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n TENNIS REPEAT: Columbia’s
men’s tennis team, co-captained by
Jon Wong ’10 and Mihai Nichifor
’10E, won its second consecutive
Ivy League Championship and its
third in the last four years by beating
Princeton 6–1 on April 18. The
Lions finished the regular season
with a 16–4 overall record and 6–1
in the Ivy League to capture their
fifth Ivy title since 2000 and eighth
under coach Bid Goswami, who
took over the program in 1982.
Wong is the first Columbia tennis
player to become a three-time
Ivy champion, and Nichifor, a
transfer from Manhattan, completed
his two years at Columbia
with a 14–0 record. They were All-
Ivy first-team selections in both
singles and doubles, and Haig
Schneiderman ’12, who was 7–0 in
singles play at the No. 3 spot, was
named to the All-Ivy second team.
n GOLF THREE-PEAT: Clark Granum
’11E shot a three-under-par
67 in the final round at Baltusrol
in Springfield, N.J., on April 25 to
lead Columbia’s men’s golf team
to its third consecutive Ivy League
Championship. The Lions compiled
a three-round score of 890 to
beat Yale by three strokes for the
team title, with Penn third at 898.
Granum tied Penn’s Scotty Williams
for the best individual score
at 214 but lost a one-hole playoff
for medalist honors.
Brendan Doyle ’12 and Michael
Yiu ’13 tied for seventh individually
at 225, Justin Lee ’11 tied for 16th
at 228 and Ford Fischer ’13 tied for
23rd at 233. The team score comprises
the top four scores each day.
Granum was named to the All-
Ivy first team for the third straight
season, while Doyle and Yiu earned
second team honors.
n STRAIGHT SHOOTERS: The
Columbia archery recurve team
won silver for the second consecutive
year at the U.S. Intercollegiate
Archery Champions at College Station,
Texas, on May 13–16. Columbia,
represented by Sara Goshorn
’10, Sarah Chai ’12 and Alexandra
Garyn ’11 Barnard, defeated Connecticut
and James Madison before
losing to the host school, Texas
A&M, by one point.
Goshorn won the silver medal
individually in the recurve division,
winning four matches before
bowing to Jennifer Nichols of Texas
A&M 106–94 in the final. Goshorn
earned All-America honors for
the third year in a row. Chai and
Sydney Shaefer ’12 (compound)
were named All-America for the
second consecutive year and Lauren
Marion ’11 (recurve) achieved
All-America for the first time.
n GEHRIG TITLISTS: Columbia’s
baseball team won its second
Lou Gehrig [’23] Division title in
three years before bowing to Red
Rolfe Division champion Dartmouth,
two games to one, in the
playoff for the Ivy League Championship.
Columbia had won the Ivy
crown in 2008, Dartmouth in 2009.
Columbia compiled a 26–21 record,
including 14–6 in Ivy play, for
its first winning record in 23 years.
The 26 wins were the Lions’ most
against Division I opponents in
school history. Pat Lowery ’12 was
named Ivy Pitcher of the Year after
going 3–1 in Ivy (5–3 overall) and
holding opposing league batters to
a meager .172 average. Outfielder
Dario Pizzano ’13, who hit seven
of his 12 home runs in Ivy play
and batted .388 against league foes,
shared Rookie of the Year honors
with Chris O’Dowd of Dartmouth.
Columbia’s men’s golf team celebrates winning its third consecutive Ivy
League Championship at the historic Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, N.J.
Photo: Dan Laukatis
In addition to Lowery and Pizzano,
catcher Dean Forthun ’10 and
designated hitter Alex Aurrichio ’12
were named to the All-Ivy first team.
Pitcher Don Bracey ’11 was named
to the second team and infielder Jon
Eisen ’12, first baseman Jason Banos
’11, shortstop Alex Ferrera ’11 and
outfielder Billy Rumpke ’12 received
honorable mention.
n HEPS: Columbians won seven
individual titles and two relay
crowns at the Ivy League Heptagonal
Championships in Princeton
on May 9.
Kyra Caldwell ’12 was named
the meet’s Most Outstanding Female
Performer. She won the 100m
hurdles and 400m hurdles and set
an Ivy record with a time of 58.24
seconds in the latter event. Caldwell
then teamed with Yamira Bell ’13,
Uju Ofoche ’13 and Sharay Hale ’12
to win the 4x400m relay in an Ivyrecord
time of 3:35.69. Hale won the
200m dash, Jacqueline Drouin ’11
won the 1500m run and Monique
Roberts ’12 Barnard took the high
jump.
The men’s team made its mark
as well. Kyle Merber ’12 won the
1,500m run and Jeff Moriarty ’11
captured the 800m run, and the
two teamed with Mike Mark ’10
and Matthew Stewart ’11 to win
the 4x800m relay.
By virtue of their wins, all
received All-Ivy first team recognition.
In addition, because they
finished second in the events listed,
the following were selected for the
second team: Hale (100m dash),
Bell (400m dash), Drouin (3,000m
run) and Ofoshe (long jump).
n ROWING: Columbia’s varsity
heavyweight eight scored a surprising
win in its heat at the Eastern
Sprints, beating highly regarded
crews from Yale and Wisconsin,
among others. The freshman eight
also surprised the experts by finishing
second in its heat behind topranked
Harvard. Both crews, however,
finished sixth in their Grand
Finals. Columbia’s JV finished
third in its opening heat and fifth
in the Petite Final. The varsity lightweights
finished second in their
Petite Final, the JV finished third
and the freshmen came in fourth.
n ALL-IVIES: In addition to those
mentioned in previous items, four
other Columbians earned All-Ivy
honors in spring sports. In softball,
catcher Kayla Lechler ’12, who set
school records for batting (.368),
runs (37) and total bases (79), was
named to the first team, and utility
player Dani Pineda ’10, who
played both first base and center
field and led the team with six
home runs, and designated player
Maggie Johnson ’11, who pitched
and played first base and set a
school record with 12 career home
runs, made the second team. Golfer
Lynda Kwon ’12, who finished
seventh in the Ivy championships,
also made the second team.
Soccer star Sophie Reiser ’10 and
All-American fencer Jeff Spear ’10
were this year’s winners of the
Connie S. Maniatty Outstanding
Senior Student-Athlete Awards at
the annual Varsity ‘C’ ‘Celebration.
Photo: Gene Boyars
n VARSITY ‘C’: Sophie Reiser ’10
(soccer) and Jeff Spear ’10 (fencing)
were presented the Connie S.
Maniatty [’43] Outstanding Senior
Student-Athlete Awards at the 89th
Varsity ‘C’ Celebration at Levien
Gymnasium on May 4.
Reiser, Columbia’s all-time leader
in assists, was the Ivy League Player
of the Year in 2009 and three times
earned All-Ivy first team recognition.
Spear, class salutatorian, was
the 2008 NCAA sabre champion
and a second-team All-American
in 2009 and 2010. He received the
NCAA’s Elite 88 Award at the 2010
NCAA Championships and ESPN
The Magazine/CoSIDA’s Academic
All-America of the Year Award, the
first Columbian to be honored.
Phil Satow ’63 (baseball) and
Lisa Landau Carnoy ’89 (track and
field) were presented with the Athletics
Alumni Awards.
n STEINMAN: Sports historian
and former sports information
director Bill Steinman was one of
seven people presented with Lifetime
Achievement Awards by the
College Sports Information Directors
of America in San Francisco
on July 5. Steinman publicized
Columbia sports for 38 years, joining
the Athletics Office in 1970 and
retiring in 2008. He continues to
serve as a valued resource because
of his encyclopedic knowledge of
Columbia sports history.
Alex Sachare ’71
july/august 2010
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