Congratulations to three more Big Red championship teams: men's lacrosse, men's tennis, and women's polo. The men's lacrosse team was unbeaten in Ivy League play, posting a 6-0 regular-season mark and winning the first-ever Ivy tournament with convincing victories over Yale (11-7) and Harvard (15-6). It was the team's ninth straight regular-season Ivy title. They advanced to the NCAA tournament, where they defeated Hartford before losing to eventual national champion Virginia. The men's tennis team won its first-ever outright Ivy title with a perfect 7-0 league mark. They lost to Louisville in the first round of the NCAA tournament, but ended the year with an outstanding 26-5 record. The women's polo team was literally unbeatable, winning all 21 of its matches and earning its 13th national championship with an 18-10 victory over Virginia at Oxley Equestrian Center.
R.I.P., COACH THOREN Longtime baseball coach Ted Thoren passed away on May 10 in Ithaca after a long illness. He was 89. A 1949 graduate of Ithaca College, Thoren began his Cornell career as a graduate assistant football coach in 1952. He became an assistant baseball coach in 1955 before being named Cornell's 13th head baseball coach in 1962. Over the next 29 seasons, he won 541 games and was enshrined in seven different halls of fame, including the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame, the Ithaca College Hall of Fame, and the Cornell Athletics Hall of Fame. He also received the Cornell Legend Award in 2008 and the Cornell Football Association's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009.
Sports Shorts
ALL-AMERICANS The men's lacrosse team featured four all-Americans this season, led by the USILA Division I Player and Attack-man of the Year, Rob Pannell '12. A final-ist for the Tewaaraton Trophy, Pannell was the nation's leading scorer with 42 goals and 47 assists in 17 games. He was also named Ivy League Player of the Year for the second straight season. Joining him as a first-team All-American were Max Feely '11 and Roy Lang '12. Feely anchored a Big Red defense that held opponents to 8.2 goals per game, while Lang scored 27 goals, including a team-high four game-winners. Jason Noble '13 received All-American honorable mention on defense.
NEW OWNER In May, David Einhorn '91 agreed to buy a share of the New York Mets for $200 million. A fan of the team while growing up, Einhorn is president of Green-light Capital, a hedge fund he started in 1996. This is not his first foray into the sports world: in 2006, Einhorn finished 18th in the main event of the World Series of Poker and gave his entire prize of nearly $660,000 to the Michael J. Fox Foundation.
NEW COACH Hockey games with Clarkson will become a little more interesting next season, as the Golden Knights have hired Casey Jones '90 as their new head coach. Jones had spent the previous three seasons as the Big Red's associate head coach under Mike Schafer '86.
Spring Teams
Final Records
| Baseball | 10-30; 7-13 Ivy (4th, Gehrig Div.) |
| Men's Lacrosse | 14-3; 6-0 Ivy (1st) |
| Women's Lacrosse | 6-8, 3-4 Ivy (5th) |
| Varsity Hvywt. Rowing | 7-3 |
| J.V. Hvywt. Rowing | 5-4 |
| Fr. Hvywt. Rowing | 5-4 |
| Varsity Ltwt. Rowing | 4-3 |
| J.V. Ltwt. Rowing | 5-1 |
| Fr. Ltwt. Rowing | 5-2 |
| Women's Varsity Rowing | 6-3 |
| Women's J.V. Rowing | 5-4 |
| Softball | 27-22-1; 12-7 Ivy (1st, South Div.) |
| Men's Tennis | 26-5; 7-0 Ivy (1st) |
| Women's Tennis | 9-11; 1-6 Ivy (7th) |