Four years ago, they were just lowly freshman trying to adjust to college-life at this haven in the Midwest.
Now, they’re the leaders of the top-ranked basketball team in Division III.
Joel Parrott, Matt Tabash, Dustin Tylka, Chris Jeffries and Jarriot Rook… these five all entered WU in the fall of 1999, grew up together in the system, and now make-up the team’s starting lineup.
IM Arena Flag Football Champions: Valsalva Maneuver IM Track & Field Final standings: Phi Delta Theta 137 Beta Theta Pi 87 Sigma Alpha Epsilon 83 Alpha Epsilon Pi 53 Theta Xi 49 Field Events Shot Hamer – Theta Xi 46′ 1/2″ Discus Poznanski – Theta Xi 140′ 9″ High Jump Rizzo – Phi Delta Theta 5′ 8″ Long Jump Rizzo – Phi Delta Theta 17′ 10″ Triple Jump Rizzo – Phi Delta Theta 40′ 2″ Track Events 400m Relay Phi Delta Theta 48.
It’s times like these, I can’t help but get sentimental.
When your newly appointed editor tells you its your final column, it makes you want to write something meaningful, something lasting, something that makes the reader keel over in wonderment.
Then you realize that you’re not as good as you think you are.
Even the most casual of baseball fans in attendance for Saturday’s game against Knox College had to let out a “woo hoo” after seeing Damien Janet pitch.
The team’s new ace, who boasts a 4-0 record, 2.45 ERA, and 31 K’s on the year, dominated the opposition by allowing only one run on four hits and two walks, while recording 14 K’s.
T-minus two days.
That’s when the first anthem will be sung, the first fireworks will go off and the first pitch will be thrown.
MLB opening day is truly a special occasion, even though it is a bit overrated in some places (Kansas City and Detroit will sell-out their first game but won’t see another packed house for months).
Forget about the opposing team’s best pitchers and hitters… it seems like the only thing that can stop the Bears this season is the weather.
After snow wiped out a week’s worth of games over spring break, the Bears found themselves opening the season down in rainy Florida last weekend for the UAA tournament.
It is now late February. Spring training is starting up, and basketball season is winding down. You can’t help but anticipate the upcoming baseball season.
Then you look outside and see the ground covered in white stuff.
Today was supposed to be Opening Day for the Washington University baseball team.
“Just when I think I’m out, they pull me back IN!”
While those words were said by the infamous Michael Corleone from the very sub-par Godfather: Part III, it also represents how I feel at about this time every spring.
Why? Because baseball is back.
Every October, at the end of the Fall Classic, I feel completely empty inside.
Can’t wait ’til March for Washington University to be part of a National Championship?
It’s happening this Saturday.
As you’re reading this, I’ll be basking in the “warmth” of Ann Arbor, Michigan as part of the 16-member 2002-03 WU Raas team. (For those who didn’t have RA’s camp-out to buy all the tickets to Diwali, Raas is a native Indian dance performed with sticks, or “dandia”).
I don’t have much of a class schedule this semester, and, as such, I’ve gotten used to the mundane life of getting up in the morning to go and work a nine-to-five job.
Highlight of the day? The lunch break.
Yesterday was a particularly interesting one as I caught the beginning of a local sports radio call-in show.
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