Sophie Reiser, a former Columbia University women's soccer stand-out, was drafted by the Chicago Red Stars of the Women's Professional Soccer league with the fourth pick in the fifth round (No. 42 overall), IvyLeagueSports.com reported. Reiser was the 2008 Ivy League Player of the Year and a 2009 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American and was also recognized by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America as a Scholar All-American. She is the first women's soccer player in Columbia's history to be drafted by a professional team. The Seattle native began her collegiate career on the right foot, when she helped the Lions to their first ever Ivy League Championship in 2006. Reiser closed out her four-year stint at Columbia ranked second in points and third in goals scored on the all-time list.
The Yale University women's hockey team ended a 36-game losing streak to St. Lawrence University on Saturday with a 1-0 victory, the Yale University Athletics site reported. Since 1986 the first time these two teams squared off St. Lawrence continuously won the match-ups, while Yale was unable to capture the elusive victory. That all changed on Saturday, however, as junior Bulldog netminder Jackee Snikeris turned in a historic effort that led her team to the victory. Snikeris tied a school shutout record, recording an impressive 33 saves. Over the past several years, Yale has been ending its long losing streaks against rival schools, including a 41-game losing streak to Dartmouth, which the Bulldogs finally ended in 2006.
Tara Geraghty-Moats, a 16-year old Vermont resident and member of the U.S. women's ski jumping team, is leading an effort to open the Olympic ski jump event for women, according to the Rutland Herald. Despite international petitioning by thousands of athletes and supporters, the Vancouver Organizing Committee declined to include women in this year's competition. Geraghty-Moats began her career as a ski jumper at Dartmouth's Oak Hill facility in Hanover, and sometimes competes at Harris Hill an Olympic-size ski jump constructed in 1922 by Fred Harris of the class of 1911, the founder of the Dartmouth Outing Club.
