Pomona was buzzing with the rambunctious racket of various sports events on the east side of campus on Saturday, Apr. 2. Athletes in brightly-colored clothing jogged a 5K by the football field, music blasted from the baseball field, and cheers echoed from the Pomona-Pitzer track and field meet over at Strehle Track. Saturday marked
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Despite Injuries, Sagehens Track Keeps Fighting
The Pomona-Pitzer men’s and women’s track and field teams started their season off with the annual friendly dual meet against Occidental College on Saturday, Feb. 13. The P-P men suffered a narrow defeat, losing 75-62, while the women’s team tied at 66. “Our annual head-to-head meet with Oxy went well
Stags’ Cross Country Team Conquers the Field
Once again, the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps cross-country team ran its way through the finish line and onto the podium. The men’s team finished first and the women placed second at the NCAA West Regionals held at Pomona College on Saturday, Nov. 14, finishes that qualified both for the NCAA Division III National Championships in
Claremont Track Athletes Hone Skills at Azusa Pacific Invitational
With the SCIAC Championships looming in the distance, April 17’s Bryan Clay Invitational at Azusa Pacific University highlighted the skill of Claremont’s track and field teams. The invitational was Pomona-Pitzer’s final meet before the conference finals in two weeks and the penultimate pre-finals test of the season for Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. The
Claremont Track and Field Athletes Excel Against Top Competition
The Pomona-Pitzer Invitational generated a new plane of competition for the Sagehens, Athenas and Stags on April 4. At the meet of about 1,000 athletes, the Claremont Colleges’ Division III teams faced off against other teams within the SCIAC conference, five DI teams and several professional athletes, including two sponsored
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Track and the Seven Deadly Hollshwandners
Amy Hollshwandner CM ’17 is ridiculously fast. She can probably out-jump you, out-run you, and—oh, she can most likely launch a javelin farther than you can kick a field goal. Hollshwandner’s ability to push her body in all of these events makes her Claremont-Mudd-Scripps’ most impressive, and only, heptathlete. As
Sagehens Make Statement at First SCIAC Quad Meet
In their first SCIAC Quad meet of the year on March 7, both the Pomona-Pitzer men and women’s track and field teams went 3-0 against California Lutheran University, Chapman University and the California Institute of Technology, showing their competitors that these Hens mean business in 2015. The Sagehens competed in
CMSTF Outruns Competition in Season’s First SCIAC Meet
In the first meet of their SCIAC season March 7, the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps track and field teams overwhelmingly outran the University of Redlands and Occidental College, with the Stags more than doubling the scores of Occidental and Redlands and the Athenas almost tripling that of their competitors. The Stags defeated Occidental
5C Track and Field Teams Face Off in Rossi Relays
The first sixth street rivalry meet of the track and field season took place at the 19th Annual Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Rossi Relays Feb. 28, allowing both teams the chance to perform together on their home turf. While the Sagehens viewed Saturday as practice for future meets and focused their energies on
Senior Sagehens End Season on a High Note
The Pomona-Pitzer men’s basketball team ended their tough season on a high note Feb. 24, putting in a strong second-half performance to pull away from Whittier College with a 71-62 win. P-P (10-15, 8-8 SCIAC) entered the mid-week game after having seen their chances of progression to the post-season evaporate