Throughout the indoor track and field season, the jumping squad had been the strength of the women's team, with both Anat Ben Nun '09 and Ali Sax '09 qualifying for the NCAA Championships earlier this season.
After undergoing season-ending surgery last year on a torn meniscus, Anat Ben Nun's '09 future as an indoor track jumper was unclear.
At the Bowdoin Invitational Jan. 17, jumper Anat Ben Nun '09 was the first member of the women's indoor track team to qualify for the NCAA Division III Championships in the triple jump event.
The women's indoor track team went into last Saturday's Wheaton College Invitational shorthanded due to myriad injuries, graduate school exams and fatigue.
Setter Abby Blasco '11, the 2007 University Athletic Association Rookie of the Year, has been sidelined with a pulled hamstring for the past two weekends.She said she hopes to return to the court for next weekend's matches against the United States Coast Guard Academy and Keene State College.Blasco injured her hamstring in a match against Tufts University Sept.
After taking two close sets against New York University, the volleyball team was just one set away from beginning the second day of last weekend's two-day University Athletic Association round robin tournament at Carnegie Mellon University with a victory.
After nearly blowing a 19-11 lead in the first set of last Thursday's game against Endicott College, the volleyball team found itself trailing 20-15 in the second set and in danger of letting Endicott back into the match.
It's hard not to commiserate with the volleyball team's outside hitter Paige Blasco '11, who spent her rookie season recovering from a torn ACL and MCL in her knee, a torn meniscus and a torn labrum in her shoulder.
After having gone 2-0 on Friday, the first day of last weekend's two-day Brandeis Invitational, the volleyball team found itself in an 8-0 hole during the first set of a match against Trinity College last Saturday, threatening their hopes for a perfect weekend.
Last year, the volleyball team lost just once out of 13 tries at Red Auerbach Arena. That run of dominance has continued into the beginning of this season.The Judges continued last season's home success in Saturday's season opener, defeating the Wentworth Institute of Technology in straight sets by a score of 25-14, 25-11, 25-16."I'm sure there are various factors playing into our success at home," coach Michelle Kim wrote in an e-mail to the Justice.
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