Isn’t Williams still in?
Which sport?
Soccer, I believe.
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Colby has a Rhodes Scholar:
Daniel I. Juzych, Bloomfield Hills, is a senior at Colby College, where he is majoring in Biology with a concentration in Neuroscience. A leader in the Ukrainian-American community, Daniel launched a project to establish ophthalmic surgical training centers in Ukraine and created a process to import donor corneas. He is a member of the Colby men’s varsity hockey team and performs Ukrainian dance. At Oxford, he intends to complete an M.Sc. in Modelling for Global Health and an M.Sc. in History of Science, Medicine and Technology.
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Tufts is still in for men’s snd women’s soccer, field hockey, volleyball (and xc?). The brackets in many sports semm to have been set up to limit how many NESCAC teams could survive long into the tournament.
In W soccer, Tufts snd Midd will meet to see which one gets to go to the final 4. Wes was defeated by Tufts earlier, while both Colby and Williams were eliminated in the 2nd round by no-Nescac teams.
In M soccer, Tufts, Conn, Williams, Bowdoin are in the Elite Eight. The only NESCAC match up is Conn-Bowdoin. Midd and Wes lost to schools from other conferences.
In field hockey, Tufts is in the semifinals. Midd, Bowdoin, Wes, Hamilton, Williams, Amherst, Bates were all in the tournament. Babson took out Bowdoin and Wes, and JHU took out Midd, but everyone else lost to a NESCAC team.
Volleyball hasn’t started yet, but Colby, Wes, Williams, and Tufts all qualified and none look like they could meet early on.
Impressive showing!
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Small clarification. Tufts and Midd are meeting in the Sweet Sixteen with a chance to get to the Round of Eight, not Final Four.
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Tufts men’s and women’s cross country teams are dancing this weekend. Tufts women pulled off the upset in the East Region, beating MIT to win it..
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Oops!! Soccer tourneys…edited to update.
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XC Nationals qualifiers:
Men – Amherst, Colby, Tufts, Wesleyan, Williams teams, Nathan Aronson (Bates), Jack Crum (Bates), Ellis Iurilli-Hough (Conn)
Women – Amherst, Bowdoin, Conn, Middlebury, Tufts, Williams, Ada Grant (Colby), Leah White (Bates), Stephanie Ager (Wesleyan), Chase Cerrell (Wesleyan), Taylor Harris (Hamilton)
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Thanks for that. Was looking at the top 2 brackets as I typed!
The D3 tournament starts with 64 teams, unlike the D1 tournament, which has 32.
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Yes, noted. I’m following the D1cone too. Always a game!
I did the same thing in my post…
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Tufts won today and is playing for the national title in field hockey tomorrow (against JHU).
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Wesleyan, Tufts, and Colby all in the sweet 16 for volleyball today!
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Tufts, Middlebury, and Amherst make Time’s Best Colleges for Future Leaders 2026 list:
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In the NCAA XC Championship, Middlebury’s Audrey Maclean wins the individual title in dominant fashion, by a whopping 48 seconds. The Williams women took 2nd overall in the team competition.
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We all know that any list without Williams at or near the top simply isn’t credible.
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And a Junior at that. In fact looks like three of the top four are Juniors.
Hot race next year. Although probably not for the team title. NYU had one senior of their seven.
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[Aside]
With upwards mobility being stagnant or dropping in the USA since the 1970s, and with leadership positions being available mostly to the wealthy and otherwise privileged, all that these rankings tell us is the wealth and privilege that the students of these universities have.
If the rankings had controlled for the background of the “leaders” who they chose for this ranking, I would assign a lot more importance. A CEO who got their first executive position at a corporation with executives who were rom the same social circle, is not a CEO because they attended Harvard. They attended Harvard because they came from the SES and social background that paved their way to eventually be a CEO.
The low social mobility of the USA during the lifetimes of most of these “leaders” supports my claim that these colleges didn’t help them become leaders, the colleges are simply set up to be colleges for the wealthy and privileged who are being groomed for “leadership” by their families, social circles, and schools. Harvard is #1, because that has been its mission for hundreds of years now.
Harvard didn’t help Bill Gates become a household name, since he dropped out after two years, yet this ranking assumes that Bill Balmer became the next CEO of Microsoft because he stayed and graduated Harvard.
I’m still taking the W for Midd 
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