Freshman Will Gates scored a career-high 31 points – the most by any Garnet player in three seasons – while pulling down 17 rebounds as Swarthmore (1-5, 1-1) stunned highly-regarded Ursinus 74-68 from Tarble Pavilion on a snowy afternoon at the College.
The win is the Garnet’s first victory of the season and its first win against Ursinus since the 1997-98 season, snapping a streak of 22-consecutive defeats.
SWARTHMORE, Pa. – Junior Kathryn Stockbower became the seventh player in Swarthmore College women’s basketball history to reach 1,000 career points, scoring 19 points and pulling down 11 rebounds, but visiting Ursinus rallied from a 10-point halftime deficit to defeat the Garnet 64-59 on Saturday afternoon from Tarble Pavilion.
HAVERFORD, Pa. – Sophomore Kenyetta Givans tied her own Swarthmore College school record in the 55m hurdles, finishing with a time of 8.58 to lead the Garnet women’s indoor track team at the season opening Jack Pyrah Invitational on Saturday evening from Haverford College.
SWARTHMORE, Pa. – After two days, three sessions and 36 events of swimming, the Garnet men and women made it worth their while as the men swam to a Swat Invite championship and the women to a second place finish on Saturday evening in Ware Pool.
HAVERFORD, Pa. – Competing against many Division I and II teams from the Philadelphia area, the Swarthmore College men’s indoor track team opened its season with the 2009 Jack Pyrah Invitational from Haverford College.
SWARTHMORE, Pa. – The Garnet made a splash in day one of the Swarthmore Invitational on Friday in Ware Pool. Senior Anne Miller finished second in the 500-yard freestyle touching the wall in 5:14.33. Freshmen Jake Benveniste (4:51.71) and Tyler Hanson (4:56.03) finished two and three in the 500-yard freestyle to round out the Garnet’s domination of the event.