WBB: NESCAC

colby96 · September 28, 2014, 08:16:28 PM

Colby AD Zalot being forced to resign. Done at end of calendar year. Good news for Colby coaches.

NE Jeffs Fan · October 03, 2014, 06:43:24 PM

Amherst Schedule is on website. Seems that Williams travel partner is now Hamilton, and Middlebury is on their own. Finish the season on a Sunday with Middlebury and not a two game weekend. Some of the usual non-league with the plus Rhode Island, Arcadia, Manhattanville, St Lawrence (former Gromacki school), and Drew (former Amherst Ass't Coach).

amh63 · October 04, 2014, 10:27:58 AM

NE Jeffs Fan.....thanks for being on top of the news. Women news is always the last to come out...for example.... New players. The MBB info is still closed. Need to check on it. Coach Hixon was trying to fill in the schedule awhile back. November is coming fast.

. Plus K

Pat Coleman · October 06, 2014, 01:42:11 PM

Amherst men's schedule: http://www.d3hoops.com/teams/Amherst/Men/2014-15/index

nescac1 · October 07, 2014, 10:38:49 AM

A bit of early recruiting news for the Ephs:

Congrats to Blair Academy 6-0 Sr. G Lauren Vostal who has committed to Williams College.

ronk · October 07, 2014, 02:20:51 PM

I was interested in Lauren for Scranton, knew she had recently decided and was going to announce shortly.

amh63 · October 07, 2014, 03:31:21 PM

Pat C.....thanks for the info. Interesting that you picked up schedule while the Amherst website has not posted the schedule to date. Coach Hixon had been trying to fill a slot. How did your associate Dave M. get Coach Hixon to play Dave's school in Baltimore?

amh63 · October 07, 2014, 03:42:28 PM

ronk....tall for a guard. Any comments wrt to her talents? Wonder if Amherst had any interest? Amherst brought in 5 recruits this year...several with good size.

ronk · October 07, 2014, 05:12:50 PM

Quote from: amh63 on October 07, 2014, 03:42:28 PM
ronk....tall for a guard. Any comments wrt to her talents? Wonder if Amherst had any interest? Amherst brought in 5 recruits this year...several with good size.

I'd describe Lauren as best suited as an athletic wing(#3) rather than a guard; that's what she played with her AAU team, mostly because they had other guards to handle the ball.

ronk · October 07, 2014, 05:17:37 PM

Wesleyan gets a very good forward - Tara Berger 6-1 Rye Country Day.

NE Jeffs Fan · October 07, 2014, 05:26:11 PM

As it's only October and early decision isn't announced until sometime in December, a student athlete can commit to a school and say "you're my first choice, and this is where I want to go." BUT the admissions office is has the final say as there are no national letters of intent etc. Having said that usually each coach has from 1 to 3 slots for early decision and they can take their top few to admissions and be pretty sure that the admissions letters will say, "Welcome to ......" You do hear once in a while about an athlete that committed to a school, but the admissions office didn't honor that commitment for early decision.

Please add other info that you might know.

NE Jeffs Fan · October 07, 2014, 05:30:18 PM

When Amherst men and women play on the same day league games, the games are listed at the same time. Hopefully when posted on Amherst website, times will be correct on each schedule. Not sure who plays first this year, men or women.

nescac1 · October 07, 2014, 05:47:23 PM

In many years of following NESCAC sports, I've yet to hear of an athlete who announced a commitment to a NESCAC school in an early decision round, and then was denied admission. Or for that matter, even in the Spring. Coaches at these schools have a REALLY good idea of who will be admitted, directly from admissions, and they won't tell an athlete that they are going to be admitted ED without a good basis to do so. If they did, word would get around in a hurry and they would stop getting "committed" athletes in the first place.

I'm not saying it has NEVER happened, and of course there can be miscommunications or changes in circumstances (especially financial in nature). But trust me, it is exceedingly, exceedingly rare.

amh63 · October 07, 2014, 08:28:41 PM

NE Jeff Fan....you and me both wrt to the confusion of time conflicts. Earlier had myself convinced that the rotation of which team has the early start time was discontinued! Seems that another conference in NY state is planning to switch the start times for the teams. Oh well, life is too short for me to ponder further on the matter.

amh63 · October 09, 2014, 12:17:18 PM

NE JEFF FAN......the amherst men's scheduled is posted on the website. It provides no clarity wrt to the time conflick in the start times of the women and men teams. I have e-mailed the SID at Amherst to check on the conflict and resolve the posted schedules accordingly and reply to the question of rotation of team start times. Hopefully it will be done shortly. If not, will e-mail the AD on the matter.