David Sims

Coming off an all-time-best Ivy record of 5-2 in 2007, the Columbia field hockey team began this year with a bang. The Lions bested William & Mary 2-0 and University of Richmond 2-1 on Saturday and Sunday respectively.

After finishing in second place in the Ivy League last year, the Columbia field hockey team has set the bar high for 2008 and looks to win the Ivy title.

Columbia field hockey took second place in the Ivy League this year with a 5-2 Ivy record (11-6 overall) for the program's best finish since the 2000 season, when the Lions finished 13-6.

Timm Baur, CC ’10, is a 23-year-old heavyweight rower at Columbia University, formerly of the German army and national rowing team where he and his teammates won a gold medal at the World Rowing Under 23 Championships in 2004. To say he brings “experience” to the Columbia varsity eights would be an understatement.

All three Columbia rowing teams will be in action this week, with the lightweights and women hitting the road and the heavyweights holding down the fort at home.

Columbia’s official athletics Web site reports that Paul Fernandes, the associate athletics director for intercollegiate sports programs and former Columbia head baseball coach, will retire after working in the University’s athletic department for 31 years.

The Columbia men’s basketball team heads to Princeton today to take on the Tigers, a team led by senior Noah Savage.

Where the New England Patriots failed, the Cornell men’s basketball team hopes to succeed in its bid for an undefeated season.

While both the men’s and women’s Columbia fencing teams reign supreme as Ivy League champs, there are still further goals to be reached.

Cornell (9-5, 1-0 Ivy) sits atop the Ivy perch after defeating Columbia (7-9, 0-1 Ivy) 70-64, on Saturday.

Columbia field hockey took second place in the Ivies this year with a 5-2 Ivy record, 11-6 overall. The 2007 effort marks the franchise’s best finish since the 2000 season, when the Lions finished 13-6, and the 5-2 Ivy record marks Columbia’s best Ivy record ever.

The Columbia Field Hockey squad finished the year on a high note, defeating Harvard (8-9, 4-3 Ivy) 2-1 at the Columbia Field Hockey Venue.

The Columbia field hockey squad improved its record to 9-6 (3-2 Ivy) with a 2-1 victory at Rutgers (8-11) on Sunday.

The Columbia field hockey team welcomes Yale to the newly dedicated Field Hockey Venue where the Lions are 6-0 tonight at 7 p.m.

Columbia field hockey has made great strides this year and might be headed toward its best Ivy record in the school’s history.

Columbia field hockey (8-6, 3-2 Ivy) won its Ivy matchup Saturday against Dartmouth (4-13, 1-4 Ivy) by a score of 2-0, but the Lions’ five-game winning streak was snapped in a 1-0 loss to Vermont (12-5) on Sunday.

The Columbia field hockey team (7-5, 2-2 Ivy) looks to keep its four-game win streak going this weekend, traveling north to take on Dartmouth (4-8, 1-3 Ivy) Saturday and the University of Vermont (10-5) Sunday.

Columbia field hockey won a 1-0 nail biter in overtime against rival Penn (6-7, 2-2 Ivy) on forward Ariel Leon’s goal 8:40 into the sudden death overtime period. The Lions (7-5, 2-2 Ivy) pull into 4th place in the Ivy standings, trailing Princeton, Harvard, and Cornell.

The festivities at the Baker complex don’t end after Saturday’s homecoming game. Columbia field hockey (6-5, 1-2 Ivy) welcomes Ivy rival Penn (6-4, 2-1 Ivy) on Sunday for a 1 p.m. showdown. Like two boulders hurtling down adjacent hills toward a valley, both teams come into the game with momentum.

Columbia field hockey earned its first victory on the road this season, defeating Hofstra 2-1 in Hempstead, N.Y.

Columbia field hockey is now 5-0 at the newly dedicated Field Hockey Venue after defeating Brown (0-10, 0-3 Ivy) 4-0. Head coach Katie Beach said a few words before the game during the dedication ceremony, thanking the athletic department and calling it a “fantastic, competitive facility.”

Columbia field hockey (4-5, 0-2 Ivy) looks to improve on its Ivy record tomorrow as the squad welcomes Brown (0-9, 0-2 Ivy) to the Columbia Field Hockey Venue, where the Lions are 4-0 this season. Head coach Katie Beach is confident that her undefeated at home streak will continue.

Columbia field hockey improved to 4-0 at home this season (4-5, 0-2 Ivy) in a convincing 2-0 victory over Holy Cross (3-8). Despite the Lions’ dismal 0-5 record on the road, junior Megan Davidson was pleased with the Lions’ play.

There seems to be a trend developing for the Columbia field hockey squad. The Lions (3-5, 0-2 Ivy) are undefeated in three home games, and while it’s good to have a strong home field advantage, it’s equally as bad to be 0-5 on the road.

Columbia field hockey’s three-game win streak came to an end yesterday against Princeton (3-2, 3-0 Ivy) in a 3-0 defeat at Princeton’s Class of ’52 Stadium.

Who says .500 isn’t good?

After stumbling on the road to start the season with three straight losses, Columbia field hockey has learned that there is no place like home. After defeating Fairfield last Wednesday, the Lions were able to improve their record to 2-3 with another win in New York City last Saturday—a 2-1 victory over Lehigh.

Fresh off its first victory of the season, Columbia Field Hockey looks to build on the momentum captured by a 2-0 win against Fairfield in this weekend’s upcoming home match against Lehigh on Saturday at 1 p.m.

The men's heavyweight and lightweight and women's crews all had successful seasons and will partake in the EARC Sprints May 13.

The Columbia heavyweight men's rowing team capped its regular season on a high note by taking back the Doc Lusins Cup, defeating Boston University by nearly 13 seconds. Syracuse won the race, crossing the line four seconds ahead of the Lions.

Columbia's second varsity boat defeated Terriers as well, and the freshman team defeated both Syracuse and Boston University, the latter by a mere thirty-four hundredths of a second.

In their final race before Eastern Sprints, the heavyweight men's rowing team will take on Boston University and guest Syracuse Sunday in Pelham, N.Y., in the Doc Lusins Cup.

On the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, Penn., the Columbia men's heavyweight rowing team showed vast improvement from last week, losing to Penn by a mere 2.5 seconds in the Blackwell Cup, while both teams fell to Yale.

Head coach Mike Zimmer was pleased with his squad's ability to be more aggressive, something that he had worked on with his crew the entire week leading up to the race.

"Rowing is a sport such that, if you wait for something to happen, nothing good will."

Despite having to row with a last-minute substitute, the men's lightweight rowing team performed exceedingly well, defeating Penn and only finishing a second and a half behind Yale in the Dodge Cup Saturday in Philadelphia.

It was a successful race, though there was more on the minds of head coach Marc DeRose and his oarsmen than just their race.

All three Columbia rowing squads are looking forward to a busy weekend of action. The men's heavyweights have the Childs Cup in Pelham, N.Y. against Princeton and Penn, the lightweights will take part in the Dodge Cup in Philadelphia against Yale and Penn, and the women's rowing team will travel to Boston to participate in the Charles River Challenge against a plethora of opponents.

The Columbia rowing teams had a mixed weekend, with the heavyweight team coming up victorious against MIT and Holy Cross in the Alumni Cup for the third straight year, and the lightweights falling to Navy and Rutgers at the Wit Cup.

This is the second cup in as many weeks that the heavyweight squad has won, after last weekend's win in the Collins Cup at Rutgers.

The Columbia rowing teams finished the weekend with mixed results, as the heavyweight men's squad took its third straight Collins Cup, while the men's and women's lightweight crews struggled.

The heavyweight first varsity boat defeated Rutgers 5:55.3-5:58.

All three Columbia rowing squads will be in action, each traveling to different areas of New Jersey to row against numerous Ivy and non-Ivy foes.

A lead midway through the race did not result in a win for the Columbia men's heavyweight rowing team. The heavyweight team took second at the 2007 Maxwell Stevenson Cup, beating George Washington but losing to Navy. The freshman boat, however, took first place with a time of 6:06.

After a highly successful weekend in Palm Bay, Florida at the FIT Invitational, men's heavyweight rowing heads to Princeton on March 24 to face Navy and guest George Washington at the Maxwell Stevenson Cup.

Women's rowing began its spring season Saturday in Florida with the Governor's Cup, hosted by Florida Tech. The team returned home having won two out of the three events it participated in-the novice eight and the varsity eight. The Lions are off to a strong start in their new season, but head coach Melanie Onufrieff knows success will only come if every member of the team is focused and prepared.

The lightweight crew team had mixed results over spring break. For the second straight year, Virginia swept the Lions' varsity in the 1000-meters, winning all five races. Columbia was able to bounce back on Saturday at the FIT Invitational, defeating Florida Tech in the 2000-meter 6:00.

Every year, they leave the rowing machines, tune out the alternative rock radio, and emerge from their caverns of Dodge. The months of training are at an end-the new spring season of Columbia crew has reached the Hudson shore.

Lightweight crew kicks off the new season on March 13 in Charlottesville, Va.

Aspiring journalist and senior cross-country captain Susan Hendrick always knew she wanted to come to Columbia, even when she was in sixth grade.

"You know how you would write letters to yourself in middle school, and then your teacher would mail them to you in your senior year?" Hendrick asked.

Aspiring journalist and senior cross-country captain Susan Hendrick always knew she wanted to come to Columbia, even when she was in sixth grade.

"You know how you would write letters to yourself in middle school, and then your teacher would mail them to you in your senior year?" Hendrick asked.

As the Columbia track and field squad prepares to host its first Indoor Ivy League Heptagonal Championships in 52 years, head coach Willy Wood could not be happier to have all-Ivy senior Erison Hurtault on his side.

"Erison is one of the most coachable young men I have ever encountered," Wood said.

Given all his accomplishments the last three years, it should be no surprise that Penn senior point guard Ibrahim Jaaber continues to be the Quakers' go-to player on both ends of the court.

For Bulldogs senior forward Casey Hughes, excelling on the basketball court is not his only source of pride at Yale.

Yale went undefeated against Harvard and Dartmouth on the road last weekend, beating the Crimson 88-78 and defeating the Big Green 71-64.

In the game against Harvard (9-9, 2-2 Ivy), sophomore Caleb Holmes of Yale scored a career-high 19 points, going 8-8 from the stripe and adding six boards.