Following a 2005 campaign that saw the team go 6-4 in Centennial Conference play on their way to earning the first playoff berth in the history of the program, the 2006 Swarthmore volleyball team are pointed towards a return to the playoffs with an eye on the conference title. Led by a pair of All-Centennial [...]
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Swarthmore volleyball team was one of 287 schools to earn the Game Plan/AVCA Team Academic Award for the 2005-2006 season, given by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA). The award, initiated in the 1992-93 academic year, honors college and high school teams that displayed excellence in the classroom by maintaining at least a [...]
#5-seed Swarthmore took 4th-seeded Franklin & Marshall to the five-game limit before falling 3-2 in the first Centennial playoff game in Garnet volleyball history. F&M advances after winning by scores of 30-22, 29-31, 30-25, 28-30, and 15-10 in first-round action of the 2005 Centennial Conference Playoffs in Lancaster, Pa on Wednesday night. The Diplomats (20-8 [...]
Swarthmore, PA – Swarthmore senior setter Emily Conlon (Marlborough, CT – Loomis Chaffee) has been named Centennial Conference Player of the Week for the week. In two games for the Garnet, Conlon had 71 assists, 28 digs, 10 kills, two aces, and a block. Conlon had a team-high 14 digs and 29 assists in a [...]
Haverford defeated Swarthmore 3-1 in a rowdy Tarble Pavilion on Senior Night this evening. The Fords (17-8, 7-2 CC) downed the Garnet by scores of 30-12, 30-22, 22-30, 30-22. Middle blocker Karen Berk ’08 put home a team-high 14 kills and had six blocks as Swarthmore fell to 13-14 overall and 6-4 in the Centennial. [...]
Swarthmore defeated Washington (Md.) 3-0 on Tuesday evening in Tarble Pavilion, and combined with McDaniel’s 3-1 loss to Johns Hopkins, secured a spot in the 2005 Centennial Conference playoffs. The Garnet (13-13, 6-3 CC) won by scores of 30-21, 30-23, 30-23. It is the first Centennial playoff berth in the history of Swarthmore volleyball. The [...]
Swarthmore defeated Muhlenberg and then fell to Vassar in a tri-match hosted in Tarble Pavilion on Saturday afternoon. The Garnet (12-13, 5-3 CC) cruised over the Mules by scores of 30-26, 30-21, 30-18 in the early match, and fell to the Brewers 30-16, 28-30, 30-25, 30-27 in its afternoon match. Vassar (15-10) defeated Muhlenberg (11-14, [...]
Senior tri-captain Emily Conlon passed 3,000 career assists in Swarthmore’s 3-0 defeat at Gettysburg (14-9, 7-2 CC) on Tuesday night. The Garnet (11-12, 4-3 CC) fell by scores of 30-24, 30-17, 30-21. Conlon handed out 25 assists to go along with five digs on the evening. She now has 3,002 assists in her career, a [...]
Outside hitter Erica George ’07 tallied 12 kills and seven digs as the Garnet fell to both Chapman and UC-Santa Cruz 3-0 on Saturday in southern California. The Garnet lost by scores of 30-23, 30-17, 30-23 vs. Chapman and then 30-26, 30-17, 30-19 to the Banana Slugs. In the Chapman game, freshman outside hitter Jennifer [...]
Senior tri-captain Patrice Berry recorded a double-double with 10 kills and a team-high 17 digs, leading the Garnet to a 3-1 victory over Ursinus in Centennial action on Tuesday night in Collegeville, Pa. Swarthmore (11-7, 4-2 Centennial) won by scores of 30-26, 27-30, 30-12, 30-23. The Garnet out-distanced the Bears (4-14, 0-6 CC) in game [...]