2011-12 in Review: Sports Briefly

From the highest highs to the lowest low to the star players, check out a roundup of what happened in Columbia athletics this year.

By Spectator Sports Staff | May 5 09:51 pm ET

Women's golf takes 4th at Ivies

Although the Lions finished in the middle of the pack, sophomore Michelle Piyapattra took fourth individually and won Ivy Player of the Year.

By Laura Allen | Apr 30 01:44 am ET

Piyapattra, Lions search for Ivy Championship

The Light Blue will compete in the 2012 Ivy League Championship at Seaview Golf Resort’s Bay Course in Galloway, N.J. this weekend. The Lions believe that they can take home first place at the 54-hole tournament, despite last season’s fifth-place finish.

“We have had good and sometimes great play from all of our starters throughout the course of the year,” coach Kari Williams said in an email. “We are going to AC with a single purpose: play our best rounds of golf of the year to win the Ivy Championships.”

By Laura Allen | Apr 26 11:35 pm ET

Athlete of the Week: Michelle Piyapattra

Check out this week's athlete of the week, Michelle Piyapattra.

By Spectator Sports Staff | Apr 17 06:48 pm ET

Women's golf takes second at Roar-EE invitational

Although the Lions did not take the Roar-EE Invitational for the third year in a row, they did place second, with sophomore Michelle Piyapattra successfully defending her individual title.

By Laura Allen | Apr 16 02:13 am ET

Columbia hosts 6th Annual ROAR-EE Women's Golf Invitational

After an impressive late round performance last week, Columbia's women's golf team heads to Suffern, N.Y. for the Roar-EE Women's Golf Invitational.

By Muneeb Alam | Apr 12 10:57 pm ET

Men’s high school team gave golfer competitive edge

Sophomore Jane Dong attributes her competitive mental edge on the golf course to having played on a co-ed team in high school where she made the varsity squad as a freshman girl.

By Laura Allen | Mar 22 01:50 am ET

Light Blue secures second place at Del Monte Invitational

The women's golf team began the tournament on Sunday and ended the first round in fifth place before swinging into second place by Tuesday in an impressive showing on the West Coast.

By Laura Allen | Mar 20 08:55 pm ET

Sports Briefly: Men's Golf, Women's Golf, Lacrosse, Rowing, Softball, Women's Tennis, Track and Field, Wrestling

Three wrestlers competed at the NCAA Championships, lacrosse and softball both struggled, and rowing was strong in Florida.

By Muneeb Alam, Melissa Cheung, Laura Allen, Josh Shenkar, Hahn Chang, Eli Schultz, and Caroline Bowman | Mar 18 11:33 pm ET

Women's golf ends fall season, finishes second at Harvard

The women’s golf team finished second at the season-ending Harvard Invitational over the weekend. Competing against six of the seven other Ivy League schools—Cornell was not present—Columbia’s five women shot a combined 321 on both Saturday and Sunday to finish in a tie for second with Harvard, five strokes behind winner Penn, and 13 strokes ahead of fourth-place Princeton.

By Muneeb Alam | Oct 17 01:14 am ET