Athlete of the Week 2/18/16: Jessica Jowdy ’16

What She’s Done: She’s done it all. Top five in the Centennial Conference in points (17.8 ppg), assists (3.6 apg), steals (2.1 spg) and minutes (38.5 mpg), Jowdy has put together an All-Conference caliber season. Though the Garnet are eliminated from playoff

What do athletes eat?

At Swarthmore, eating can be hard.  Face it, we all get tired of eating the “Sharples slop” every once in a while. Though you have your gem meals like flank steak, jerk chicken and salmon, more often than not you’ll get a

Basketball hopes for strong finish as season winds down

The season is gradually coming to a close, but the Swarthmore women’s basketball team still hopes to finish forcefully. This year, the Garnet (6-13 CC 3-10) have produced some key wins, most notably a season sweep of Franklin and Marshall and a

Women’s basketball season underway

It is that time of the year again. Derrick Rose tears his ACL, Kobe doesn’t pass, Chris Paul assists Cliff Paul and the Swarthmore Women’s basketball team amps up their soon-to-be dominant season. The Garnet initiated their season in the annual Tipoff

ACL injuries plague student athletes

  It all begins with a pop. When you tear your ACL, the first thing before the pain, before you realize what has happened, is the pop. Basketball player Jessica Jowdy ’16 recalls the moment when she got her injury, saying, “I