Commencement 2021: Sports Archives

FOOTBALL: Blue and White enjoy four years of triumph despite adversity

Dating back to 2017, the Yale football team has enjoyed a four-year period marked by an underdog run at the Ivy League crown, a season-altering […]

JAMES RICHARDSON

How Yale Athletics trained during a year without competition

When the Ivy League announced in July 2020 that there would be no athletic competition during the fall 2020 season, Yale coaches and student-athletes began […]

BILL GALLAGHER

For those once-in-a-lifetime moments ahead

The sports commencement column is a tradition that runs deep at the Yale Daily News. The graduating columnist dons their most dazzling rose-tinted glasses and, […]

ALESSA KIM-PANERO

MEN’S SOCCER: Winhoffer graduates, looking back on historic 2019 season

Though the cancellation of the fall 2020 season was disappointing for all involved, the men’s soccer class of 2021 can leave Yale with their heads […]

WILLIAM MCCORMACK

MEN’S BASKETBALL: Back-to-back Ivy titles, trip to March Madness highlight last four years

More than two years after the team cut down the nets at the John J. Lee Amphitheater on Selection Sunday in March 2019, Yale men’s […]

AKSHAR AGARWAL

MEN’S LACROSSE: Bulldogs look to resume dominant title campaign

Despite losing the entire 2021 season and having the majority of their 2020 season cut short, the men’s lacrosse team looks to reassert itself as […]

ÁNGELA PÉREZ

VOLLEYBALL: Bulldogs win Volleyball Ivy Title, ready to start again

In 2019, the Yale varsity volleyball team managed to secure its third consecutive Ivy League championship title. After a year of altered practices due to […]

DREW BECKMEN

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Ellen Margaret Andrews, Tori Andrew leave legacies of leadership and success for the Elis

Although the pandemic cancelled their final season, women’s basketball guards Tori Andrew ’21 and Ellen Margaret Andrews ’21 graduate with the most impressive accomplishments of […]

TRISHA NGUYEN

WOMEN’S HOCKEY: Bulldogs skate to program record for wins

Over the course of the past four years, the Yale women’s ice hockey team has successfully conquered adversity both on and off the ice. From […]