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Quote from: George64Here's a list I made some time ago, he's up there with Dryden and Marinaro. Like Dryden, he brought home an NCAA championship.

Kyle Dake and other dominant Cornell athletes
Posted by: George64 (---.rochester.res.rr.com) [ PM ]
Date: March 28, 2013 04:35PM

Kyle Dake's extraordinary achievements led me to think about other truly dominant Cornell athletes. By dominant I mean athletes who stood head and shoulders above their intercollegiate peers as defined by sport and era (to accommodate changed levels of competition).

The following list is biased towards athletes of the last 50 years because that coincides with my time on the Hill and as an alum. It's also biased towards the sports that I've followed most closely and towards men's teams, because until recently women have played in their shadows. Because Ivy football and basketball lack parity with nationally ranked teams, I've set the bar lower for these two sports.

Men's Hockey: Ken Dryden, Doug Ferguson, Bruce Pattison, Dan Lodboa, Doug Murray, Lance Nethery, Joe Nieuwendyk, Dan Ratushny.

Men's Lacrosse: Mark Webster, Butch Hilliard, Bruce Cohen, Mike French, Eamon McEneany, Bill Marino, Tim Goldstein, Max Siebald, Rob Pannell.

Football: Gary Wood, Pete Gogolak, Ed Marinaro, Chris Zingo, Chad Levitt, Tom McHale, Kevin Boothe.

Wrestling: Dave Auble, Travis Lee, Kyle Dake.

Basketball: Chuck Rolles, Ryan Whittman.

Track and Field: Charlie Moore, Meredith Gourdine.

Women's Hockey: Rebecca Johnston, Laura Fortino, Lauriane Rougeau, with more to follow soon.

As I thought about this, I realized just how many extraordinary athletes I've seen over the years or at least read about. I've set the bar high -- this list excludes scores of All-Americans. I'm sure that I've left out many deserving candidates.

I would add Morgan Uceny to the track & field list.  She was the #1-ranked women's 1500 meter runner in the world in 2011 (the first American in 26 years).  She had the misfortune of being tripped in the finals at both the 2011 world championships and the 2012 London olympics.  

Rudy Winkler was ranked #1 in the world in the men's hammer throw in 2020 and #2 in 2021.

congratulations to bancroft!  i wish he could play another year at cornell but probably not nearly as much as he does.  i trust that he's thought this through and made the right decision.  wishing him nothing but the best of luck!

i appreciate and share the desire to understand everything but there is nothing to be investigated.

chance plays a large role in hockey which creates large variability in winning, finishing, or saving, especially in small sample sets.  it's human tendency to greatly underestimate the effect of randomness when evaluating strings of success or failure.

injuries play a large role in sports performance which is why disclosure is so important where it's required.  as important as who suits up or not is who is playing with injuries and how bad the injuries are.  this is something that we will likely never know and we certainly don't want the world to know.

while there can be great variability in results, it's silly to think that there can be great variability in one's coaching ability.  as is the thought that one can be a good coach but is unable to identify strong lieutenants and successors.  good leaders can make bad hiring decisions from time to time but that is rarely the case when there is past experience working together.  

one of the big appeals of cornell hockey to fans, players, and coaches is the positive energy and atmosphere of lynah.  i hope that recruits aren't here on elynah, thinking that the mix of commentary is reflective of the actual support that the entire community provides.

I would be interested in one of the tickets for the Sunday game (jan 2) if still available.  if you have an electronic ticket through the asu ticket site, please transfer it to bernie.han@gmail.com.  thank you!

https://am.ticketmaster.com/sundevils/my-events

from the same page, looks like our team is t-2nd in height, 22nd in weight, and (but for a data format problem) the youngest in d1 hockey

https://twitter.com/CornellTFXC/status/1406772315459928067/photo/1

bernie han '86 +2

bernie han '86

01  P  W
02  Q  W
03 ^Y  W
04 ^B  W
05  G  L
06 ^G  W
07 ^H  L
08 ^D  W
09  U  W
10  R  W
11 ^K  W
12 ^S  W
13  B  W
14  Y  W
15 ^R  W
16 ^U  L

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i have one ticket (cornell section i think - i paid $19 via cornell ticket office) at will call for saturday night's game and will not be able to attend.  free for anyone who wants it and knows how to transfer a will call ticket.  email me at bernie.han@gmail.com if interested

L at Hvd
W at Drt
W SLU
W Clk
L at Yal
W at Brn
T at Col
W Uni
W RPI
L at Qpc
W at Prn
W Drt
W Hvd

roughly half a mile from jordans and two miles to max

from a recent denver alum email:


We are going to be doing a pre-game get-together on both nights at Jordan's. We will meet at 5:30 pm on Friday and 5:00 pm on Saturday. It will be pay as you go, so people can arrive whenever they want and have as much or as little as they want. It should be a festive atmosphere, with a lot of Cornell spirit.

Our after event party on both nights will be at Max Gill and Grill, home to the ever-popular Zinck's Night. We have the back tiki bar reserved, and that should be a fun place to wind down the celebration each night.



http://www.jordansbistroandpub.com/modules/wfchannel/

http://www.maxgillandgrill.com

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Quote from: dag14Men's soccer beats Columbia 1-0 to win the Ivy outright for the first time since 1977.  Congratulations are definitely in order!

Fall sports have not been Cornell's domain lately if ever. That said, women's cross country won Heps for the second year in a row.

...and they're competing in the ncaa championships in louisville this saturday - first time in 11 years.  they were ranked as high as #8 in the country at one point - now #16