"What I love about Haverford is the small, close-knit environment that’s fostered a certain level of intimacy between friends, teammates, staff, and professors at Haverford that I really didn’t anticipate before arriving to campus as a first-year."
The Haverford College athletic department handed out its end of the year awards and recognized all the amazing contributions from the student-athletes in the Class of 2020.
The Fords added seven more scoring performances to their championship weekend on Sunday, including a silver medal finish from Jessica Lopez (pictured) in the 200 meters.
Unique Tuberville (weight throw), Jessica Lopez (triple jump) and the Fords' 4x200 relay all earned third-place finishes on the opening day of the Centennial Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships.
The Fords have the top 4x200 meter relay in the event and a number of others looking for All-Centennial Conference accolades as the championship season gets underway.
Angie Petrichenko won the 5,000 meter race on Saturday while the DMR relay of Amalia Axinn, Jasmine Reed, Griffin Kaulbach, and Sheena Dwyer-McNulty was also the first across the line.
Organized by Eighth Dimension, Haverford's Office of Community Service, and promoted by the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), this festival is another example of the Haverford athletic department supporting the NCAA Division III Special Olympics initiative.
Both the men's and women's team will compete in nine meets prior to the championship season, with four of those events scheduled inside the Alumni Field House.
The environmental studies major is exploring how agricultural conditions come to impact plant health by investigating the biology of plant microbiomes in a lab at UC Berkeley.
Haverford was one of just 53 Division III institutions that were recognized by DIII and its national SAAC representatives for completing the 50 for 50th Challenge.
Haverford College offers students the unique chance to study abroad for either one semester or an entire year as a junior and earn credit towards their Haverford degree.
The Haverford College Athletic Department will induct its ninth class into the Thomas Glasser ’82 Hall of Achievement in the spring of 2020. The deadline for submission of nominees for the 2020 Hall of Achievement is August 1, 2019.
Lopez is spending her summer as a Whitehead intern for Shift Capital, a real estate investment group centered around curtailing the negative effects of gentrification.