Alex Andrejev

Dear Columbia Athletics and the Columbia athletics community,

The women’s golf team capped off its season with a fourth place finish at the Ivy League Championship last weekend at the Metedeconk National Golf Club in Jackson, NJ. Senior Nancy Xu led the Lions with a score of 11-over-par to tie for seventh place out of 35 individual players.

The women’s golf team defeated Ivy League rival Penn on Sunday, finishing in third place behind tournament winner Princeton and runner-up Seton Hall, at this weekend’s Match Madness event at the par-70 Fox Hollow Golf Club in Branchburg, New Jersey.

Women’s golf finished last out of 15 teams participating in the 3M Augusta Invitational over the weekend. The Lions played Friday through Sunday against a competitive lineup of southern teams at Forest Hills Golf Course in Augusta, Georgia.

No. 2 men’s squash will round out its record-breaking season at the College Squash Association National Team Championships this weekend in Hartford, Connecticut. The Lions will play a series of three matches against top-ranked teams in the Potter Cup (A Division) beginning with No. 7 Rochester on Friday.

No. 6 women’s squash will compete against No. 3 Trinity in the first round of the College Squash Association Team National Championships on Friday. The Lions will play a series of three matches amongst top-ranked teams in the Howe Cup (A Division) for a national title beginning on Friday and extending through Sunday.

No. 6 women’s squash ends its regular season on a historic note, as Sunday’s victory marks the first time Columbia has ever defeated Penn. The team’s 7-2 loss to No. 2 Princeton (13-1 overall, 6-1 Ivy) on Friday was the only tarnish on in an otherwise memorable weekend.

No. 2 men’s squash concluded its historic season of conference play on Sunday with a 5-4 victory over No. 6 Penn to claim the Ivy League Championship for the first time ever.

The women’s squash team (8-4 overall, 3-2 Ivy) split the weekend with a close 5-4 loss to Yale (9-3 overall, 4-1 Ivy) on Saturday followed by a near-sweep of Brown (5-6 overall, 0-5 Ivy) 8-1 on Sunday. The No. 6 Lions returned to Ivy League competition following last weekend’s showing against non-conference opponents Stanford (12-3) and George Washington (8-7).

Men’s squash (12-1, 5-0 Ivy) defeated Ivy League competitor Yale (8-6 overall, 2-3 Ivy) 6-3 on Saturday followed by Brown (6-5 overall, 1-4 Ivy) 8-1 on Sunday in weekend matchups. The consecutive victories propel the No. 2 Lions closer to the program’s first-ever Ivy League championship, which will be determined after the team’s final series of conference matches against No. 7 Princeton (8-3 overall, 3-2 Ivy) and No. 6 Penn (9-4 overall, 3-2 Ivy) next weekend.