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Since coming up just short as the national runner-up in 2010, the Red has been a mainstay in the postseason, clinching seven additional NCAA Tournament appearances as well three Frozen Four showings.
“It was kind of a no-brainer for me to be able to come home and play for my dad, with Buddy, and all the other great guys on the team,” Boeheim said at a Cornell press conference. “That has been my whole life — more or less up to this point.”
Though the Ivy League granted a one-time waiver for seniors to play as graduate students next season, Galajda ultimately opted to play for a different squad in his last season of collegiate hockey.
The 2020-2021 season of ECAC play, which saw two-thirds of teams unable to participate, ended with its most unlikely champion in recent memory with St. Lawrence hoisting the hardware.
Cornell’s monumental achievement in 1970 has yet to be matched by any other NCAA men’s hockey team.
The Sun spoke with students on Election Day and the days to follow. Here’s what they had to say about living on campus during such a momentous election.
This increasing activism represents a positive development. Athletes deserve to have a voice on social issues that are often deeply personal to them.
The NFL’s refusal to adopt a bubble format and its lax enforcement of COVID-19 protocols jeopardizes the health and safety of players and staff across the league.
“To play in the spring, those other seven schools are going to have to invite their classes back,” Archer added. “You have to ask the medical people, ‘Is playing football medically appropriate to play in the spring season and then turn around and play in the fall?’
The new Cornellians will fill the void left by six skaters who graduated last spring, including three Patty Kazmaier Award nominees in defensemen Jaime Bourbonnais and Micah Zandee-Hart and forward Kristin O’Neill.