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Sports shorts Two of the six Yale alumni competing at the 2008 Beijing Olympics won medals. U.S. fencer Sada Jacobson '06 captured a silver in the individual saber competition (she had won a bronze in Athens in 2004); in the team saber event, Jacobson and her two U.S. teammates claimed the bronze. Rower Josh West '98 was a member of the British men’s eight crew that won a silver at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park.
In the annual preseason Ivy sports poll of the media in August, Yale and Harvard were tied in the voting for first place in football. The Eli team, captained by senior linebacker Bobby Abare, opens its season at home on September 20 against Georgetown.
Beijing was not the only foreign venue for Yale athletes. Rowers Alexander Rothmeier '08, Charlie Cole '07, and Jamie Redman '08 competed in July in elite events in Europe; Cole and Redman, members of the U.S. men’s and women’s eight, respectively, won gold medals at the 2008 FISA World Rowing Under-23 Championships in Brandenberg, Germany. In Windsor, England, on June 7, members of the Yale and Harvard polo teams met at the annual Varsity Games. Harvard prevailed, 6-5.
The retirement in June of longtime Yale men’s golf
coach Dave Paterson marks the end of an era that began in 1976. During his
time, the Eli men captured eight Ivy golf titles. Until 2000, Paterson, 72,
was also the director of the Yale golf course; during 1981-93 he was also the
women’s golf coach. A celebration in his honor in May featured the dedication
of the David Paterson Golf Technology Center in the Payne Whitney Gym. |
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