Skidmore Scope Magazine Annual Edition for 2017

8 SCOPE ANNUAL 2017 Four Thoroughbred teams entered postseason NCAA playoffs. Field hockey went 16-6, beating Rochester for the Liberty League championship and then making it to the NCAA quarterfinals, where it lost a tough 1-0 battle to Tufts. The men’s basketball squad won an at-large bid to the NCAAs but was defeated by Babson; the T’breds finished with a 20-8 record. In tennis, two men were selected for NCAA individual and doubles competi- tion, and their team advanced to the regional finals before falling to top-ranked Middlebury; the women’s team also entered NCAAs, losing to Amherst in the second round. Along with many league and regional honorees, Skidmore teams produced three all-Americans. Lacrosse player Rachel Talanian ’17, who got the nod for her second straight season, led the league in ground balls, draw controls, and caused turnovers. Basketball player Aldin Medunjanin ’17 became the program’s first all-American. He led the league in assists and broke Skid- more’s record for career assists, with 552. Kelly Donnelly ’18, who was co-Rookie of the Year in 2015, reached her 1,000-career- points mark in January, with another season still to go. In the spring, the national “It’s on Us” campaign against sexual assault was led on campus by the Student-Athlete Advi- sory Committee, the athletics department, and a wide range of varsity players. Y E A R I N R E V I E W 2 0 1 7 CHAMPIONS IN AND OUT OF UNIFORM ALL-AMERICANS this year were Aldin Medunjanin (top), Ra- chel Talanian (again!), and Kelly Donnelly. S P O R T S Medunjanin: Ed Burke; Talanian and Donnelly: Mark Bolles