Women’s 2019 QF Preview: Wesleyan vs. MIT

Hey y’all! NEW here along with my trusty sidekick, Analyst, to preview the second all-NE quarter final of this year’s tournament! Check out our first preview on the Midd/Amherst match and ASW and WestW’s trademark expertise in the CMS/CMU preview, too!! Well, after a thrilling regional, we have a *surprise* quarterfinalist team in MIT, and…

2019 NCAA Quarterfinal Preview: Middlebury vs Wesleyan

No. 3 Middlebury vs No. 6 Wesleyan NE: Welcome to MY NCAA Quarterfinal. That’s right folks, as it’s two of my teams, IT BELONGS TO ME! While we have four exciting quarterfinals ahead of us, this is the one I will be following the closest. Not only has this developed into a nice little rivalry…

NCAA Quarterfinal Preview: CMS vs Bowdoin

Welcome to the 2nd of our NCAA Quarterfinal previews. D3AS and newCentral already took a deeper look at the UAA rivalry matchup that is Emory vs Wash U, and now DIIIWest and I are here to examine the quarterfinal between the top seeded CMS Stags and the final Pool-C entrant in Bowdoin. As already scientifically…

Women’s 2019 QF Preview: Middlebury vs. Amherst

Hey guys and gals! I’ve gathered you all here today to celebrate my one year anniversary as a Blogger! 365 days ago (actually a bit longer, I started before Regionals), I hopped onto the scene as “Unnamed / Nameless” – your fav new Women’s blogger. And in the year since then, I’ve earned the title…

Narrative Mythology 101

2019 NCAA Quarterfinals: Narrative Mythology 101 As we’ve said over and over again on The Blog over the past few weeks, this year’s championship race is wide open, perhaps more so than any NCAAs in recent memory. As expected, we have all eight of the top seeds still remaining, which has the potential to make…

Competitiveness Series Part 5: Coaches Perspectives on Recruiting

Did you think that we’d forgotten about our Competitiveness Series amidst the excitement of NCAAs? Well, we didn’t. So far in our series The Analyst dropped her fiery first article, we had a blogger roundtable, a very factual discussion of competitiveness in recent history, and asked a whole bunch of amazing coaches for their perspectives…

Women’s NCAA Stream of Consciousness

Here on the women’s side of the blog we have a lot of feelings about NCAAs, and so we decided to get together and throw them onto a page for y’all. The guys side calls this a “stream of consciousness” article, but I’m hoping we have a little more structure than those. Either way, you’ll…

8 Singles matchups that could decide the Elite-8

It’s a tough decision. Small College Nationals. The first or second day of Indoors. The first Saturday of spring break. The Stag Hen. Conference tournament Sunday. A lot goes into the ranking of which day on the DIII tennis calendar is the best, but to me there is a clear answer. NCAA Quarterfinal Monday is…

Women’s Players of the Week NCAA Regionals Edition (5/6-5/12)

The Women’s Bloggers all came together to give you our picks for player of the week, some of our reactions to Regionals this past weekend, and some of our late night thoughts. Stay tuned for more regional recapping and NCAA coverage in the coming days. D3ASW Player: Taylor Garcia Team: Washington and Lee Results: 1-0…

2019 NCAA Quarterfinals: Roundtable

Less than one week until the NCAA Quarterfinals and the Face of the Blog WILL BE MAKING A VERY SPECIAL APPEARANCE! So if you know what’s good for you, bring AVZ some team swag and he’ll be sure to rep your squad while he’s golfing/curling/actually that’s all he does with his time. If you missed…