“I told them, (Temple is) probably not better than Coast Guard,” Brown said. But that performance, which coach Tony Brown called “our best game of the year,” came even as a surprise to them. Coast Guard Academy, 36-20, in the semifinals and was favored against Temple. Then over the next couple days in really sank in, like, ‘We won!’” So right as it ended, the feeling was relief that we won, that nobody was badly injured. “We were confident that we’d win about 20 minutes in. “Mostly relief,” she said of the team’s reaction at the final whistle. HBO at Vassar: 'The Sex Lives of College Girls' filming to bring $5M to local economy What was it like: College Students share experiences of campus during a COVID year The college resumed interscholastic sports this fall for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. Howell scored three tries, leading Vassar in a 74-5 blowout that captured the program's first national title since 2018. Vassar completed a sterling season by dominating Temple University on Saturday to win the American Collegiate Rugby Association Division II women’s fall championship in Matthews, North Carolina.
“They’re looking at us like, ‘What is going on here?’ We’re not the biggest or the strongest.”īut the Brewers can now lay claim to being the best. “It’s funny when we line up against other teams because our team is tiny,” Howell said with a chuckle. Their rugby roster is comprised mostly of students majoring in science and mathematics, which probably isn’t the demographic that comes to mind when one imagines standouts in a violent sport. There is a perception, Howell said, that many of the students there are “nerdy” – and it’s one she won’t dispute.
The small Poughkeepsie school is renowned for its academic standards and Biomedical Science programs, but not quite athletics.
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