Basketball
NYU’s males’s and ladies’s basketball groups performed their final regular-season away video games of the yr, securing wins towards the University of Rochester on Friday, and Emory University on Sunday.
On Friday, the ladies’s crew trailed by 9 factors after the primary quarter towards Rochester — its largest deficit all season. A 24-13 second quarter helped even the rating by the half, and after the break, NYU took management. The Violets held the Yellowjackets to simply 5 factors within the third quarter and carried the lead by the remainder of the sport, ending in a powerful 78-51 victory.
Junior Yasmene Clark confirmed up for NYU with 19 rebounds, 14 of which had been offensive, setting a brand new profession excessive and giving the crew the second likelihood it wanted to bounce again within the second half. Senior Caroline Peper added 21 factors, making 5 of her 12 makes an attempt past the arc, and junior Brooke Batchelor and sophomore Zahra Alexander notched 13 factors every, with Alexander additionally incomes three steals.
The ladies’s crew’s dominant wins continued in Atlanta, the place NYU defeated No. 23-ranked Emory 78-60. Emory held the lead for a lot of the tightly-contested first quarter, however a superb three-pointer by Peper bought NYU again on monitor at 6:36 within the second quarter, and the Violets stayed on prime from there.
Alexander led NYU’s offense with 24 factors, a brand new profession excessive, capturing 57.1% from the sector. Clark and Batchelor added 15 and 10 rebounds respectively, and Peper contributed 17 factors and three assists.
The males’s crew began off robust in Rochester, incomes an 88-80 victory towards the Yellowjackets.
All 5 members of NYU’s beginning lineup ended the night time in double figures, led by junior Carnegie Johnson with 21 factors and senior Bryan Moussako with 19. The Violets dominated the paint, incomes 42 factors in shut vary, and earned 18 factors off of the Yellowjackets’ 13 turnovers. The crew went 11-23 from three-point vary, and by no means as soon as trailed by the sport.
On Sunday, the Violets fell 103-80 to the No. 5-ranked Eagles, bringing the crew to 16-6 on the season.
The groups went backwards and forwards through the first half, with the Violets down by 4 going into halftime. Emory continued their dominance after the break, widening the hole to 29 within the second half and giving the Violets no room for a comeback.
Graduate pupil Luke Kolaja had a profession night time after scoring 32 factors, 19 of which got here within the first half. Senior Quinn Clark added 11 factors and 9 rebounds, and Johnson got here out with eight factors and 4 assists.
Both groups will return house on Feb. 20 for Tear It Up! night time towards Washington University in St. Louis. The males’s recreation ideas off at 5:30 within the Paulson Center, and the ladies’s recreation is about to observe at 7:30.
Track & area
The NYU males’s and ladies’s monitor and area groups cut up competitors this weekend, with athletes at each the NYU DIII Invitational and the David Hemery Valentine Invitational in Boston.
On Saturday, NYU hosted the annual DIII Invitational on the Nike Track & Field Center on the Armory, with athletes from over 30 faculties coming to compete together with a number of Violets provided standout performances.
On the ladies’s facet, first-year Adrianna Kosmont captured first place within the unseeded 60-meter sprint. In the 3000-meter race, 4 Violets completed among the many prime 10. The males’s crew discovered comparable success within the occasion, putting 4 runners within the prime seven.
Meanwhile in Boston on the David Hemery Valentine Invitational, junior Liam Hagerty clocked a private better of 14:30.29 within the 5,000m on Friday night time, whereas operating in a area made up of primarily Division I athletes. On Saturday, sophomore Stella Kuttner posted a private better of 4:51.58 within the mile, whereas sophomore Gianna Dawson recorded a private finest of two:13.09 within the 800 meters.
Both groups will run once more on the UAA Indoor Championships on Feb. 28 at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA.
Swimming & diving
The males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving groups competed in Chicago from Feb. 11-14 for the UAA championships, the place the ladies received the convention title for the primary time in program historical past.
Breaking Emory University’s 27-year maintain on the title, the ladies’s crew secured 1900 crew factors — a mere 15 factors forward of the reigning Eagles — following a remaining victory within the 400 freestyle relay.
Throughout the week, NYU secured the UAA title in 10 occasions and set 5 new convention information. Senior Kaley McIntyre had a hand in all of them, securing her personal place within the file books with a brand new Division III finest within the 200 freestyle. With a time of 1:44.74, McIntyre toppled a 15-year-old file.
Among the occasion winners had been first-year Llew Ladomirak within the 500 freestyle with a time of 4:54.08, sophomore Bethany Spangler with a time of 4:23.09 within the 400 IM and senior Nicole Ranile with a time of 1:59.94, incomes her second consecutive UAA win within the 200 butterfly.
The 800 free relay crew of Ladomirak, McIntyre, Ranile and junior Aanya Wala set a brand new UAA file of seven:13.06 — yet one more occasion title for the Violets.
The males’s crew ended No. 2 of eight groups after the meet concluded, behind longstanding champion Emory.
The record-setting continued as the boys set 4 new UAA information and 7 new program information — together with junior Pierce Downs’ program-best occasions within the 100 freestyle with 43.71 and the 200 freestyle with 1:37.01.
Downs, together with juniors Greg Wehbe and Stone Miller and graduate pupil Teddy Cross, took the UAA title within the 200 free relay. Cross and Wehbe earned one other relay win within the 200 medley, teaming up with sophomores Teddy McQuaid and Sean Li.
The males’s crew ended the 4 days of competitors with 1,626 factors.
Both squads can be again in New York City for the NYU Winter Invitational on Feb. 21, the groups’ final house house meet earlier than they tackle the NCAA match.
Volleyball
After opening the week with a tricky 1-3 loss to the Stevens Institute of Technology on Feb. 10, the No. 6-ranked NYU males’s volleyball crew rebounded in dominant vogue, closing out with back-to-back wins over Ramapo College and St. John Fisher University.
On Feb. 12, the Violets swept Ramapo 3-0 at house. First-year BoJameson Ebeling led the crew with 14 kills, two aces and 4 blocks. Fellow first-year outdoors hitter Artyom Derkach additionally had a robust efficiency with 10 kills.
NYU carried the momentum right into a Valentine’s Day matchup towards the St. John Fisher Cardinals, during which the Violets adopted their shut 25-23 loss within the first set with 25-20, 25-16 and 25-17 wins to complete the day with a 3-1 victory at house.
Key gamers for the Violets included junior Emerson Evans and first-year Charlie Clifford with 21 and 15 kills, respectively.
NYU will hit the highway on Thursday, touring to Patchogue, NY to face St. Joseph’s University Long Island.
Wrestling
The No. 11-ranked NYU wrestling crew captured its third consecutive UAA championship on Feb. 14, persevering with its dominance within the convention.
Competing towards the University of Chicago and Case Western Reserve University on the Paulson Center, NYU confronted early adversity as CWRU received the primary 4 bouts towards the house crew, however bounced again to safe a 33-19 win.
Senior captain Nicky Bell supplied the spark the crew wanted to tug forward, pinning his opponent in 4:50. Graduate college students Ty Finn and Justin Mayes, together with sophomore Mo Talebi, adopted with essential technical falls to propel the Violets previous the Spartans.
In the championship battle towards UChicago, sophomore Alexander Diaz gave NYU an early benefit with a fall within the 125-lb class, adopted by 4 extra wins from the Violets. Talebi’s 6-3 win within the second-to-last matchup secured a large lead for the Violets, ensuring the Maroons’ closing win within the 285-lb class wasn’t sufficient to clinch the title.
The crew will take the mat on Feb. 21 in Rochester for the Joseph Pellicano Invitational at St. John Fisher University, its final meet forward of the NCAA Regionals.
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