Raise your hand if you had Kate Upton in the “Least Likely to Tweet About NESCAC Lacrosse” sweepstakes. Because you just lost. This came after the Williams men’s lacrosse team upset No. 5 Union tonight.
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Back after a weekend hiatus, here’s another edition of Linking Around the NESCAC, your hub for the aggregated top news throughout the conference:
NESCAC | Conn. College professor Stan Ching profiled in NCAA Champion Mag
The most notable thing about Connecticut College Faculty Athletics Representative Stan Ching is his smile. The guy’s always wearing one — usually a bright, genuine, enameled version.
He’s also usually wearing a short-sleeved shirt … but we’ll get to that later.
Men’s Basketball | Middlebury hangs on to remain undefeated, set school wins record (via WCAX.com)
NESCAC Alumni | Williams grad & Chinese megastar Wang LeeHom in the new Kobe Nike commercial
NESCAC | Trinity Sports Network puts out another great commercial
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Women’s Basketball | Conn.’s Aly Boyle has media in her blood (via Mike DiMauro, The Day)
It makes more sense if you know Boyle’s family tree. In the same spirit that coaches’ kids always make free throws, media members’ kids always know what to say and how to say it.
Aly Boyle’s mom is Jackie MacMullan, formerly of the Boston Globe and Sports Illustrated and now of ESPN.com and “Around the Horn.”
Clearly, however, Boyle shares more than a comfort with words and people with her mom. Jackie MacMullan is one of the greats in this profession and – unlike many others in this business who have accomplished far less – remains singularly unimpressed with herself. If you don’t know MacMullan once received the Curt Gowdy Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame for her contribution to basketball, she’ll be the last one to remind you.
Same concept with young Aly.
Women’s Ice Hockey | After walking on to Williams Vukasin emerges as standout (via Bill Alden, Town Topics)
Her success had Vukasin looking to join a college hockey program. “I started thinking about playing in college when I was 16 and everyone was talking about recruiting,” said Vukasin, a 2010 PHS grad who was also a star goalie for the Little Tigers girls’ soccer team.
But no schools ended up seriously recruiting Vukasin and Williams College (Mass.) emerged as her first choice.
Men’s Ice Hockey | ECAC East/NESCAC picks (via Tim Costello, USCHO.com)
Men’s Basketball | After strong winter break, Bowdoin men’s basketball looks good (via Peter Davis, Bowdoin Orient)
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NESCAC | Breaking down the Middlebury athletics budget (via Damon Hatheway, Middlebury Campus)
For the fiscal year 2010 — which all of our data will be drawn from — Middlebury had a college-wide operating budget of $269 million. In comparison, the athletics budget was $4.96 million, or roughly one fifty-fourth of the college’s total budget. For context, other NESCAC schools such as Williams ($4.75 million) and Amherst ($4.73 million) allocated similar money to their athletics budget in the same fiscal year. For some, regardless of what other NESCAC schools are spending on athletics, nearly $5 million is far too much to budget for Division III athletics at a liberal arts school. On the other hand, 28 percent of the student body is made up of student-athletes and the athletics budget serves — to some degree — the entire student body, given that many coaches’ salaries include their duties as P.E. teachers or club sports directors. The athletics budget also covers the swimming pool, athletics fields and other venues to which students, regardless of their participation in Middlebury athletics, have nearly unlimited access. Another important consideration is that roughly 25 percent of the athletics budget is covered by donation gifts, endowments and other revenue sources such as ticket revenue, meaning Middlebury itself provides only about 75 percent of the total budgeted money in a given year rather than the full $4.96 million.
Men’s Basketball | Spotted a 14-point lead, No. 7 Amherst holds on vs. No. 13 Williams, 67-65 (via Howard Herman, Berkshire Eagle)
“They’re really talented and really athletic. They’re a really good team. A 14-point hole really, really hurt us,” said Williams guard James Wang, whose desperation 3-point shot from half court fell short at the final horn. “Credit to my teammates. We never gave up. We believed. We could have rolled over, but wedidn’t.”
The win was the first for Amherst (16-2) in Williamstown since Jan. 10, 2009. The loss for Williams (15-4) stings as far as Little Three play is concerned. But since this was the non-league game of the home-and-home series, it does not count in the league standings. Michael Mayer came off the bench for Williams to register a double-double with 12 points and 12 rebounds.
Women’s Ice Hockey | Trinity’s interim head coach is a worldly woman, and has brought change to the Bantams (via Mike Anthony, Hartford Courant)
Born in Denver but having spent her formative years in Alberta, Carson Duggan is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada.
Because of her father’s globetrotting career in the oil industry, she has also lived in Texas, Africa and South America. She played college hockey at St. Lawrence in upstate New York, then professionally for a year overseas in Prague.
Who knows what the future holds? Maybe a career in finance will take her to Wall Street or Calgary. A career in hockey could lead her to a rink in just about any corner of North America. For now, she’s on Broad Street in Hartford, interim coach of the Trinity women’s hockey team, which is rolling after a rocky start to an unexpected period of transition.
Women’s Basketball | Clutch captain Stedman keeping the Lord Jeffs steady (via Emmett Knowlton, Amherst Student)
In case (for some reason) you haven’t been following the world of Div. III women’s basketball, now would probably be a pretty good time to start. After all, with Trinity’s men’s squash team losing to Yale last weekend, the Amherst women’s basketball team may just hold the longest current streak in DIII sports (but don’t quote me on that).
To recap: after winning the program’s first-ever national championship last year, the Jeffs entered this season with a 50 home-game win streak, a 19-game win streak and the No. 1 national ranking. With a repeat-or-bust mentality, the women opened the season with eight consecutive wins, all by 20 or more, concluding the first semester’s play with a decisive 69-26 win against Springfield College.
Men’s Ice Hockey | Continentals falter against nation’s top teams (via Dave Meisel, Hamilton Spectator)
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Welcome to Linking Around the NESCAC, your aggregate hub for news. Stay tuned later in the day for women’s basketball power rankings and the one question on everyone’s mind: Can Middlebury be beat?
But for now, the links:
Women’s Hockey | Seventh-ranked Amherst shuts out No. 1 Norwich 2-0 (via Amherst Athletics)
Men’s Basketball | Middlebury runs win streak to school-record 17, remains one of two undefeated teams in all college basketball (via Middlebury Athletics)
Ice Hockey | Tufts raises $3,000 at “Pink in the Rink” event (via Tufts Athletics)
Women’s Hockey | Williams senior Sarah Herr saving her best for last for the Ephs (via Bill Alden, Town Topics)
For Sarah Herr, playing defense has been her calling card as she worked her way up the ice hockey ladder.
“I am a natural defender; I think of myself as a defenseman,” said Herr, a Princeton resident and former Lawrenceville star who is a senior on the Williams College (Mass.) women’s hockey team.
