The men’s hockey team (1-7, 1-5 Eastern College Athletic Conference) fell to No. 14 Providence College (12-5, 6-3 Hockey East) 4-0 Saturday night at Meehan Auditorium in the Mayor’s Cup, the annual matchup between the two intracity rivals. Earlier in the week, the Bears fell 5-2 at No. 15 Harvard ...
The field hockey team (4-5, 1-1 Ivy) defeated the Dartmouth Big Green (4-6, 0-2 Ivy) in a commanding 3-0 victory Saturday at Goldberger Family Field. The win earned the Bears their first victory of the Ivy League season. Bruno out-shot the Big Green 17-7, picking up momentum with an early goal from ...
The first games of the fall athletics season, which took place earlier this month for most teams, underscored a return to normalcy for the University’s athletics department. But for sophomore student-athletes, who spent their first year at the University on the sidelines — and on Zoom — the return ...
Following a season-opening loss at Hofstra University, the women’s soccer team (1-1) rebounded with a 4-0 win over College of the Holy Cross (0-4) at home Sunday. The match was Brown’s first home game since Nov. 16, 2019, and the first game ever played on the newly constructed Stevenson-Pincince ...
Five Brown alums and one current student are currently competing in the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. Hanna Barakat ’22, Janet Leung ’16, Cicely Madden ’18, Alex Miklasevich ’19, Jagger Stephens ’20 and Anders Weiss ’15 are participating in five different athletic events representing four ...
In 2019, Brown women’s soccer tore through Ivy League competition with six wins, zero losses and one draw before defeating Monmouth University in penalty kicks to reach the second round of the NCAA tournament. Brown’s season ended with a 14-2-3 record — its best in recent history that included ...
After a poor 2018 campaign that saw the football team go winless in the Ivy League, the Bears brought in new head coach James Perry '00 as well as transfer quarterback EJ Perry GS and immediately showed signs of improvement. In 2019, Brown picked up its first conference win in over three years with ...
When a high school student decides to play a sport at the collegiate level, signing a letter of intent means more than just new opportunities. In the world of varsity athletics, teammates train side-by-side in practices and spend hours packed together in buses for travel games. Committing to a team ...
The Ivy League plans to resume athletic competition for the fall 2021 season, according to a joint statement issued Tuesday by the Council of Ivy League Presidents. “Barring unanticipated circumstances, such as a dramatic increase in infection rates from a variant in the virus, we look forward ...
The Ivy League, technically, is a Division I conference. In most ways, though, it’s hard to compare the University to a Power Five conference school. Games typically air on ESPN’s streaming service instead of on cable. Admission is free to every game for students. And despite the best efforts of ...
M. Grace Calhoun ’92 was named a new vice president of athletics and recreation March 5 according to an email to the Brown community from President Christina Paxson ’P19. The decision comes a month after former Athletics Director Jack Hayes’ departed his post Feb. 5, ending a national search for ...
It had been a “trying year,” a student-athlete explained to The Herald. That spring, a committee proposed cutting varsity sports teams to improve the athletics program’s competitiveness. A column in The Herald, he added, had suggested that athletics had “no part at Brown.” The year in question ...
The University will transition into Level 2 Activity Status Monday, Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, executive vice president for planning and policy, announced in an email to the Brown community Sunday evening. All students are now permitted to socialize and eat unmasked with their pods, which consist ...
As academics transition toward normalcy with the University’s recent move to "Modified Activity Level Two," lifting restrictions on in-person classes of 19 students or fewer, varsity athletics remain at a standstill. Activity Level Two allows for “limited training and practicing in groups of ...
Director of Athletic Communications Chris Humm announced his upcoming retirement after 32 years in the position. His retirement will take effect Dec. 31 and Brown has not yet started searching for a replacement. Humm began his Brown career serving as both the Director of Athletic Communications and ...
Stephen Silas ’96 became the first Brown alum to become an NBA head coach after being hired by the Houston Rockets Oct. 30. Silas played in 84 career games for the Bears from 1992 to 1996, averaging nearly eight points per game as a senior and totalling 464 career points. Following his time at Brown, ...
When Brown entered Phase 2 of its Healthy Brown reopening plan Oct. 5, student-athletes started in-person practices for the first time since the University shut down in March. Although athletes can make use of all athletic fields and weight rooms once again, there are new restrictions in place for sports ...
In light of the cancellation of many fall athletic seasons and all Ivy League fall sports due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the NCAA granted fall student-athletes an additional year of athletic eligibility. Three Brown senior student-athletes spoke with The Herald about their plans regarding their newly ...
On Sept. 27, 2020, an op-ed by Brendan Ryan was published in The Brown Daily Herald criticizing the recently demoted Brown women’s golf team. In it, Ryan claims that the team was transitioned to club status because of its lack of competitiveness and diversity. We write to correct Ryan’s factually ...
The recent announcement that the University would reinstate the women’s equestrian and fencing teams to varsity status served as a relief from a disappointing year for the student-athletes on these squads. Both teams were transitioned to club status in May as part of the Excellence in Brown Athletics ...
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