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January 31, 2002

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By wpengine | January 31, 2002

The King is Dead

Red Fencers Fight the Crimson

By wpengine February 1, 2002

While the Red hockey team takes on Harvard Friday night, the Cornell fencing squad will get a shot at its fiercest rival on Saturday when it travels to Cambridge to take on the Crimson. The fencers will also take on NYU that day and move crosstown to Brandeis on Sunday, where they will face Brown, MIT and Boston College in addition to the home squad. The recent history against these foes is mixed, and all signs point to an exciting series of matchups. Last year, Cornell lost to Harvard and fell by one bout to Brown. They did, however, defeat MIT and Boston College. This is the first time during head coach Al Peters’s six-year tenure that the Red has played NYU. One by One While some of these battles may seem to loom larger than others, Peters and the team are focusing carefully on each match. “These are all good teams,” he notes. “Obviously, we would love to get revenge on Harvard. They’re one of our fiercest Ivy League rivals. It would be nice to hold against the other three teams as well.” Engineers While the Ivy matches may draw more attention, Peters is wary of the other teams, particularly MIT. “We beat MIT last year but they are tremendously improved,” he asserts. “We’ll have our hands full. It’s nice to get a chance to play NYU this year, and I hope that they become a permanent part of our schedule.”Archived article by
Gymnasts Travel to N.H. Invite

By wpengine February 1, 2002

The women’s gymnastics team is on a roll. In the first month of the season, the team has already set its second and third highest scores ever. Its third place ranking in the ECAC puts the Red gymnasts in a position they have not seen in ten years. Having only ranked as high as sixth in seasons passed, the team is on pace to finish with its highest ranking ever. Despite its early success, coach Paul Beckwith assures that the team has not lost its focus. “The ranking is a boost of confidence. But, we have a ten meet season. We don’t have a week off from mid-January to the end of March, so we have to keep getting up for the meets.” The team ranks third in the ECAC in both average and highest score and has had some individual success as well. Following the lead of freshman teammate Shellen Goltz earlier this season, freshman Megan Miller was named Rookie of the Week by the ECAC for her efforts at UMass. She has consistently scored 9.7 or higher on the bars and ranks first in the ECAC in that category. Into New Hampshire The Red gymnastics team plans on extending its winning ways tomorrow when it competes in the New Hampshire Invitational. “I think we’re ready,” Beckwith said. “We belong in the meet. We get better every week. There are a couple of spots up in the air that will be decided during warmup. If we go in and hit everything, we’ve reached our goal.” Beckwith sees the weekend as another opportunity to improve. “We plan on beating Temple. To beat New Hampshire, we’ll need one of our best meets ever. But, we’ll mostly be thinking about our performance. We’re going after scores.”Archived article by Adam Matthews