Six years ago, Caitlin Taylor '13 was in a wheelchair and did not know if she would ever be able to walk again. At the time, her dream was simply relearning how to walk. Now, she has a new dream — to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
I am no friend of the Miami Heat. When I went with some friends to the TD Banknorth Garden to watch the Celtics' overtime victory over the Chicago Bulls two weeks ago, I went crazy when the Jumbotron displayed the final score on the Hornets-Heat game — 96-93, Hornets. I openly cackle whenever ...
The women's hockey team (2-3-1, 1-2-1 ECAC) extended its unbeaten home streak this season to three games, after a 1-1 draw against Union (1-10-1, 0-5-1) and a hard-earned 1-0 win against a strong Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute (4-7-2, 3-3-0) team. Both games were low-scoring and fiercely contested, ...
It was neither the best of times nor the worst of times for the men's and women's cross country squads last Saturday.
Co-captains Aileen Daniels '12 and Hannah Passafuime '12 led the women's basketball team (0-1) in a strong first half on Friday night, but the University at Albany (1-0) came back and defeated Bruno in the season opener for both teams.
The football team bounced back from two straight conference losses to grab a 35-28 comeback victory against the Big Green on Saturday afternoon.
The men's basketball team opened its season on the road Friday, defeating Fordham, 69-65, in a hard-fought battle. The ability of the young Bruno squad (1-0), which features four seniors and nine underclassmen, to win its first game of the year against a tough Atlantic 10 team provides a lot of momentum ...
The men's and women's swimming and diving squads won almost every race against Bryant University and Providence College in their first meets this weekend. The men easily defeated Bryant, 153-61, and PC, 157-61, while the women posted even more decisive wins, beating the Bulldogs 174-46 and PC 174-48. ...
It's funny how sometimes dreams can relate to things that happen in real life. I'm not saying it happens all the time. My recurring dream, after all, involves a Batman costume, Pop-Tarts and a struggle to extract them from the toaster after I accidentally break it with the batarangs. I don't think I've ...
It was the final game wearing Bruno brown for field hockey tri-captains Cassie Puhalla '11, Tacy Zysk '11 and Katie Hyland '11 Saturday afternoon on Warner Roof. The younger members of the team (6-11, 3-4 Ivy League) were determined to bring home a win for their senior captains.
The women's ice hockey team registered a decisive 5-1 victory over the Sacred Heart Pioneers on Saturday at Meehan Auditorium. Both teams were coming off a series of tough games — the Bears (1-3, 0-2 ECAC) having lost the previous three on the road and the Pioneers (0-7) their previous six.
Field hockey midfielder Katie Hyland '11 may be gone next year, but she will certainly not be forgotten. Despite playing the last game of her Brown career last weekend — a 3-2 win over Yale in which she provided the assist on the game-winning goal — the Modern American History concentrator ...
After starting off strong with three consecutive wins in Ivy League play, the football team has lost two weeks in a row and now seems all but out of the race for a conference title. But for the fourth-place Bears (4-4, 3-2 Ivy League), there is still much to play for, and the squad will look to bounce ...
The fencing team returned triumphantly from its first tournament of the season, winning the Big One Invitational with 10 medals overall.
The divers have to go off campus to train. The swimmers only have a temporary pool for practice. The men's and women's swimming and diving teams cannot have any home meets this season. But despite all these setbacks, both teams are going into the winter season with positive attitudes and with the hope ...
The third time was anything but the charm for the men's water polo team (18-11), which dropped its third game this season against No. 14 St. Francis College (21-3), 14-7, on Sunday in the Collegiate Water Polo Association Northern Division Championship. The loss followed a 12-6 win over Iona College ...
Starting her 23rd year in the women's basketball program, Head Coach Jean Marie Burr is fired up about the 2010-11 squad. Though the team has only been practicing for a few weeks, Burr says the commitment is already there.
As the weather turns colder, signaling an end to the cross country season, the men's and women's indoor track teams are busily preparing for competition.
Despite their disappointing weekend, the season is certainly still young, and the men's ice hockey team will look to bounce back and achieve its larger goals for the year.
The women's soccer team bid farewell to the class of 2011 and wrapped up its season on a chilly Saturday afternoon at Stevenson Field. Bruno (7-6-4, 1-4-2 Ivy League) dropped its final game, 2-1, to Yale (8-8-1, 3-4-0), but not before sending off the five seniors — co-captain midfielder Gina Walker ...
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