March/April 2011
Around the Quads
Roar, Lion, Roar
1,000 POINTS: Noruwa Agho ’12 surpassed the 1,000-point mark in career scoring in a 66–45 win over Dartmouth on January 29, becoming the 24th men’s basketball player in school history to reach that milestone. Through games of February 12, Agho had 1,061 career points to rank 17th on Columbia’s all-time scoring list. The last Columbia junior to reach the 1,000-point mark was Craig Austin ’02 in 2001, and the last Lion to notch 1,000 career points was John Baumann ’08.
RECORDS: Several school records were set early in the indoor track and field season.
In the Penn State Invitational on January 29, QueenDenise Okeke ’13 set a record of 12.43 meters in the women’s long jump, Justin Holloman ’12 set a record of 22.12 seconds in the men’s 200-meter dash and Sharay Hale ’12 set a record of 24.15 seconds in the women’s 200-meter dash.
The following weekend, at the New Balance Invitational, Jeff Moriarty ’11 won the 1,000-meter run in a school-record 2:20.77, which was the second-fastest time in the country this year and the second-fastest time ever by an Ivy League runner. In the same race, Byron Jones ’14E finished in 2:25.95, the fastest time by a first-year athlete in the country. Also, Jason Marks ’12E tied the school record of 4.75 meters in the pole vault.
FOOTBALL: Columbia will play six of its 10 football games this fall at Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium, including the Lions’ first meetings with Albany and Sacred Heart and a Homecoming game against Penn on October 15.
Following is the complete 2011 Columbia football schedule (home games in capitals; all are Saturdays and start at 12:30 p.m.):
| Sept. 17 | at Fordham |
| Sept. 24 | ALBANY |
| Oct. 1 | at Princeton |
| Oct. 8 | SACRED HEART |
| Oct. 15 | PENN (Homecoming) |
| Oct. 22 | at Dartmouth |
| Oct. 29 | YALE |
| Nov. 5 | HARVARD |
| Nov. 12 | at Cornell |
| Nov. 19 | BROWN |