On April 26, I invited to campus Helen Carroll, director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights’ Sports Project, which combats homophobia and transphobia in sports through litigation and policy work. To accompany research I had conducted on the student-athlete experience for my senior anthropology thesis, I wanted to give
Author: Kris Brackmann
No. 3 Maya Weigel Caps Cross-Country Career
“She’s a stud.” “Amazing.” “Fun to watch.” These adjectives could be used to describe any number of athletes on the Pomona-Pitzer squad. But when I tell you they’re words used by fans and teammates to describe cross country and track phenom Maya Weigel PO ’17, you may want to add
Behind the Scenes: Broadcasting for CMS and P-P
My freshman year at Claremont McKenna College I happened to hear through word-of-mouth that Claremont-Mudd-Scripps had its own broadcasting club, the Claremont Sports Connection (CSC). As a sports-lover and student-athlete on the CMS basketball team, I jumped at the opportunity to call games on the live stream webcast. I remember
5C Students Take to the Sea
What better way to escape the Claremont bubble than heading to the beach for a chill surf sesh. With surf breaks around an hour from the 5Cs, finding peace with the ocean for a few hours is totally possible. If you’re interested in finding out what all the hullaballoo is
Player Spotlight: No Goals Past Goelz
Goalkeeper Corey Goelz (pronounced gellz, not goalz) PO ’17 is rarely seen without a big, toothy grin on her face. That smile may have been wiped off two years ago when she was forced to sit out after a season-ending elbow injury two games into her sophomore season, but the
Finding Balance as a Student-Athlete Transfer
For the 2016-2017 sports season, eleven transfer athletes have places in the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps varsity athletic teams—ten from Claremont McKenna College, one from Harvey Mudd College; six sophomores, five juniors. Catherine Leon CM '19, a defender and midfielder for Athenas soccer, and Nick Wheeler CM '18, a wide receiver for Stags football,
Completing the Athena Set: Madsen Sisters Dominate the Court
Coming off of a riveting 3-1 win over their rivals No. 4 California Lutheran University (12-3, 3- 1 SCIAC), the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Athenas (12-0, 4-0 SCIAC) continue to prove why they hold down SCIAC and the No. 2 spot in the nation. At the heart of this stellar squad, which returns five All-Conference
Back-to-Back Losses to Whittier, Chapman Send Athenas into Fourth Place in SCIAC
Although the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women’s water polo team (11-17, 8-3 SCIAC) ended their season last weekend at the SCIAC Championships, they did not go down without a fight. “Our [season] motto was to go hard in the fourth quarter,” attacker Jess Gaffney CM ’18 said. After exerting much physical and mental
Stags, Athenas Continue to Serve Up Great Seasons
This past week both the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps men’s and women’s tennis teams competed in their final regular season matches. The Stags (24-2, 7-0 SCIAC) swept Occidental College and Chapman University April 18 and then handed Vanguard University its first loss April 21 to cap off another strong week. The Athenas (19-1,
Two-Sport Athlete Loncki Competes at Many Speeds
If you had asked Margaret Loncki CM ’18 how she would be spending her first year of college, she probably would not have been able to tell you that she’d be playing both of her favorite sports. When she received her acceptance at Claremont McKenna College, Loncki was sure that