Winter Sports Previews
By Jonathan Buchholz, Ting Cui and Jack Mcguire | December 5, 2024Women’s Basketball
Jack McGuire (he/him) is a Senior Sports Editor.
Jack previously served as a Sports Editor and as a Staff Writer. He also spent this past summer working as a News Reporting Intern for Seven Days.
Jack is also majoring in economics with minors in political science and film and media culture.
Women’s Basketball
Middlebury athletics had an unfortunate weekend as a trio of teams all took losses in crucial end of season matchups. The football team (6–3) lost to Tufts 17–7, the field hockey team (15–2) lost in the NESCAC semifinals to Bates 2–1 and the men’s soccer team (14–1–3) suffered their first ...
On the weekend of Oct. 13, the women’s tennis team debuted the school’s new tennis facilities in a three day contest against Trinity, Colby and Skidmore.
Neel Epstein ’25, originally from New York, N.Y., is currently on the men’s tennis team. At this year’s ITA New England Regional, Epstein was the singles runner-up, and he will travel to Rome, Ga. for the ITA Cup on Oct. 10. In this edition of Seven Questions, Epstein discusses his achievements ...
Middlebury’s Peter Kohn Field is set to host the 2027 Division III Field Hockey Championship. This marks the first time that Middlebury will host the national championship for field hockey.
Keegan Leach ’25, originally from Lee, Massachusetts, is serving as one of the co-presidents of Middlebury Ski Patrol this year. Leach has served on Middlebury Ski Patrol since his freshman year.
Panthers in Focus is a column that uses student photography to give a better depiction of the triumphs of Middlebury’s athletes.
Kjersti Moritz ’28 and Erik Arvidsson ’21 are set to be a part of the 2024–25 Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski teams.
The field hockey team (4–0) continued their undefeated start to the season after winning a 2–1 thriller against number four ranked Babson College on Sept. 15. Grace Keefe ’26 scored with just 24 seconds left in regulation to propel the Panthers to success.
The football team’s defense of their NESCAC Championship title from last season started poorly, as Wesleyan University crushed them 43–7 in the season opener. The home loss was the Panther’s largest margin of defeat since a 48–0 loss to Trinity College in 2018.