Player Profile

As senior co-captain Liam Boylan-Pett toed up at the Penn Relays Championship of America 4x800-meter relay heat, he awaited his handoff from freshman Jeff Moriarty with what could only be trepidation.

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.

As Joe Scarlata walked off the mound after the fourth inning against Davidson on March 5, 2006, he had nothing to smile about.

Even though you might not catch him wearing the glasses or the penciled-on scar to prove it, Nick LaCava is a huge Harry Potter fan.

Being a student-athlete at Columbia was not in the cards for Sara Yee—at least, not initially.