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Columbia CollEgE Today AROuNd ThE quAdS
n swiMMing: Adam Powell ’11
closed out his Columbia career by
capturing All-America Honorable
Mention honors in the 50-yard freestyle
when he qualified for the consolation
finals with a time of 19.55
seconds, a career best and a school
record. Powell finished 16th overall
in the 50, as well as 37th among 58
swimmers in the 100 freestyle.
Powell and Hyun Lee ’14E
helped Columbia finish third in the
Ivy Championship. Powell won
the 50 and 100 free, Lee captured
the 200 and 500 free as well as the
200 butterfly, and the two teamed
with John Wright ’13 and Patrick
Dougherty ’13E to win the 400 freestyle
relay. Powell finished second
in the 100 backstroke and was part
of two second-place relay teams —
the 200 free with Wright, Dougherty
and Kai Schultz ’14, and the
400 medley with Lee, Johnny Bailey
’12 and Matthew Swallow ’14.
All event winners earn All-Ivy First
Team recognition, with runners-up
getting Second Team.
Powell won the Harold Ulen
Award as the Career High Point
Swimmer and Lee won the Phil
Moriarty Award as the High Point
Swimmer of the Meet.
The women also finished third
in the Ivies, matching their best
finish. Katie Mieli ’13 led the way,
winning the 200 individual medley
in a personal-best 1:59.20. For win-
“Why?
So tomorrow’s
students can
walk through
the same doors
that we did.”
ning, she was named to the All-Ivy
First Team.
Although no other Columbia
woman finished first or second in
the meet, the team’s depth enabled
the strong overall result. “Every
swimmer and diver on this team
contributed to our third-place finish,”
said coach Diana Caskey.
n wrEstling: Heavyweight
Kevin Lester ’12 compiled a 23–6
overall record and won all five of
his Ivy League matches to earn
All-Ivy First Team recognition from
the league’s coaches. Chosen to the
Second Team were Eren Civan ’11,
who went 4–1 at 165 lbs., and Nick
Mills ’13, who was 3–2 at 184 lbs.
Kyle Gilchrist ’12 (3–1 at 133 lbs.),
Steve Santos ’13 (2–0 at 149 lbs.
after missing a month of the season
due to injury) and Mike Pushpak
’11 (3–2 at 197 lbs.) received Honorable
Mention.
As a team, Columbia was 3–2 in
Ivy competition and 9–6 overall.
n sQuash: Columbia’s squash
teams enjoyed successful varsity
debut seasons, the men’s team
going 13–5 and the women’s team
finishing 12–6.
Graham Miao ’13 had the best
record on the men’s team at 15–5,
followed by Theo Buchsbaum ’14
at 13–4, Clayton Dahlman ’11E and
Alec Goldberg ’14 at 12–5 each,
Steve Case ’64CC, ’68LAW
university Trustee
Columbia Alumni Association (CAA)
inaugural chair
Tony Zou ’13 at 12–8 and Andrew
Tan ’14E at 10–6.
Skylar Dickey ’14 Barnard had
the best record on the women’s
team at 15–3, with Anne Cheng ’11
Barnard and Monica Stone ’14 at
13–5, Jenny Schroder ’14 Barnard
at 12–6, Katie Quan ’14 at 12–8 and
Morgan Strauss ’14E at 11–5. Liz
Chu ’12 was 8–8 at the No. 1 position
and 9–10 overall.
n EndowMEnts: Several
College alumni have established
endowments for the benefit of the
wrestling and crew programs. Brothers
David Barry ’87 and Michael
Barry ’89, who wrestled together for
Columbia in the 1980s, have established
an endowment in support of
an assistant wrestling coach position,
the first endowment of an assistant
coach position in the Columbia Athletics
program. And Tom Cornacchia
’85, a four-year letter-winner who
rowed at the 1985 Henley Regatta,
has made a leadership gift to the
rowing program to enhance the
experience of the more than 100
student-athletes who compete for
Columbia’s heavyweight, lightweight
and women’s crew teams.
n VarsitY ‘c’: Don Jackson ’73,
’80 Business is scheduled to be
honored at the 90th Varsity ‘C’ Celebration
on Wednesday, May 4,
in Levien Gym. Jackson, an All-Ivy
“My life opened up when I
came to Columbia,” Case says.
“I want others to have the same
experience and that’s why I put
Columbia in my estate plan.”
Join Steve Case and others
in the 1754 Society, alumni
and friends who have made
bequests and other planned
gifts to the University.
quarterback who ranks in the top
five for career touchdown passes
and also played baseball at Columbia,
is to be honored with the Varsity
‘C’ Alumni Award along with
Helen Doyle Yeager ’85 Barnard, a
two-time captain of the women’s
basketball team. Both are on the
leadership committee for the Columbia
Campaign for Athletics:
Achieving Excellence.
n coachEs: The Women’s
Basketball Coaches Association
has partnered with Columbia to
establish The Center for Coaching
Excellence, a leadership-training
program hosted on the Columbia
campus beginning this spring.
The center, developed by Athletics
Director M. Dianne Murphy in partnership
with WBCA, is the first of
its kind. It is designed to introduce
coaches to various aspects of leadership
and provide a deeper understanding
and appreciation of the
importance of ethics and integrity in
women’s college basketball through
a rigorous curriculum presented
in a seminar-style environment.
Coaches participate in an intensive
2½-day seminar-style learning environment,
featuring panel discussions,
guest speakers, small-group
breakouts, roundtables and interactive
problem-solving.
To learn more about Steve Case’s Columbia
experience—and about planned giving—
visit giving.columbia.edu/plannedgifts
or call 800-338-3294.