Holly MacDonald

Earlier this summer, head football coach Norries Wilson promoted secondary coach Aaron Kelton to defensive coordinator after Lou Ferrari left the team for personal reasons.

After finishing last season at .500, the Columbia football team could not seem to put together a full game in the fall, finishing 1-9 and winless in the Ivy league.

This weekend, Columbia experienced another spring game with a quarterback on the sideline. Sophomore transfer Shane Kelly, who spent the season as backup quarterback, injured his knee last week and did not participate in Saturday’s annual Blue and White spring game.

Last spring, the question was whether Craig Hormann’s knee would stand up come fall. As a result sophomores Shane Kelly and M.A. Olawale are poised to battle for Hormann’s starting quarterback spot this spring.

Senior quarterback Craig Hormann won’t be waiting for an NFL draft call on April 27, but he might be waiting on one shortly after.

Brown’s Bobby Sewall provided the majority of the Bears’ offense on Saturday with 23 carries and 12 receptions, accounting for 163 of their total 373 yards. But he also allowed Columbia to pull within two points four minutes into the fourth quarter.

In the Columbia football team’s 34-14 loss to Cornell on Saturday, the Big Red returned a kickoff and a punt for a touchdown and blocked a field goal—all of this happened just in the first quarter.

Last season, Columbia’s first Ivy win came against Cornell. With only two games left, this year’s Lions (1-7, 0-5 Ivy) are looking for a repeat.

Although Columbia can’t boast much about its league play this season, the Lions (1-7, 0-5 Ivy) are the Ivy League team to have received the most consistent and standout play from their freshmen class. In the eight weeks of play so far, a Columbia player has received the Ivy Rookie of the Week award four times.

Last week, head football coach Norries Wilson jokingly relayed his plan to kidnap Yale junior running back Mike McLeod, who averaged 190 yards going into the Saturday matchup.

Columbia (1-6, 0-4 Ivy) managed to keep Yale (7-0, 4-0 Ivy) off the board during a miserable down pour in the first half, but ultimately couldn’t keep up with the undefeated Elis, leading to a 28-7 loss.

The Lions dropped their fourth straight game this weekend against Dartmouth, surrendering nine points in the final two minutes to end hope of getting their first Ivy win of the season.

The Lions offense continued to struggle establishing the run in their 59-28 loss to the University of Pennsylvania (2-3, 1-1 Ivy) today, while the Quakers ran all over the newly dedicated Robert K. Kraft Field.

Columbia's offense continued to struggle establishing the run in the team's 59-28 loss to the University of Pennsylvania today, while the Quakers ran all over the newly dedicated Robert K. Kraft Field.

After two consecutive games of more than 100 yards rushing, the Lions seemed to move backward last weekend, literally. Columbia had -13 yards rushing on Saturday in its shutout loss to Lafayette, and only ran the ball 23 times.

Recuperating from a heartbreaking loss in Princeton last weekend, the Columbia football team (1-2, 0-1 Ivy) has a chance for redemption this weekend. The Lions head to Pennsylvania to take on Lafayette (3-1), looking for their first road win against the Leopards since the teams first played in 1889.

Despite the football team’s best offensive production to date, the Lions dropped their conference opener to defending Ivy League co-champion Princeton on Saturday, 42-32.

With the season opener against Fordham just a day away, the Columbia football team has not yet released a depth chart.

Columbia softball started out the season as an unknown. With only freshmen on the mound and no fall season to give them the experience needed, no one knew what the team was capable of.

The Columbia softball team (22-26, 8-12 Ivy) ended its four-game winning streak and its season on a sour note, dropping two games to Wagner (28-16) yesterday. Columbia was shut out in both games, losing by a combined score of 7-0.

Wagner pitcher Morgan Miller completely shut down the Columbia offense in the first game, allowing only one hit to Light Blue freshman Alex Rodriguez in the sixth over seven innings of pitching.

The annual Blue and White Game for the Columbia football team was a duel of the quarterbacks, although neither of the men under center Saturday are anticipated to start next season. In a tight contest, the Blue team topped the White squad 30-28 on a five-yard touchdown run from freshman quarterback M.

Despite three home runs in softball's doubleheader against Fairfield yesterday, the Lions (17-21, 7-9 Ivy) dropped both games, each by a score of 3-2.

Three days after splitting the first doubleheader against Princeton (18-23, 8-4 Ivy), the Lions (17-19, 7-9 Ivy) continued the trend, dropping the first game 2-1 and winning the second 3-2.

The first game was once again a pitching duel between freshman Aimee Kemp and Princeton's Kristen Schaus.

After postponing Sunday's doubleheader for three days due to rain, Columbia softball (16-18, 7-8 Ivy) will finish its four-game series against Princeton (17-22, 7-4 Ivy) today at Baker Field, if the weather holds.

The Lions split the doubleheader on Saturday, taking the first game in a pitchers' duel and falling in extra innings to the Tigers in the second game after freshman pitcher Amanda Snyder left the game due to injury.

Columbia softball head coach Kayla Noonan likes to use nonconference midweek games to help loosen up the team and get them focused before the weekend's Ivy matchups.

With the Ivy season fully underway, Columbia softball seems to have worked out most of the kinks in its lineup, but what the Lions still have not found is a consistent source of decisive, game-changing hits. Coaches continuously change lineups with the aim of producing the strongest offense possible, and if Columbia hopes to find that ideal chemistry and the ever-elusive yet integral "big hit," some more experimentation might be necessary.

Columbia softball extended its winning streak to six yesterday in a 2-1 victory against Yale, but stalled in a 9-0 shutout in the second game of their doubleheader. The Lions (15-17, 5-7 Ivy) ended the weekend 3-1 with two victories over Brown on Saturday.

Coming off of a spectacular performance against Harvard and two tough-luck losses against Dartmouth last weekend, the Columbia softball team faces Rider University this afternoon in spite of the rain yesterday.

The Lions (11-16, 2-4 Ivy) won their last two games behind a pitching duo that only allowed five hits over four games and an explosive offense that finally got the big hit: a grandslam from senior co-captain Lacie Nelson.

The Columbia softball team (11-14, 2-4 Ivy League) got its first wins of the Ivy season against Harvard (11-8, 2-2) this weekend after dropping two pitcher's duels to Dartmouth (6-17, 2-2) on Saturday.

"I'm really pleased that we put together four games of consistent plays in all phases of our games-our defense played really well, our pitchers were spot on," head coach Kayla Noonan said.

A trend from softball's nonconference season has been reversed in Ivy League play. But so far, that hasn't led to improved results for the Lions.

In the league opener against Penn, Columbia jumped out early but failed to hold onto leads late into games, which kept them from splitting the four game series with the Quakers.

In the doubleheader against Penn yesterday, Columbia softball (9-14, 0-4) dropped both games 5-4 and 13-5, giving the Quakers (12-6, 4-0) a sweep after the first two days of league play. Despite big performances on offense, the Lions were unable to hang on to leads down the stretch in both games.

The biggest question mark for the Lions' softball team heading into this season was the lack of experience-especially in the pitching staff-due to a young team. Columbia has seven freshmen on the roster, four of them pitchers. And with the fall season cancelled because of construction on the softball field, the inexperience in the pitching staff was even more of a concern going into the nonconference season.

The softball game this afternoon against Stony Brook University has been postponed due to field conditions.

The young Columbia softball team had a lot to prove in its opening weekend, especially with a new pitching staff. But the freshmen proved they were ready to complete, as the Lions finished the weekend 2-3 at the Florida Atlantic Miken Classic, placing third overall.

With coaches for parents, it was expected that Kim and Kacy Krisman be involved in sports from an early age.

After swimming two meets less than 24 hours apart, Columbia men's swimming and diving team proved its strength while preparing for the EISL championships in two weeks. The Lions finished their regular season (7-5, 4-4 EISL) with wins at home against Navy and on the road at Brown.

The men's swimming and diving team faces off against Navy this afternoon at 4 p.m. in its final home meet before traveling to Providence, R.I. to take on Ivy rival Brown in the team's final conference meet of the season.

Last semester, when students were trying furiously to figure out class schedules, sophomore Hyun Lee was in South Korea, working part-time for a bank while trying to qualify for the Asian Olympics in December 2006.
After an outstanding freshman season, Lee decided to go back to South Korea to train in the 200-meter freestyle, 400-meter freestyle, and 800-meter freestyle relays for the Asian Olympics.

Columbia men's swimming and diving cruised to a 150-92 victory over Bucknell Saturday afternoon at alumni homecoming weekend. The Lions (4-4, 2-3 EISL) took first place in 12 of the 13 events and swept five during the meet.

The Light Blue got off to another fast start, sweeping the 400-yard medley relay.

After losing by a margin of six to defending league champion Princeton last weekend, Columbia men's swimming and diving faces Bucknell Saturday at 4 p.m. for the Lions' Homecoming weekend. Columbia (3-4, 2-3 EISL) looks to improve to 4-4 overall after this weekend.

The Columbia men's swimming and diving team lost by a narrow margin to defending league champion Princeton this weekend, 153-147. A win would have been the first for Columbia head coach Jim Bolster against the Tigers (5-4, 2-1 EISL).

The Lions (3-4, 2-3 EISL) started quickly with a one-three finish in the 200-yard medley.

Columbia men's swimming and diving will resume their Ivy League schedule Saturday against Penn in their second home meet of the season. The Lions (2-3, 1-2) are coming off a fifth place finish at Princeton's Big Al Invitational while Penn (3-3, 0-3) won the Nike Invitational last weekend at Kenyon.

Columbia men's swimming and diving finished fifth out of eight at the Princeton "Big Al" Invitational this past weekend. The Lions netted a total of 340 points in the meet, defeating Rutgers, Brown, and American. The University of Virginia came in first with 1029 points, and Ivy opponent Princeton was third with 474 points.

Last night in their first home meet of the season, Columbia men's swimming and diving bested Fordham 179-119. It wasn't a particularly challenging competition and the Lions dominated in their home pool, sweeping three events and finishing first in nine.

The Lions were anxious on the boards, as false starts prevented them from sweeping several events.

After suffering its first loss of the season last weekend, the men's swimming and diving will try to reverse its luck against perennial Ivy power Harvard. The Crimson have finished in the top two of the league since 1972, but lost a meet to Cornell last weekend to drop its Ivy record to 2-1 on the year.

Despite the Columbia football team's relative success against a tough Crimson defense, the defining moment of their weekend loss will be a series of plays that should have never happened.

In the fourth quarter, the Lions faced fourth and 17 at the Harvard 24-yard line after their most successful drive since the first quarter.

Yale watched Brown last season rush to the Ivy title behind player-of-the-year Nick Hartigan, and have taken a page out of the Bears' playbook with their current offensive strategy: get the ball to Mike McLeod.

With Harvard's Clifton Dawson closing in on the all-time rushing record, McLeod has been somewhat overshadowed, despite actually having a better season than the Crimson senior.

In four years, Jeff Terrell has gone from watching the Princeton Tigers from the sideline to being the team's best quarterback in a decade. He's the first quarterback since 1994 to win nine games or more over twelve starts, and in his senior season, he's become the most threatening player on Princeton's 2-0 team.

After two consecutive years of dramatic fourth-quarter comebacks over Brown, Harvard finally cruised to a victory over the Bears, with a final score of 38-21. The Crimson, with head coach Tim Murphy, seemingly have the Bears' number, earning their seventh consecutive victory over Brown.