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spike said:
Not for nothing but over a year ago Plumer told me that the only "C's" that get into Amherst and Middlebury are on the football team and men's hockey teams. Makes it even more amazing that these schools can compete so effectively on a national scale in Women's hockey.
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That study that was done a few years ago on NESCAC athletes that showed a significant disparity between athletes and non-atheletes in terms of both admissions standards and academic performance indicated a much greater disparity for male atheletes (and in the high-profile sports) than for female athletes . . .
 
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Mr. Kitty said:
I am not sure by what you mean about the transfer process having an impact on financial assistance. Do you mean a transfer is less likely, or more likely to get some financial bump from the admitting school? Or are you saying that transfers decide where to matriculate based on their financial aid offerings?
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It has been my family's experience that when you transfer (in our case from University of Chicago and a very generous level of assistance to Columbia) your aid package does not transfer with you.
 
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Yessssssssss.....November is great. Hockey is being played all over the country, from the NHL to NESCAC, Thanksgiving is right around the corner, it is getting cold out (which I enjoy, oddly enough)...etc etc..:D
 
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The Polar Bear field hockey success means several ice hockey players (Lessard, Herter, Nielson and Calnan plus any two sport first years) will not be on the ice anytime soon. The NCAA field hockey championship game is 11/21, a day after the Polar Bear ice hockey opener in Waterville. Obviously they have to advance in the early rounds 11/10 and 11/13-11/14, but with Coach O'Neil a field hockey assistant, I hope this does not become too much of a distraction.
GO U BEARS!!!!
 
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From the Bowdoin athletics site:

BRUNSWICK, Maine - Bowdoin College will be hosting the United States
Women's Select Hockey Team this week as they prepare for the 2010 Four
Nations Cup. On Friday, November 5, Team USA, featuring 11 Olympians,
will face Team Sweden in a Pre-Tournament game at Watson Arena at 7:00
p.m. that will be free and open to the public.

There is no admission charge for Friday evening's game, and tickets are
not required. The doors will open at 6:00 p.m. for the 7:00 p.m.
face-off. The team will also host an autograph session immediately
following the game on Friday evening. The eleven Olympians scheduled to
play are goaltenders Brianne McLaughlin and Jessie Vetter, defensemen
Kacey Bellamy, Caitlin Cahow, Molly Engstrom and Angela Ruggiero and
forwards Julie Chu, Erika Lawler, Gigi Marvin, Jenny Potter, Jinelle
Zaugg-Siergiej.

In addition, on Saturday, Nov. 6, from 3-4 p.m., Team USA will host an
American Development Model Clinic. Ken Martel, director of the ADM, as
well as Michele Amidon, ADM regional manager and former Bowdoin head
women’s ice hockey coach, will lead the clinic, with help from six
members of Team USA and coaches from local associations in Maine. There
will be approximately 60 girls under the age of 10 precipitating in the
clinic, which will focus on age-appropriate practice modules based on
the ADM principles (ADMKids.com). This clinic is open to public viewing.

Then, from 4:15-5:15 p.m., the team will host a Try Hockey for Free
Clinic with an additional six members of Team USA. Girls and boys ages
4-9 are encouraged to attend and participate. Any kind of helmet and
winter gloves are recommended.

From Brunswick, Team USA will travel to St. John's, N.L. for the Four
Nations Cup, a prestigious annual tournament held between the four major
national teams in the sport; the United States, Canada, Finland and Sweden.

For more information about the tournament, visit the USA Hockey Four
Nations Cup webpage:
http://www.usahockey.com//Template_Usahockey.aspx?NAV=TU_02_02&ID=23940
 
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"There
will be approximately 60 girls under the age of 10 precipitating"

Does this mean it will be raining girl's hockey players?
 
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DC78-82 said:
"There
will be approximately 60 girls under the age of 10 precipitating"

Does this mean it will be raining girl's hockey players?
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..or they may end up in tears when they can't find the right locker room (even I get lost under those stands),and I usually end up precipitating in the stands at the wrong end of OT games (I always bring a hankie to wave with or wallow in).
 
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Sing "HEY!", for the NESCAC Ladies -- the brainy, the brawny, the few...!
Their colors are primary staples --- only slightly divergent of hue
It's black, blue, red and now purple -- the cape of the eminent queens
With yellow or white for some contrast -- to befuddle the goalies on screens
There are Cows of a quite different color -- and Lords that are ladies in fact
Continentals worth more than all other -- and Panthers that cannot be tracked.
Beware Camels, swaying smoothly on ice -- big Polar Bears cluster and hover
by a barnyard of domestic breeds -- wild Bantams that screech from their cover
and proud Cardinals still feasting on "D"s -- all fear the White Mules in a fight
So, sing "HEY" for the Ladies of NESCAC -- our hope through the long winter's night!!!
 
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NHDad said:
Adding Wesleyan
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The Bowdoin roster posted is the pre-season roster and contains no members of Stacy Wilson's, rumored to be strong, Class of '14.

Congrats to the field hockey team advancing to host an NCAA regional final this weekend!!!
 
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Just an question......How come the NESAC doesn't start playing when the other conferences start playing. Why doesn't the NCAA start play at the same time for all conferences?
 
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nbound said:
Just an question......How come the NESAC doesn't start playing when the other conferences start playing. Why doesn't the NCAA start play at the same time for all conferences?
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As has been discussed in another thread, NESCAC's mission statement requires the member schools to shorten each athletic season in order to keep athletics in proper perspective with academics. The big Ivy's do the same thing at DI.

What I find hypocritical about this is that while the NESCACS start 3 weeks later, they end up playing the same number of games as the other schools. Shorter season, but less time during season to do homework.
 
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nbound said:
Just an question......How come the NESAC doesn't start playing when the other conferences start playing. Why doesn't the NCAA start play at the same time for all conferences?
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One other reason is that the NESCAC tries to provide opportunities for multi-sport athletes. Even with the late start, there are still problems with overlap as a team like Bowdoin invariably has a good field hockey team and a good number of ice/field hockey players. There are some 3/4 members of the Bowdoin hockey team who will be occupied with field hockey play-offs this weekend and possibly next weekend. On the men's side, there are two Middlebury hockey players (one the leading scorer on last year's hockey team) who are important members of a very good soccer team, which could be playing until Dec. 3.
 
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Midd enters the NCAA FH playoffs Wed with 4 key hockey players on the FH squad. It's un,ikely we will see them before Thanksgiving. If they make the finals, we might not even see some of them skate uintil after the 1st of the year.
 
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Post season play in Fall sports causes problems like this for many NESCAC teams and makes a later start to the season make even more sense. In winter sports, a lot of games get packed into January. Schools like Williams and Middlebury operate on a 4-1-4 calendar which conveniently allows time for games in January without taking up big chunks of class time. Plus there is a week break after the January term at Middlebury (not sure about the 'ephs) which allows for games without missing class.
 
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WillieC said:
Midd enters the NCAA FH playoffs Wed with 4 key hockey players on the FH squad. It's un,ikely we will see them before Thanksgiving. If they make the finals, we might not even see some of them skate uintil after the 1st of the year.
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The Midd regional NCAA semi opponent will be Tufts, to whom you lost 3-0 back in September, which, I know, I know, was a long time ago and the first game of the season, etc, but you may be getting a bit ahead of yourself in assuming you do not have those players back on ice before Thanksgiving. Those first two Panther ice hockey games are on the road against two of the NESCAC enigma teams, Hamilton and Conn, so having all hands available might not be a bad thing.
 
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