The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/author/brittanybiggs/page/3/)
It was a weekend of many victories for the entire team: freshman Lyanda Dudley was named ECAC Rookie of the Year and fellow freshman Kaitlin Green won Specialist of the Year. Aside from the players, the coaches also won top awards with Melanie Dilliplane earning Assistant Coach of the Year and Paul Beckwith garnering his second Coach of the Year award.
Looking to set the pace for the ECAC Championship this weekend, the Cornell gymnastics team traveled Pennsylvania to compete against West Chester University. The Red was able to pull out a very close win, 192.350 to 192.000. Up next is the conference championship
The women’s tennis team secured a 5-2 victory over St. John’s as it prepares for Ivy League play.
It is not often that you host the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships as the favorites to win over a longtime rival defending its title. Yet, coming into this weekend, this was exactly the case with the Cornell men’s track and field team, competing for a league crown in Barton Hall in Ithaca, looking to knock off a solid Princeton team. But as Sunday began to wind down, it became clear that this storybook ending to the indoor season was not to be. Instead Cornell finished second in the Ivy League with 142 points, trailing only Princeton and its 165 point first place total. The women’s team also finished second, scoring a point total of 123.50 only bested by Harvard’s 136.50.
This weekend, Barton Hall will turn into championship arena as Cornell track and field hosts the Ivy League Indoor Heptagoal Championships. Here teams from all eight Ivy league schools will come together to duke it out for top prizes. The Red feels fully prepared to meet the challenge this weekend after strong seasons from both the men’s and women’s teams.
Winner takes all. It is that time of year again for the Cornell women’s and men’s squash teams: the postseason. Both teams secured spots into Nationals following impressive seasons. The eighth-ranked women’s team finished the season at 9-7, losing its last match to No. 2 Penn in a 9-0 decision.
While the rest of campus was enjoying winter break, the Cornell women’s basketball team was busy in the middle of its season. The 10-6 team competed in seven games over break, winning five of them. The Red was challenged by teams from Stanford, California State University at Fullerton, Binghamton, Howard, Delaware State and Columbia. Cornell is currently in a three-way tie for first in the Ivy League with Yale and the Penn, boasting a 2-0 record against conference opponents, picking up two victories against Columbia. Following the strong break, the team is now focused on keeping up the momentum for the rest of the season, according to head coach Dayna Smith.
Hockey Canada announced on Wednesday that Cornell women’s hockey senior defenseman Cassandra Poudrier, junior forward Hanna Bunton and freshman defenseman Micha Hart will play for Canada’s National Women’s Development Team at the 2016 Nations Cup in Füssen, Germany. Poudrier, Bunton and Hart were among the 22 players named to Canada’s roster that includes 13 forwards, seven defensemen and two goaltenders. The trio of Cornell hockey players was selected by a Hockey Canada general manager Melody Davidson, a team or regional scouts and the coaching staff. “We’re looking forward to getting our team together on the ice overseas as we aim to defend our gold medal,” said Team Canada head coach Dwayne Gylywoychuk in a press release. “These players have been working incredibly hard to prepare for this event and we believe we’ve selected a tremendous group to represent Canada.”
Poudrier brings a decorated resume to the Canadian team.
In what could be its last meet of the season, the men’s cross country team was able to come up big in NCAA Regionals. The team finished in third place, above nationally ranked squads from Columbia and Providence, and missed out qualifying as a team for NCAA Championships by only a couple points. Despite missing out on a Top-2 finish, which would automatically place the Red in the NCAA Championship, Cornell still has a chance to earn a right to compete at the event as a team. Seniors Ben Rainero ad Brian Eimstad, who were able to qualify for the NCAA National Championship with their results from last Friday, continued their success. Rainero placed fifth while Eimstad was able to push for a 14th place finish.