Volume 96, Issue 28
Stories from the November 8, 1999 issue of the GW Hatchet.
In the final minutes of practice, a freshman point guard comes up lame. He’s clutching his right knee, tensing his face and contorting his body. He’s obviously in pain. He wobbles to the sideline, and you might think he was done. But suddenly something happens. He straightens up and refuses to stay out. SirValiant Brown […]
1. Maryland. Last season: 28-6 (13-3 ACC, 2nd), lost to St. John’s in Sweet 16. With Steve Francis gone, Coach Gary Williams plugs in superstar Terence Morris and freshman guard Steve Blake. Maryland comes in at 23rd in the coaches’ poll. 2. Georgetown. Last season: 15-16 (6-12 Big East, 10th), NIT first round The Hoyas […]
The old guard is long gone – those names that kept GW on the basketball map in the mid-1990s. People like Mike Jarvis, Alexander Koul and now finally Shawnta Rogers and Yegor Mescheriakov. In their place have arrived the players that will lead the buff and blue into the next century, men like Bernard Barrow, […]
Despite the continued efforts of the GW women’s soccer team, its 1999 season ended with a disappointing 3-15-1 record. The Colonial women faced many difficulties from the start of the season as their two top scorers, Jane Lea and Jane Anderson, graduated last year. This left the Colonial women struggling to survive against some of […]
1906- GW fields a men’s basketball team 1912- As GW moves to Foggy Bottom, women’s basketball begins 1928- Colonial becomes GW’s mascot 1953-54- With Joe Holup and Coach Bill Reinhart, GW goes 23-3, advances to first NCAA Tournament, rises as high as No. 7 in Associate Press poll 1954-55- Men go 24-6 1961- GW finishes […]
The GW women’s volleyball team rallied from a two-game deficit to defeat Virginia Tech in five games and remain in the hunt for the playoffs. GW took the match 6-15, 13-15, 15-13, 15-8, 16-14. Down 12-8 in the third game of Friday’s contest at the Smith Center, and without injured setter Jill Levey, the Colonial […]
University Police barred 20 men from campus for soliciting sex in the Marvin Center men’s bathrooms, ending UPD’s two-week undercover operation Friday, University administrators said. The men solicited plain-clothed male UPD officers for sexual favors in the Marvin Center bathrooms, UPD Director Dolores Stafford said. The operation comes after years of concern over illegal activities […]
7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 9Smith CenterRadio: WRGW, 540 AM (available at www.gwradio.com) The Hawks are a team of late-20s players who all once attended the Five Star Basketball Camp. The Hawks play St. John’s University Wednesday night and have already played Wake Forest University, the University of North Carolina, Davidson College and Duke University. The […]
November 5, 1999Smith Center Pool9:32 p.m. The scene was tense. I walked up to the Smith Center swimming pool to find women – lots of women – and a bunch of guys, decked out in swimsuits and looking a little out of their element in sea kayaks. Instructor Tom, the energetic outdoor adventurer who would […]
Monday: Golf at Delaware-Caves Valley Invitational (Williamsburg, Va.) Tuesday: MBBall vs. Five Star Hawks (exhibition)-7:30 p.m. Wednesday: MSwimming at Navy-5 p.m. Thursday: no games scheduled