Fall 2004 Sports Preview

TEAM OVERALL (IVY) 2003 RECORD RECENT PAST GLORIES 2004 SCOUTING REPORT FOOTBALL 5-5 (4-3) Undefeated Ivy champs in 1996 Casey Cramer '04 may be gone, but after winning five of last six games last year, team has winning attitude. Nineteen starters return, including 2004 first-team all-Ivy defensive end and co-captain Ryan Conger '05. WOMEN'S SOCCER 9-6-2 (6-0-1) Defending Ivy champs All-Ivy senior back Claire DeWalt and goalkeeper Anne Marbarger '05 will put the"D" in defense as team looks for its seventh Ivy title in 14 years. Let that trophy go? No way! MEN'S SOCCER 6-9-2 (1-6) Ivy champs 2002 FIELD HOCKEY 6-11 (3-4) Last season looked like an episode of ER. Silver lining: Injuries to veter- ans meant playing experience for underclassmen. Return of 2002 All- Ivy Scott Darci '05 from torn ACL and medial meniscus and emergence of Mark Limpert '07 should provide explosive scoring combination. Qualifed for 2001 ECACs with 15-4 record After winning six of its final seven games in 2003, team has high expectations. Returning players who were solid contributors last season and four freshman recruits are expected to offset graduation of six seniors. MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY 4th in fall 2003 Heptagonals Won Heps in 2002 for 14th time; NCAA runner-up 1986 and 1987 Team in the running to claim fourth Heps title in five years; looks to second-team All-Ivy Kevin Arnold '05, eighth there last year. WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY 3rd in fall 2003 Heptagonals Qualified for NCAAs 1992 through 1997 Co-captains Melanie Schorr '06 and Kristen Ettensohn '05 will lead the women harriers. Schorr finished eighth and Ettensohn 10th at the Heps last season, both earning second-team All-Ivy honors. EQUESTRIAN 3rd at 2003 Ivy Show Three high-point and two reserve championships last year No neighsayers here.Team has lost five seniors but younger riders contribute to strength across all levels of competition. WOMEN'S GOLF 4th at Ivy championship Third in the Ivy League 1997,1998, 2000 Californian Hayley Stevens '07 tied for 20th at Ivy League championships after adjusting to her first winter out of action. She spent summer honing a swing to withstand the long winter layoff. MEN'S GOLF 7th in Ivy championship Won Ivy titles in 1978,1983 The good news: Four starters spent the summer practicing at Hanover Country Club. Not-so-good news: The course sets up differently than other Ivy venues. WOMEN'S TENNIS 13-8 (2-5) Ivy runner-up four times 1988 through 1995 Five of top six players return, including All-Ivy senior Jayme Ahmed. Recruits coming from New Zealand and Germany. Team hopes to move up to Top 50 from spring's No. 68 national ranking. MEN'S TENNIS 9-14 (1-6) Ivy/EITA champs in 1993,1997 Seniors Andres Reyes and David Webb, a second team All-Ivy pick in singles, will lead a young squad. Most Ivy teams also lack experience. WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL 9-16 (3-11) 24-10 (5-2) in 1997 Five returning starters include Sarah Nadler '06, honorable mention AllIvy. "We want that ring so bad we can taste it," she says of league title. MEN'S & WOMEN'S CREW Heavywt: 4-3 (0-2) Lightwt: 5-3 (1-3); Women: 2-9 (0-5) Heavyweights in IRA grand final in May; women 7th at Eastern Sprints The Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston October 23-24 will highlight the fall racing season; women's varsity eight will have five new faces. SAILING Teams combined for second place in the Fowle Trophy standings. Ranked No. I in 2003-04 Both coed and women's sailing teams hoping to repeat top rankings and improve upon last year's bests: fifth at the ICSA, women's third at the ICSA Ronstan Team Racing and fifth at the ICSA Gill Coed National Championships.

It’s always Green in Hanover—even when the fall foliage serves as backdrop for no fewer than 15 fall teams. Some, such as men’s and women’s tennis, golf, rowing and sailing, compete both fall and spring (as their records reflect). Here’s what to look for this year when squads replete with veterans and highly touted recruits take to their courts, fields and waterways.