This article is part of a special issue looking back at the 2011-12 academic year. Read the rest of the issue here, including season recaps for baseball, football, men's basketball, and women's track and field.
FALL SPORTS
Cross Country
Ivy Finish: second
Star Players: Waverly Neer, Kyle Merber
Highest High: both the men and women taking second at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships
Lowest Low: women’s team being just two points shy of tying with first-place Cornell at Heps
Players to Watch: Neer, Mike Murphy, Nic Composto, Caroline McDonough
Field Hockey
Season Record: 9-8, 5-2 Ivy
Ivy Finish: tied for third with Dartmouth
Star Player: Gabby Kozlowski
Highest High: defeated Dartmouth 4-2 to keep hold of first place in the conference
Lowest Low: Losing to Yale 3-1 and dropping out of first place
Player to Watch: Lauren Skudalski
Men’s Soccer
Season record: 8-7-2, 4-2-1 Ivy
Ivy finish: third
Star Player: Will Stamatis
Highest High: beating Brown in overtime
Lowest Low: failing to beat Cornell and missing out on the Ivy title as a result
Players to Watch: David Najem, Henning Sauerbier
Women’s Soccer
Season Record: 6-10-1, 3-3-1 Ivy
Ivy Finish: tied for fourth with Brown
Star Players: Liz Wicks, Ashlin Yahr
Highest High: beating Dartmouth 2-1, with both goals coming in the last 10 minutes of regulation
Lowest Low: losing to Princeton 4-1 after going scoreless the three games prior
Players to Watch: Alexa Yow, Chelsea Ryan
Volleyball
Season Record: 15-10, 9-5 Ivy
Ivy Finish: third
Star Player: Megan Gaughn
Highest High: a three-game conference win streak, during which it toppled Brown, Harvard, and Dartmouth
Lowest Low: falling to Princeton and Penn in the final weekend
Players to Watch: Savannah Fletcher, Heather Braunagel
WINTER SPORTS
Women’s Basketball
Season Record: 3-25, 1-13 Ivy
Ivy Finish: eighth
Star Players: Tyler Simpson, Melissa Shafer
Highest High: defeating Yale for first Ivy League win of the season, 56-52
Lowest Low: finishing last in the Ivy League having accumulated only three wins
Players to Watch: Simpson, Courtney Bradford
Men’s Fencing
Season Record: 8-10, 2-3 Ivy
Ivy Finish: third
Star Player: Alen Hadzic
Highest High: Hadzic coming back in the semifinals at the NCAA Championship from 7-12 to win 15-14
Lowest Low: falling to eventual Ivy champion Princeton 13-14 at Ivies
Players to Watch: Hadzic, Will Spear, Michael Josephs
Women’s Fencing
Season Record: 13-6, 5-1 Ivy
Ivy Finish: second
Star Player: Sammy Roberts
Highest High: beating Harvard 14-13 at the Ivy League Championships to go into bout against Princeton 4-0
Lowest Low: falling to eventual Ivy Champion Princeton 9-18 at Ivies
Players to Watch: Nzingha Prescod, Essane Diedro, Loweye Diedro, Lydia Kopecky
Men’s Squash
Season Record: 7-11, 1-6 Ivy
Ivy Finish: seventh
Star Player: Ramit Tandon
Highest High: finishing second in the Hoehn Cup at the CSA National Championships
Lowest Low: going 0-9 against both Harvard and Dartmouth in the same weekend
Player to Watch: Tandon
Women’s Squash
Season Record: 7-11, 0-7 Ivy
Ivy Finish: eighth
Star Player: Liz Chu
Highest High: back-to-back 9-0 wins over Georgetown and Connecticut College
Lowest Low: losing its last six regular season matches in a row
Players to Watch: Chu, Alisha Maity, Kate Calihan
Men’s Swimming and Diving
Season Record: 7-4, 4-3 Ivy
Ivy Finish: third at Ivy League Championships
Star Players: Omar Arafa, Jeremie DeZwirek
Highest High: having two first-team all-Ivy athletes at Ivy League Championships and three second-team all-Ivy
Lowest Low: getting beaten by Harvard 206-92 during a dual meet where the races were close
Players to Watch: Dominik Koll, Omar Arafa, Jeremie DeZwirek, John Wright, Daniel Gosek
Women’s Swimming and Diving
Season Record: 8-1, 6-1 Ivy
Ivy Finish: fourth at Ivy Championships
Star Player: Katie Meili
Highest High: beating Princeton for the first time in history, which was the first time the Tigers have ever lost in their own pool
Lowest Low: narrowly placing fourth to Yale at Ivies
Players to Watch: Meili, Laney Kluge, Grace Senko
Wrestling
Season Record: 8-5
Ivy Finish: tied for second with Penn
Star Player: Steve Santos
Highest High: three wrestlers making it to day two of NCAAs
Lowest Low: 30-9 blowout at hands of Cornell
Players to Watch: Santos, Jake O’Hara, Shane Hughes
SPRING SPORTS
Archery
Star Player: Sarah Chai
Highest High: taking gold in recurve and compound at the Eastern Regional Intercollegiate Archery Championships
Lowest Low: failing to overcome Olympic-level competition at AAE Arizona Cup
Player to Watch: Sarah Bernstein
Men’s Golf
Ivy Finish: third
Star Players: Michael Yiu, Brendan Doyle
Highest High: finishing in third place at the Ivy League Championships
Lowest Low: finishing 11th out of 16 teams at the UALR/First Tee Collegiate Classic
Players to Watch: Brandon Jowers, Andrew Kim
Women’s Golf
Ivy Finish: fourth at Ivy Championships
Star Player: Michelle Piyapattra
Highest High: Piyapattra winning first and the team placing second at the Roar-EE Invitational
Lowest Low: Placing 13th out of 13 at the Fresno State Classic
Players to Watch: Piyapattra, Jane Dong, Lisa Combs
Lacrosse
Season Record: 2-13, 0-7 Ivy
Ivy Finish: eighth
Star Player: Kacie Johnson
Highest High: 19-11 win over Lafayette, where CU snapped eight-game losing streak and four players had hat tricks
Lowest Low: 13-9 loss at Yale, where Columbia had a chance to tie for seventh in the Ancient Eight
Players to Watch: Johnson, Paige Cuscovitch
Men’s Heavyweight Rowing
Ivy Finish: currently sixth
Highest High: finishing first of four and winning the Alumni Cup
Lowest Low: not finishing first in all of April
Men’s Lightweight Rowing
Ivy Finish: currently seventh
Highest High: nearly sweeping the Governor’s Cup
Lowest Low: finishing third out of three in the Fosburgh Cup against Princeton and Georgetown
Women’s Rowing
Ivy Finish: currently seventh
Highest High: sweeping the Governor’s Cup, including a 35-second victory over the hosts by the first varsity eights
Lowest Low: finishing third of three in the Dunn Bowl against Cornell and Brown
Softball
Season Record: 12-33, 6-14 Ivy
Ivy Finish: fourth in South Division, seventh overall
Star Player: Liz Caggiano
Highest High: ending March having won five out of its last seven games
Lowest Low: ending Ivy League play with four straight losses to Penn
Players to Watch: Liz Caggiano, Brooke Darling
Men’s Tennis
Season Record: 18-4, 5-2 Ivy
Ivy Finish: second
Star Player: Winston Lin
Highest High: defeating Harvard 5-2 to remain undefeated
Lowest Low: losing to Brown 5-2 and dropping out of first place for good
Player to Watch: Lin
Women’s Tennis
Season Record: 13-6, 4-3 Ivy
Ivy Finish: tied for third with Harvard
Star Player: Nicole Bartnik
Highest High: six straight wins in the regular season that led to its best Ivy League record and finish in the team’s history
Lowest Low: coming very close to beating Harvard for the first time in years, losing 4-3
Players to Watch: Bartnik, Bianca Sanon, Iani Alecsiu
Men’s Track
Star Player: Kyle Merber
Highest High: men’s 4x800 team setting an Ivy League record at Penn Relays with a time of 7:20.80
Lowest Low: finishing more than 100 points behind second-place Cornell at Indoor Heps
Players to Watch: Brendon Fish, Connor Claflin
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