Genevra Pittman

Lee's career-high night helps Garnet maul Bears

Now that it’s December and is snowing in some parts of the country, it’s time for Swat athletes to hang up their cleats and head to the comfort of indoors for a great winter pastime: basketball.

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Swim teams split vs. F&M

If Saturday’s competition is any indication of what’s to come, the Garnet swim teams have a lot to look forward to. In a meet dominated by underclassmen, the men’s team defeated Franklin and Marshall …

Volleyball finds Salisbury too tough to chew

The Swarthmore volleyball team finished its season at home last Saturday in a tough loss to Salisbury after a third-game comeback fell just shy. The Seagulls defeated Swarthmore 3-0 (30-20, 30-19, 34-…

Garnet volleyball falls short of comeback

It would have been almost too good to be true. The Garnet volleyball team was on the verge of pulling out a Red Sox-like victory over rival Haverford Tuesday night, coming back from being down 2-0 to …

Volleyball fifth at Seven Sisters

The Garnet volleyball team faced tough competition at the annual Seven Sisters Tournament at Wellesley over fall break. Swarthmore finished fifth in the tournament, losing its first two games but comi…

Volleyball drops three

A rough homestand for the Garnet volleyball team wrapped up on Tuesday night with a 3-0 loss to Johns Hopkins (26-30, 22-30, 26-30). The game came after a 3-0 loss to Gettysburg Thursday (11-30, 26-30…

Swarthmore sports around the fieldhouse

Volleyball

It was an up-and-down week for the Garnet volleyball team – as the women suffered a loss to McDaniel on Saturday before coming away victorious from a match at Bryn Mawr Tuesday night.

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Women's volleyball takes tournament title

What a difference a week can make.

After a disappointing showing at the Muhlenberg Buttermaker Tournament and a tough loss in their first home match against Franklin and Marshall, the Swarthmore volle…

Women's volleyball falls to 2-7

The Garnet volleyball team came out strong in its home opener Tuesday night, but eventually fell to a tough squad from Franklin and Marshall, 3-0 (30-32, 24-30, 17-30). The match followed a disappoint…

Field hockey still undefeated

Watch out.

That’s the message the Swarthmore field hockey team has sent to fellow Centennial Conference teams during the first week of the season. With a perfect 3-0 start, the Garnet seems intent on …

Volleyball 1-3 at Moravian Invite

The Garnet volleyball team opened its season last weekend at the Moravian Greyhound Premiere Invitational, a challenging first test for the women. Playing four games in two days, the team finished 1-3…

Tide steps up play after early difficulties

The Swarthmore women’s basketball team rebounded from a tough loss in its season opener against Washington & Lee, taking contests against Trinity and Ursinus before falling in a nail-biter last night …

Women's Basketball

With a new coach and a new set of captains, the women’s basketball team is sporting a fresh attitude as it embarks on a campaign to improve on last year’s strong 16-11 finish.

The Garnet have brou…

Badminton

After coming in second in the conference to Bryn Mawr last season, the badminton squad has a chip on its shoulder. Luckily, the team is returning all of its players from last season and will also brin…

Counting down the top moments of the fall season

As fall sports wind down and athletes head in from the fields to the pools, courts and tracks, there’s time to reflect on a memorable season. It was a season of firsts, a season of surprises, and a se…

Volleyball drops first ever playoff match

Nothing good can last forever. The Garnet volleyball team’s historic season ended last night, when Swarthmore fell to Franklin & Marshall in the first round of the Centennial Conference playoffs by a …

Ultimate squads dominate at Haverween

With a combined 16-0 record in two days of play, the Warmothers and Earthworms each came out on top at Haverween, Haverford’s annual costume-themed Ultimate Frisbee tournament, last weekend. The women…

Volleyball clinches first conference playoff berth

With convincing victories in two must-win matches in the last five days, the 2005 Garnet volleyball team earned a spot in the Centennial Conference playoffs, the first ever appearance by a Swarthmore …

Garnet volleyball prepares for key conference matches

With three games against conference opponents remaining in the season for the Garnet volleyball team, crunch time has arrived. Possessing a 4-3 record in conference play (11-12 overall), Swarthmore si…

Volleyball earns two conference sweeps

The Garnet women’s volleyball team really wouldn’t mind having more weeks like this one. Coming off a tough loss in its first Centennial Conference match against Franklin and Marshall, Swarthmore tore…

Volleyball falls just short of title at Garnet Classic

In the end, two points separated the Tide from defending its title at the Garnet Classic. After cruising through opening pool play, the Swarthmore volleyball team fell to Rutgers-Newark in the tournam…

Volleyball tops competition at Moravian Invite

A tournament title is never a bad way to start off a season. But when it includes beating out eight other schools, including a conference rival, and sweeping three out of four matches, then it’s somet…

Women's soccer preview

With a new coach and eight new first-years, the soccer team has a fresh look for the 2005 season. Todd Anckaitis, previously the head coach at Lewis and Clark College, was hired over the summer to rep…

Men's soccer preview

After surpassing all expectations last season, the men’s soccer team will have a lot to live up to this year. The 2004 team reached the championship game of the ECAC tournament before falling to Wes…

Volleyball preview

Putting in four-hour long practices all through preseason, the members of the Garnet volleyball team have shown that they know how to get what they want. And this season, what they want is to earn a C…

Field hockey preview

After an exciting preseason trip to England that pushed the team to elevate its level of play and come together on and off the field, the field hockey squad is ready for a breakthrough year. Following…

Two Swarthmore teams go the extra mile

While most Garnet athletes were finishing up their summer activities and packing their bags for preseason back on campus, a pair of Swarthmore teams spent the end of vacation across the Atlantic, trav…

Tide softball drops pair to rival Fords

Of all the losses the Garnet softball team has managed to overcome this season, these two might just be the worst. The Tide dropped to 10-24 on Tuesday as it lost both games of a doubleheader to rival…

Milk and dresses: The ultimate spring Top Ten

As the semester winds to a close, and spring teams hang up their cleats and sneakers for the summer, it is time to take a moment to look back on the times that have made this season memorable. From co…

Tide struggles on the field and court

The Garnet softball team came back after a loss to win the second game of a doubleheader for the second week in a row, this time on Tuesday at Washington. Swarthmore fell in the first game to the Shor…

Evil Buzzards come back to earn tie with Ursinus

Just a few more feet.

That’s all the men’s rugby team needed to post a big victory over rival Ursinus. With under a minute left in Saturday’s rugby match and the score tied at 10, Swarthmore was calle…

Klingaman leads softball team to split with Mules

Softball coach Renee Clarke shook her head as she walked back to the dugout after Tuesday’s doubleheader against Muhlenberg. “I have only one thing to say,” she said. “We’re resilient.”

Th…

Women's tennis fights through strong weekend

The women’s tennis team split its matches last weekend, dropping Saturday’s game to a Carnegie Mellon squad ranked 15th nationally and beating Centennial Conference rival Johns Hopkins on Sunday. The …

Men's and women's tennis split in Tennesse

The women’s tennis team fell against 17th-ranked University of the South last weekend, 7-2 in Tenn. Marissa Matthews ‘07 and Sonya Reynolds ’07 pulled out a win at first singles and Sara Sargent ’07…

Mintel leads softball team to three victories

After a discouraging finish at the College of New Jersey tournament, the softball team has made a 180-degree turnaround, winning three out of its four contests this week. The Tide swept Widener at hom…

Women's lax comes out on top, men struggle

On four goals from Niamh Shortt ‘06 and a hat trick by Rachel Jordan ’08, the women’s lacrosse team defeated Widener College Tuesday afternoon in a close 10-9 match. Lindsay Roth ’07, the team leader …

Men's tennis falls to second-ranked Ephs

It may have been a loss, but the Garnet men’s tennis team emerged from yesterday’s match against Williams with far from a loser’s attitude. Though the Tide fell 4-3, each match was a battle against th…

Scrums of success

Talk about a sweet way to start a season.

The women’s rugby team opened up 2005 in style last Saturday, pulling out a close upset of a combined Haverford/Bryn Mawr team. In a game with an inordinate a…

Women's tennis downs Haverford and Muhlenberg

The Garnet women’s tennis team, currently ranked 25th in the nation, continued its strong play last weekend with a big win over Haverford, followed by a tightly contested match against Division I Geor…

Softball sweeps Alvernia

The Garnet softball team welcomed spring on Tuesday afternoon with a decisive sweep of Alvernia in its first two home games of the season. Swarthmore ended both games on the mercy rule against the Cru…

Softball squad opens in the hole

The Garnet softball team knew its trip to Orlando over spring break wasn’t going to be all fun and games. The team had little time for relaxation as it faced 10 squads from all over the country in jus…

Women's basketball falls in conference semis

No one likes to lose, but some losses hurt more than others. It was a painful night on Saturday as the Garnet women’s basketball team was ousted from the Centennial Conference playoffs in a runaway Di…

Shibles steps down as women's basketball coach

After nine seasons at Swarthmore College, women’s basketball coach Adrienne Shibles announced earlier this week that she would not be returning to the court next year. It was a personal decision for S…

Spring Sports: Softball

With coach Renee Clarke coming back for her second year of building the Garnet softball team, there are high hopes for the spring season. Swarthmore finished at 10-22 overall but struggled to a 3-13 r…

Spring Sports: Baseball

Forget the past. After struggling to a ninth-place finish in the Centennial Conference last year, the baseball team hopes to start off with a clean slate going into the spring season. Led by pitchers …

Women's basketball earns playoff berth

Bring on the playoffs. With a crushing 73-42 win in its final game of the regular season Tuesday against Haverford, the women’s basketball team secured its spot as the fourth seed in the Centennial Co…

Women's b-ball hands out a beating

In a game that was as much of a must-win as it could have been, the Swarthmore women’s basketball team dominated Washington last night, beating the Shorewomen into submission 63-43 before one of the b…

Swimmers face disciplinary action after violating rules

After initially being banned for the rest of the season, five athletes on the men’s swim team were made eligible to swim in the Centennial Conference championships after a joint decision by the athlet…

Women's basketball wins a nail-biter

It was a nail-biting, voice-losing breath-stealer as the Garnet women’s basketball team squeaked by Centennial Conference rival Muhlenberg 63-61 on Tuesday night at Tarble Pavilion. In a game that cam…

Swat men falter against Penn

Although the groundhog decided that it’s still going to be winter for a while, the men’s tennis team opened up its spring season last weekend with a match against a tough squad from the University of …

Garnet women heat up the court

Stop complaining about the lack of attractive girls at Swarthmore and head down to Tarble Pavilion sometime, because the women’s basketball team isn’t just hot, it’s on fire. The Garnet has now won se…

Women's soccer coach says adios to Tide

Women’s soccer Head Coach Amy Brunner recently announced her resignation after six years with the program. Brunner cited the desire to pursue other opportunities. “I’m just kind of burnt out,” she sai…

Mules, others bray for mercy at hands of Garnet

Things are finally coming together for the women’s basketball team. After a shaky and inconsistent start to the season, the Garnet has won its last five games, beating key conference opponents in each…

Garnet harriers set college records

When a team breaks its own record twice within three weeks, it’s a good sign that things are going in the right direction. The Garnet women’s track team, under the guidance of coach Pete Carroll, can …

Garnet readies for playoff run

Win or go home.

Although the playoffs have not quite arrived, the women’s basketball team has already embraced this postseason attitude. With ten of the team’s twelve games against conference opponent…

Miller, Osborn lead swimmers at invite

The Swarthmore men’s and women’s swim teams had a strong showing in their first invitational meets of the season last weekend, with the men finishing fourth of nine teams and the women fifth of 11 tea…

Swimming stays hot in pool

After pulling off thrilling, last-second defeats of Franklin & Marshall on Nov. 11, the men’s and women’s swim teams maintained their undefeated conference records with victories over Ursinus on Nov. …

Previewing an action-packed winter season: Swimming

The men’s and women’s swimming teams have both been successful in recent years, but after last Saturday’s victories over Centennial Conference powerhouse Franklin and Marshall, the goals may be set ev…

Horwitz, Zhang lead Garnet swimmers past F&M

When Swarthmore’s swim teams looked at the matchups for last Saturday’s meet against Centennial Conference powerhouse Franklin & Marshall, the best-case-scenarios had the Swat men just barely winning …

Four more Garnet athletes honored

Three Swarthmore field hockey players and one volleyball player have been recognized by the Centennial Conference for their play this season. For the field hockey team, back Summer Spicer ’07 was name…

Rugby women dress up and play for a worthy cause

Remember your high school prom? Picking out the perfect dress, posing for photos with your best friends before the big event, then tying up your cleats and flattening your opponents in the dirt …

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Volleyball bids farewell to seniors with loss vs. Fords

Erica George ‘07 and Stephanie Koskowich ’07 closed out their careers as members of the Swarthmore volleyball team in the Garnet’s last game of the season, a 3-0 loss to Haverford last Wednesday. Geor…

All-Americans Reynolds and Sargent finish sixth at ITA Nationals

Earlier this fall, the tennis duo of Sonya Reynolds ‘07 and Sara Sargent ’07 became Swarthmore’s first All-American athletes of the year by winning the Wilson ITA Southeast Regional at Mary Wash…

Volleyball misses out on playoffs

In a season that has fallen short of preseason goals but produced a number of exciting individual performances, the Garnet volleyball team dropped three of its four matches over break to fall out of c…

Swat volleyball takes sixth at Seven Sisters

After a heartbreaking 3-2 loss to Johns Hopkins last Wednesday night, the Garnet volleyball team traveled to Mount Holyoke over the weekend for the annual Seven Sisters tournament, coming away with a …

Devils take down Swat volleyball

After playing a superb opening game against Dickinson on Friday night, the Garnet volleyball team couldn’t keep the pressure on the Red Devils, who won the next three games to take the win, 21-30, 30-…

Reynolds and Sargent win Regional tennis title, earn trip to Fall Nationals

Swarthmore doubles duo Sonya Reynolds ’07 and Sara Sargent ’07 punched their ticket to Fall Nationals last weekend, when they took first place in the ITA Regional tournament in Fredericksburg, Va.…

Volleyball loses first CC match

After a tough five-game loss to McDaniel on Saturday, the Garnet volleyball team bounced back with a sweep of Bryn Mawr on Tuesday night to keep pace in the Centennial Conference playoff race with a c…

Volleyball continues hot streak with four straight wins

Everything seems to be going right for the Swarthmore volleyball squad these days. Last weekend, the team finished second in the Garnet Classic, sweeping three of the four teams it faced. Tuesday nigh…

Volleyball triumphs in three nail-biters

The Garnet volleyball team swept through its last week of play, going 3-0 and winning its first conference match of the season, but not without testing a few nerves. Swarthmore took each of its matche…

Playoff hopes in sight for volleyball

Coming off their first ever trip to the Centennial Conference playoffs, the women of the Garnet volleyball team have a reason to be hopeful about the 2006 season. The team will be led by a solid core …

Lorang leads Tide to marathon win

If the Garnet field hockey squad thought that it would be able to ease back into competitive play last weekend against Virginia Wesleyan, then the team was certainly proved wrong. Swarthmore prevailed…

Women's bball opens season with spunk

After starting its conference season off with a big upset victory over McDaniel College, the women’s basketball team suffered two tough losses to Johns Hopkins University and Muhlenberg College in the…

Finding the beauty in everyday Swat sports moments

Swat isn’t known in college guidebooks for its passion for athletics. We’re never described as a jock school, and on most Sunday afternoons library-goers outnumber football junkies by 20 to 1. But as …

Miller sets another Swarthmore record at F&M Invite

The Swarthmore swim teams faced off against their most formidable competition of the season last weekend at the Franklin and Marshall Invite, held over two days in Lancaster, Pa. The Garnet earned a t…

Swimmers take down Bears, move on to F&M Invite

Though both men’s and women’s swim teams had lopsided victories over Ursinus College in the pool last Tuesday, 144-97 for the women and 125-86 for the men, Garnet swimmers continued to step up and ach…

Golden goal gives Swat championship

Two weeks ago, the men’s soccer team was faced with disappointment at having just missed out on the Centennial Conference playoffs and anticipation of the ECAC seed announcements. This week, it’s ce…

Swim teams split vs. Dips

Saturday was filled with mixed emotions for the Garnet swim teams, as the women triumphed over Franklin and Marshall College with record-book performances, 114-91, while the men suffered from injury a…

Tide drowns Terror, looks to F&M

A few talented new faces appeared last weekend and veterans picked up where they left off as the Swarthmore men’s and women’s swim teams both defeated squads from McDaniel College at the Green Terror’…

Garnet say goodbye to seniors with five-set loss

Don’t let the ultimate result, a five-set loss to Franklin and Marshall College, fool you — the Garnet volleyball team’s final match of the year on Saturday was a fine send-off for its three seniors a…

Men's soccer downs Fords, plays waiting game

For the Garnet men’s soccer team, all that’s left to do is sit and wait. And keep practicing, of course. After a 3-2 win over rival Haverford College on Sunday, Swarthmore anticipates the announcement…

Swat feasts on Bears despite injuries as season winds down

The women’s volleyball team got a big conference win over fall break to keep its playoff hopes slim but alive, despite dealing with the loss of two key players. With Johanna Bond ’10 nursing a wrist i…

Sutcliffe, OT offense give Swat big conference wins

Ladule Lako LoSarah ’09 and Evan Nesterak ’09 gave the Garnet men a huge boost towards the conference playoffs over break, as each scored game-winning goals against formidable opponents.

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Garnet men spice up their training with Budokon

Strength, flexibility and mental focus are all essential aspects of training that every team works to develop during the season, hoping they can count on these attributes in key moments in big games. …

Volleyball preps for deciding matches after loss to Jays

After falling to 2-3 in the conference with a loss against a talented Johns Hopkins University team on Saturday, the women of the Garnet volleyball team have their work cut out for them. Four conferen…

Physics and Engineering majors battle valiantly on the kickball field

Physicists may lose snowball fights, but apparently they win kickball games. Swarthmore’s physics majors defeated their engineering counterparts in a decisive matchup on Saturday, sending them back to…

Volleyball to host Johns Hopkins for a good cause

After a breakthrough tournament the previous weekend at Elizabethtown College, the Garnet volleyball team continued its impressive play in two conference games last week. Swarthmore handily defeated W…

Swarthmore men fight for a playoff spot

Do-or-die time has arrived for the Garnet men’s soccer team. The squad, which went into the season with a goal of making it to the conference playoffs and ultimately to the NCAA tournament, is hover…

Wells leads volleyball turnaround

What a difference a weekend can make. After losing four straight matches, including most recently in its conference opener against Dickinson, the volleyball team got a boost of energy at the Blue Jay …

Praise for Clothesline Project

Students on this campus constantly impress me with their ability to form complex opinions on theories I’ve never heard of, their persistence in creating change on issues that matter to them and their …

Swat Warmothers show off early skills at Sectionals

Women’s Frisbee

The Warmothers opened their fall season in style on Saturday, going 5-1 at Division II Club Sectionals held in New Jersey. Swarthmore faced off against teams from the University of D…