Oct. 15, 2002
Colonials Roundup
Basketball Tickets Now Available
Basketball Season Ticket Info
With the men’s and women’s basketball teams beginning practices
for their upcoming schedules, season tickets are available for purchase.
Faculty and staff have the option of two men’s ticket plans. The
“Gold Seats” cost $195 (regularly $240) and include tickets
for the BB&T Classic. The “End Zone” seats cost $50 (regularly
$75). Individual game tickets are $18 and $12. To order season or individual
tickets, call 994-6050. For group tickets (10 or more), call Ed McKee
at 994-5778. For BB&T Classic tickets, call Dom Perno at 994-9005.
The men’s team will play Texas on Dec. 7 in the first game of the
tournament. Notre Dame will play defending national champion Maryland
in the other opening game.
Women’s ticket prices are $100 for the season, $50 for the season
with purchase of the men’s season. Individual game tickets are
$9 and $6.
Warner Named A-10 Women’s Soccer
Co-Player of the Week
With four goals in one game, women’s soccer star Kim Warner received
Co-Player of the Week honors for the Atlantic 10. Warner, a redshirt
junior, scored the four goals to lead the Colonials over crosstown rival
American University, 4–2, at the Mount Vernon Athletic Field on
Sept. 25. The win was the fifth Colonials victory in the last six meetings
with American.
Utilizing her breakaway speed, Warner created one goal alone and was
assisted on the other three. With the four goals, Warner is now tied
for fifth all-time in goals at GW with 21. She is tied with Colonials
Head Coach Tanya Vogel who graduated from GW in 1996. Warner also moved
into a ninth place tie in career points at 49 with Vogel’s sister
Jennifer Vogel.
Freshman Takes One at Temple
Freshman Andrew Gallo became the fourth Colonials golfer to win an individual
tournament title in the last nine years as he won the Temple Invitational
Oct. 6. Gallo and two other competitors were tied after 36 holes with
a score of 144. Gallo and Princeton University’s Jason Gerken advanced
to the second playoff hole, where Gerken left his second shot in the
water hazard protecting the 358-yard 18th green. On his approach that
followed, Gallo flew the green, but received a fortunate bounce off
a footbridge to have a playable lie for his third shot. Gallo won the
title with a tap-in bogey five. The Ontario native joins former Colonials
Ryan Day (October 2000), Bryan Derdenger (October 2000), and Thomas
Blankvoort (April 2001 and 2002) as individual medalists in the last
nine years.
GW Competes in ECAC Women’s Invitational
Tennis Championships
The GW Women’s Tennis team was among the top 16 teams from the
east competing in the ECAC Women’s Invitational Tennis Championships
held on Oct.12–14 at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing,
NY.
Joining George Washington in the field were one through eight seeds
Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Brown, Boston College, Boston University,
Cornell, and Columbia with the rest of the field made up of Army, Connecticut,
Dartmouth, Georgetown, James Madison, and Rutgers.
West Named Head Coach Of New Women’s
Squash Squad
Sarah West has been named head coach for the new women’s squash
team. West will be responsible for all aspects of the University’s
most recent sport addition which begins play this winter.
West came to GW from Dartmouth College where she is a 2002 graduate
with a degree in English, and minor in government. While attending Dartmouth,
West earned four varsity letters while playing women’s squash,
serving as team captain her senior year. Additionally, she was named
first team All-Ivy in 2001 and 2002, as well as second team All-America
in 1999 and 2000.
While this is West’s first coaching post for women’s squash,
she honed her skills while an assistant coach of the 2002 New Hampshire
All-State Girls U13 lacrosse team.
“I am excited for the opportunity to become involved with a new,
very special University,” West says. “Although starting a
new program will be a great challenge, I am confident the sport will
have great success in the DC area.”
Bruenning Named Assistant Swimming Coach
John Bruenning, a former swimming star at the University of South Carolina,
has been hired as the assistant coach for GW’s program. Bruenning
will assist Head Coach Dan Rhinehart in all aspects of the men’s
and women’s swimming teams. Bruenning comes to GW from Charlotte,
NC, where he was a financial planner with New England Financial. During
the past three years, Bruenning has taught swim lessons and helped coach
the YMCA swim team in Charlotte. A 1998 graduate of the University of
South Carolina, Bruenning was captain and MVP of the men’s swim
team, and earned SEC Scholar Athlete honors.
The swimming teams begin their seasons Oct. 18 at the Potomac Relays,
hosted by American University. The first meet at the Smith Center is
scheduled for Nov. 9 against La Salle at 11 am.
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