When senior coxswain Rosie Fatt walked onto Barnard’s campus for the first time, she was excited at the prospect of attending a prestigious liberal arts women’s college as well as competing for the women’s rowing team at the Division I level. The Barnard-Columbia Athletics Consortium, ratified in 1983, allows for athletes attending Barnard College to compete on Columbia University teams, and Fatt would participate on the Columbia women’s rowing team as a Barnard student.

Men’s tennis captured its fifth consecutive Ancient Eight crown after topping Cornell 4-0 in Ithaca on Saturday.

For the past five seasons, men’s tennis has shined in moments of adversity. Amid injuries, graduation, a lack of outdoor courts, and balancing a rigorous Ivy League education to boot, the Lions have yet to back down from a challenge.

First-year heavyweight rower Clay Watson was fully reinstated to the team last Thursday and competed for the heavyweight rowing team this past weekend, according to two sources familiar with the investigation surrounding his intrusion in a Barnard dorm.

Men’s tennis swept Brown and Yale this weekend to bounce back from its first home Ivy defeat since 2011 on April 15.

In the moments after men’s tennis fell to Dartmouth 4-3 in its first home Ivy loss since 2011, many spectators sat in the Dick Savitt Tennis Center stunned by what they had witnessed. So many of the dedicated alumni, family of former players, and friends of the program that regularly travel to the facility on 218th Street on a regular basis have barely seen the team lose at home: This was just the team’s third loss at the Savitt Center since 2013.

Men’s tennis came into Sunday’s match against Dartmouth at the Dick Savitt Tennis Center having won 23 consecutive home Ivy matches, with the team’s last defeat at home coming at the expense of Cornell in 2011.

Two years ago, men’s tennis sat at 1-0 in the Ivy League after a narrow 4-1 victory over Cornell in Ithaca and prepared to host Dartmouth and Harvard in what would be the Lions’ first significant challenges of the Ivy season thus far.

In four years of matches against Ivy League opponents, men’s tennis has lost just once, earning four consecutive Ancient Eight crowns.