The Northeastern baseball team enjoyed a wealth of success at Friedman Diamond this past weekend, sweeping James Madison University (JMU) to improve to 6-3 at home on the season.
Northeastern women’s ice hockey junior forward Kendall Coyne added another gold medal to her resume this weekend as she and the rest of the United States women’s national hockey team won the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Women’s Championship finals in Sweden.
The Northeastern track and field team put together a strong weekend with eight first-place finishes en route to a women’s victory and a men’s second place finish at the Yellow Jacket Invitational hosted by American International College in Springfield.
The men’s college basketball season ended on Monday night with a group of freshmen leading its team to a National Championship. However, it wasn’t the freshmen everyone thought would be hoisting the trophy – it was Duke University, not the University of Kentucky, that walked away with the win.
After the 2015 winter, crew teams might need to consider putting ice picks on the boats. The rivers are finally melted, allowing the Northeastern women’s rowing team to travel to New York last weekend to take on the Syracuse University and University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) crews.
Senior president Emily Liebert and the entire 24-person women’s powerlifting team qualified for the USA Powerlifting Collegiate Nationals, taking place in Atlanta this weekend. The majority of the men’s team is also competing in the event from Friday to Sunday.
The Northeastern track and field team won six individual events in its second-place finish at the Snowflake Classic hosted by Tufts University last Saturday.
The entire basketball season comes down to three games in a three-day period. We started with 351 Division I schools, cut down to 68 on Selection Sunday, and over the last two weeks, 60 games have cut the field down to the Final Four teams. We’re left with four of the marquee college basketball programs in the country: University of Wisconsin, University of Kentucky, Duke University and Michigan State University (MSU). These teams will play Saturday night in Indianapolis and the winners will play for the National Championship on Monday night.
Two members of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), women’s ice hockey forward Chelsey Goldberg and volleyball middle hitter Alexa Armstrong, both seniors, will travel to Africa from July 3-13 with the Care for Kenya program to deliver school and sports supplies to Kenyan students.
