Baseball
In Return From Injury, Baseball’s Will Simoneit Shows Promise With Breakout Season
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“I want others to be excited when I come up to bat and hope that I can be the guy for the team.”
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“I want others to be excited when I come up to bat and hope that I can be the guy for the team.”
He goes the extra mile and offers to be a resource for those in need, saying “whoever’s reading this, if you feel in anyway I can help, I’ll be available 24/7.”
“When you’re younger in baseball and decide that’s your sport, it’s a really big time commitment.”
When I was a junior in high school, I almost decided I didn’t want to play lacrosse in college anymore because I got missed in the first round of recruiting.
“He is the perfect role model for our current and future wrestlers.”
“I was so short and little that every time I got the ball he told me, ‘Don’t pass the ball. Just shoot.’”
Not everyone is as big of a fan of the Cornell-Harvard rivalry as you may think.
Former Cornell men’s hockey player Ryan O’Byrne left Ithaca after three years to progress his hockey career. After playing professionally for 10 years, O’Byrne has returned to the hill to get his degree and start a new chapter.
Brian Earl lurks, not in a menacing way, but you always know where he is in a room. The new coach of the Cornell men’s basketball team — hired after eight years as an assistant at his alma mater of Princeton — is a relatively quiet presence at practice. Sometimes Earl jumps into drills, but often he’s slightly removed from the middle of the action, observing. He watches practices intensely, walking over to players one-on-one to tell them if he sees something they can improve. From time to time, Earl will raise his voice, but that’s often limited to when he’s announcing what drill he wants to see the team work on next.
Freshman forward Kristin O’Neill has been a breakout star for Cornell women’s hockey so far this season, providing a much-needed offensive spark for the Red. “Kristin O’Neill is a very dynamic player,” said head coach Doug Derraugh ’91. “She will be an impact player for us in the years to come.”
O’Neill currently leads Cornell (3-2, 1-2 ECAC) in scoring and points, with four goals and an assist on the year. O’Neill credited the upperclassmen for welcoming her to the team and the added practice time in college hockey as some of the reasons for her success. “The upperclassmen have really made the freshman feel welcome,” O’Neill said.