November 24
It was a busy weekend for athletics on campus as Vassar College hosted both the Liberty League Squash Championships and the Seven Sisters Women’s Basketball Classic. It was also a weekend of mixed emotions as Vassar athletes and coaches felt both the agony of defeat and the joy of victory. It is the nature of sports to make us feel for our teams as if we were the ones on the court. We feel for women’s basketball head coach Luke M. Ruppel as he jumps up and down along the baseline and gives Tiger Woods-like fist pumps, trying to will his team to its first victory of the season, and his first as a Vassar head coach. And we feel for Jane Parker who, after nine years at the helm of the women’s squash program, finally got her first Liberty League title this past weekend.
The women’s squash team ended the weekend on a joyous note, winning the program’s first ever Liberty League title after defeating William Smith and St. Lawrence. The fact that the women won the title on their home court only added to the moment. On the opposite end, the women’s basketball team suffered a heartbreaking loss to Wellesley College on Saturday to open the Seven Sisters Classic. With seconds left in the game, sophomore Carolyn Crampton swooped in the paint to grab an offensive rebound and scored a layup as the buzzer sounded, forcing overtime. Though her heroics gave the Brewers momentum heading into overtime, they were unable to overcome a hot-shooting Wellesley squad that did not miss in the extra period, a bitter ending to a game in which the Brewers erased an 11-point second half deficit.
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