Thursday, September 25, 2008

Swim Clinic

We held a very successful swim clinic on Saturday, September 20th. There were 27 swimmers in attendance for the all-day stroke and turn clinic.

Ten team members spent they day going over the finer points of technique for each stroke and starts and turns. We also video taped the swimmers strokes underwater for review.

The program was part of our fundraising and was very successful. We will be scheduling another clinic for late spring.

Thanks to everyone who attended.

Best,
DA

MHC Featured in 2009 Princeton Review Guide

Mount Holyoke College is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review Guide's just-published 2009 edition of its annual book, The Best 368 Colleges. Its rankings place the all-women's liberal arts college in the company of Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford Universities when it comes to the quality of both the students' classroom experience and the College library.

See the Mount Holyoke story here

Here is the link to the Princeton Reivew

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DA

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Sign Up for MHC Athletic E-News

So the Mike Raposo has now linked his press releases to an RSS feed. When you sign up, you will receive notices for every article that is posted on our athletic web site. Go here to sign up. You can also look on the athletic page on the right hand side for the link.

It is a great way to keep up with Mount Holyoke's teams!

Best,
DA

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Friends of Athletics Newsletter

Click here for the most recent Friends of Athletics Newsletter.

Best,
DA

Friends of Athletics Golf Tournament

The 11th Annual Friends of Athletics Golf Tournament was held on Monday, September 8th, at The Orchards. The Orchards was the host of the 2004 U.S. Women's Open.

As has been the tradition, it was an absolutely beautiful late summer day for the tournament - blue skies and in the low 80's. Unfortunately that is about what our foursome shot! Actually it was even par with a 71, but far below our expectations. All said and done, Eric, Lou, Dennis and myself had a great time.

We would like to thank Ron Good and United States Sports Camps for once again sponsoring a hole for the tournament. Some of the donation is directed to Friends of Athletics, and some is directed to the team.

Here is more information on Friends of Athletics and the Tournament.

Best,
DA

Friday, September 5, 2008

Athletic Bar-B-Que

The Athletic Department held our annual "Welcome Back" barbecue on Thursday night. The event included comments by President Creighton, Athletic Director Laurie Priest, and our very own Lisa Nash! Lisa is one of our tri-captains this year (along with Betsy Lucker and Natalia Sadaniantz) and also the chair for SAAC (Student Athletic Advisory Committee). The event also included karaoke - click here for a few pictures.

We also held our first team meeting before the barbecue and had almost forty people in attendance! That is by far our largest meeting in the last few years. Although not all of the people in the meeting will join the team, it certainly a fantastic start!

Best,
DA

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

MHC Athletic Video

Here is link to a video about MHC athletics and the improvements under way to Kendall Dance and Sports complex.

Enjoy!
DA

Convocation

Mount Holyoke kicked off the new year with Convocation today. It was a beautiful summer day to be sitting in the amphitheater and welcoming the incoming class of 2012. Here is a link to the news story.

We are looking forward to the start of the semester and especially the season. The team will start practices on September 29th and we are really looking forward to using the updated pool.

Events between now and then include our first meeting on Thursday, which is immediately followed by the Athletic Department Bar-B-Que.

We will also by holding our swimming lessons starting on the 15th and holding a stroke and turn clinic on September 20th. Turns out we are pretty busy even when we are not practicing!

Check out our competition schedule for 2008-2009 here.

More updates soon.

Best,
DA