Big Game NOVEMBER 19, 2005

The Big Red football team recaptured the Trustees' Cup with a solid all-around effort that produced a 16-7 victory over Penn at Franklin Field. It was Cornell's first win over the Quakers since 1999 and the 600th in the history of the football program, which played its first intercollegiate game in 1887. Senior quarterback Ryan Kuhn capped an outstanding year by running for 97 yards, giving him exactly 1,000 yards rushing on the season. Sophomore tailback Luke Siwula also had a fine year running the ball, finishing with 1,086 yards--the first time Cornell has ever had two 1,000-yard rushers in the same season. Five members of this year's Big Red team were named first-team All-Ivy: Kuhn, Siwula, offensive tackle Kevin Boothe '06, defensive tackle Matt Pollock '06, and safety Kevin Rex '06.

Sports Shorts

ALONE AT THE TOPFor the first time since 1993, Cornell's volleyball team secured sole possession of first place in the Ivy League by winning 12 of 14 matches against league opponents. Last season, Yale beat Cornell in a four-team tournament to earn the Ivy League's bid to the NCAA Tournament after Cornell, Yale, Princeton, and Harvard finished tied for first. Elizabeth Bishop '07 led the Big Red offensively with a league-best 405 kills during the regular season. This raised her career total to 1,244, breaking the previous record of 1,212 set by Debbie Quibell '04. Bishop was named Ivy League Player of the Year; she was joined on the All-Ivy first team by Joanna Weiss '07 and Kelly Kramer '06. Heather Young '06 paced the defense with a league-high 118 blocks and was named to the All-Ivy second team.

STILL STRONGAlthough two-time national champion Travis Lee '05 is gone, the wrestling team returned enough talent to be ranked ninth in the country, according to the Wrestling International Newsmagazine preseason rankings. Cornell is second-ranked among Eastern teams, trailing only eighthranked Lehigh in the poll, which is based on individual wrestlers and tournament expectations, not dual-meet potential. Three Cornell wrestlers were ranked in the top ten of their weight class: seniors Dustin Manotti (fourth at 157 pounds) and Joe Mazzurco (fourth at 174 pounds), and junior Jerry Rinaldi (tenth at 197 pounds). The magazine rated Cornell's freshman class as the nation's third best; it features two national high school champions, including Troy Nickerson of nearby Chenango Forks High School, who was named the 2005 national high school wrestler of the year.

QUICK STUDYThe youngest general manager in Major League Baseball history is a Cornell graduate: Jon Daniels '99 was 28 years and 41 days old when he was named in October to replace John Hart as general manager of the Texas Rangers, about 10 months younger than Theo Epstein was when he was named Boston Red Sox GM in 2002. An applied economics and management major at Cornell, Daniels joined the Rangers organization in 2002 and became assistant general manager in 2004. He started his major league front office career with the Colorado Rockies in 2001.

STICKHANDLERS Led by first-team All- Ivy freshman Alyssa DePaola, the Big Red field hockey team set school records for wins (10), goals (44), and points in a season (123). DePaola notched nine goals, which placed her second among Ivy League goal scorers. She was joined on the All-Ivy squad by second- team picks Belen Martinez '09 and Blair Corcoran '06. Martinez scored six goals and anchored a Cornell defense that allowed 22 fewer goals this year than the previous season. Corcoran, a two-time captain, led the league in assists with nine.

STEPPING UP David LeNeveu '05 became the nineteenth Cornell hockey player, and ninth goaltender, to play in the National Hockey League when he was between the pipes for the Phoenix Coyotes' 3-2 loss to the Los Angeles Kings on October 6. He picked up his first NHL win on October 25 when he made 24 saves in a 5-4 overtime win over the St. Louis Blues.

GOOD START Freshman Jeomi Maduka was named to the all-tournament team after the women's basketball team split a pair of games in the season-opening St. Bonaventure Shootout. Maduka scored 22 points and added nine rebounds and five steals as the Big Red bounced back from a loss to the Bonnies in the opening game to record a 75-63 overtime win over Niagara in the consolation contest.

NET GAIN Tamara John '09 was one of two winners of the $10,000 Dwight Mosley Scholarship Award, given by the United States Tennis Association to a high school senior of ethnically diverse background who has succeeded both on and off the court. The award honors Dwight Mosley, the first African American elected to the USTA Board of Directors. While at Penfield (New York) High School, John was ranked first in the USTA Eastern Section for three years and served as president of the school's Black Student Union.