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Stories and content by Kate Fratar

Football picks up first win in homecoming rout of Oberlin

By Kate Fratar / October 14, 2008
In front of a full capacity homecoming crowd, the Maroons notched their first win of the season with a 33–7 dismantling of Oberlin College (1–4) Saturday. The victory brought Chicago to 1–3 for the year and showcased the squad’s growing talent along with some veteran leadership..

Change of heart has Perry back at tennis’s helm

By Kate Fratar / October 4, 2008
After announcing his plans to join the D-I tennis program at the University of Richmond at the end of last season, head coach Marty Perry decided to reverse course and will return for his sixth year at the helm of the men’s and women’s tennis programs.

Roommates

By Kate Fratar / September 25, 2008
Here is some practical advice for making the next nine months work.

A closer look at All-Maroons MVP candidates

By Kate Fratar / May 20, 2008
Ellie Elgamal No matter the strength of the competition, women’s swimming could count on a strong showing in a couple races, the 100- and 200-yard butterfly―first-year Ellie Elgamal’s signature events. Elgamal took on the role of team leader in her first meet for Chicago, when she won the 200 fly and chopped more than four...

Track boasts slew of qualifiers

By Kate Fratar / May 13, 2008
In a meet that was all about hitting NCAA standards and setting personal records, men’s and women’s track didn’t disappoint. With Nationals at UW–Oshkosh a little more than a week away, the Maroons posted 11 provisional-qualifying marks this weekend as they hosted the Chicago Penultimate Invite. The strong personal performances helped members of both squads...

A fixture behind home plate, Pineros set offensive pace

By Kate Fratar / May 9, 2008
As a lefty catcher, fourth-year Vanessa Pineros drew attention the minute she stepped behind the plate. What really set her apart within the Maroons, though, wasn’t which hand she wore her glove on but her confidence as a player and her leadership ability. With a long softball career that goes back to tee ball and...

Inconsistency mars baseball’s home stretch

By Kate Fratar / May 5, 2008
[img id=”80572″ align=”alignleft”] Following a jam-packed weekend that included five games in three days, baseball is fast approaching the end of its season. Unfortunately, the extra time on the field hasn’t helped the Maroons iron out all the wrinkles that have given them trouble since returning to Hyde Park in April. Going 1–4 this weekend,...

Dayananda, Lin make NCAA cut

By Kate Fratar / May 1, 2008
After making solo trips to the NCAAs the past two years, the top tandem of women’s tennis will take on Nationals together. Both second-year Marissa Lin and third-year Vindya Dayananda earned a spot to compete in singles, as the second- and eighth-ranked players in the Central Region. The teammates will get to double their fun...

Hu takes Rookie of the Year honors

By Kate Fratar / April 28, 2008
For the third straight year, a Maroon took home the UAA’s Rookie of the Year award for women’s tennis. First-year Chrissy Hu brought the title back to Chicago after going 2–0 in singles and sweeping three doubles matches with second-year Justine Kentla. She shares the league’s top rookie honors with Jennifer Chui from Carnegie Mellon....

Men’s tennis hopes for big UAA upset

By Kate Fratar / April 25, 2008
[img id=”80536″ align=”alignleft”] The season goal for all the Maroons is to capture a UAA banner. Four teams have taken the league’s top honor so far this year, and this weekend men’s tennis has its shot at a title. In Atlanta for a three-day tournament, the Maroons (12–6) have just two matches under their belt...

Softball slides further after third sweep

By Kate Fratar / April 22, 2008
[img id=”80505″ align=”alignleft”] Two different Chicago softball teams hosted North Central at Stagg Sunday. The Maroons of the first game played a crisp defense and pushed extra innings, while the Maroons in the nightcap committed five errors and couldn’t rebound from a chaotic start. Fighting in a tight pitchers’ duel, Chicago (9–15) dropped a close...

Getting to know new volleyball head coach Walby

By Kate Fratar / April 22, 2008
The start of the new volleyball season might still be a few months away, but The Maroon isn’t wasting any time before getting to know the team’s new head coach, Vanessa Walby, from UW–Whitewater. Sports Editor Kate Fratar talked to Walby about plans for the Maroons in 2009 and favorite moments in a young coaching...

Sports Shorts 4/18/08: Volleyball names new head coach

By Kate Fratar / April 18, 2008
Since 2001, the Maroons have welcomed or promoted five new head coaches, and all of them have helped set higher standards for Chicago athletics. Vanessa Walby comes in as the latest addition to the University’s strong coaching staff, ready to take over the reigns for volleyball next fall. A first-time collegiate head coach, Walby joins...

Inclement weather keeps men’s tennis idle another week

By Kate Fratar / April 14, 2008
Mother Nature just extended the time off from the court for men’s tennis. The match scheduled at Wheaton on Friday was canceled due to inclement weather. This weekend’s contest would have been the first for the Maroons since their return from South Carolina over spring break. During that stretch, the team went 2–2, moving to...

Fencing makes strides at national competition

By Kate Fratar / April 10, 2008
Wrapping up the season in style this weekend, Chicago’s fencing club showed that it’s still one of the University’s finest programs. At the Club Fencing Championships (CFCs) hosted by Smith College, the Maroons took a fifth-place overall finish in a field of 35 schools. Top individual performances on the sabre by second-year Talia Hurwich for...

Opener bodes well for track

By Kate Fratar / April 8, 2008
A month ago, both men’s and women’s track took home league championship banners. Now the squads are two weeks away from toeing the line again with their UAA foes to try and repeat their indoor season success. Without a lot of time to switch gears into the outdoor season, the Maroons are showing signs that...

Baseball goes winless in home doubleheader

By Kate Fratar / April 8, 2008
After a trip halfway around the world to play in Japan, a six-game stint in Arizona, and a change in the Midwest schedule, baseball finally had its home opener Saturday. Swept in a doubleheader by the University of Dallas (18–10), the Maroons’ comeback effort in the first game came up short and their offense went...

No sweetness for women’s basketball as Kean ends Maroon playoff run

By Kate Fratar / April 4, 2008
There may not have been much for women’s basketball to savor in its Sweet-16 loss, but looking back on the 2007–2008 season, the team has plenty of reasons to be hungry for next year. Nerves and a point drought at the start of the contest proved too much for the 19th-ranked Maroons (22–6) to overcome,...

Baseball at a glance

By Kate Fratar / March 10, 2008
The Recap: 2007 was an up-and-down season for baseball. While the Maroons put together a couple of winning streaks, they also had some losing skids and finished the spring at an even 17–17. A few rough breaks last year in the annual spring break trip to Phoenix benched three key players with injuries. Most notably,...

Softball at a glance

By Kate Fratar / March 10, 2008
The Recap: Last year, softball rode the long ball all the way to the playoffs for its second straight at-large bid to the postseason. The Maroons will try to make it three in a row this spring and hope to get past the first round after making early exits their past two trips. Strengths: Without...

Fencing club continues 116-year Maroon tradition

By Kate Fratar / March 6, 2008
[img id=”80418″ align=”alignleft”] On the second floor of Henry Crown, the baseball team is warming up for spring. Above it, in space cleared by pushing back the bleachers, another Chicago team is also practicing. At one point one of the strongest varsity programs, fencing has been keeping up the pace of its former glory at...

Surprise win makes men back-to-back champs

By Kate Fratar / March 3, 2008
[img id=”80390″ align=”alignleft”] Men’s basketball got to sleep easily Saturday night. Following a win that afternoon at Ratner, Chicago stood alone at the top of the UAA standings and had clinched its spot at the NCAA tournament. Proving that it ain’t over till it’s over, the 23rd-ranked Maroons (18–7, 11–3 UAA) fought back from an...

Rookies power women’s swimming to best UAA finish to date

By Kate Fratar / February 26, 2008
Heading to Rochester for the UAAs, it was no secret that women’s swimming would need the best out of its rookies for a strong showing. The class of 2011 didn’t disappoint. Continuing to make this the best season in program history, the Maroons took home fifth at the league championships, improving on last winter’s sixth-place...

Sports Shorts: Injury keeps Carlson from NCAAs

By Kate Fratar / February 25, 2008
Only a sample of the wrestling team competed at the Great Lakes Regional Saturday, but those who went made the whole team proud. With four Maroons cracking the top six in individual competition, Chicago grabbed a seventh-place finish in the 15-team tournament. Third-year Ben Hart, second-year Troy Carlson, and rookies Ryan Hatten and David Kniesel...

Doubles trouble hurts women’s tennis in pair of losses

By Kate Fratar / February 19, 2008
[img id=”80321″ align=”alignleft”] In a weekend when women’s tennis needed to fire on all cylinders, the Maroons ran into trouble getting and maintaining momentum when they needed it most against a pair of regional rivals. Opening with a clash against 10th-ranked Denison (1–1) Friday and following up with a battle against regionally 11th-ranked Kenyon (2–0)...

Men’s tennis suffers first D-III loss at feet of Lords

By Kate Fratar / February 19, 2008
Men’s tennis may have been back to playing DIII this weekend, but that doesn’t mean the squad was on easy street. With back-to-back matches against tough regional foes, the Maroons (4–2) started the weekend with a 6–3 win Friday to give 11th-ranked Denison (0–1) its first loss of the season. Saturday saw a match post...

Sports Shorts 2/19/08: Derek Reich joins D-III elite

By Kate Fratar / February 19, 2008
After putting together one of the most impressive careers of Chicago men’s basketball and D-III history, Derek Reich recently added another bullet to his already impressive resumé. D3hoops.com celebrated its 10-year run covering Division III basketball this month by selecting 25 of the best players from the past 10 seasons to make up its five...

Tennis finds it has most to learn from host of D-I foes

By Kate Fratar / February 12, 2008
It’s prime time for Chicago tennis this season. With schedules stacked with D-I opponents early in the campaign, both the men and women are upping their game, and so far the young squads have shown that they can handle the extra competition. The push to see strong opponents has been gearing the Maroons to take...

Sports Shorts 2/5/08: Distance runners pace track

By Kate Fratar / February 5, 2008
In a meet that saw a number of close runs against D-I foes as a pair of opposing athletes passed NCAA automatic qualifiers, men’s and women’s track and field kept up the quick pace set by both squads two weeks ago. Saturday’s Chicago Duals marked the first competition for the Maroons since both sides finished...

Once-stagnant swimming moves from rags to riches

By Kate Fratar / February 1, 2008
Good things don’t happen over-night. Men’s and women’s swimming didn’t rise from the bottom rung of Chicago athletics in a single season, but the 2007–2008 campaign has seen the labors of the past couple of years finally pay off. With potential All-American talent on the women’s side and a top-10 ranking in dual meets for...

Men’s hoops stuns Judges, trounces NYU

By Kate Fratar / January 29, 2008
Men’s basketball has put up a four-game winning streak before, but this one seems to mean a little something more. Coming against UAA foes, the latest string of victories shows a squad that can handle higher-caliber teams as it gets increasingly comfortable with its starting five. On the road to battle second-ranked Brandeis (12–4, 2–3...

Sports Shorts: Wrestling struggles against ranked opponents

By Kate Fratar / January 29, 2008
Coming off a 21–19 upset of 17th-ranked Olivet Wednesday, wrestling split four matches at UW–Whitewater’s eight-team Border Brawl this weekend as it wound down the regular season. The squad dropped its first two contests before bouncing back to take the next two bouts and stay above the .500 mark in dual matches at 5–4. A...

Women’s hoops fends off UAA

By Kate Fratar / January 25, 2008
With their backs against the wall after a tough loss to Wash U, the women’s basketball team entered Friday’s match-up needing a victory. The weekend would be a test of whether the Maroons could respond to adversity and manage to pull out the ugly wins. Sweeping both UAA games this weekend, Chicago proved that it...

Track and field races past tough pack of opponents

By Kate Fratar / January 25, 2008
Though the temperature outside Henry Crown was barely above zero last Saturday, inside the old gym the men’s and women’s track teams found strong first-place finishes to warm their spirits. On the men’s half of the competition, the Maroons racked up 167 points, leading a field of eight teams in the Phoenix Invitational. Coming in...

Swimming swamps visitors at Chicago Invite

By Kate Fratar / January 25, 2008
Protecting their house on Saturday, the Maroons ensured that 11 swimming and diving teams all left Ratner empty-handed. Despite an onslaught of competitors, both the men’s and women’s teams took home this year’s title at the Chicago Invite. The 24th-ranked men’s team had no trouble cleaning up in the 10-team field, ending with nearly double...

Epic heavyweight finish as wrestling rallies for upset

By Kate Fratar / January 25, 2008
Breaking free of its earlier losses, wrestling reclaimed its momentum this week despite fierce opposition from a host of nationally ranked contenders. Depth was the squad’s theme, as Chicago relied on its well balanced team to carry the day in its last two meets. Starting on Saturday with the Elmhurst “Al Hanke” Invitational, Chicago finished...

Sports Shorts 1/18/08: Three Maroons grab UAA recognition

By Kate Fratar / January 18, 2008
Barely a week into the winter seasons, the Maroons made a statement about the level of competition they’ll be bringing in 2008 after a trio of South Siders earned UAA Athlete of the Week honors. Returning from taking home All-American status and the outdoor track and field 2007 Rookie of the Year title, second-year Claire...

Rough UAA start for men’s hoops

By Kate Fratar / January 15, 2008
Putting together a four-game win streak over the break, it looked like men’s basketball had settled down after its up-and-down start and found its form. But, things could be getting choppy again for the Maroons with league play opening up a whole new ballgame. In a rematch between the 2007 UAA co-champions, seventh-ranked Wash U...

A St. Louis rivalry isn’t new, but here’s the South Side remix

By Kate Fratar / January 11, 2008
It was the kind of game that would write itself. No need to infuse the story with extra drama after a come-from-behind victory in the final regular-season matchup to clinch a playoff bid. And the best part? It came against an archrival. Maybe the storyline sounds too good to be true or like I stole...

Fall All-Maroons

By Kate Fratar / November 27, 2007
Top Team: Women’s Soccer With a second-round NCAA appearance, seven players earning All-UAA honors, and the league’s Coaching Staff of the Year, women’s soccer boasts an impressive list of accomplishments for 2007. A 5–0 start to the season indicated what the Maroons were made of this fall, but the squad proved its worth as a...

Women’s hoops wins four in a row

By Kate Fratar / November 27, 2007
After tapering off at the end of last winter, it’s been full steam ahead into 2007–2008 for women’s basketball. Again showing off their mix of proven veterans and still-developing young talent, the Maroons claimed more tournament hardware this weekend after winning the UW–Eau Claire Thanksgiving Showcase. First dispatching Edgewood College (2–2) 66–45, the squad won...

UAA honors

By Kate Fratar / November 16, 2007
Alex Clifford- Rookie of the Year, All-UAA First Team Netting six goals in his freshman campaign, first-year Alex Clifford stepped up to lead the Maroons’ offense. Four of his goals came against UAA opponents, and two of those were scored as Chicago hosted an 18th-ranked Emory squad to open league play. Both shots put Chicago...

Swimming continues to ride early wave of success

By Kate Fratar / November 13, 2007
Three weeks into the season is a bit early to be making statements about the shape of the 2007–2008 swim teams, but so far Chicago has lived up to the standard of a breakout year. This weekend’s Maroon Invite brought the South Siders back to Myers-McLoraine Pool for the first time this season and saw...

Northwestern edges men’s basketball in exhibition

By Kate Fratar / November 9, 2007
When word started to spread about men’s basketball’s exhibition game at Northwestern, us sports fans at the Maroon began planning the Evanston Invasion. Our team was headed to the big time of collegiate sports, and just as the squad was eager to show it could keep up with D-I opponents, we were eager to show...

Men’s hoops back to Big Ten

By Kate Fratar / November 6, 2007
Back in Chicago’s days as part of the Big Ten, a game between the Maroons and Northwestern would have been another regular season matchup. These days, though, it’s a rare occurrence, and tomorrow men’s basketball will see how they stack up against the D-I Wildcats. Before heading out to face that other school from Chicago,...

Struggling men’s soccer looks to become upset kings

By Kate Fratar / November 1, 2007
Last year, men’s soccer wrapped up the regular season knowing it had a shot at playing another day with the postseason. Saturday, the Maroons will take the field at Stagg with a different mindset. This time, there is no tomorrow. After 2006’s Cinderella story, where the squad rallied under a new head coach to crack...

Women’s swimming at a glance

By Kate Fratar / October 25, 2007
The Recap: Last season, women’s swimming surprised everyone, including its new head coach, when the squad started strong and kept up the momentum to take home its highest ever UAA finish. The year marked a huge turnaround for the Maroons who had long been drowning against the league’s powerhouses. This season will test whether Chicago...

Men’s swimming at a glance

By Kate Fratar / October 25, 2007
The Recap: If last season was the breakout year for men’s swimming, look for the 2007–2008 squad to make the big push in asserting its place as a strong conference and national competitor. With the combination of returning talent and a promising new class, the Maroons have everything going for them to move to the...

Crew rows at historic Charles

By Kate Fratar / October 22, 2007
Athletics at the University often get pushed to the sidelines of campus activities by other aspects of the life of the mind, but still waters run deep. Proud wearers of the maroon and white extend far beyond the teams suiting up at Stagg, with club squads like men’s and women’s crew logging in plenty of...

Women’s soccer unstoppable again

By Kate Fratar / October 19, 2007
Sometimes, change is a good thing. That was certainly true Wednesday for women’s soccer, which had to send a juggled lineup onto the pitch but still recorded a landslide victory. For the second straight game, the Maroons (8–3–3, 1–1–2) scored four goals, and they did it without the usual offensive leadership of fourth-year forward Christine...

UAA can’t contain volleyball’s Kendall

By Kate Fratar / October 16, 2007
This hasn’t been the easiest year for volleyball. The injury bug on top of a tough schedule long ago cooled off the team’s high hopes from the start of the season, but that hasn’t slowed down fourth-year middle-hitter Koryn Kendall. Ever since opening day of 2007, when she clubbed 21 kills to help propel the...

League promises big games

By Kate Fratar / October 11, 2007
DIII is often left on the fringe of collegiate sports, falling under the shadow of professionally bound athletes and 80,000-seat stadiums of DI. While the average Maroons game falls short of capturing DI hysteria, UAA play is guaranteed to add electricity to the stands and the action on the field. With four of the five...

U of C runners find way to beat the heat

By Kate Fratar / October 8, 2007
Runners are truly a unique brand of athlete. They voluntarily do what coaches of other sports dish out as punishment, and most of their competition comes from an inner battle of will. Sure, they race against other people on the road, but the biggest struggle is between the urge to either cave in or to...

Sports Shorts: Volleyball snaps losing streak in split

By Kate Fratar / October 8, 2007
After a nine-game losing streak, volleyball got one in the win column during a split at the Wisconsin Lutheran Triangular Saturday. The Maroons (4–15) dropped the opener 3–1 to Concordia (16–5) before bouncing back in the next match to sweep the hosts 3–0. Leading the charge, fourth-year middle hitter Koryn Kendall slammed 23 kills and...

Become a Cubs fan, for now

By Kate Fratar / October 5, 2007
Two years ago, Soxtober swept through Chicago. This fall, the Cubs have brought the excitement of baseball playoffs back to the Windy City. Not that the Cubs really need to worry about building up their fan base, but now is a good time for U of C students to tune into how those North Siders...

10/5/07 Athletes of the Week

By Kate Fratar / October 5, 2007
Marshall Oium The first start of his collegiate career was certainly memorable for first-year quarterback Marshall Oium. Passing for 362 yards and three touchdowns, the Temecula, California native led the Maroons to a 57–27 defeat over Lewis and Clark and into the record books. The 57 points set a new school standard for the most...

Offense explosive in football’s victory

By Kate Fratar / October 2, 2007
Records fell and a thirty-point spread separated the two teams at the final buzzer, but it wasn’t a sure and easy path to victory for football. Wrapping up a three-game home stand, the Maroons (3–1) leaned on a pair of rookies to take them to an eventual 57–27 blowout of Lewis and Clark (0–3). First-year...

Sports Shorts: Volleyball struggles against stacked UAA

By Kate Fratar / October 2, 2007
Down in numbers and still working its way back to 100-percent form, volleyball squared off against some of the toughest competition in DIII at the first UAA Round Robin hosted this weekend in New York. The Maroons put up some hard numbers but dropped each of their matches to fall into a 0–3 hole in...

Ladies’ kicks ties Emory

By Kate Fratar / October 2, 2007
In moment after agonizing moment Saturday, women’s soccer found itself on the cusp of victory, inches from opening conference action with a perfect record. But sometimes close just doesn’t count. Finding an incredible stride on defense but unable to register a goal for the first time this season, 21st-ranked women’s soccer (5–2–2, 0–0–1 UAA) battled...

DelGiorno pimps our football field

By Kate Fratar / September 30, 2007
The Brooklyn Dodgers said it best with “Wait ’til next year.” While it’s a bit early in the game to be summing up the Maroons’ season with that phrase, there’s a grain of truth in that old slogan that seems to fit the first two games under the new lights of renovated Stagg Field. After...

Growing disabled list hampers opportunity for once-hopeful squad

By Kate Fratar / September 30, 2007
As if competing in the top-heavy UAA wasn’t enough, volleyball (3-10) faces extra court challenges this season with injuries forcing changes to the lineup and putting a hold on some of the team’s top talent. When the Maroons returned from a preseason tour in China, head coach Dorinda von Tersch had every reason to be...

Maroons get a head start on new season

By Kate Fratar / September 19, 2007
For most of us, the new school year starts with classes on September 24. For the Maroons playing this fall, however, 2007–2008 got underway when they reported for training that began in mid-August. DIII, the UAA, and the University of Chicago all put a premium on fielding student-athletes who can tackle their academic demands just...

Right place, right time: Heptathletes set sprints off and running

By Kate Fratar / June 1, 2007
One is the rock, and the other is the spark plug. Together, they were just what the doctor ordered to help revitalize the dragging sprints section of a track and field program on the rise. Both very versatile athletes, fourth-years Nellie Movtchan and Trina Ruhland are neck-and-neck when they lay all their skills out on...

All-Maroon Best Stories

By Kate Fratar / May 25, 2007
Kruzel: King of the Mat With the team set back by injuries from day one, it looked like it would be a slow year for wrestling. But as the squad took its lumps throughout the season, fourth-year captain Phil Kruzel managed to stay on top of his game and his opponents in a banner year....

What makes an MVP? A look at this year’s standouts

By Kate Fratar / May 22, 2007
Ask any athlete or any coach, and they’ll tell you that winning requires a full team effort. The banner seasons put up by the Maroons this year have certainly given testimony to that old sentiment, as returning talent mixed with the latest batch of rookies to give teams stability and depth for 2006-2007. At the...

Lin seeks revenge at singles tourney

By Kate Fratar / May 18, 2007
It’s an old saying that good things come in threes. First-year women’s tennis phenom Marissa Lin will certainly hope that the adage holds true as she goes after All-American honors at the NCAA Singles Championship. Named UAA Rookie of the Year and crowned the central region’s top rook by the ITA earlier this week, adding...

Coe knocks softball out of tourney

By Kate Fratar / May 15, 2007
Winning in the postseason takes a high level of play and more than a little bit of luck. Unfortunately for softball, the squad caught some tough breaks in its second-consecutive NCAA run. After pulling out a 2–0 edging of St. Norbert (20–14) Friday morning in Eau Claire, WI, the Maroons extended their postseason life to...

Sport Short 5/15/07: Haskell paces velo at championships

By Kate Fratar / May 15, 2007
After making a statement at the Midwest Collegiate Cycling Conference Regional Championships April 28–29, the velo club capped off its strong season by taking second in its conference. While the race marked the end of the road for most of the team, a trio of Chicago bikers kept on riding, hitting the road with impressive...

Ng has right moves in a league of her own

By Kate Fratar / May 11, 2007
Four years of studying Aristotle and the central limit theorem at the U of C may not teach us everything we need to know for life beyond the Ivory Tower, but it’s a good start. Just ask 1990 Chicago grad Kim Ng, now assistant general manager and VP for the Los Angeles Dodgers. A public-policy...

Track hits standards for NCAAs at Butler, will try again at Keeler

By Kate Fratar / May 11, 2007
Continuing down the road to NCAAs, members of track and field have held their own this year and are proving that they deserve places in the postseason. Both squads have made it through the winter and are enjoying their time on the sunny track as they prepare for the upcoming meets. Competing at the Butler...

Sports Shorts 5/8/07: NCAA moves back three-point line

By Kate Fratar / May 8, 2007
With the change expected to pass through without a glitch, Ratner will have another stripe on its floor next winter. After years of speculation, the NCAA three-point line is finally moving back. The national collegiate governing body finally made the call to push back the line last week, and the move is currently pending approval...

Sports Shorts 5/4/07: Maroons rake in UAA accolades

By Kate Fratar / May 4, 2007
With the spring teams winding down their seasons, a couple of Maroons added to their accomplishments in 2007 by netting UAA tributes. Track first-year Claire Ray and women’s tennis first-year Marissa Lin took home the biggest honors this week with the Rookie of the Year awards for their sports. Other South Siders earning special recognition...

Learning to take charge set Woodhead apart

By Kate Fratar / May 1, 2007
It was a hard play to forget. Men’s basketball had scrambled back from an early 10-point deficit against 14th-ranked Carnegie Mellon and had pushed the game into overtime where the squad once again fought back to tie things up. Another five minutes of battling the Tartans loomed until then-–third-year point guard Brandon Woodhead sank a...

Grand day at the Lake for softball

By Kate Fratar / April 27, 2007
After a Cinderella season last spring, time was running out for softball to show it could still make the glass slipper fit. With a pair of wins required to preserve its NCAA hopes, the Maroons relied on the long ball to stay on track and to hint that after a long wait, all the elements...

Get paid to watch baseball? Oh, it’s the Cubs.

By Kate Fratar / April 27, 2007
One day in middle school, it dawned on me. The dream job actually exists; people really do get paid to watch baseball. Going on six years, I’ve looked at sports writing, and in particular covering America’s pastime, as the ultimate profession. It started because I adored the game and has lasted because of a new...

Tennis takes third at UAAs

By Kate Fratar / April 24, 2007
With the stakes raised at this year’s league championship, women’s tennis one-upped its 2006 performance, but it may not have been enough to give the young squad its final push into NCAAs. With the possible exception of a few individual players, the Maroons will most likely find themselves on the outside looking in when NCAA...

Softball’s bats spring back to life with turn in the weather

By Kate Fratar / April 24, 2007
After finally receiving a week of sunshine, softball hoped that the beautiful practice conditions would help the squad bust out of its slight slump and return to its early-season form. Despite the change in the weather, however, Chicago faced more of the same on the field this weekend. For the fourth time in a row,...

Bourne set marks after late arrival

By Kate Fratar / April 20, 2007
Attracted to Chicago for its “How do you feel about Wednesday?” application essay prompt, fourth-year Ashley Bourne arrived on campus without any previous diving experience. Four years later, she’s leaving Hyde Park having made a big splash at Myers-McLoraine and an even bigger dent in the record books. Joining the Maroons at the start of...

Sports shorts 4/20/07: Baseball gets knicked late in pitchers’ duel

By Kate Fratar / April 20, 2007
Playing back-to-back days, baseball got a double dose of late-inning blues as the team struggled to follow up two strong starts and continued its four-game losing streak. In just their third home appearance of the year, the Maroons (8–11) came within a run of 26th-ranked Carthage (17–8, 9–2 CCIW) before things unraveled in the final...

Softball sweeps Gorlocks, but struggles again at IWU Invite 

By Kate Fratar / April 17, 2007
Since their 10–2 start to the year in Florida, softball has been practically untouchable thanks largely to a powered-up offense that complimented a deeper-pitching staff. The Illinois Wesleyan University Tournament saw both of these improved parts of Chicago’s game get truly roughed up for the first time this season. Splitting a four-game weekend set, the...

Roommates make perfect pairing for men’s tennis

By Kate Fratar / April 13, 2007
It’s a law of physical science that opposites attract, but in tennis, the pairing of two extremes is often the key to unlocking a strong tandem force. Although first-year doubles partners Garrett Brinker and Noah Schneider would not be described as polar opposites, their differences on the court are distinct enough that the combination of...
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