N • Maintaining diversity
Chancellor Kent Syverud discussed SU’s plan for the Supreme Court’s upcoming affirmative action decision.
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C • Young at heart
Every year, As Young As You Feel Day reminds everyone that age is just a number. Local elders have advice for people looking to be as happy as they are.
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Kelly Breen changed teams multiple times, but regardless of the switch, she’s always working to improve her game
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By Stephanie Wright asst. news editorFrom 2004 to 2017, Professor Nancy Sharp carried Syracuse University’s silver mace at the university convocations and commencement ceremonies.
In full academic regalia attire and in front of thousands of people in the Dome, Nancy Sharp led the academic procession, and despite the pressure of thousands of people watching, she never faltered, said David Rubin, former dean of the Newhouse
School Of Public Communications.
Nancy Sharp died on Feb. 12 at the age of 86 after a lifelong career in journalism which colleagues described as pioneering. She was one of the first women to be hired as faculty at Newhouse in the 1970s, and in addition to serving as SU’s mace bearer, she was a professor of newspaper journalism and as associate dean for graduate and professional studies.
She first moved to Syracuse with her husband, Professor Emerita James Roger Sharp, in August 1966, when he was hired by SU’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and
Public Affairs to teach in and eventually chair the Department of History. They later had two children, Sandy and Matt.
The two met in the spring of their sophomore year at the University of Missouri, James Sharp said, and married in December of their senior year. He said Nancy graduated top of her class, and was always a strong writer.
“She did very, very well, and she just came to (writing) very naturally. She taught me to write and she taught me how to swim,” James Sharp said.
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on campus
Two New York Times best-selling authors with divergent viewpoints on racial issues and identity, Michael Eric Dyson and John McWhorter, will speak in a campus conversation on March 31 to initiate meaningful political discussions between students, according to a March 9 SU News release.
Gretchen Ritter, Syracuse University’s vice chancellor, provost and chief academic officer, will be moderating the upcoming conversation, which
is titled “Fostering a Diverse and Healthy Democracy in a Period of Polarization.” The event aims to encourage civil discourse and empower students to speak about hot-topic political issues, Ritter said.
Dyson, a professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University and political analyst for MSNBC, analyzes the significance of Black people’s efforts to make race part of a national conversation over the course of American history in his book.
McWhorter, who is an English and comparative literature professor at Columbia University, argues that
antiracism has become an “illogical religion” that is “unintentionally neoracist” rather than progressive.
Biko Gray, an assistant professor at SU’s College of Arts and Sciences, expressed concern about McWhorter’s views on race in light of his future appearance on campus during Wednesday’s University Senate meeting.
“I understand that we need to have two sides and all of that, but I think there’s a difference between equivocation for equivocations sake and someone whose work quite frankly, produces a kind of rhetorical violence against Black
people,” Gray said.
Regarding the talk’s premise of the divergence in the two speakers’ perspectives, Ritter said she wants the discussion to bring about debate and dialogue among SU students on the biggest challenges within the U.S. today.
“What I am hoping for more than anything… is that folks will get a chance to see really thoughtful, considered people with different points of view discussing, debating and learning from each other in a way that, for me, seeks to model the kind of atmosphere and approach I would love for us
to be encouraging and valuing on campus,” Ritter said.
Ritter said that as part of the university’s Academic Strategic Plan, a roadmap of academic objectives SU aims to reach by 2028, a commitment to diversity and inclusion includes being open to diverse points of view. SU promised in the initial draft of the ASP released Feb. 17 to provide all undergraduate students with the “necessary educational resources” to develop interest in civil discourse and deliberative democracy.
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Nancy Sharp, one of the first women to be hired as faculty at Newhouse in the 1970s, is remembered for her impactful journalism and trailblazing role at SU
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“It was very warm. She was always an incredibly warm and a ectionate person and really, always very, very positive.”Joel Kaplan, Newhouse associate dean, on Nancy Sharp
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“You have to be kind to children and take your time with them, but we don’t o er that patience with ourselves. I believe in nurturing all people with patience, taking your time and making sure they understand.” - Madeline Hall, Brookdale Summerfi eld Independent Living resident
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“At some point though, it can no longer be the students’ responsibility to continuously ask for change or their religious practices to be recognized by the university they attend.”Sarhia Rahim, columnist
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SPORTS
“She’s like a sponge, she picks up on everything. She will never fail for lack of knowledge.” - Kimbo Howard, Kelly Breen’s former coach
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Noteworthy events this week.
WHAT: Take Back the Night Star Making
WHEN: March 23, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: Schine Student Center
WHAT: Narcan and Opioid Training
WHEN: March 24, 10:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
WHERE: The Barnes Center at The Arch 309
WHAT: Geek/Art CONfl uence Comic Con
WHEN: March 26, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
WHERE: Sha er Art Building
Syracuse University’s Community Review Board announced the board is in talks to start a potential collaboration with Syracuse’s Citizen Review Board, members revealed during the board’s second annual spring open forum on Wednesday evening.
SU’s Community Review Board, a group of 11 selected SU community members who independently oversee SU’s Department of Public Safety, formed after former-U.S Attorney General Loretta Lynch released her February 2021 report of independent counsel on the department. The report, which outlined recommendations for standard operating procedures and safety operations for DPS, identified an erosion of trust between DPS and the campus community.
The group hosted its first open forum in April 2022 and continued the event this year with the goal of creating a safe space for SU students, faculty and staff to communicate with board members on how the group can advocate for improvements for the campus community, said Brianna Sclafani, a thirdyear law student and member of the board.
The city of Syracuse’s review board, the establishment of which was signed into law in 2011, created a citizen-controlled process to review grievances against members of the Syracuse Police Department.
The board functions to review complaints and recommend action against alleged misconduct by SPD officers, including damages to property, violations of citizens’ constitutional rights and other acts of misconduct by police.
In the discussion surrounding the SU review board’s potential collaboration with the city’s board, supporters of a connection between the two groups pointed to the Syracuse city board’s longer history of working through issues related to police accountability, saying the university’s board
will have to face the same issues at some point, too, and could benefit from knowledge acquired from supervising SPD.
Sclafani also said at the meeting that SU’s board has reviewed and offered recommendations for two proposals submitted by DPS, one of which would prohibit DPS officers from arresting SU community members in any academic setting unless in certain outlined circumstances, including if a suspect is believed to be armed
with a weapon or makes threats of violence to themselves or others.
The proposals, which the board heard at its Feb. 1 meeting, come after DPS officers arrested an SU student inside the Martin J. Whitman School of Management in February 2022.
The board plans to send an email to the campus community with information on how to apply for a position for the 2023-2024 academic year, Sclafani said. The 2022-2023 Community
Review Board is currently composed of three undergraduate students, two faculty members, two administrators, two staff members, one graduate student and one law student. Positions for the CRB are available to all SU students, faculty, staff and administrators.
Applications to join the board are due March 31, and applicants will be notified of a decision by April 14.
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The Syracuse University Senate discussed the potential ramifications of the Supreme Court’s upcoming decision on affirmative action and addressed an upcoming event at SU hosting authors with opposing viewpoints on racial issues during its Wednesday meeting.
In his remarks to the Senate, Chancellor Kent Syverud announced a working group — headed by vice chancellor, provost and chief academic officer Gretchen Ritter and senior vice president and chief student experience officer Allen Groves — to address implications of the Supreme Court’s potential affirmative action strike down.
“We are being very proactive in our approach so that we can be nimble and respond based on the detail of the Court’s decisions,” Syverud said.
The committee does not currently involve any students, which Ritter said is due to the
fact that its work is protected under legal privilege. But she said the committee will involve student feedback in the future.
“The committee itself is diverse and inclusive, even without student representation on this one steering committee,” Ritter said. “I am committed and we will be committed to having an inclusion of student voices in the work that we do.”
A decision from the Court is expected sometime this summer, and the committee is discussing Syracuse’s response to the possible outcomes.
“Inclusion has been one of the core tenants of Syracuse University since its founding in 1870.
We are committed to maintaining a diverse student body in the future,” Syverud said. “The Supreme Court’s decisions may make this more difficult and may require us to redouble our efforts in different ways, but Syracuse University will remain a diverse and inclusive university.”
Senator Biko Gray, a professor of religion, said he hopes SU will not waver in its commitment
to including students of color regardless of the case’s outcome.
“It seems to me that whatever the Supreme Court does, I think it is this institution’s moral responsibility to uphold — in whatever way, shape or form — a commitment to students of color and specifically to Black students, even if that means going against whatever the Supreme Court does,” Gray said.
The Senate also addressed an upcoming event — set up as a conversation between “Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America” author Michael Eric Dyson and John McWhorter, author of “Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America” — titled “Fostering a Diverse and Healthy Democracy in a Period of Polarization.”
Several senators expressed their concern about SU bringing McWhorter in to speak. McWhorter, who is a professor of linguistics
at Columbia University, has been critical of the anti-racism movement.
“I’m deeply troubled that John McWhorter is going to come here. I understand that we need to have two sides and all of that, but I think there’s a certain difference between equivocation for equivocation’s sake and someone whose work quite frankly produces a kind of rhetorical violence against Black people,” Gray said.
Ritter said the event intends to model democratic discussions in which strong ideological differences are present.
“I hope that we will have students, faculty and staff who come who see this as an interesting and worthwhile conversation, for whom it provokes further dialogue in consideration on some of the issues that are raised,” she said.
Gray maintained that inviting McWhorter to speak puts the Black community in a precarious position.
“Giving people platforms to articulate ideas that could be dangerous for folks who are from marginalized communities … there is an ethical concern about that. John McWhorter is one of those people,” Gray said.
Syverud said he has reviewed Student Association’s sustainability report and expects to make a joint announcement with SA’s leadership before the next USen meeting regarding steps the university can take to increase sustainability efforts.
Suzette Melendez, chair of USen’s committee on race, ethnicity, equity and inclusion reported the committee held discussions on the increased need for student access to the food pantry due to changing socioeconomic conditions. Additionally, the committee discussed available prayer spaces for Muslim students and the processes for reporting bias-related incidents.
Ritter encouraged all faculty to complete training offered by the Office of Student Experience about how to support and identify students experiencing mental health issues.
The North Syracuse Central School District will lose its federal COVID-19 relief funding this September, two years after receiving $7.8 million through the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriation Act of 2021.
On Dec. 27, 2020, President Donald Trump signed the CRRSA Act into law, which provided an additional $54.3 billion for the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief, or ESSER II, fund. The act authorized funding for a second Education Stabilization Fund for coronavirus response because of the pandemic’s impact on education.
New York state received $4 billion in ESSER II funds to support local educational agencies that were impacted by COVID-19. The CRRSA act also provided $322.8 million in Governor’s Emergency Education Relief funds to provide educational agencies with emergency assistance, $251.2 million of which going to the Emergency Assistance to Non-Public Schools grant program.
NSCSD must spend its federal stimulus aid granted under the CRRSA by September 30, 2023, and its $11.5 million in funding from the American Rescue Plan by September 30, 2024.
In a February budget update, NSCSD announced it will spend the remaining CRRSA funds on academic recovery for Academic Intervention Services’ teachers and teacher assistants, family engagement counselors and social workers, Social Emotional Learning restorative practices, health services, COVID-19 testing and instructional support for teachers on special assignments before September.
“That (loss in funding) is going to be a challenge for us, because with that money,
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Early in her career Nancy worked as a news and feature writer for several newspapers and publications, from a small Oklahoma newspaper when she first married James Sharp to later writing for the Missouri Historical Society. When the couple moved to California, Nancy began working for The Oakland Tribune, where she continued as a correspondent after moving to Washington, D.C. and produced a series of publications with her husband entitled “American Legislative Leaders: 1911-1994.”
James Sharp remembers Nancy continually supporting him throughout the writing and editing process, which took five years. Now, he’s editing her manuscript about holistic health and medicine and hopes to have it published posthumously.
The two also worked together frequently when James Sharp was writing history papers for his degree. He said he would give her 12-page papers to proofread late at night, and she would reliably point out areas to improve on. He said she always took a “mountain of time” to grade student papers, and she was sure to do the same for him.
“I was so tired and that was the last thing I wanted to hear. The only thing I wanted to hear was it’s genius, it’s fabulous,” James Sharp said. “But she was brave enough, brave enough to say she wanted the best for me.”
As one of Newhouse’s first woman faculty members, she served as a mentor for many other women colleagues, said Barbara Croll Fought, a former professor of broadcast journalism at SU.
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president and chief student experience officer, said in the release that universities play a critical role in providing students exposure to a wide range of viewpoints and ideas in a welcoming environment.
“This lecture is just such an opportunity, featuring two prominent voices in the civic arena who model constructive engagement in a world that is increasingly fractured,” Groves said in the release.
While political polarization is a potential threat to American democracy, Ritter said, another risk is the lack of young people interested in public service. Fewer than half of Americans between the ages of 18 voted in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, which was 15 percentage points lower than overall
we did add a lot of support for the entire district,” Superintendent Daniel Bowles told CNY Central.
This loss in funding comes as Syracuse begins its pivot toward preparing for Micron Technology’s arrival in 2024. Officials from both the city and the country have been meeting since Micron in October 2022 announced its plans to spend up to $100 billion building a 1,400-acre semiconductor manufacturing plant.
NSCSD announced in the budget update that it continues to develop a positive relationship with the Micron team. The presentation explains that members from the district recently met with Micron again to orient them to the school district and discuss collaboration opportunities to improve education for students and staff in the district.
Micron’s arrival has also influenced the curriculum of New York’s first STEAM high school, which is expected to begin in June and will feature a semiconductor manufacturing technology concentration.
“When Micron announced they were coming here, we did add that as a concentration because there will be needs for workers in that area,” said Jody Manning, executive director and planning STEAM principal.
The STEAM high school, which will replace the former Central High School on S. Warren St., hopes to attract 60% of its students from Syracuse City School District and 40% from the surrounding areas that includes NCSD.
Through the funds provided in a Micron Foundation grant to the North Syracuse Education Foundation, NSCSD will host a Chip Camp, which is set to take place from June 27-29 for approximately 120-150 students in seventh through ninth grade.
At the camp, students will have the opportunity to participate in hands-on STEM
“I always admired her. She was a very positive person, always very upbeat, and yet she was really good about helping other women faculty understand the importance of work-life balance, which is hard for faculty women,” Fought said.
In the early 2000s, Nancy Sharp and Fought were both assigned to teach courses in London for an early iteration of SU’s abroad program. Fought said as she grew closer to Nancy there, she saw her commitment to students and journalism firsthand.
“She was a lot of fun, she was always ready for something new. She was always ready for new innovations, new challenges, new things to do outside of work,” Fought said. “She was a joy to be with, a very loving spirit, a very joyful spirit.”
Among Nancy’s many legacies at Newhouse is the Graduate Newspaper Fellowship for Minorities program. Rubin, who Nancy helped to hire, said that after discussing the lack of diversity in newsrooms across the country with Steve Rogers, former publisher of the Syracuse Post-Standard newspaper, Nancy worked to create a program that recruited minority graduate students to SU.
After students in the program graduated from SU, they were matched with a job at one of the Newhouse-affiliated papers across the country. The program is still in place today.
“This program proved to be quite successful and there are many young people who ended up in the journalism field and working in newsrooms and increasing Black representation in newsrooms,” Rubin said. “Nancy lit a fire under this to get it going, so we have a lot to thank her for there.”
activities that will help them prepare for jobs in semiconductor manufacturing and engineering jobs, according to a NSCSD news release. Students will have the opportunity to work with Micron team members and engineering students from local universities.
NSCSD also will be hosting Micron’s Girls Going Tech, an initiative designed to encourage girls to consider careers in
Professor Roy Gutterman said he continues to see the benefits of the Graduate Newspaper Fellowship as a faculty member today. Gutterman, an SU alum, had Nancy as his Newhouse faculty advisor and took history classes taught by James Sharp.
technology and STEM careers, according to the budget update.
“We are excited about the opportunities this will provide for students that would not be possible without the Micron Foundation’s generosity and vision,” President of NSEF Jackie Forte said in the press release.
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Kaplan said Nancy’s efforts to incorporate students into the Newhouse community expanded from the graduate program to include international students as well. He recalled that she would host potluck dinners where international students could bring traditional dishes from their home countries.
“It was really a wonderful way to welcome international students to Syracuse. It was very warm, she was always an incredibly warm and affectionate person and really, always very, very positive,” Kaplan said.
Both James Sharp and Nancy’s colleagues described her as a supportive coworker who was dedicated to her students and helping those around her. They said her contributions shaped Newhouse during her time at SU and had a lasting impact.
“She and her husband were real pillars of the university community. They were part of the fabric of the university and it means a lot to have people like that here for long term,” Gutterman said.
“We’ve had some really amazing students come through here who might not have been able to come through here had it not been for that program,” Gutterman said. “The program is still in place, and we continue to reap the benefits of that vision.”
Joel Kaplan, who currently serves as associate dean for graduate programs at Newhouse, pointed to the fact that Nancy was the one to change all graduate programs to be one year long instead of two. She identified the summer as a time to begin graduate programs early in the form of a “bootcamp.”
turnout, The New York Times reported. Much of this necessary change begins at colleges and universities, Ritter said.
“As citizens, it is important that we always think of our democracy as something that we don’t just assume is healthy and robust, but that it requires each of us to be engaged citizens to make sure that we protect and sustain it,” Ritter said.
Ritter highlighted SU’s efforts to keep students civically engaged, and pointed to the October 2022 discussion at SU with former Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), in which Cheney encouraged students to engage in civil service and defend American democracy in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Ritter also expressed excitement for the
Throughout her years as a faculty member at SU, Nancy Sharp continued as a contributing medical and science reporter for the Syracuse Post-Standard. Her husband said that many of her assignments were to write about lectures at SUNY Upstate Medical University; after publishing her pieces, the lecturers would frequently say her writing described their ideas better than they had themselves.
“Even though they were experts in this field, and were trying to explain it, Nancy had a way of sort of distilling the true sense and explanation of whatever this person was talking about,” James Sharp said. “She heard that many, many times.” spwright@syr.edu @Stephaniwri_
new Institute for Democracy Journalism and Citizenship, a joint effort between the Maxwell School and Newhouse School to promote nonpartisan dialogue and engagement among young people.
Ritter said she hopes students will continue carrying out conversations on hottopic issues after the March 31 conversation and come together to solve the biggest problems facing the U.S. moving forward.
“I believe deeply in American democracy and in American democratic traditions. That doesn’t mean we’re perfect.” Ritter said. “That doesn’t mean we don’t have work to do, and it certainly doesn’t mean we should just assume everything is fine.”
“This lecture is just such an opportunity, featuring two prominent voices in the civic arena who model constructive engagement in a world that is increasingly fractured.”
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“She and her husband were real pillars of the university community. They were part of the fabric of the university and it means a lot to have people like that here for a long term.”
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March 22 is national As Young As You Feel Day, a day to defy ageist stereotypes and embody the phrase “age is just a number.” But for residents at Brookdale Summerfield Independent Living, such barriers are smashed 365 days of the year, no matter their age or gender, epitomizing what it means to be young at heart.
Tom Gaughan, 79
When Tom Gaughan got down on one knee in front of his future wife Karen, she had proposals of her own. Karen had four requirements, Gaughan said, before she agreed to marry him — they would have six boys, she and the children would spend a month in Cape Cod, Tom would get a good job, their children would be educated, she would continue to ski, Tom would learn to ski and the family would take ski trips together.
Now, Gaughan recalls that pivotal conversation with his soon-to-be wife and attributes that moment as the catalyst to why, today, he confidently calls his life “pretty much perfect.”
“I’ve been very successful in my life, and it’s because of the woman I married and the advice I got from her,” Gaughan said.
Gaughan built a successful insurance career in central New York. Initially, he entered the workforce in the real estate business, following in his father’s footsteps. But with a mild recession in 1969, the real estate market wasn’t incredibly profitable, so he made a change.
Gaughan pursued grocery insurance, working with independent grocers for roughly 31 years, with competitive rates that boosted him to the top of his field. But Gaughan explained he didn’t just work for the money. He loved his job for the people he met and for learning something new every day.
“I always tell people to find what they love, because then you’ll never work,” Gaughan said. “Then they’ll be like me. I’m wealthy, I have a wonderful family and we have a lot of fun. That’s what life is about.”
Dorothy “Dottie” Riener, 100 Just a month ahead of her 101st birthday, Dorothy “Dottie” Riener has a piece of advice she wants to make crystal clear — don’t give up on the short guys.
Dottie, who always believed her “Mr. Right” needed to be tall, dark and handsome, was swept off her feet when she met high school sweetheart Charles “Chuck” Riener, who stood 5’5” tall. see advice page 8
Even before Charlie Hane began work on his senior thesis film, he already had real-world experience in the industry halfway across the country. With his friends that joined him on this project, Hane is now ready to put his professional skills to good use.
“Working in the outside world gives you a little bit of a taste for the fire you have to have in anything creative,” Hane said. “The motivating passion behind it is coming from a place of professionalism.”
While the pandemic may have shut many doors for people across the country, Hane took the opportunity to leave Syracuse University for a year and make the best of a tough situation. He created a commercial videography company in Austin, Texas and named it Voyager.
Hane moved to Austin with Robby Shaffer, Maria Raad and Sophie Penn to establish the company. Through their experiences away from SU, students like Hane found a silver lining in the pandemic. Two years after returning to Syracuse, these students are about to see their efforts come to fruition with their senior thesis films.
Every member of the group that established Voyager in Austin is also now part of Hane’s team for his thesis film, “Divorced Dads Hotel.” Shaffer is his assistant director, Raad is his assistant camera operator and Penn is his script supervisor.
In Austin, Voyager produced commercials for clients around the area. They chose that
location because it is known for its high rates of entrepreneurship, Hane said.
They learned how to be flexible and take on new roles in each set as they collaborated on each other’s commercials. The skills they developed helped them work on Hane’s thesis film and provided them with professional insight, he said. Their motivation shifted from fear of a teacher’s disappointment with their work to fear of their company failing.
The thesis film is inspired by the Wednesday afternoons and weekends Hane spent at a neighborhood hotel visiting his recently divorced father. During this time, Hane made some unexpected friends with other children in the
same situation. Over a quarter of the team helping Hane with this film also took time off from school during the pandemic to gain professional experience that they wouldn’t have otherwise had time to pursue as college students.
“It’s really meant to shed light on the fact that even in the worst of times, you can find friends or moments or memories that are going to bring you out,” Hane said.
“Divorced Dads Hotel” is a dramatization of Hane’s own childhood. In his film, a girl named Mary with a recently divorced father meets two brothers, and they attempt to solve the mystery of why their families split apart.
Once the film is completed in May, it will
be presented at SU’s senior showcase and a directors showcase at Skidmore University, and submitted to various film festivals.
Maddie Keith, a producer for “Divorced Dads Hotel,” met Hane during the year he spent away from SU. She helped with some of his independent professional work in Austin and considers it a valuable experience, especially for someone still in college.
“Working on a real set with real money and grown-ups involved kicked me into higher professional gear,” Keith said.
This year, Keith is working on multiple thesis films and wants to share the knowledge she has gained. She wants to help other students be organized and have a strong work ethic, as she learned while working in Austin.
Olivia Thompson, the art director on Hane’s set, gained professional experience when she did the SU LA program, where she completed her capstone. The experience helped her to grow into the skills that she needs to succeed in the industry, she said.
The organization skills she gained from previous experiences helped her with her role on this film, Thompson said. She and Hane spearheaded the thesis and past work gave her the confidence to be heavily involved with the film’s decisions.
The high level experiences Hane gained didn’t stop once he returned to SU. Along with Rowan Oliver — the line producer for Hane’s thesis project — Hane participated in SU’s Prague program at the fifth oldest film school in the world, Hane said.
One of the reasons that SU is one of the best film schools is because of its Prague program, Oliver said. SU professor Kara Herold is from the Czech Republic and helped in founding the program.
“It really set me up for working in the real world,” Oliver said. “But in a place that I still felt safe.”
Through independent ventures, the Prague program and the SULA program, this year’s batch of seniors has a unique set of experiences, Hane said. Hane’s film will be the culmination of many students taking tough circumstances into their own hands and managing to further their careers in the process.
“I’m taking that real world experience with me into this film,” Hane said. “If me and my team don’t put it together, it’s not coming together.”
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It’s really meant to shed light on the fact that even in the worst of times, you can find friends or moments or memories that are going to bring you out,”Charlie Hane director of “divorced dad hotel
It’s really meant to shed light on the fact that even in the worst of times, you can find friends or moments or memories that are going to bring you outHARLIE HANE, MADDIE KEITH AND OLIVIA THOMPSON worked together in Austin, Texas to make the production company Voyage. Now, the trio worked together to make Hane’s senior thesis film “Divorced Dads Hotel.” cassandra roshu asst. photo ediotr CHARLIE HANE, MADDIE KEITH AND OLIVIA THOMPSON joined forces to work on Hane’s film ‘Divorced Dads Hotel.’ The film is Hane’s senior thesis project for his film production major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. cassandra roshu asst. photo ediotr
Before spring break, Coach Jim Boeheim announced his retirement, shocking the Syracuse University community. Well, shocked might not be the right word. Let’s go with…slightly surprised. I mean after 47 years as head coach and a national championship, Boeheim deserves a lengthy retirement.
Although I have no idea how basketball works and I only attend the games in hopes that a future NBA player will notice me, Boeheim’s retirement announcement has hit me hard. He was like a grandfather to me — if my grandfather didn’t know who I was, and instead of fighting in the Korean War, he was a basketball coach.
I realize that the world unfortunately does not revolve around me and other people are
sentient beings with emotions like myself. So if I’m sad about Boeheim’s retirement, others may be too. The question then becomes: how do we cope with Coach Boeheim’s absence? Moving on is never easy, but with my help, acceptance is possible. For this reason, I’ve compiled a list of ways the Syracuse community can cope with Boeheim’s retirement.
1. Pretend it’s not happening. Whatever bogus therapist said that denial is an unhealthy coping mechanism was completely out of their mind. If you deny anything hard enough, it can become your sweet, sweet reality. That’s why I wake up everyday and replay old basketball games. That way I can pretend the game is live and Coach Boeheim is still on the sidelines
telling tall men to run faster.
2. Distract yourself. Try to do things that won’t remind you of our crippling reality. Stay away from activities that might bring up old memories. Go for a walk—oh God, the memories are coming back. Coach Boeheim used to walk. Okay, walking is off the table. Watch TV—no, remember how you used to watch Syracuse basketball games on that very same TV. Make dinner— Boeheim probably ate dinner once. Oh god, you can’t do anything without the vicious reminders.
3. Phone a friend. Call a buddy up. They’ll probably ask you, “Are you calling to talk about Boeheim’s retirement again? Dude, it’s really not that deep. You’re acting like he was your grandpa or something. Is there
something else going on in your life or are you really that upset over a basketball coach’s retirement?” Then, hang up and realize no one understands your pain.
4. Cry. Sometimes it’s best to just get it out! I suggest you lie in a puddle of your own tears until your extremities begin to prune. Then send a picture of yourself crying to Boeheim and hope he thinks it’s sweet and not totally pathetic.
5. Acceptance
If these tips don’t help, I don’t know what else will. Well, actually, you could try remembering the strong foundation Boeheim has built and that the future of SU basketball is bright. I probably should have started with that. Whoops! ahunt04@syr.edu
The Lost Horizon
Kick off the weekend at The Lost Horizon on Friday night with a performance by Picture Us Tiny, the stage name of former Syracuse University student, Jackson Viel. The punk-rock inspired artist first began making music during the pandemic and has gained a steady following ever since. He will be joined by special guests Life is A Party and Every So Often. Tickets can be purchased online.
WHEN: Friday, March 24 at 7 p.m.
PRICE: $12
The Lost Horizon
Stop by The Lost Horizon Saturday night to see a performance by Otherworldy Entity. The Syracuse local rock band was first formed in 2018 and aims to bring audiences a strong blend of intense yet emotional music. They will be joined by special guests Less than Hate, Bound and Quartered and Rampage. Tickets can be purchased online.
WHEN: Saturday, March 25 at 6 p.m.
PRICE: $17.45
Funk ‘n Waffles
Stop by The Lost Horizon Saturday night to see a performance by Otherworldy Entity. The Syracuse local rock band was first formed in 2018 and aims to bring audiences a strong blend of intense yet emotional music. They will be joined by special guests Less than Hate, Bound and Quartered and Rampage. Tickets can be purchased online.
WHEN: Friday, March 24 at 8:00 with doors opening at 7 p.m.
PRICE: $15.13
Funk ‘n Waffles
On Saturday night, Funk ‘n Waffles is hosting a performance by Syracusebased metal band Void Emperor. Since their formation in 2020, the group has experienced a lot of success, including winning a Syracuse Area Music Award for its self-titled debut LP. Special guests Fox45 and Mantra will also perform. Tickets can be purchased online.
WHEN: Saturday, March 25 at 8 p.m. with doors opening at 7 p.m.
PRICE: $13.07
University Union announced on Wednesday that they will be featuring comedians Trevor Wallace and Chriss Redd for a night of comedy on Saturday, April 1 in Goldstein Auditorium.
Wallace is a 29-year-old standup comedian, writer and actor from Camarillo, California. He has a large presence on social media, amassing around 2.5 billion views across his TikTok, Instagram and YouTube pages. He has been featured on Comedy Central, MTV, Buzzfeed and Complex, as well as the New York and L.A. Times. In 2020, he was a finalist for the “Best in Comedy” award at the Shorty Awards.
Redd was a featured cast member on “Saturday Night Live” from 2017 to 2022. He is the co-creator, writer and star of the scripted comedy series “Bust Down,” which debuted on Pea -
cock earlier this year. His first one-hour comedy special “Why Am I Like This?” is streaming on HBO Max.
The doors of Goldstein Auditorium will open at 7 p.m. on the night of the show, and a link to reserve seats will be available in the coming days.
At the show, the Dome Bag Policy will be in effect, meaning backpacks, professional cameras, alcohol, drugs and re-entry will not be permitted. Attendees will be able to bring clear bags, wristlets, fanny packs and clutches to the event.
For any other press information, please contact Quinn Schmidt, Director of Public Relations, at uupublicrelations@gmail.com.
To request further accommodations, contact University Union’s Vice President Ashley Bruce at uuvicepresident@gmail.com. culture@dailyorange.com
The Oncenter
On Saturday night, the Oncenter Theater will be hosting the Symphoria Orchestra of Central New York. They will be performing three works in a program entitled “The Great,” named after Schubert’s Symphony No. 9. This performance is a part of the orchestra’s Masterworks series. Tickets can be purchased online.
WHEN: Saturday, March 25 at 7:30 p.m.
PRICE: Starting at $20, $5 with valid college ID
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“(My husband) was short and cute with a terrific sense of humor,” Dottie said. “We were married for 78 years, and I loved him from the day I met him.”
Dottie met her “five foot ball of fire” when she was 20 and Charles was 22. Married during World War II, Dottie and Chuck were separated for the first four years of their marriage, on and off, since Chuck was serving in the Air Force. Riener explained that her husband was deployed to the Mariana Islands, where the first tests of atomic bombs were conducted that eventually won the war.
After the war ended, Chuck earned his degree in medical photography at the present-day Rochester Institute of Technology under the provisions of the GI bill. He took a job at the Syracuse VA Medical Center — where Dottie, who had taken business classes in high school, began working as a secretary.
Dottie explained that neither she nor her husband’s careers were the priority in their lives, but rather their jobs provided them the financial means to achieve their true life goals — fun and adventure with their three children. The first home they purchased together was large and expensive, Dottie said, and shortly after, the couple decided to downsize, in order to achieve their true goals.
all the difference.
“My words of advice will always be don’t give up on the short guys,” Dottie said. “One could change your life.”
Madeline Hall, 93
At 93 years old, with tall stature and a soft-spoken voice, Madeline Hall believes in patience. Madeline, who was born in Texas and moved to Syracuse when she was a child, holds education, goals and the lessons we can learn from children, paramount.
“You have to be kind to children and take your time with them …. but we don’t offer that patience with ourselves,” Madeline said. “I believe in nurturing all people with patience. Taking your time and making sure they understand.”
Madeline’s compassion and patience stood out in her work as both a hospital administrator at the Syracuse VA Medical Center and as a religious education instructor in First Communion classes at Corpus Christi Church in South Onondaga, where she herself was a devout parishioner her entire life.
But Madeline’s deepest love, she said, was for her late husband James Hall. James, whom Madeline called the “best-looking man that ever lived here,” was an electrical contractor and shared two children with Madeline— Deborah Ann and Randy.
With her husband, her church community and her active social life, Madeline believes she was motivated to learn new things and changed for the better. Believing that people are inherently social and wither in isolation, Madeline always fought to break out of her comfort zone and broaden her perspectives.
“Become involved, don’t be by yourself … it keeps you thinking better,” Madeline said. “It keeps you physically and mentally active.”
Together, Madeline and James Hall raised their children and lived a long, happy life together. Madeline always instilled in her children the significance of goal-setting — to have aspirations for their lives and careers — and now, encourages all young people to do the same.
“We sold the big house and bought a smaller one in the same area, and went out and bought a travel trailer,” Dottie said. “We drove all over the country in that with our kids. Together we did 46 of the 48 states.”
As she reflects on the century she’s spent on Earth, Dottie said she believes travel allowed her to widen her lens of perspective and appreciation of culture, beyond the world of central New York. By finding a partner who shared her values and shared her earnest zest for life, Dottie has had countless adventures and believes everyone should experience that too.
But most of all, Dottie never succumbed to stereotypes and instead built a life with the person she loved, she said, which made
But Hall also emphasized that it’s impossible to achieve your goals without properly taking care of yourself. So, she said, all people should treat their bodies with respect by exercising and eating well in order to realize their potential.
“What do you want to be in life? What do you want to do? And (young people) should eat properly, so many of them don’t,” Madeline said. “Everyone should have goals they want to accomplish and eat a good meal.”
Bianca Sabene, 95 Trentino, Italy cannot take credit for luxury brands like Gucci or Prada, nor the automotive giants like Maserati or Ferrari. In fact, according to native Bianca Sabene, the
northern region of Italy was devoid of anything glamorous or noteworthy in her eyes, aside from the occasional yodeler whose voice floated through the air.
For Sabene, that’s why knowledge was such a powerful instrument and the priest who introduced her to the world of the arts and changed her life.
“He talked to me one day, and he said ‘what
do you want to do in life?’ And I said ‘I want to know everything,’” Sabene said. “I just wanted to see and smell and figure out everything I could. Without it, my heart would be completely broken.”
That priest introduced Sabene to writing, reading, art and music — bringing her new materials in the sidecar of a motorbike each week — and opened doors to her she never looked behind before. When she emigrated to the U.S., she continued her insatiable hunger for learning and has never stopped since.
When she met her husband, an encounter Sabene recalled as love at first sight, she said she found exactly what she needed in a partner. Where she brought adventure and spontaneity, her husband offered stability and tranquility and together, they formed an ideal parenting team for their two children.
After seeing the 1961 “West Side Story’’ film in theaters, Sabene said her husband fell so in love with Tony’s heartfelt ballad “Maria” that he knew they needed a second daughter, and her name would be Maria. Twelve years after their first child, Maria was born.
“He said ‘let’s have another baby.’ Everyone thought she was an accident, but she was not,” Sabene said.
Even though most of Sabene’s life raising her daughters was spent in central New York, Sabene never lost her Italian roots. She said she sought to incorporate elements of her culture at home in her children and practice them every day in her own life.
“My grandma said, ‘when you walk out the door, you can turn right or you can turn left. But either way, help somebody.’ And that’s my religion,” Sabene said. “That’s what makes me a happy person.”
That’ why, Sabene said, she wasn’t afraid of aging and instead welcomed it. By learning three languages aside from English, constantly reading and always finding new ways to stimulate her mind, Sabene said she prepared for her old age and kept her brain “alive,” allowing her the serenity of having no regrets.
Knowledge can be a superpower or weakness, depending on what you fill your brain with, Sabene said. So, she said, happiness and success are a matter of filling your mind and life with “the good stuff,” whether you are 25 or approaching 96.
“I’m supposed to be this old, quiet Italian Catholic lady … ain’t gonna happen,” Sabene said. “I’m nearly 96 and I’m so filled with joy in life. I have never felt so alive.”
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I’ve been very successful in my life, and it’s because of the woman I married and the advice I got from her.MADELINE HALL , 93
has simple, but important advice: have goals, eat properly, and to have more kindess and patience for everyone..` meghan hendricks photo editor BIANCA SABENE , 95 advises the younger generation to never stop learning so they can fill their brain with good stuff, the best only. She also wants others to follow her grandmother’s advice to always help people who need it. meghan hendricks photo editor
Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar. This month is a holy month, a time for observant Muslims to begin fasting to strengthen their spirituality, or deen. Fasting is an act of worship and a way to learn patience and break bad habits.
Many colleges are or have already established accommodations for Muslim students observing Ramadan. Since Islamic holidays are not considered a part of United States federal holidays, it is up to students to advocate for themselves to receive religious accommodations from their university.
Syracuse University is one of many colleges that has introduced new dining hall hours for the month of Ramadan that extend past the sunset and before the sun rises. SU students of all religious backgrounds can also submit forms at the beginning of each semester requesting days off if a religious holiday falls on an academic day.
So, what else can the university do? For most Muslims, Ramadan is a communal time to be spent with loved ones. But for many, it can be hard to cultivate a community during Ramadan between classes, studying and other extracurriculars.
It is important to note that supporting Muslim students on campus during Ramadan is not limited to accommodating religious practices, but also community and a sense of belonging.
Beginning a day of fasting before sunrise (suhoor) and breaking fast after sunset (iftar) can be extremely difficult to do with friends or with the local Muslim community while living on campus.
If Muslim students express feeling anxious entering certain spaces alone, professors and staff could be a bridge to the wider Muslim community at SU. Implementing these efforts would be very simple. Emailing, sharing and relaying resources for the Muslim community throughout the academic year
would already be a step in the right direction. With that understanding, SU staff should make an active effort to inform students of the resources, events and religious communities on campus. For example, campus can try to amplify certain religious clubs, like the Muslim Student Association, during Ramadan and make additional efforts to ask them what needs students have.
to broaden their understanding. Like other minority communities, Muslims are not a monolith. For a variety of reasons, not all Muslim students are automatically connected or share the same religious beliefs. By including a focus on diverse religious education within DEIA training, faculty can better understand the needs of their Muslim students and know how to create a welcoming environment on campus.
Education goes beyond sharing general information on different religious communities, but also creating spaces to discuss, educate and understand the origins and effects of hate crimes, like acts of Islamophobia — an aversion and discrimination against Islam or people who practice Islam.
In a 2023 investigation on religious students’ perceptions of institutional commitment to diversity, only 34% of Muslim students would agree that their racial or ethnic background was respected on campus.
DEIA is about educating the campus community, while also enacting an effort to diversify the faculty. Hiring more staff that reflect the student body can increase the sense of belonging for minority students on campus and can amplify the voices of students.
Making these adjustments can create a safer environment on campus outside of Ramadan as well, and allow trust to build between students and the university, creating a safe space for Muslim students to share and advocate for their needs.
At some point though, it can no longer be the students’ responsibility to continuously ask for change or their religious practices to be recognized by the university they attend. What’s required of SU is to implement long term solutions and not quick fixes to prevent a cycle of students requesting the same needs multiple times.
A drive to include religious diversity within DEIA training can limit cases of Islamophobia on campus and religious bias. Including an emphasis on a diverse religious education within training can provide the opportunity for faculty
On the part of SU, diversifying and being intentional about employing minority religious groups in jobs of power and tenured positions on campus lifts the weight off students who feel the need to advocate for themselves.
The amazing thing is accommodations for one community can apply for all. These efforts from the university are not exclusively beneficial to Muslim students on campus. More diverse staff, an administration that advocates for student needs and faculty with knowledge on their students’ various backgrounds can grant students the space to feel supported by their community members regardless of their background.
Sarhia Rahim is a sophomore policy studies major. Her column appears bi-weekly. She can be reached at slrahim@syr.edu.
At some point though, it can no longer be the students’ responsibility to continuously ask for change or their religious practices to be recognized by the university they attend.”
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self to teammates, mixing in personal anecdotes with softball tactics. She made sure she had her sign down, asking others when she wasn’t sure.
“She’s like a sponge, she picks up on everything…she will never fail for lack of knowledge.” Howard said.
In her lone season with the team, Breen was one of the top three players, Howard said. She led the team in home runs as the team traveled across the country competing in showcase tournaments.
Despite not having the typical size of a power hitter, Breen excelled in the batters box. Sometimes outfielders played shallow due to her size, and she smashed the ball over their heads, or over the fence, Howard said.
During a showcase tournament in Lake Elsinore, Howard recalled when the team trailed 2-0 early in the game and Breen stepped up to the plate. She hit the ball in the left center gap, which normally was a single for her, but when she rounded first base, she didn’t slow down, pushing for second and beating out the throw. She usually has average speed on the bases, Howard said, but her extra effort fired up the team, starting a comeback victory.
With every jump in her career, Breen played
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Sparks has known Burrows since they were preteens. Back then, Burrows played for the Eltham Wildcats while Sparks was a member of the Eagles. Sparks always remembered Burrows as the curly-headed girl from Eltham who “always wanted to come and play hard and train hard.” Once they became teammates, Sparks and her coach used a new nickname for Burrows: “Buzz.” She hated it, Sparks said. Dee Butler, who recently joined the Diamond Valley organization as head coach back in 2022, created the nickname. One of the
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ed her throughout the contest. She said as the game progressed, Syracuse noticed openings in the defense that it could exploit with ball movement, and Meaghan was happy to take a back seat from a scoring perspective.
“After the first quarter, we were noting things and made adjustments depending on where they were sliding,” Meaghan said. “Just reading that and figuring that out definitely helped us.”
Meaghan averaged 1.57 assists last year as a Tewaaraton Award finalist. This year, she averaged 2.78 assists per game in the first nine games.
Syracuse lost Ward for the entirety of 2022,
with the same intensity. Once Breen transferred to Arnold O. Beckman High School, everyone noticed right away that she was a big-time player, former teammate Brooke Feldman said.
“She set the standards of what practice should be and showed you get out what you put in. That’s why she was a big role model for everyone,” Feldman said.
Feldman remembered fall ball with Beckman was a lot to handle for Breen, who competed in travel ball at the same time. But she was never one to complain, always cracking jokes in the dugout while blasting Morgan Wallen during pregame.
She was a “perfectionist,” said Lous Simon, Breen’s former head coach at Arnold O. Beckman. During practice, Feldman said Breen could hit homeruns on back-to-back plays, but if she chopped one into the ground after, she got mad. Her teammates sometimes questioned her frustration, but realized it was what set her apart, Feldman said.
“It’s almost as if she’d just been striking out or missing the ball every single time and the homeruns weren’t good enough,” Feldman said. “The one chopper or ground ball that she had like outweighed everything else and then she’ll stay there until she hits three, four or five more.”
Breen never wanted to miss a game, even under difficult circumstances. Before a playoff game against Redondo Union, Breen dealt
first tasks that Butler gave Burrows was to transition from playing a traditional small forward role into more of a stretch-four. Butler believed Burrows could be extremely effective in that role due to her versatility on both ends. Burrows, however, wasn’t so keen on that idea.
“(Burrows) was very resistant to training or playing anything but a 3, and it was the first time I actually saw some real emotion from her,” Butler said. “Initially, she was getting frustrated because it wasn’t comfortable for her, and there were times at practice you could see she was disappointed.”
Eventually, Burrows realized she created a difficult matchup as a stretch-four, and started to enjoy the role. Butler said the role allowed
along with Emma and Cockerille, who missed the latter end of the season. Now, for the first time since the shortened 2020 season, the Orange offense is completely healthy.
Meaghan and Ward both rank top five nationally in assists, while no other squad has more than one player in the top 10. Ward has assisted in every game this season, including notching five against UAlbany and a career-high seven against Notre Dame. A lot of Ward’s assists come from around the fan, often using her physicality to create opportunities. She credits deception and team chemistry for her assisting prowess this season. Similar to Carney, she knows where her teammates will be before they get there.
“Not staring down cutters and knowing where people are going to be and what they
with Duchnowski, Emma fired to her left, piercing the net for a hattrick of her own. The score was now 4-4.
with severe allergies. Her eyes were red, her nose was stuffed up and running. Simon told Breen that someone else could hit for her, but Breen played through it.
Simon was used to Breen not backing down from a challenge. He coached her when she was 11 years old, playing for Orange County United, and said her approach has never changed. She was never one to “go through the motions” like some girls – she pushed for perfection, he said. Simon had to remind her that softball was a game of failure, and the desired outcome won’t always happen.
“Softball’s a marathon, not a sprint,” Simon said.
Simon realized that Breen would play Division-I when she was at the 14U level. In addition to hitting, her defensive versatility stood out. Breen had the unique ability to play all four infield positions.
Glovework is important at both of the “hot corners,” but especially at first, needing to pick low throws out of the dirt. At shortstop, you play deeper and there’s a lot more ground to cover. Angles and timing throws are more important in the middle infield.
Each position has completely different roles, but Breen could fill them all. At school, she split time between second and third, while playing shortstop and third for the
her to develop “wrinkles” in the offense, allowing her to shoot from beyond the arc and complement her skillset.
College coaches all over the United States noticed Burrows’ adaptability. Santa Clara and St. Mary’s were near the top of Burrows’ list, but ultimately, Syracuse stood above. Finding the right coach was a top priority for Burrows, and after meeting with head coach Felisha Legette-Jack, she knew SU was the right fit.
“I was really looking for a coach who had a good balance between being tough on court, but also being understanding,” Burrows explained. “I wanted a coach both as a player and as a person, and I think (Legette-Jack) embodies
are going to be doing,” Ward said about being a good passer. “Everyone around me makes my job really easy when they get open… It’s just filling your role and knowing what to do and when to do it.”
The Orange came out slow against Virginia Tech, but that changed in the second quarter. Leading 3-1, Ward received a pass from Emma running across the defense. Ward hesitated on the dodge and backed up behind the 12-meter, scanning the field.
Emma pivoted inside, ditching her defender in the process. Ward dropped it over the top of her defender, and Emma cradled it at the peak of the 8-meter before taking it to the crease for the score. Ward finished with a team-high four assists in a 15-6 route of the Hokies.
Against UAlbany, the Great Danes trailed
club team. Both Simon and Howard said they were comfortable putting Breen anywhere on the field.
“If the ball was hit to her, I never had to think twice about her fielding it,” Feldman said.
Breen’s diverse play helped Arnold O. Beckman go undefeated in Pacific Coast League play, as she made first team all-league. Beckman advanced all the way to the California Interscholastic Federation Division-II semifinals.
In her freshman season at Syracuse, Breen finished top five on the team in nearly every offensive category. She had the fifth-highest batting average (.285), third-most RBI’s (29) and ranked second in home runs (seven).
When she returned home for the summer, Breen joined Simon’s summer league squad. There were six teams each, all with high level D-I players. Kelly knew about half the players on her team, Simon said, but he wasn’t surprised that she integrated herself right away. Simon knows Breen could’ve taken three months off to relax. Instead, she played every weekend for six weeks against some of the most talented players in Southern California.
“It was the little things, for her,” Simon said. “When you put your time into something, you find you’re able to master it.”
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that perfectly.”
Burrows said her approach on the court won’t change once she arrives in Syracuse. Both her coach and teammate talked about her in-game intensity and ability to impact the game in different ways. That includes shooting the 3 at a high efficiency and making plays as a distributor or defender.
“I like to think I take the right shots when I’m open, find my teammates when they are open,” Burrows said. “A lot of coaches have told me I’m calm on the court. So even when the game is close and I have free throws, anything like that, I’m a calm presence on the court.”
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10-1 as the first quarter ticked down. With about 10 seconds left, Ward spun out of a failed dodge to create space and surveyed the zone. She saw Meaghan curling around an offball screen, and whipped a hard, sidearm pass directly into her stick. Meaghan scored on a bounce shot to the corner to give SU a running clock for the remaining three quarters.
Syracuse has dished out double-digit assists in five games this season, including three against ranked opponents. That matches its total from last season, despite having played less than half the number of games.
“I give them all the credit. I deserve no credit because the players really… love each other, and you get to see it on the field,” Treanor said. wbmiller@syr.edu @wymill07
squeezed between Duchnowski’s legs to nestle into the back of the net at the 11:51 mark in the first quarter for SU’s first point of the game.
Both teams then went back and forth, the offenses completely obliterating either back line. The Seawolves went 3-1 up before Ward assisted Emma from the X to lessen the deficit.
Mitchell grabbed her hat trick with 7:49 remaining in the opening 10 minutes and produced her fourth shortly after. But, each time Stony Brook took the lead, Syracuse always had an answer. In the first quarter, most of the Orange’s responses were spearheaded by Emma.
Ward held the ball at X again, drawing the defense away from the crease. This freed up Emma right in front of the net and Ward swiftly swung the ball her way. Positioned one-on-one
To start the second period, Stony Brook struck first. Standing at X, Ellie Masera watched as Mitchell made yet another cutting run. Hallie Simkins and Sierra Cockerille were unbeknownst as Mitchell darted forward for a career-high fifth goal just over 50 seconds into the quarter.
Two Syracuse free-position goals sandwiched a Charlotte Verhulst score — the first coming from Ward and the second by Cockerille to knot the game at seven with over six minutes remaining before halftime. Neither team could escape, make a run or shift the contest into a defense-first battle. Then, an SU shooting-space violation teed up Mitchell in perfect placement for her sixth. Mitchell didn’t opt to take a run-up, but rather just a step before launching a powerful strike into the top left corner.
Carney nabbed her hat trick at the 4:58 mark in the second quarter before giving Syracuse its first lead of the night. The Orange entered the penultimate period up 11-8, fresh off of a 4-0 run. Their offense looked more confident, stringing together longer possessions by flinging passes around the perimeter of the 12-meter without rushing into a forced attempt. Ward and Emma continued to generate a dominating partnership from the X as SU finally gained some breathing room.
For the first time since losing draw specialist Kate Mashewske to a lower-body injury against Notre Dame, Syracuse won the draw control 20-10. Olivia Adamson picked up a career-high 12 of her own.
Meaghan passed to Ward at the X who looked for an opening. She found Carney and the ball barely stayed in her stick before it was slotted into the left corner of the goal. Syracuse had opened up the second
half scoring. A little over a minute later, Cockerille charged forward and hurled into the top corner to provide the Orange with a five-goal cushion.
For much of the game, Meaghan was quiet. Stony Brook, like many of Syracuse’s opponents this season, had opted to face-guard her. Isolated on the right wing, she danced near the 8-meter and spotted Tessa Queri advancing near the crease. Queri’s run curved slightly to the right as Meaghan swung a pass over. Queri caught it, still heading away from the goal, and executed a cross-body shot that flew into the opposite corner. Her first of the game and just her fourth this season, Queri gave the Orange a 15-9 lead.
Then, Queri earned a free position and fired another into the roof of the net. The goal was Syracuse’s fourth of the period and it put yet another top-10 matchup to bed.
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usa’s success is vital if SU wants to hold on to the Kraus-Simmons Trophy.
Connor Smith (8-1)
Bring on the Irish Syracuse 20, Hobart 14
Syracuse certainly needed this three-game stretch against a few struggling nonconference teams, but it will end with Saturday’s home game against Hobart. The Statesmen are better than St. Bonaventure — sitting at 4-3 and winning two of their last three games — but still lack the talent to take down the Orange even after playing them close last year. They have the eighth-most efficient offense in
the country, per LacrosseReference, and have only been held below 10 goals once this season (against then-No. 3 Cornell). That means SU’s defense has to be up to the task, and based on goalie Will Mark’s play this season, that should be the case.
Hobart, though, struggles defensively, ranking 66th out of 72 Division-I teams in scoring defense this season. The Orange just dropped a season-high 22 goals on the Bonnies, and the 14 different goal scorers showed how much Syracuse’s attack has improved — and diversified — this year. I expect that will lead to a flurry of SU scores, particularly after halftime like on Tuesday, and that will separate these two teams.
With this being a season of streaks — first a three-game win streak to start the year, then a
four-game losing skid, and now, likely three consecutive victories — Syracuse should be rolling heading into its meeting with No. 1 Notre Dame next Saturday.
Anthony Alandt (6-3)
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Syracuse 18, Hobart 10
The latest edition of the one of the longest college lacrosse rivalries in the country takes place on Saturday. Syracuse, coming off its most commanding win of the season over St. Bonaventure, is looking to compound two straight wins with another win over the Statesmen. They are more of an offensive threat than the Bonnies, led by Camillus-native Anthony Dattellas’s 27 points, but I don’t see Hobart coming as close
to the Orange as it did in last season’s loss. Adam Shea could provide a solid faceoff threat to Johnny Richiusa, but Richiusa went 10-of-17 against the Bonnies. Syracuse not only fixed its faceoffs against St. Bonaventure, but finally picked up some ground balls. Hobart ranks 58th in the nation in ground balls, picking up just 27.57 per game. I think the Orange are still a young team that’s going to make significant mistakes — even in nonconference play against inferior opponents — but the progression from Richiusa and the team’s performance on Tuesday leads me to believe they’ll easily figure it out against the Statesmen and cruise to a third straight win.
men’s lacrosse
In 1986, Hobart and Syracuse faced off for the 72nd time in 70 years, but the stakes were heightened for both sides. Former head coach Roy Simmons Jr. and then-Syracuse athletic director Jake Crouthamel had created the Kraus-Simmons Trophy, honoring Roy Simmons Sr., Babe Kraus and the “familial” connection between the two coaches.
Syracuse has dominated the rivalry, and the trophy created for it, losing only 26 of 108 games against Hobart. Since 1916, the two teams have played each other in all but six years, including 2021. The Orange are looking for their ninthstraight win in the matchup this Saturday.
Here’s everything to know about Hobart (4-3, 0-0 Atlantic 10) before the matchup:
All-time series Syracuse leads 79-26-2.
Last time they played
The Orange hoisted the Kraus-Simmons Trophy for the eighth straight time last season, defeating Hobart 18-16. Tucker Dordevic and Brendan Curry finished with five goals each, controlling SU’s offense throughout the afternoon.
The Statesmen started with a 3-2 lead before SU took hold of the game on a 4-0 scoring run. But Hobart continued to threaten Syracuse’s advantage, going on a 4-2 run in the fourth quarter to make it a one score game with 36 seconds left.
Curry said the Statesmen moved into a zone defense during the final frame, something that’s more common in box lacrosse. But in the final 15 seconds, Curry took the ball in Dordevic’s position at the right side of the field. Hobart left the cage empty and Curry worked alone against a double team, sending the final dagger into the back of the net.
“With a one-goal lead with a couple seconds left, I was going to get doubled anyways, so if I had the angle, I might as well put it in,”
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Curry said.
The Statesmen report Hobart is off to a better start than last season, when it lost four straight games at this point in the year. The Statesmen most recently defeated Providence 13-11, led by John Jude Considine’s three goals. The Friars kept Hobart’s go-to guy, Anthony Dattellas, relatively quiet as he only scored twice.
Dattellas leads the Statesmen with 27 points this season, more than the next two players’ point totals combined. Jude Considine is Hobart’s second-best option with 13 points. His 73.3% shot-on-goal percentage is the best out of anyone on the team with at least five goals.
Hobart is one of the most efficient teams nationally, ranked ninth in efficiency by possession length, according to Lacrosse Reference. The Statesmen have the 43rd-best shooting percentage in the country with a success rate of 29.2%, per Lacrosse Reference.
How Syracuse beats Hobart
The script for this game should be similar to the one Syracuse used against St. Bonaventure. Head coach Gary Gait reminded his team at halftime that the Orange need to keep their foot on the throttle no matter who the opponent is. He saw them execute in all facets of the game, something that has been hard to come by this season, especially with the faceoff unit.
Joey Spallina should continue to facilitate from the X, as the Statesmen likely won’t have a specific strategy to stop him from back there. If they double him, like the Bonnies did on certain possessions, that leaves Griffin Cook or someone else to take advantage of the position.
The defense will most likely be without their top cover guy Landon Clary again but they should stop Dattellas. Hobart has the advantage in the faceoff circle with a 50.7% win percentage this year, but it hasn’t faced much tough competition. Johnny Richiusa may not set a seasonhigh like he did against St. Bonaventure, but he
Syracuse is entering its 109th game against Hobart, a rivalry it has dominated. The Orange defeated the Statesman 18-16 last season. cassandra roshu assistant photo editor
should do enough to give the Orange possession.
Stat to know: 26:49
Syracuse’s overtime loss to Duke was a statistical anomaly, mostly because the Blue Devils had possession for the majority of the afternoon. “I don’t think we have a stat for that, but it was a lot to a little,” Gait said.
According to Lacrosse Reference, the Orange have the second-worst time of possession nationally, holding the ball for 26:49 of gameplay. This is mainly an issue with them not winning the majority of faceoffs and an early struggle with picking up ground balls. Hobart could easily win the possession battle on Saturday, putting even more pres -
sure on the Orange to execute.
Player to watch: Anthony Dattellas, attack, No. 23
The Statesmen rely heavily on Dattellas, who averages 9.17 shots per game this season. He scored a season-high seven goals against Canisius in Hobart’s season-opener and is already three points shy of the total he recorded throughout all of 2022. Dattellas’ 4.50 points per game is tied for 20th in the country.
The Orange have done okay with Clary, but they’ll need to lock up Dattellas in order to make sure that this contest isn’t as close as last year’s. anish.sujeet@gmail.com
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Syracuse followed up its 16-8 win over Hofstra with a commanding offensive masterpiece in its 22-6 win over St. Bonaventure. Not only did it fix its faceoff struggles against the Bonnies, but SU picked up ground balls and dominated in the midfield, leading to the most goals in a game this season. Now, in their final nonconference game of the season, the Orange welcome Hobart, renewing one of the oldest rivalries in college athletics.
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Though they beat the Statesmen last year, the Orange needed to eke out an 18-16 win at the JMA Wireless Dome to improve to 2-3 on the season. This year, they’ll face off against a team coming off a 13-11 win over Providence. In its only game against a ranked opponent this season, Hobart lost to then-No. 3 Cornell 17-8.
Here’s what our beat writers predict will happen on Saturday when Syracuse takes on Hobart.
Anish Vasudevan (7-2)
One-sided rivalry
Syracuse 16, Hobart 11
The Statesmen were actually scary last year, pulling within one goal of the Orange in the final minute of play. Syracuse avoided the upset with a final dagger from Brendan Curry, but it was the closest Hobart had gotten to defeating SU since hoisting up the Kraus-Simmons Trophy in 2013.
Hobart is off to a better start than last season but I don’t think it will have enough to defeat Syracuse. The Orange just put together their most complete game of the year. Every single
unit dominated the Bonnies. Johnny Richiusa posted his best faceoff win percentage this season, Joey Spallina notched his third straight game with six or more points and Will Mark only let in three goals. They can easily execute for a second straight week.
Richiusa’s performance will again be crucial. The Orange have the second-worst time of possession nationally, according to LacrosseReference, holding the ball for 26:49 of gameplay. Hobart doesn’t turn the ball over much, so Richi
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Syracuse guard Dyaisha Fair will return for a fifth-year, she announced on social media that on Wednesday. Fair will play her second year with the Orange after playing three seasons with Buffalo from 2019-22.
In the regular season, Fair averaged 20 points per game, which ranked second in the Atlantic Coast Conference and 20th nationally. In all games this season, she’s scored in double figures, including 17 games above 20 points. Against Virginia in January, she set a season-high 36 points game, tying a program record with eight 3-pointers.
Fair earned All-ACC first team and defensive team honors, getting named to the Dawn Staley Award late season watch list as well as being a top 10 finalist for the Nancy Lieberman Award.
“I never thought I would end up here at Syracuse University,” Fair said in the post. “Leaving Buffalo, playing not one, two, three or four years under Coach Jack. But who would’ve thought that I would play a fifth.”
Fair joined the Orange in April 2022 after three seasons at Buffalo, following head coach Felisha Legette-Jack to the program. With the Bulls, Fair was named MId-American Conference’s Freshman of the Year, making 30 appearances with 30 starts in the campaign. She averaged 22 points, 5.9 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game. Fair was the fastest person in Buffalo program history to reach 1,000 career points.
During her junior year, Fair finished fourth in the country in points per game, averaging 23.4 and shooting 40.4% from the field. She helped the Bulls to a MAC Tournament title,
FAIR intends to return to Syracuse, using her fifth year of eligibility. She leads the Orange in scoring with 20 points per game and was an ACC first team selection.
advancing the program to its fourth NCAA Tournament appearance. Fair was named an Associated Press All-American honorable mention and earned spots on the Dawn Staley Award and Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year watch lists.
“The big thing (about transferring) was my former coach, of course,” Fair told the Daily Orange on April 27, 2022. “Just keeping that bond where it is and just trying to continue what we’re doing on the biggest stage.”
Syracuse is currently in the Super 16 of the
Women’s National Invitiational Tournament, where it will face Columbia on Friday. In the first two games of the tournament, Fair scored 24 in each in wins over Kent State and Columbia.
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@ColeBambini
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When the COVID-19 pandemic began, Australia had some of the strictest lockdown restrictions in the world. Sophie Burrows spent much of her time at home, training in her yard in order to improve, despite limited basketball opportunities away from home.
Whether she ran simple form-shooting drills for hours on end or simulated in-game shots, Burrows, a Syracuse women’s basketball commit, was always trying to improve. She often practiced alongside her two older sisters, Anna and Ruth, and continued to develop her game back in her native Australia, where she played at the school, club and youth national levels.
Her siblings were Burrows’ earliest inspirations. As a kid, Burrows attended her sisters’ basketball games and begged her parents to let her join on the court. Although she couldn’t play with her sisters as teammates, Burrows’ backyard battles built her focused mindset.
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“I’ve always been competitive with them,” Burrows said. “When we would play in the backyard, I always wanted to beat them and show them up a little bit. I guess my competitiveness comes from them.”
Those months spent practicing at home during the pandemic showed immediate results when she returned to the court. When playing for Victoria Metro U16 back in 2019, Burrows averaged only six points and four rebounds per game. Following the pandemic, those numbers increased to nearly 12 and 10, respectively.
Similarly, while playing for the Diamond Valley Eagles in the NBL1, an Australian semiprofessional league, Burrows averaged over 15 points per game, including a 33-point game.
“She came back from COVID probably more passionate than she was, and her skills had increased a lot,” Eagles teammate Hayley Sparks said. “(In practice), there’s a lot of moments when she’s having an absolutely crazy shooting night. There’s moments when I’m training with her and thinking ‘you can’t stop her.’”
Early on this season, Polina Kozyreva won 12 matches in a row, starting with a 3-1 lead against New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Shalom Salvi and ending against Virginia Tech’s Semra Asku. She won both sets against Boston University’s Navya Vadlamudi 2-0 (6-0, 6-0) and shut out Cornell’s Fatima El Ashram.
Former teammates Guzal Yusopova and Sofya Treshcheva both described Kozyreva as “hardworking,” which has translated into her role this year. Kozyreva is one of two seniors in charge of leading the Syracuse team this spring. Yusopova said Kozyreva started to take more of a leadership position as a junior last season.
Treshcheva said Kozyreva has become more responsible since she was a freshman, and now knows how to deal with stress and pressure much better. Kozyreva’s success hasn’t been affected by her spot in the lineup, winning matches in
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every singles spot besides No. 1 singles, where fellow senior Zeynep Erman currently resides.
Kozyreva has played with four different players in doubles, and has excelled with almost all of them. Her partnership with Miyuka Kimoto, who she went to the NCAA tournament with last year, has been particularly successful.
“We just want to have as many options as possible. I thought they did a really good job,” head coach Younes Limam said after Kimoto and Kozyreva won their first doubles match of the season against Buffalo.
Kozyreva has taken the sophomore Kimoto under her wing, and the pair performs well together, Treshcheva said. Kozyreva has also played with sophomore Shiori Ito, encouraging her between points and pushing her to battle.
“For Kozyreva, each point is an important point. It’s every single point she cares about. That’s what makes her stand out,” Yusopova said.
Most of Kozyreva’s success has come in the singles round, winning 12 of her 14 matches and only seeing a third set twice.
Her first loss came against Clemson’s Jenna Thompson, who beat her 2-1. The loss accounts for two of the four total sets that Kozyreva has lost this season.
Kozyreva lost her most recent match against Georgia Tech’s Mahak Jain, who was then-No. 99 in the country. Kozyreva lost the first set 7-6 (10-8 tiebreaker), but would come back and lead the second set 4-3 before suffering an injury and retiring from the match.
In all but one of her 12 wins, Kozyreva has won both sets and the match by a final score of 2-0.
“She plays with a lot of confidence... She understands her game extremely well,” Limam said.
The one outlier from Kozyreva’s long win streak took place against then-No. 23 Miami, facing Audrey Boch-Collins on Feb. 26. Kozyreva lost the first set 6-4, but bounced back and won the second set 6-4. She won the third and final set of the day 1-0 (18-16).
Kozyreva had to dig deep against Boch-
Collins to pull out a win in the final set. The team match had already been decided, but Kozyreva and her opponent wanted to finish their individual match out. It went back-and-forth the whole time, going pointfor-point until Kozyreva finally won the match 18-16.
In doubles, Kozyreva tries to set up Kimoto for success. The pair has won five of its seven doubles matches, which has helped Kimoto build her confidence, Limam said. Kimoto fell from the No. 1 singles spot and found herself in a four-match losing streak earlier in the season, but playing and winning matches with Kozyreva has helped her win two of her last four singles.
“She does pretty well changing tactics. For her, she knows how to change rhythm,” Treshcheva said. “That is how you find better players, players who battle for every single point and are focused and work for it.”
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@ColinYavinsky
It took Syracuse just seven seconds to find the back of the net against UAlbany.
After a Delaney Sweitzer save, SU cleared the ball with 14:03 in the first period. In transition, Megan Carney and Meaghan Tyrrell placed themselves behind the fan. Olivia Adamson passed to Meaghan on the right flank, and saw Carney rolling toward her from the X. Carney collected the pass and scored to put Syracuse up 1-0 by 13:56.
SU’s 17 assists against the Great Danes is the most in a single game this season for the Orange, and the second most in all of Division-I. Carney said the Orange have been “passionate” about having a less structured offense where people can play to their strengths.
“We focused on ball movement and a freeflow offense this week,” Carney said after her five-goal performance against the Great Danes. “We can all handle the ball and move the ball so well, and also just building that chemistry, we know where people are going to be.”
Syracuse leads the country in assists with 9.6 per game through nine games — playing its 10th game against Stony Brook on Wednesday — after averaging 6.9 per game last season. The depth of its offense has freed up scoring leaders to facilitate when heavily guarded in certain matchups. Prior to Wednesday’s game against Stony Brook, No. 1 Syracuse (9-0, 4-0 Atlantic Coast) had the second-highest offensive efficiency (37.4%) and the highest shot percentage (53.6%) in the nation, per LacrosseReference. Meaghan and Emma Ward led SU with 25 and 26 assists, respectively.
“All the girls have been echoing it, but we are trying to play really selfless, team ball,” head coach Kayla Treanor said. “They’ve made a commitment to it, they believe in it, they know it works, so they talk about making that extra pass… They like to play that way, which is so cool and so unique.”
Against Notre Dame, the Orange demonstrated their selflessness in the second quarter. Sierra Cockerille sprinted, unmarked, down the
middle of the field when she made an outlet pass to Emma Tyrrell in transition.
Seeing that SU had the Fighting Irish outnumbered, Emma immediately tossed across the formation to Ward, who dropped it off to Meaghan next to the crease. Meaghan faked high, then went low, netting an open shot to give SU an 8-2 lead.
Although Meghan has always been a highvolume scorer, she’s had 25 assists and 24 goals
through nine games this season.
“What makes this group so special is that you have a superstar like Meaghan Tyrrell who does not care if she shows up on the stat sheet or not,” Treanor said. “I give her a lot of credit for why we are playing well and why we are sharing the ball.”
Against Northwestern, Meaghan got a feed on the right side from Acacia Connor and immediately sent a lofted pass to Ward,
the middle of the zone. Tied at 10 with 12.4 seconds left in the half, Ward shot across her body to score from point-blank range, giving SU the lead going into the fourth. That goal ended up being the difference in a 16-15 season-opening victory.
Meaghan finished with a career-high six
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Kimbo Howard didn’t know what he was getting when Kelly Breen joined Corona Angels Howard, a travel softball team in Southern California. His fi rst impression of her was that she was shy and quiet. He said Breen looked like she might sit down in the dugout and read a book before games rather than warm up. He wondered if she would fit in on the team.
Before each of Corona’s games, players listened to music and danced outside the dugout. Howard was shocked to see Breen was dancing the most, as if she didn’t have a care in the world.
Breen cut loose before each game, but flipped her demeanor completely once she stepped on the field, which fit perfectly with Corona Angels How-
ard. Breen’s travel team switch wasn’t the only time she adjusted to a new environment, transferring high schools her junior season and moving cross-country to play for Syracuse. Breen, a sophomore infielder for the Orange, never shifted her mindset despite the constant change. She always wanted to perfect her craft.
letics Mercado, another well-known travel team in California. During the Louisville Slugger Columbus Day Tournament in Colorado, the Athletics matched up against Corona Angels Howard in the semifinal. Mercado edged Corona by one run, and Breen caught Howard’s eye.
Ryan Angulo, an assistant for Corona, coached Breen when she was younger and would constantly try to recruit her to the team. When Breen was looking for a change of scenery, she reached out to Angulo, and the rest is history, Howard said.
From the start, Howard was honest with Breen. He knew she’d played at a high level all her life, but with 25 players on the roster, Howard didn’t guarantee her a starting position. But by the end of the first week, she became an everyday starter.
“Once she stepped in between those lines, she was 100% focused.” Howard said.
Before playing for Corona, Breen played for Ath-
Breen made it seem like she had been with the team for 20 years, Howard said. She introduced her
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It must’ve been around 70 yards.
Delaney Sweitzer topped Jaden Hampel from point-blank range and fought for the ground ball. After a brief stoppage, Syracuse was awarded possession.
Looking up, Delaney spotted Savannah Sweitzer down the field, unmarked and calling for possession. Showing no hesitation, Delaney launched downfield to her sister — an inch-perfect throw. Savannah
received and ran before passing quickly to Emma Tyrrell just outside the 12-meter. Emma relayed it to Megan Carney in front of goal. Cool, calm and collected, Carney scored to level things and finish an impressive o ensive trip.
Entering this week, Syracuse achieved just its second No. 1 ranking in program history after extending its undefeated start to the season.
Against No. 6 Stony Brook, the Orange met its sixth ranked opponent, and for the first time this season, faced an
uphill battle from the jump. It wasn’t until 3:35 remaining in the second period when Syracuse obtained its first lead.
Before halftime struck, goals from Emma and Maddy Baxter provided a three-goal advantage and SU added to that in the third quarter, going up by fi ve at one point. In the end, after blistering end-toend scoring in the fi rst 30 minutes, Syracuse (10-0, 4-0 Atlantic Coast) remained unbeaten, holding Stony Brook (5-2, 1-0 Colonial Athletic)
to just two second-half goals in its 16-11 win. Hampel jockeyed near the 8-meter with her back to the goal, her head tilted ever so slightly, looking for incoming runs. That’s when Morgan Mitchell rushed forward. Catching Hampel’s pass in stride she slotted past Delaney to put Stony Brook up just 45 seconds into the contest. Just under two minutes later, the duo hooked up again in almost identical fashion. Although Mitchell’s second goal went under review for whether
she released the shot before entering the crease, her score stood as head coach Kayla Treanor argued with the sideline o cial.
Meaghan Tyrrell sprinted toward the goal, making her way toward Hailey Duchnowski in the Seawolf net. Spotting Emma in the 8-meter, Meaghan dished a pass over, and immediately, the Stony Brook defense converged. Reacting quickly to get a low shot o spinning to her right, Emma placed a shot perfectly,
Kelly Breen, a sophomore infielder for SU, has never shifted her mindset despite multiple changes in team environments, always wanting to perfect her craft