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AROUND THE QUADSROAR LION ROARFALL HIGHLIGHTS:
SCHOLAR-ATHLETES:Volleyball captain Katie Beauregard ’03 and football players Travis Chmelka ’04 and Parker Meeks ’03E were named to the District I Verizon Academic All-America teams for their sports. The award recognizes students who play a significant role on their teams and also maintain a GPA of 3.2 or higher. CROSS COUNTRY:Associate head coach Craig Lake was named Northeast Regional Coach of the Year for her role in leading the women’s team to national prominence. Columbia dominated the Heptagonals, posting a score of 29 points to 92 for runner-up Yale. Caitlin Hickin ’04 ran the fastest time in school history on the Van Cortlandt Park course, 17:38.6, to finish third individually. She was joined by Melissa Stellato ’04, Trish Nolan ’05 and Loretta Kilmer ’05 on the All-Ivy first team, with Lisa Stubic ’06 and Liz Burke ’03 earning second team honors. Columbia edged Providence, 70 to 75 points, to win the Northeast Regional and qualify for the nationals, with Hickin, Kilmer, Nolan and Stellato all finishing among the top 20 runners and earning all-region honors. In the NCAA Championships in Terre Haute, Ind., Columbia had its best team finish in school history, placing 11th of 31 competing squads. Kilmer was the Lions’ top finisher, placing 48th among 254 runners. “We achieved and surpassed every one of our season goals,” Hickin told Spectator . Added Stellato, “We wanted to win Heps, get top two at regionals and place top 15 at the nationals, and we did them all.” Steve Sundell ’04 was third and John Garvie ’03 was fifth to earn All-Ivy first team honors as the men’s team finished second in the Heps with 63 points, behind Dartmouth’s 56. Anthony Mion ’06E, Karl Dusen ’05 and Ryan Maynard ’04 also placed among the top 20. The team placed fourth in the regionals, and Sundell placed sixth among 233 runners, completing the course in 30:32.7 in what Coach Willy Wood called his “best effort as a Lion.” That earned him a trip to the nationals, where he finished 61st with a time of 30:49.4. FOOTBALL:Ray Tellier was relieved of his duties as head coach after 14 seasons following a disappointing 1–9 campaign. No replacement was immediately named. After beating eventual Patriot League champion Fordham 13–11 in a rousing opener, Columbia’s season began to unravel with a 38–6 pounding at Colgate that was followed by a 35–32 Homecoming loss to Princeton. Columbia went on to lose nine in a row, beginning its longest losing streak since the famous 44-game skein, and finished last in the Ivy League at 0–7, including three home losses to Ivy opponents by three points or less. Tellier, 51, will remain at Columbia as an assistant athletic director. Columbia’s best season under Tellier was 1996, when he earned Division I-AA Coach of the Year honors after leading the Lions to an 8–2 record, their best since 1945. However, his teams posted only one other winning season in 14 years, and his overall record was 42–96–2. Safety Phil Murray ’03, whose 16 career interceptions tied him with Lou Kusserow ’49 as Columbia’s all-time leader, was named to the All-Ivy first team. Nick Rudd ’05, the league’s leading punter, earned second-team honors, as did offensive lineman Pat Girardi ’03. Defensive linemen Jeff Roether ’04 and Erick Tyrone ’03 and linebacker Chris Carey ’04 all earned honorable mention. SOCCER:Despite a season-ending four-game winning streak and often ranking among the nation’s top 25, Columbia’s campaign ended in disappointment when the men’s team was not invited to the NCAA tournament. Columbia bounced back from a four-game winless stretch midway through the season to finish 10–5–1 overall and 4–2–1 in Ivy play, one game behind league co-champions Penn and Dartmouth, 5–1–1. Midfielder Tommy McMenemy ’04, who led the Lions with eight goals including a score with two seconds left that gave Columbia a 3–2 win at Yale, was a unanimous choice for the All-Ivy first team. David Duffy ’03 and Blake Lindberg ’06 were chosen to the second team, and Michael Ching ’03E and Jon Mycroft ’03 received honorable mention. The women’s soccer team was winless in Ivy competition, finishing 0–5–2 in league play and 5–10–2 overall. Midfielder Tara Davis ’04 was named to the All-Ivy second team, with Meredith Corkery ’03, Eva Gudbjornsdottir ’05E, Courtney Nasshorn ’06 and Brianne Pardini ’05 earning honorable mention. VOLLEYBALL:Columbia finished a disappointing season on a high note by beating Harvard 3–0 (30–25, 30–20, 30–23) to wind up at 10–17 overall and 3–11 in the Ivies. Kathy Lavold ’03 Barnard earned All-Ivy second team honors and Madia Willis ’04 received honorable mention. FIELD HOCKEY:Columbia was 3–14 overall and 0–7 in Ivy play. Defender Kate Mansur ’05 earned an All-Ivy honorable mention. TENNIS:Oscar Chow ’03 defeated Stephane Rod of Virginia Tech 6–2, 4–6, 6–3 to win the ITA Omni Hotels East Regional. That earned him a berth in the Omni Hotels National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships, where he advanced to the quarterfinals before bowing to Illinois’ Amer Delic, the tournament’s No. 3 seed, 7–5, 6–3. En route, he defeated Vanderbilt’s No. 1 player, Bobby Reynolds, 6–4, 7–6 (7–5), and 2002 junior college champion Sebastian Fitz of Auburn-Motgomery 7–6 (10–8) 6–3. SAILING:Columbia won the Mosbacher-Knapp Ivy League Championship Regatta for the first time in the sailing club’s 60-year history. The two-day regatta was hosted by Penn on the Delaware River and held in October. Ten races were sailed in each of two divisions, with Nathaniel Chase ’05 and Annelise Schantz ’04 winning one fleet and team captain Justin Assad ’03 and Jessie Stern ’05 winning the other. A.S.
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