“He’s a dynamic athlete and is very talented,” passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach Chris Rorke said. “He has all the leadership characteristics and a good work ethic as a sophomore. He’s just ultra-competitive, he’s going to leave it all out there and I think the players really respond to that.”
Williams’s personal highlight of the season was the team’s win over then-unbeaten Princeton University, he said.
“They came in expecting to be called the best team in Ivy history after going undefeated,” he said. “It was really exciting to come out and win that game.”Williams deserved to be one of the finalists but, not surprisingly, record-setting senior swimmer Nejc Zupan took top honors. From the story (LINK):
The senior was named Harold Ulen Career High Point Swimmer at the Ivy League Championships for tallying 361 points in four seasons at Dartmouth. He defended his title in the 200-yard breaststroke and added an Ivy Championship in 100-yard breaststroke for his sixth and seventh career Ivy titles.The D is also having a vote for best female athlete. (LINK) Any question who will win that one? If you aren't 100 percent certain, you've been spending too much time in your cave.
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Princeton has announced its incoming football class (LINK) and there are at least two familiar names on it.Center Steven Fletcher is the brother of two-time All-Ivy League center Austen Fletcher '12. And defensive back Chance Melancon is the brother of former linebacker Tyler Melancon '12.
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The Columbia Spectator takes a year-end look back at the Lion football season and pulls no punches in its lede:In no uncertain terms, Columbia’s 2013 football season was a historic disaster.Green Alert Take: At the risk of piling on, to call last year an "historic disaster" is saying something given Columbia's football history . . .
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I don't do FaceBook so I'm not sure what you'd see there, but I can tell you that looking at various Twitter feeds while searching out recruiting information I find myself shaking my head. What you Tweet and even what you re-Tweet can come back to haunt you.TigerBlog uses the Donald Sterling mess to send a warning. From his column (LINK):
. . . TigerBlog always tells the teams he speaks to that they have to think that everything they tweet or put on FaceBook or write someplace or (somewhere) in public will be read by all of the following people: their coaches, their teammates, their opponents, refs, friends, parents, the admissions director at the graduate school of their choice, the person interviewing them for their dream job - all of them.
And they have to understand that putting the wrong thing out there in that situation can have a big impact on their futures, even if they don't intend it to be offensive.
Even beyond that, he tells them that it used to be that to get in trouble for saying something stupid, you had to have someone to say it to and that person had to be in a position to reproduce it for a mass audience. Now you can do it all by yourself with your phone, tablet, laptop or anything else.
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And finally, the Kickstarter campaign to save our local treasure the Fairlee Drive-In Theater ("one of only two theaters in the country that also have an adjacent motel") is struggling to meet its goal. (LINK) We joined the effort a while back and That Certain '14 told us the other day that she made a pledge.The Fairlee folks sent out an email the other day that included a link to the following video, which shows between the double features up at the Drive-In. If you are of a certain age, or are lucky enough to live around here and have spent a summer evening watching movies under the stars, this should bring a smile to your face. (We are partial to the dancing hot dog ;-)
