It's back! The Ivy League newsletter is back after being away for a while. And it is just in time to get you up to speed on the final days of the Ivy@50 celebration.
Today's feature story is about legendary Yale football player Calvin Hill, who took the NFL by storm in 1969. Meredith Rainey Valmon's story also discusses his career off the field, including his experiences with the Calvin Hill Day Care Center, which has been serving the Yale and New Haven communities for nearly four decades.
Wednesday's feature — the last athlete profile in the year-long series — will showcase another 'big name' Ivy Leaguer to go along with all the others. In recent weeks, Ivy@50 has brought you stories of folks like Ken Dryden, Katie King, Bruce Arena, Nelson Diebel, Mary Jane O'Neill, Jeffrey Immelt, Wendell Mottley, Allison Feaster, Don Schollander, James Blake and Corky Calhoun.
We encourage you to spend some time at Ivy50.com when you get the chance.
Ivy League men's and women's lacrosse teams have advanced to the NCAA Final Fours!
The Penn women will play host to themselves at Franklin Field. The Quakers, now 16-1, will face top seed and defending champion Northwestern on Friday night at 6 pm. The winner of that game will face the winner of the Duke-Virginia game on Sunday night.
The undefeated Cornell men will take on the Duke Blue Devils on Saturday at 2:30 pm at M&T; Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Md. A victory would send the Big Red in Monday's national championship against either Johns Hopkins or Delaware at 1 pm.
All-Ivy Men's & Women's Golf -- 2007
Two Columbia Lions headline the 2007 men's and women's All-Ivy Golf Team, as Chris Condello and Sara Ovadia became the first players in school history on either side to capture their respective individual League golf titles.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=5956
Ivy@50 - 5/1
The sport of swimming and a caring coach gave a troubled kid a focus that led all the way to two Olympic gold medals. Then Nelson Diebel walked away from his meteoric career to settle into an academic routine at Princeton.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=5976
Ivy@50 - 5/2
He found success as both a tennis player and a young coach at Columbia before making his way to a career in business. And Howard Endelman has never lost his love and passion for his alma mater and the Lion tennis program.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=5979
Ivy League Receives Top NCAA Academic Progress Rates
The Ivy League once again rang in with the highest APR scores in the nation, receiving an overall average of 993.8 -- with 20 broad-based sports having top scores.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=5981
Ivy@50 - 5/3
It might be impossible to find someone so accomplished as a student-athlete as former Princeton softball and field hockey player Jen Babik. That's because she piled up awards for both her athletic and academic skills.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=5982
Ivy@50 - 5/4
He played in anonymity, like almost every offensive lineman. But Jeffrey Immelt's fellow students at Dartmouth knew that he would find individual success, which he has as the CEO of General Electric.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=5985
Ivy@50 - 5/7
He was a world-class rower, advancing all the way to the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, but Kier Pearson's biggest post-Harvard claim to fame has been bringing his screenplay, Hotel Rwanda, to the big screen.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=5994
Ivy@50 - 5/8
While in college his Penn team faced national powers in the 4x100m relay at the NCAAs. And when Dr. Steven Galetta's college days ended, his running career did not. He ran at the Penn Relays for two decades as a cornerstone of the 'Running Docs.'
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=5996
All-Ivy Women's Tennis (2007)
Not only did Ekaterina Kosminskaya of Penn earn both Ivy League Player and Rookie of the Year, she did so unanimously to lead the 2007 All-Ivy women's tennis selections. She was one of three Quaker first-team picks.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=5997
All-Ivy Men's Tennis (2007)
Yale’s Brandon Wai has become the first Ivy League tennis player to be named as the League’s lone back-to-back Player of the Year in nearly two decades to highlight the 2007 men's tennis All-Ivy selections.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=5998
All-Ivy Women's Outdoor Track (2007)
The Ivy Heps Athlete of the Meet, Cornell sophomore Jeomi Maduka, earned three first-team All-Ivy nods for winning the long and triple jumps while running on the winning 4x100m relay for the team champion Big Red.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=6000
All-Ivy Men's Outdoor Track (2007)
The Ivy Heps Athlete of the Meet, Columbia senior Erison Hurtault, earned three first-team All-Ivy nods for winning the 200- and 400-meter dashes while anchoring the winning 4x400m relay for the Lions.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=6001
Ivy@50 - 5/9
He was the nation's most celebrated athlete before he enrolled at Yale, which meant national championships, Olympic medals and world records were among the expectations. And Don Schollander lived up to every one of them.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=6002
All-Ivy Men's Lacrosse (2007)
Unanimous Ivy League Player of the Year Matt McMonagle highlighted a list of seven first-team All-Ivy picks from the top-ranked Big Red, while Dartmouth freshman Ari Sussman was named 2007 Rookie of the Year.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=6003
Williams Hall-Bound
Former Dartmouth All-American Reggie Williams — who had a 14-year NFL career — has been named to the Class of 2007 College Football Hall of Fame induction class.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=6004
Ivy@50 - 5/10
His father steered him to rowing while a Columbia freshman. With it George Yancopoulos found a template for his future success as a biochemist and scientific entrepreneur.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=6007
Ivy@50 - 5/11
After he was accepted to the only college he applied, Wendell Mottley became the fastest man in Yale University and Ivy League history. In fact, his single-lap best of 45.2 seconds still sits atop the Ivy rankings more than 40 years later.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=6009
All-Ivy Women's Lacrosse (2007)
In a year that saw three squads from the Ivy League make the playoffs, the 2007 version of All-Ivy awards are upon us. With a stellar campaign of 61 total goals, Yale's Lauren Taylor has been tabbed the Player of the Year, and newcomer Ali DeLuca of Penn is the Rookie of the Year. All in all, nine players were unanimous selections.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=6013
Ivy@50 - 5/14
She led Brown to Ivy hockey titles before becoming a three-time Olympic medalist. Yet if Katie King had never played hockey, she would still be considered one of Brown's greatest athletes.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=6023
Ivy@50 - 5/15
After Adolph Rupp's Kentucky Wildcats lost a legendary final to Texas Western in 1965, Cornell's Gregg Morris helped deliver the message back to Lexington that times had definitely changed.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=6024
All-Ivy Rowing (2007)
The All-Ivy teams for rowing were determined at Eastern Sprints over the weekend as the rowers in the first Ivy boat in the varsity eight races were named to the first team while the members of the second Ivy boat were named second team.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=6025
All-Ivy Softball (2007)
Penn second baseman & Ivy batting champ Annie Kinsey was named Player of the Year, while Harvard pitcher Shelly Madick and freshman designated player Lauren Murphy were named Pitcher and Rookie of the Year, respectively.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=6026
Ivy@50 - 5/16
It was the biggest upset in the history of the NCAA Basketball Tournament, the only time a No. 1 seed was knocked off by a No. 16. And without the huge performance from Allison Feaster of Harvard, it never could have happened.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=6029
Ivy@50 - 5/17
One may think that a man who would lead USA Soccer for nearly a decade would have spent his youth with a laser focus on the sport. While Bruce Arena was a fine soccer player, he earned more attention at Cornell as a lacrosse player.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=6031
All-Ivy Baseball (2007)
Brown senior catcher Devin Thomas, who hit .382 with 15 home runs this season, was the unanimous pick as the Ivy League Player of the Year to head the 2007 All-Ivy baseball selections.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=6032
Ivy@50 - 5/18
His individual numbers as a basketball player at Penn do not rival those of other legends of the game, but the only stats you need to know about Corky Calhoun? Try 99 wins... and six losses.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=6033
Final Four Bound
After falling behind 3-0, Cornell's men's lacrosse team bounced back to defeat Albany, 12-11, in the second round of the NCAA Championship as John Glynn scored the game-winning goal with 4.8 seconds left in overtime.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=6035
Happy At Home
Penn's women's lacrosse team will get a shot at the school's first Final Four in any sport in nearly two decades after beating Maryland, 9-7, to advance to the national semifinal. And the Final Four is slated for Franklin Field in Philadelphia.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=6036
Ivy@50 - 5/21
Soon after claiming the biggest win of his life, he lost his starting position on the Penn squash team. But Brian Roberts, who now oversees Comcast as its CEO, hasn't suffered many setbacks since.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=6037
Ivy@50 - 5/22
He thought it was a joke when he heard he'd been selected as a first-round NFL pick, but just weeks into his rookie season he was being compared to Jim Brown. Yale's Calvin Hill has yet to be stopped.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=6038
Spring Academic All-Ivy (2007)
The Ivy League has released its list of student-athletes selected for All-Ivy Academic honors during the spring semester. The 80 men and women were starters and key reserves on an officially recognized varsity team with a 3.0 or better cumulative grade point average.
Entire Story: http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intID=6039
