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Men’s Polo Team Wins Two Events, Women’s Team Loses a Nailbiter
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The women’s team fell to 3-4 after barely losing in late-game comeback, while the men’s team improved to 6-1 after two consecutive victories.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/polo/)
The women’s team fell to 3-4 after barely losing in late-game comeback, while the men’s team improved to 6-1 after two consecutive victories.
“A lot of our strengths lie in our ability to work together and to support each other in the arena,” Booth said. “The challenge now is maintaining it and bringing that same level of play to the tournament at UVA next week.”
These games bring the women’s record up to 10-4 and the men’s record to 8-4.
The Red further asserted its primacy in the Ancient Eight.
Polo experienced continued success under new head coach Branden Van Loon ’13 as both the men’s and women’s teams went undefeated over the weekend.
“Our goal is to win it all. I think right now we are all looking forward to what the journey has in store for us.”
Ralph Lauren needs to commit fully to their youth movement.
“Both teams learned about their identities in this tournament, and I anticipate we’re going to get much, much better.”
Men’s and women’s polo returned to the field last weekend for their first games since venerated former head coach David Eldredge ’81 — the winningest in Cornell Athletics history — retired amidst allegations of misconduct.
To the Editor:
The article by Dylan McDevitt in September 13’s Sun is, in my opinion, unbalanced, gleefully disparaging and extremely disrespectful of Cornell’s winningest coach and his many successes. The fact that the article has nothing to say about the “misconduct investigation” suggests that the Athletics Department is thankfully handling its investigation following proper privacy protocols. With nothing new to say, the author of the article instead dredges up some truck driving issue from 10 years ago of which Coach Eldredge was cleared and an instance, also from ten years ago, for which Coach Eldredge apologized, where he was simply teaching sportsmanship and players how to be respectful of umpires no matter how inflammatory those umpires might be on a given day. There is a reason the law has a principle called double jeopardy. Don’t conduct a trial by media for something the coach was cleared of ten years ago!