2013-14 Annual Report
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2013-14 ANNUAL REPORT WEBSITE: BROWNBEARS.COM VIDEO: BROWNBEARS.TV TICKET OFFICE: 401-863-2773 BROWN SPORTS FOUNDATION: 401-863-1900 DESIGN BY BROWN UNIVERSITY GRAPHIC SERVICES 445635.COVER.CC.indd 1 10/20/14 9:54 AM 445635.COVER.CC.indd 2 10/20/14 9:54 AM MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR October 2014 Dear Friends of Brown Athletics, Thank you for your ongoing support of our programs and student-athletes. As we continue Director of Athletics the 15-month long celebration of the University’s 250th Anniversary, there is much cause for Jack Hayes excitement. There is also much to be proud of both academically and athletically, as you will see in the following pages of this report. During the past year, our Men’s and Women’s Crew teams battled for national supremacy, finishing second and third, respectively, at their championship events. The Gymnastics team was tops among its Ivy League competition for the second consecutive year and won the program’s first-ever ECAC Championship. Men’s Basketball was selected to the CollegeInsider.com Tournament and hosted a post-season game for the first time in school history, while Football claimed its third consecutive Governor’s Cup on the way to its sixth straight winning season. The past year was also highlighted by many individual accolades. Michael Yules ’14 (football) and Michelle Shnayder ’14 (gymnastics) garnered Academic All-America honors. Ophir Bre Hudgins ’14 and Ade Bernstein ’15 (wrestling) and Emory Polley ’14 (football) led a group of 14 student-athletes Oyalowo ’14 with Hayes and who received All-America honors for their outstanding seasons. Dayna Lord ’17 was named President Christina Paxson the Ivy League Rookie of the Year in women’s tennis and John Spooney ’14 was a finalist for the Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year in Football. This past year saw Head Women’s Basketball Coach Jean Marie Burr and Head Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving Coach Peter Brown announce their retirements. We are grateful to both of them for their service to Brown University. Coach Burr led the Bears to four Ivy League championships over her 26-year career, winning 324 games. Coach Brown served at the helm of the aquatics program for 13 years. He coached 28 individual Ivy Championship event winners and was instrumental in designing the Coleman Aquatics Center, which opened in the spring of 2012. During the past year we joined with Learfield Sports to create Brown Bears Sports Properties. Through this partnership, we have promoted our athletic program to the local and regional Hayes with Boston corporate community. Learfield Sports has long-standing relationships with many college and Marathon bombing university athletics programs and we look forward to working together to enhance the survivor Heather Abbott visibility of our athletics programs and student-athletes. I want to thank President Christina Paxson and Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Margaret Klawunn for their vision, guidance and support. Their leadership has enabled us to provide a first-class academic and athletic experience for our student-athletes. Our efforts will continue to focus on a commitment to excellence so that our administration, faculty, staff and students, as well as Brown University Sports Foundation members, alumni, corporate partners and friends, can take tremendous pride in all that is accomplished by those who wear the Brown uniform. Hayes with ESPN’s Chris Sincerely, Berman ’77 at the BFA Golf Classic Jack Hayes Director of Athletics 1 445635.TEXT.CC.indd 1 10/16/14 9:05 AM John Spooney ’14 became the first Ivy League running back to have runs of 90 or more yards twice in a game, scoring on rushes of 93 and 94 yards in Brown’s Homecoming win over Penn. The nation’s fifth-leading rusher with 1,170 yards, Spooney was a finalist for Ivy League Player of the Year. 2 445635.TEXT.CC.indd 2 10/16/14 9:05 AM Indomitable: Located at the Ittleson Quad, just outside Men’s hockey began the new year with a pair of sold-out the Nelson Fitness Center, Indomitable, a 10-foot lifelike games against ranked teams, playing Boston College to a bronze Kodiak bear, quickly became the focus of Brown 3-3 tie, and defeating defending national champion Yale, Athletic teams, students and Bruno fans. The sculpture 3-1, at Meehan Auditorium. was dedicated at a November 2, 2013 ceremony. Chloe Cross ’15 and the women’s soccer team posted a 10-6-1 overall record in head coach Phil Pincince’s 37th Lauren Clarke ‘14 completed her career as Brown’s seventh season. all-time leading scorer with 1,304 points and shattered the Brown record book with 203 career three-pointers. 3 445635.TEXT.CC.indd 3 10/20/14 9:58 AM The Brown skiing team captured its third consecutive MacConnell Division ECSC Regional crown before finishing third at the USCSA National Championships. In the finest season in Brown gymnastics history, the Bears captured their second straight Ivy Classic title, before bringing home the program’s first-ever ECAC Championship. The Bears also hosted the USA Gymnastics Nationals at the Pizzitola Sports Center. Men’s basketball competed in the postseason for the first On the way to its sixth straight winning season, Brown time since 2008 and hosted its first-ever postseason game, a football captured the Governor’s Cup for the third straight first round contest against Holy Cross in the CollegeInsider. year with a 31-14 win over the Universtiy of Rhode Island 4 com Postseason Tournament. under the lights at Brown Stadium. 445635.TEXT.CC.indd 4 10/20/14 9:58 AM John Franco ’14 was drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the 2014 MLB Draft. In February, the Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center Sophie Bikofsky ‘15 led all of NCAA Division I in played host to the Ivy League Women’s Swimming and three-point shooting in 2013-14, leading the nation Diving Championships. with a .486 percentage from behind the arc. 5 445635.TEXT.CC.indd 5 10/20/14 9:59 AM SENIOR CELEBRATION 2014 AWARD WINNERS Brown women’s crew enjoyed a roaring return to form, finishing third in the nation at the NCAA Championships. Brown won all but one race during the regular season, seizing the country’s top ranking, winning the Team Trophy at the Ivy League Championships and earning a bid to the NCAA Championships for the 18th year in a row. Men’s crew placed second overall at the IRA National Championship, highlighted by a runner-up finish from the varsity eight, while four boats earned medals. POSTSEASON NCAA TEAM QUALIFIERS USCSA NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS Women’s Crew | 3rd Women’s Skiing | 3rd CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS NATIONAL RANKINGS | FINAL Women’s Crew | Ivy League Team Champions Men’s Crew | 2nd Gymnastics | ECAC Champions; Ivy Classic Champions Women’s Crew | 3rd Skiing | ECSC Regional Champions Men’s Fencing | 15th Women’s Fencing | 14th POSTSEASON TOURNAMENT QUALIFIERS Men’s Squash | 18th Women’s Squash | 11th Men’s Basketball | CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament Men’s Water Polo | 20th Gymnastics | USAG Championship 6 445635.TEXT.CC.indd 6 10/20/14 10:07 AM SENIOR CELEBRATION 2014 AWARD WINNERS FIRST-YEAR MALE ATHLETE AWARD FRITZ POLLARD ’19 AWARD Dylan Molloy ’17 | Lacrosse Ophir Bernstein ’15 | Wrestling John Spooney ’14 | Football KATE SILVER ’86 AWARD Dayna Lord ’17 | Tennis THE DIRECTOR’S AWARD Michelle Shnayder ’14 | Gymnastics DAVE ZUCCONI ’55 AWARD Dennis Robertson ’14 | Hockey Sean McGonagill ’14 | Basketball SENIOR SPEAKERS ARLENE GORTON ’52 CUP Bre Hudgins ’14 | Lacrosse Alison Mullin ’14 | Soccer Adewole Oyalowo ’14 | Football CLIFF STEVENSON AWARD BROWN APPRECIATION AWARDS Corbin Booker ’15 | Lacrosse Toni Lenz Tinberg | Human Resources Services Thomas Mezzanotte | Rhode Island Interscholastic League BESSIE H. RUDD AWARD Carly Wellington ’14 | Basketball and Water Polo MARJORIE BROWN SMITH AWARD Louise Breen ‘14 | Crew Director of Athletics Jack Hayes presents a Brown Appreciation Award Sean McGonagill ’14 with Director of Alison Mullin ’14 with Women’s Soccer to Rhode Island Interscholastic League Athletics Jack Hayes and President head coach Phil Pincince and Director of Executive Director Tom Mezzanotte Christina Paxson Athletics Jack Hayes Senior Celebration 2014 Award Winners – Front Row (left to right): Adewole Oyalowo ’14, Bre Hudgins ’14, Ophir Bernstein ’15, Michelle Shnayder ’14, Corbin Booker ’15, Alison Mullin ’14, Carly Wellington ’14. Back Row (left to right): Director of Athletics Jack Hayes, Dylan Molloy ’17, John Spooney ’14, Dayna Lord ’17, Sean McGonagill ’14, Dennis Robertson ’14, Louise Breen ’14, President Christina Paxson. 7 7 445635.TEXT.CC.indd 7 10/16/14 9:06 AM INDIVIDUAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS ALL-AMERICANS NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIERS NCAA Ophir Bernstein ‘15 | Wrestling Ophir Bernstein ‘15 | Wrestling 1st Team Tommy Glenn ‘14 | Swimming & Diving Kathryn Hawrot ‘14 | Fencing COLLEGIATE ROWING COACHES ASSOCIATION Simon Jones ‘16 | Fencing Louise Breen ‘14 | Crew 1st Team Caitlin Taylor ‘14 | Fencing Rachel Gottlieb ‘15 | Crew 2nd Team Henry Tufnell ‘15 | Track & Field Molly Sandza ‘15 | Crew 2nd Team Evan Weinstock ‘14 | Track & Field Muriel Solberg ‘16 | Crew 1st Team Christine Whalen ‘14 | Fencing ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGIATE WATER POLO COACHES IHSA CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIER Henry Fox ‘15 | Water Polo Honorable Mention Kabisa Baughen ‘17 | Equestrian James McNamara ‘14 | Water Polo Honorable Mention Kate Woods ‘14 | Water Polo Honorable Mention AMERICAN FOOTBALL COACHES ASSOCIATION Emory Polley ‘14 | Football 1st Team USAG CHAMPIONSHIP Alexandra Chretien ‘16 | Gymnastics 1st Team Rebecca Freedman ‘14 | Gymnastics