Stalking the informal locker room outside Gordon Field at halftime of Vassar’s Liberty League opener last Saturday Sept. 28, women’s soccer coach Corey Holton was tired of repeating herself. Vassar,…
[CW: This article mentions death and cancer.] I first started playing field hockey when I was eight years old. My mother had played field hockey at Middlebury College, and she…
Knee bent and unwavering, staring deep into the face of centuries of unchanging oppression, serenaded by the same “Star Spangled Banner” built on the backs of chains and shackles, Colin…
Last week, I first proved that ultimate frisbee was a sport, then moved on to argue that it was also the ultimate (heh heh) sport, superior to all others. This…
Families Weekend always features a spirited two days of competition, as every fall sport is in action, showing out for adoring parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings and unwanted cousins. 2019…
I should begin by acknowledging that it is odd that I am writing for a column focused on athletes. As I hope to convey, while still a sport, frisbee, to…
It seems like Vassar College’s field hockey defensive unit has an answer for everything nowadays. Whether they are blocking shots on the goal line as second nature like they did…
Every athlete has their own set of superstitions: putting on your right shoe before your left, always wearing the same headband or sitting on the same side of the bench…
American exceptionalism is an idea that frustrates a lot of people. Displayed most flagrantly on shirts that read “America: Don’t Like It? I’ll Help You Pack,” the idea that we…
A baseline dribble, a jump stop, a buckle—a pop. What follows this jaw-dropping sound is usually an odd kind of silence. Nobody can quite remember their screaming, or the players…
