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Fast Start for Men’s Lacrosse Team

The season may be young, but the Garnet have already made a habit of starting games fast and getting on the scoreboard early.  In the season opener at Eastern, Swarthmore scored the first three goals of the game, and in last Saturday’s
March 7, 2013

Athlete of the Week: Katie Lytle

Jr., Basketball, Harrisburg, Pa. What She’s Done: Earned “Most Outstanding Player” honors while leading the Garnet to their first-ever ECAC South Region Championship. Favorite Career Moment: Beating Muhlenberg in the semi-final game of the Conference Playoffs. It was an incredible feeling to
March 7, 2013
Yana List '14 administers tie-breaking trivia questions to the four winning teams

Supriya Davis

Athlete of the Week: Supriya Davis Soph., Swimming, Chapel Hill, N.C. What She’s Done: Was named Outstanding Performer of the Centennial Conference Championships for the second year running for winning the 100 and 200 butterfly in NCAA B qualifying times, while helping
February 28, 2013
Chalkings outside of Sharples in preparation for Saturday's Yule Ball

Swimming Smashes Records at Conferences

Although neither the men’s nor the women’s swimming teams returned home with the championships that they had hoped for, several Swarthmore swimmers set school records and earned individual accolades. In the Centennial Conference Championships, held at Franklin & Marshall, the men’s team
February 28, 2013
The Crumple-Horned Snorkacks fill out their trivia card

Garnet Fall to Bullets in Title Game

Coming off of a 9-15 season, the Swarthmore Women’s basketball team earned little respect going into this season. Picked to finish ninth in the preseason coaches poll, Swarthmore wasted little time in proving the rest of the Centennial Conference wrong, winning 11
February 28, 2013

Will The Clasico Be a Classic?

What we have this week is really a treat, with Real Madrid fighting to save their season and to begin 2013 on the front foot. The match on Tuesday against Barcelona in the second leg of their Copa del Rey clash was
February 28, 2013

Relays Highlight Track and Field Championships

It was truly a team effort at the Centennial Conference Championships, held last weekend at Ursinus, last weekend for the Garnet track and field teams.  Both the men and women closed out the indoor season led by tremendous performances by relay squads.
February 28, 2013

Illegal PEDs Not a Problem on Campus

In recent years, a number of scary-sounding names and acronyms have come into the public eye. BALCO. HGH. Biogenesis. Deer antler spray. And so on. While the details are shady, one thing is clear: our childhoods have been forever ruined by popular
February 21, 2013

The Rise and Fall of Paul Gascoigne

The Man, the Myth, the Legend: Gazza was and still is the greatest mistake of English footballing history. The “Hand of God” incident ranks pretty highly, but that was the fault of a Mr. Nasser, a lovely man I’m sure but a
February 21, 2013
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