Swarthmore, PA – Garnet sophomore center Karen Berk tallied her first double-double of the season, but a huge effort by the Johns Hopkins front court (32 points and 25 rebounds) as the Blue Jays escaped Swarthmore with a 60-57 Centennial Conference victory on Wednesday evening in Tarble Pavilion. Johns Hopkins improves its record to 3-1 [...]
Senior guard Debbie Farrelly sank a baseline jumper with half a second left to send Swarthmore to a 54-53 comeback win over Ursinus on Tuesday night in Tarble Pavilion. The Garnet improve to 2-1 overall and 1-0 in the Centennial, downing Ursinus for the 14th consecutive time. The Bears (1-2 overall, 0-1 CC) led by [...]
SWARTHMORE , PA – Mary Washington’s Debbie Bruen ( Centreville, VA / Paul VI) scored 17 points to lead the Eagles (2-0) to a second Swarthmore Tip Off championship, defeating Washington & Lee ( Va.) 60-53 on Sunday afternoon in Tarble Pavilion. Bruen, a junior forward, earned her second consecutive Swarthmore Tip Off Most Valuable [...]
The Garnet scored 37 second-half points to come from behind and beat the Trinity College ( Ct.) Bantams 68-64 in the consolation game of the 8 th annual Swarthmore Tip Off Tournament. Senior forward Radiance Walters led the Garnet (1-1) with 17 points while All-Tournament selection Karen Berk chipped in 12 points, eight rebounds and [...]
Junior Debbie Bruen scored a game-high 18 points and freshman Ashton Mitchell added ten points as Mary Washington (Va.) downed Trinity (Ct.) 66-38 in the opening round of the Swarthmore Tip Off on Saturday afternoon in Swarthmore, Pa. The Eagles, the 2004 Tip Off champion, advance to the championship game vs. Washington & Lee on [...]
Sophomore Karen Berk scored a game-high 23 points and senior captain Jen Stevenson added 14 for Swarthmore, but the Garnet were unable to subdue the Washington & Lee in the first round of the 2005 Swarthmore Tip Off Tournament. The Generals improve to 1-0 with the 67-60 win over host Swarthmore. The Garnet came out [...]
Swarthmore College has announced Renee DeVarney, current head coach at W.T. Woodson High School in Fairfax, VA, has been named head women’s basketball coach. “The Department of Athletics is very excited to have [DeVarney] on board,” said Adam Hertz, Director of Athletics at Swarthmore. “We feel her understanding of competitive athletics within the framework of [...]
Swarthmore College women’s basketball coach and associate professor Adrienne Shibles has announced her resignation from the College. In nine seasons at Swarthmore, Shibles improved the program in dramatic fashion. In 2000-2001 the Garnet won its first Centennial Conference Championship, and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament, the school’s first such appearance. The [...]
Ali Wolf ’05 paced the Garnet with 14 points and eight rebounds in Swarthmore’s (16-10) 70-63 Centennial Conference first-round playoff victory over visiting Gettysburg (13-13). The fourth-seeded Garnet will travel to top-seeded Dickinson on Saturday for a 6 p.m. semifinal game. The game started slowly with the score tied at 8-8 after the first five [...]
Swarthmore College junior Radiance Walters (Gaithersburg, MD – The Bullis School) was named to the 2005 All-Centennial Conference Women’s Basketball Team in balloting by the league’s 11 head coaches. Walters received honorable mention. The 5-9 forward leads the Garnet in scoring and rebounding, averaging 10.5 points and 9.2 rebounds per game. Walters is 18th in [...]