Author Archives: Sarah Scott

The Yale men’s soccer team scored just 10 goals last season. But through nine games this year, just over half of the team’s schedule, the Bulldogs have already scored 16, including a 7–0 routing of Marist in mid-September — and Ivy Conference play has not even started. The team’s offensive improvement comes from a number »

Men’s basketball forward Reggie Willhite ’12 had dreams of becoming an engineer upon enrollment at Yale. But he soon realized that engineering would require more time than he had available with his commitment to basketball and soon switched his major to political science. Wide receiver Chris Smith ’13 initially wanted to be pre-med, aspiring to »

The Yale field hockey team (1–3) will play its first conference game of the season this weekend, when it faces Harvard (2–1) on Saturday, followed by a match on Sunday against Sacred Heart (2–4). The Bulldogs are eager for a fresh start to the season against one of their greatest foes, forward Mia Rosati ’12 »

As a sophomore in high school, Yale wide receiver Chris Smith ’13 was a mere 130 pounds, a measly 5-feet-5-inches tall and bench pressed just 130 pounds. Disappointed that he had not made varsity football that year, Smith was determined to make it with the best athletes in his town, Midlothian, Va., where, he said, »

After being named Ivy League Rookie of the Year at the end of last season, volleyball setter Kendall Polan ’14 is wasting no time contributing to her team’s early season success. In last weekend’s Yale Invitational, Polan received co-MVP for the tournament and was named Ivy League Player of the Week this week. Polan spoke »

For his 12th birthday, Caleb Smith ’11, a tight end on the football team, received a video camera and caught the filmmaking bug. He decided to major in film studies at Yale, but because of his commitment to football he was not able to produce a film. That changed after football season ended, and he »

The first thing women’s soccer midfielder Kate Macauley ’11 noticed when she arrived at Ole Sankale Primary School in Narok, Kenya was the lack of dust in the air on the girls’ soccer field. As she took to the turf during spring break to lead nearly 100 high school-aged Kenyan girls in a soccer clinic, »

Every Thursday, Ike Wilson ’11 shows up to Payne Whitney Gymnasium at 7:30 a.m. for the women’s basketball team’s weekly morning practices. He has become an integral part of the women’s team’s success this season. But Wilson is not a woman. He, along with four other members of the men’s club basketball team, is on »

Before matriculating at Yale, Naishadh Lalwani ’11 had his share of individual squash victories, even earning a third-place national ranking in India. Yet for Lalwani, the biggest victories were yet to come. He said his individual victories do not compare to the feeling of winning a match for his team, something he could not experience »

In his career, Jon Wertheim ’93 has proven sportswriting is more than just about going to a game and reporting the score. At a Saybrook College master’s tea on Tuesday, Wertheim, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated who predominantly covers tennis, addressed about 40 students on sports-related topics ranging from the intersection of sports and »

When the women’s basketball team takes on Dartmouth this Saturday, pink, not blue, will be the color of choice. For the third year in a row, Yale Athletics will be participating in Pink Zone Day, an annual initiative of the Women’s College Basketball Association to raise breast cancer awareness, and the women’s basketball game will »

When Ian Graves ’13 was recruited for heavyweight crew, he had more than just his sport on his mind. Graves had been involved with choir and a cappella groups since he was in first grade, and he was not about to give it up for athletics. “Most of the coaches looked at me like I »