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Roar, Lion, Roar
Runner Erison Hurtault ’07 led Dominica’s delegation on July 27 in the opening ceremony of the London 2012
Olympic Games.
PHOTO: CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP/GETTYIMAGES
Olympics: One Gold Medal, Many Memories
Seven Columbia alumni, two students and two coaches
represented the United States, Croatia, Dominica
and Egypt in the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
Three-time Olympian Caryn Davies ’13L, a
member of the crew team that won a silver medal in
2004 and a gold medal in 2008, added another gold
medal to her collection as part of the U.S. women’s
eight that crossed the finish line in 6:10.59, more
than a second ahead of runner-up Canada. The U.S.
women are five-time world champions.
Erison Hurtault ’07 was the flag-bearer for his
father’s native country, Dominica, in the opening
ceremony. He competed in the 400 meters, and although
he ran a season-best 46.05 seconds in the last
qualifying heat, it was not fast enough for him to
advance to the semifinals. He also ran for Dominica
in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
Lisa Stublic ’06 represented her father’s native
country, Croatia, in the women’s marathon. She was
just one second behind the leader at the halfway
point before fading to finish 52nd out of 118 competitors
with a time of 2:34.03.
Nzingha Prescod ’15, Nicole Ross ’11, James
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Anticipated
Williams ’07, ’09 GSAS and Jeff Spear ’10 competed
for the U.S. fencing team. The women’s foil team
with Prescod and Ross placed sixth and the men’s
sabre team with Williams and Spear came in eighth.
Meanwhile, Sherif Farrag ’09 competed for Egypt,
where he was born, in men’s foil. The Egyptian
squad lost to host Great Britain in the round of 16.
Nick LaCava ’09 rowed with the men’s lightweight
four, which placed second in the B final
behind France. LaCava’s boat won the repechage in
6:00.86 but was eliminated from medal contention
when it finished fifth in the semifinals.
Michael Aufrichtig, Columbia’s head fencing
coach, coached the fencing portion of the men’s modern
pentathlon, which also includes horseback riding,
swimming, shooting and running. And Caroline
Nichols, an assistant field hockey coach, competed on
the U.S. women’s field hockey team that placed 12th.
Finally, David Barry ’87 was the Greco-Roman
Team Leader for USA Wrestling. Barry, who recently
was named USA Wrestling’s Myron Roderick Man
of the Year, has been the Greco-Roman Team Leader
since 2009. The U.S. team did not win a medal.
firstyear
Columbia
studentathletes.
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New coaches
on the Lions’
staff for
2012–13.
Campbell Sports
Center To Be
Dedicated
October 20
The Campbell Sports
Center, which Columbia
Athletics is hailing as
“the cornerstone of a
revitalized Baker Athletics
Complex,” will be
dedicated on Saturday,
October 20, prior to the
Homecoming football
game against Dartmouth.
All Homecoming attendees
are invited to attend
the ceremony, which will
begin at 11:30 a.m.
The center, at 218th
Street and Broadway, will
serve as a year-round hub
at Baker for studentathletes,
coaches, staff
and administrators. It’s
Columbia’s first new athletics
building since the
Marcellus Hartley Dodge
Physical Fitness Center
was built in the mid-1970s.
The center honors, and
was made possible by,
William V. Campbell ’62,
’64 TC, chair of the University
trustees and captain
of the 1961 Ivy League
champion football team.
The Campbell Sports
Center will provide student-athletes
and coaches
with a state-of-the-art
facility featuring a theatrestyle
meeting room, conference
rooms, a strengthand-conditioning
center,
a student-athlete lounge
and study center, a
hospitality pavilion and
coaches’ offices.
6Home football
games this season
(out of 10 games
overall).
Kraft, LeFrak, Rohan Among Hall of Fame Class of 2012
New England Patriots chairman Robert K. Kraft ’63,
distance runner Caroline Bierbaum LeFrak ’06, the
late basketball coach Jack Rohan ’53, ’57 TC and the
1933 football team that won the Rose Bowl headline
the Class of 2012 that will be inducted to the Columbia
University Athletics Hall of Fame. The induction
ceremony will occur in Low Library on Thursday,
October 18. This is the fourth class to be inducted to
the Hall of Fame.
Other members of the Class of 2012 include former
major league pitcher Frank Seminara ’89, College
Football Hall of Famers William Morley (Class
of 1902) and Harold Weekes (Class of 1903), the
1988 NCAA champion men’s fencing team, fourtime
All-American fencer Emma Baratta ’06 and
eight-time Ivy League 400-meter champion Erison
Hurtault ’07, who ran for Dominica in the 2008 and
2012 Olympics.
The Hall of Fame Class
of 2012 consists of 14 men,
eight women and two
teams representing 10
sports as well as an administrator
and an alumnus
(Kraft) being honored
in a special category for
individual achievement.
Nominees were eligible
from both the Heritage Era,
spanning 1852–1957, and
the Modern Era, 1957–present.
Kraft has turned the Patriots,
whom he acquired in
1994, into one of the model
franchises in all of professional
sports, winning three
Super Bowls along the way.
LeFrak was a five-time All-
Caroline Bierbaum
LeFrak ’06 runs in the
2006 Heptagonals.
PHOTO: GENE BOYARS
American in cross-country
and track and field in the
mid-2000s. Rohan served
two stints as men’s basketball
coach, ranks as Columbia’s
winningest basketball coach and led the Lions
to the Ivy League championship in 1968.
The 1933 Columbia football team was 6–1 during
the regular season, losing only to Princeton, then
defeated Stanford 7–0 in the Rose Bowl on a rainy
January 1, 1934. Al Barabas ’36 scored the game’s
only touchdown on a 17-yard run in the second
quarter, taking a handoff from Cliff Montgomery
’34 on a misdirection play called KF-79.
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Ivy League championships
represented in the Hall of
Fame Class of 2012 (includes
individual and team titles).
Robert K. Kraft ’63 with the Patriots’ three Super
Bowl trophies.
Intercollegiate athletics at Columbia can be traced
to the mid-1800s, with some records indicating that
the first intercollegiate sporting event in which Columbia
participated was a rowing race in 1852.
“The members of the Columbia Athletics Hall of
Fame Class of 2012
are among the brightest
stars in the history
of our athletics program,”
says Athletics
Director M. Dianne
Murphy. “Each of
these tremendous
individuals — and
our celebrated teams
— are truly deserving
of induction.”
Tickets to the
black-tie dinner and
induction ceremony
are available by calling
Cathleen Clark,
Athletics’ assistant
director of development
and alumni affairs:
212-851-9610.
Jack Rohan ’53, ’57 TC
PHOTO: NICK ROMANENKO ’90
For the latest news on Columbia
athletics, visit gocolumbialions.com.
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2012 Hall of
Fame Class
Male Student-athletes,
Heritage Era
Horace Davenport ’29,
rowing
William Morley (Class
of 1902), football
Robert Nielsen ’51,
fencing
Barry Pariser ’55, fencing
Harold Weekes (Class of
1903), football
Male Student-athletes,
Modern Era
Neil Farber ’65, baseball/
basketball
Ted Gregory ’74, football
Steve Hasenfus ’89,
wrestling
Erison Hurtault ’07, track
and field
Frank Seminara ’89,
baseball
Des Werthman ’93, football
Female Student-athletes
Danicia Ambron ’94,
swimming
Nora Beck ’83 Barnard, ’89
Arts, ’93 GSAS
basketball
Emma Baratta ’06, fencing
Caroline Bierbaum LeFrak
’06, cross country/
track and field
Monica Conley ’03, fencing
Caitlin Hickin ’04, cross
country/track and field
Shannon Munoz ’07, soccer
Team, Heritage Era
1933 football team
Team, Modern Era
1988 men’s fencing team
Coach, Heritage Era
James Murray, fencing,
1898–1948
Coach, Modern Era
Jack Rohan ’53, ’57 TC,
men’s basketball,
1961–74, 1990–95
Athletics Administrator
Marion R. Philips,
former chair, physical
education, Barnard
Special Category for
Individual Achievement
Robert K. Kraft ’63,
chairman and CEO,
New England Patriots,
and owner and CEO,
The Kraft Group