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Women’s Tennis starts season strong
Women’s Tennis won their first match of the season last weekend, beating intrastate rival, Ithaca College, 6-3 at home on Saturday, Feb. 21. Five different ‘Jackets won matches on the day, with junior Christine Ho and sophomores Dorothy Tai and Lauren Zickar all grabbing wins in both singles and doubles. In doubles, Rochester jumped out […]
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In Cleveland, Women’s Basketball puts up tough fight overtime
On Sunday, Feb. 22, the UR Women’s Basketball team was defeated 72-79 in Cleveland by the Case Western Reserve University Spartans. The game came just under a month after the original face-off between ‘Jackets and Spartans’, in which UR topped Case in a closely contested 55-54 victory. This weekend, however, the Spartans came out looking […]
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Squash excels in prestigious Potter Cup
This past weekend, the UR Men’s Squash team traveled to Trinity College to compete against the top eight teams in the nation for the coveted College Squash Association (CSA) Potter Cup, the National Championship of college squash. To begin the tournament, the ‘Jackets were seeded sixth and matched up against the number three seed Harvard. […]
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The most intruiguing trades at the deadline
In one of the most hectic trade deadlines in recent memory, with about nine percent of NBA players switching teams, almost 40 players—not including draft picks—were traded on deadline day. According to ESPN’s Brian Windhorst, this is the most trades in history. There isn’t enough room to even come close to touching upon all of […]
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Jerome Kersey, Trail Blazers great, dies at 52
Jerome Kersey, one of the all-time greats of the Portland Trail Blazers, died on Feb. 18 of a pulmonary embolism caused by blood clots in his lungs. He was 52 years old. Kersey, a native of Clarksville, Virginia, was taken as the 46th overall pick in the 1984 NBA Draft out of the tiny Longwood […]
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Men’s Squash looks to playoffs
This past week, the University of Rochester Men’s squash team was back in action after a nearly two-week break from matches. They took on Cornell and University of Western Ontario after a tough, hard fought loss to Franklin & Marshall College. The team clearly demonstrated that one loss was not going to impact the continuation […]
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Swim team competes in UAA championship
With the four-day-long UAA championship events taking place in Atlanta, it has been an exciting week for the Rochester Swimming and Diving Team. The Yellowjackets performed extremely well, earning one NCAA qualifying score as well as breaking a school record. Overall, the Women’s team ended the weekend placed sixth out of eight teams, while Emory, […]
Athlete of the Week
Becky Galasso – Track and Field
1. How did you first get involved with running? I’ve always done sports, but I honestly started running because my older brother enjoyed it, so I figured it might be fun. I soon fell in love with track and field. 2. What has been your proudest moment in the sport? I don’t know that I […]
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NBA award frontrunners at the mid-season
It’s hard to believe, but we’re about to enter the home stretch of the NBA season, and awards-wise, there’s a lot left up in the air. It’s now time to pretend that I was “just kidding” about my early season predictions and make some new ones. Sixth Man of the Year: Isaiah Thomas, PG, Phoenix […]
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UR athletes give back to Rochester community
As varsity athletes at the University of Rochester, we often find that we lose sight of exactly what we represent when we compete. Beyond ourselves and our teammates, we are also playing for the UR community as a whole. This connection between varsity athletics and the rest of UR is not always felt as a […]