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Sports Shorts
March/April 2008

Football season lasted a game longer than usual for senior and 2007 team captain Brandt Hollander. The All-Ivy and All-America nose guard was selected to play for the East team in the Hula Bowl All-Star Classic on January 12 in Honolulu. (The East beat the West, 38-7.) Two weeks later, next season’s players elected linebacker Bobby Abare '09 to replace Hollander as captain in Yale’s 136th season, which opens at home on September 20 against Georgetown.

The men’s and women’s fencing teams have enjoyed moderate success this winter, but four fencers won individual All-Ivy honors. Epeeists Rebecca Moss '10 and Michael Pierce '09 were named to the First Team, as was foilist John Gurrieri '10. Second Team honors went to foilist Lydia Gocheva '10.

The men’s basketball team trounced Dartmouth, 97-58, on February 9—its highest Ivy point total since 1991. One of the game’s highlights was not recorded in the stat sheet: with 4:15 left in the second half, junior Chris Andrews entered to a standing ovation. Andrews, a highly touted prospect in high school, had not played since his freshman year due to severe knee injuries.

Lisa Brummel '81 had starred in softball and basketball at Yale: her .565 field goal percentage, set during the 1979-80 season, is still a school record. Ginny Gilder '79 had won a silver medal in crew at the Olympics. In January, the two women, now successful executives, joined forces with two other women to purchase the WNBA’s Seattle Storm for $10 million. The new owners had all been season-ticket holders.  

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