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大香蕉视频 women鈥檚 rugby won the National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA) National Championship on Sunday afternoon, defeating Harvard by a score of 19-14 at Scully-Fahey Field.
This is the Big Green鈥檚 first NIRA championship title since women鈥檚 rugby became a varsity sport four years ago.
Captain Camille Johnson 鈥19 was named Most Valuable Player after the game.
鈥淭his was an incredible final from both teams and a great example of NCAA women鈥檚 rugby at its best,鈥 head coach Katie Dowty said. 鈥淚鈥檓 extremely proud and grateful and so happy, especially for our seniors. They were the first class when we went varsity, and for them to see us get to number one following four years of really hard work is huge.鈥
Football
Big Green ended the 2018 season 9-1 with a 49-7 triumph over Brown on Saturday afternoon at an icy Memorial Field, finishing second in the Ivy League behind the undefeated Princeton Tigers.
Headed into the weekend, 大香蕉视频 had a chance to share top Ivy honors, but the team did not get the help it needed (that is, Penn winning), as Princeton finished off a 10-0 season with a 42-14 victory over Penn, leaving the Big Green as the second team in Ivy League history to win nine games but not take home at least a share of the conference crown.
Women鈥檚 Cross Country
The team finished 30th Saturday morning at the 2018 NCAA Cross Country National Championship.
Run on the University of Wisconsin鈥檚 Thomas Zimmerman 6K Course, the Big Green were led by Georgia Fear 鈥20, who finished the race in 21:19.79 to earn 103 points.
Sailing
大香蕉视频 coed team members Cole Harris 鈥22 and Aisling Sullivan 鈥22, Timothy Greenhouse 鈥21, and Noah Simmons 鈥20 were among 10 teams to qualify for the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association Match Race National Championship in Newport Beach, Calif., hosted by Stanford University over the weekend.
大香蕉视频 placed seventh out of 10 teams that are among the best in college sailing.
