Irene Calabria, co-captain of MCCC's women's soccer team, got her first soccer ball when she was only three years old, and in that moment a love for the sport was born. However, she grew up in Madrid, Spain where young girls are not given the opportunity to play soccer.
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Four of the seven runners from the women's cross country team traveled to Hobbs, New Mexico to run in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division I Championship. Erika Manley, Sierra Downs, Jaqueline Goncalves, and Anajae Register competed in the five kilometer run on November 12.
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Mercer's women's soccer team started the season off down seven games to one, but turned it around to finish the season with seven wins, twelves losses and one tie, enabling them to compete in the Region XIX semifinals. Mike DeAngelis, the assistant coach of the team for four years, said that the team had a lot of "tough luck losses" at the start of the season.
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As fans across the nation suit up for the American tradition of Thanksgiving football games, students and local graduates of Princeton High School await a seasonal tradition of their own. The Turkey Bowl has been a ritual for local students in the Princeton area for several years now, taking place on the school football field the morning of Thanksgiving.
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"Quit your bitchin' and start pitchin'." In May of 2000, this became the slogan for the Colonial Quoit Club, a quoiting league based in Hamilton, New Jersey. The Colonial Quoit Club, now one of the most established quoit leagues in New Jersey, has just wrapped up their 2011 season with Mike Cech taking the championship title.
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The VOICE held its second annual First Amendment 5K Run-Walk on October 1. Despite the poor weather forecast, nearly 70 participants arrived to race for prizes and show support for both the award-winning paper and the first amendment. For Stephanie Nawracaj, the first place overall woman's finisher with a time of 22:41, the themes of freedom and charity were incentives for participating in the race.
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When should an athlete worry?
After being hit in the head twice while playing soccer this past summer, nineteen year old Mercer student Megan Constance joined a large percentage of athletes who keep playing despite having concussions. According to the article, ‘Concussion Center for Children and Adolescents' found on the Saint Clare's Health System website, "41 percent of athletes that suffered a concussion reported back to sports to soon.
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This season, the women's cross country team became the first scoring team at MCCC in twenty years. Last season the women's cross country team only consisted of two runners, and in order to officially score in the race a team has to have at least five members.
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Last seasons record of 21-16 was enough to earn Mercer's baseball team a number two seeding in their region's post-season tournament, and after beating number one ranked Burlington (9-5) and number four ranked Sussex (6-5), their season was cut short by back to back losses to Lackawanna (3-0, 3-0) in the championship round.
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The 2010-2011 Mercer men's basketball team finished last years season 16-17, after being eliminated from the post season by Del Tech Stanton in their Regional Tournament championship game. Since then, the men's basketball team has transferred three sophomores onto four year universities.
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Last season the Lady Vikings were eliminated in the first found of their regional post-season tounrament by Burlington County, resulting in a final record of 18-12. Since then, three of last years girls have moved onto four year schools during the summer.
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Last year the Women's Soccer team finished with a final record of 7-8 and one draw after losing to Burlington in the District XIX post-season tournament's championship game, 1-2 (OT). During the summer Mercer's women's soccer program was able to pick up a couple key recruits including team captain and forward Nicole Tafrow (#20) of Nottingham and forward Chelsea Pitonyak (#5) of Steinert, to pair with key returner, mid-fielder Sam Biondi (#18) of Steinert who looks to bring some experience to the mostly freshmen squad.
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James Pugliese Drafted by Chicago Cubs
This past summer, James Pugliese became the first Mercer Viking to get drafted in over a decade when he was picked in the 18 round by the Chicago Cubs. Pugliese, a right handed pitcher, spent June 7 in front of a computer screen watching the draft, not knowing which round his name would appear or what teams would contact him.
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The Trenton Thunder, the double A affiliate of the New York Yankees, got their 2011 season off to a shaky start. In the first two weeks of the season the Trenton Thunder is 7-6. "We're hanging in there right now. We're not a very consistent team right now, but I think we will be," said manager Tony Franklin in a press conference at Waterfront Park.
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With two games remaining in the regular season, the 19-14 Mercer Baseball team is preparing to finish the season off strong and create some momentum to take with them into the post season. The Vikings started the first half of their season going 9-7. They opened up at home on March 1, with a win vs.
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