This past weekend, the Middlebury men’s basketball team arrived at the NESCAC tournament venue — Williams — intent on securing its second straight league championship. After striking down Colby and breaking records along the way, the Panthers finally succumbed to Williams, arguably the best D-III team in the nation.
Middlebury took court Saturday as the tournament’s #2 seed with a 23-2 overall record. Despite a slow start, the Panthers eventually found their rhythm and dispatched the Mules by a score of 65-48. With their 24th win on the season, the Panthers …

The men’s swimming and diving team swam into fourth place with a total of 1,029 points in the 2010 NESCAC Championship this past weekend at Williams College.  Williams came in first with 1,937 points, Tufts followed with 1,452 points and Amherst finished in third with 1,352 points.
“In swimming, you kind of know the elite teams, which teams have the best swimmers, the deepest lineups, etc. We weren’t one of these teams,” said John Dillon ’11. “Every year, it’s Williams, Amherst and Tufts. This weekend, we absolutely crushed every single other …

This past weekend the Middlebury women’s squash team traveled to Yale to compete in nationals. Ranked 13th in the country, the women were slotted into the B-flight, where they would compete for the Howe Cup.  Like the men’s format, this meant that the 13th-ranked women would be competing against the 9th to 16th ranked teams in the country.  Undaunted by the challenge, the women made it through the weekend 1-2 and finished 14th in the country, just one spot off their school-record 13th-place finish of a year ago.
Before the weekend …

As the sky opened up last week and unloaded every ounce of snow it had up and down the East Coast, it was apparent that the ski gods were looking favorably on the Middlebury ski teams.  With the home Carnival weekend coming up and a relatively warm and dry winter up to that point, the Snow Bowl was due for a good covering.
Waking up Wednesday morning to a foot of snow and cancelled classes, it seemed to be perfect conditions for the 87th Annual Winter Carnival.  As the week progressed, …

The Middlebury men’s hockey team extended its winning streak to seven games last Saturday with a 6-2 defeat over Tufts to advance to the semifinals in the NESCAC playoffs. The Panthers once again saw strong performances from veteran players as well as standout contributions from several rookies.
The Panthers showed their grit and determination on Saturday afternoon in Kenyon Arena. Spurred on by the packed, cheering stadium and postseason aspirations, the team skated with purpose.
“We really wanted to focus on playing our game and playing to our strengths,” said assistant captain …

Billings ’10 honored by  Conference for her role in quarterfinal victory
For the part she played in the women’s ice hockey team’s rout of the Hamilton Continentals over Winter Carnival weekend, tri-captain Marjie Billings ’10 was named NESCAC Player of the Week on Monday.  The senior defender was responsible for four assists in the Panthers’ 8-1 victory over the Continentals.
Billings had a particularly prolific second period, tallying three of her four assists during 20 minutes of action. While she netted her first goal of the season at the end of January …

Simi Hamilton ’09, named the final member of the 2010 US Olympic Cross Country Ski Team late in January, is fresh off the heels of a memorable Olympic experience at Vancouver. Hamilton finished 64th out of 96 qualifiers in the 15K freestyle race, and was the only American to qualify for the quarterfinal round in the individual Sprint Classic race. Coming away from the two weeks of exhilarating competition, Hamilton sat down with The Campus to share his stories, successes and salient advice for current Panthes.
The Middlebury Campus: How have …