A dominant performance in the National Championship game.
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NUFH NATIONAL CHAMPS
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I watched most of it on ESPNU and it was no contest! Zimmer, in particular, was dominant, with two goals and an assist. But we have a bunch of great players, including Sessa, Tromp, and Wadas to name a few, as well as our terrific goalie with another shutout.
Shots on goal dominance 11-1. In the natty…no less.
In their 4th consecutive natty.
Keep it going Coach. Still a ways to reaching KAH status.
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Cats caught a huge break when St. Joes beat North Carolina. At keast something good happened this weekend in Ann Arbor! Congrats, ladies.
Not going to lie, I felt really good about this game when I saw UNC get upset. Happy for Fuchs to get a 2nd title in a 4th straight NC appearance.
Makes up for last year's really tough defeat to UNC in that shootout.
To have Fuchs build such a strong program has been incredible to watch.
Makes up for last year's really tough defeat to UNC in that shootout.
To have Fuchs build such a strong program has been incredible to watch.
Right you are. To my knowledge, only two NU teams have won national championships, Field Hockey and Lacrosse. Softball lost in the final to UCLA one year in a nail biter, when Garland Cooper was the Big Ten player of the year. We've had a number of individual champions, like Luke Donald, Olivia Rosendahl, Matt Grevers and numerous wrestlers, but no other teams that I can recall. Have I missed any?
Nope, the programs that KAH and Fuchs have built are incredible; at the very top of their sports with sustaining power proven over years. Very few schools have programs like this, and we didn't before they got here.
The fact that those two have now brought 10 NCs to NU is just stupendous.
I was cruising through the roster after the game today, and we are certainly not without weapons next year, including Sessa and Olivia Bent-Cole who also had a goal today. Of course I suspect that Coach Fuchs will bring in another group of excellent recruits, but it will be tough to replace Zimmer and Skubicz.
Just returned from Ann Arbor. We were able to attend both Friday’s match and today’s championship match, which sandwiched a less enjoyable sporting event Saturday.
Today’s match was sold out. Having attended several WLAX final fours, I didn’t expect it to be sold out today. We weren’t the only ones. We ended up watching it from the highway ramp opposite the spectator stands, behind the teams’ benches. The view was actually better than the stadium itself.
Both St. Joe’s and NU had a good turnout. Unlike Friday, the Cats were dominant. Pressuring the ball in their offensive end and attacking in waves from the defensive end. Passing is incredibly accurate and ball handling is impressive.
Congrats to Coach Fuchs and the entire team. Go Cats!
Today’s match was sold out. Having attended several WLAX final fours, I didn’t expect it to be sold out today. We weren’t the only ones. We ended up watching it from the highway ramp opposite the spectator stands, behind the teams’ benches. The view was actually better than the stadium itself.
Both St. Joe’s and NU had a good turnout. Unlike Friday, the Cats were dominant. Pressuring the ball in their offensive end and attacking in waves from the defensive end. Passing is incredibly accurate and ball handling is impressive.
Congrats to Coach Fuchs and the entire team. Go Cats!
Men's fencing, 1941 (per the Trib today).
Didn't know this, primarily because it happened 2 years before I was born! I don't think NU has had men's fencing for many many years, but I'm happy to have the info.
I was born before '41 but not yet following NU sports. Too busy keeping tabs on war in the Pacific back then, I guess.
(Late to respond, but just saw this.)
Well, I was indeed only a small child in 1941 but strangely did follow radio newscasts and watch movie newsreels avidly. Could say Guadalcanal and know what it meant well before I learned to spell it. Surely because my dad was overseas at the time, I was unusually familiar with WWII. So yes, I’m quite old. Most days I don’t feel like it, but other times …
Never graduated from NU, but first set foot on campus in summer of ’57. Had a very nice scholarship that did require some sort of university service (minimum10 hrs per quarter, I think). Through some fluke I did mine in tutoring Cats athletes, and needed to record time spent on little cards noting names of athletes, dates & time spent. Periodically I turned in cards to someone in the athletic dept for approval, and for a while it was to an asst AD named McLean Stevenson who, as you perhaps know, later achieved success in another profession. Guy named Parseghian headed the football program then; Bill Rohr coached basketball. Neither needed any tutoring from me. On the whole, a good time for NU sports.
For no reason clear to me today, Northwestern and I weren’t a good fit although the school was better to me than I was to it. Before the departure, an asst dean actually called me in to gently urge that I remain. But I “entered the portal” of that time and wound up taking a degree from Univ of Denver (coincidentally, founded by John Evans after he went west). Life went on.
A definite boon from NU attendance, though, was meeting a young co-ed there. She was far above my station, as I generally pursued women of lower character. By pure chance, however, she and I later wound up in grad school together at Univ of Minnesota. Her standards must have lowered, for she chose to marry me. Next month it will be 61 yrs ago, and she permits me to hang around still. She remembers you, No Chores, from a conversation you had with us at a bowl game gathering.
Sorry, sir. That was far more information than you requested – but your query brought back memories that seemed sharable.
Thanks Willie, this is just great stuff! You've got me by four years, but it sounds like you and you're wife are doing just fine. The NC household is lagging somewhat behind, however, since we recently celebrated number only number 53. I'm trying to remember the bowl game where we had our conversation but it's not coming to me - any thoughts?
(This surely makes riveting reading for others, to whom I apologize!) I think, NC, that the night in question was in Houston before the Cats played Texas A&M. You gave out a business card which I no longer can lay hands on, but if we have litigation needs in PA I'll find you somehow. I recall that my wife and I were seated by a window, across the room from where Waterboy was holding forth amusingly among a gaggle of followers.
Man women’s field hockey and lacrosse do some serious reloading…
They are to their sports what Bama or dOSU or UGA are to football. The best players want to play for championships.
