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From the pool to the playing field, a look at Southern athletics. n
Historic Run for Women’s Volleyball
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HE OWLS REACHED THE NCAA TOURNAMENT FOR THE FIRST
THE MEN’S TRACK AND
TIME IN SOUTHERN’S HISTORY ,
FIELD TEAM brought
finishing the 2017 season with a 24-11 win-loss record. After a thrilling fourset win over New York Tech in the first round of the NCAA tournament, Southern fell in the regional semifinals.
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Owls First in NE10 Tournament
home its 13th Northeast10 Indoor Track and Field Championship in program history. It was the second straight championship win for the Owls.
Swimming and Diving are NE10 Champs — Again!
THE DYNASTY CONTINUES FOR SOUTHERN’S MEN’S AND WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND
DIVING TEAMS, which both won
their respective 2018 Northeast-10 championships. It was the 13th conference championship in program history for the men. The women’s team celebrated their second consecutive tournament victory — the 12th in program history.
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Winning the Super Bowl — and Other Stories
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LLISON STOUTLAND, M.S. ’88, 6TH YR. ’91, HAS A CHAMPION-
SHIP STORY FOR YOU — but she won’t be sharing the finer details. “Everyone calls it the Super Bowl. I call it the Super Blur,” says Stoutland of her stadium-seat view of the Philadelphia Eagles’ victory over the New England Patriots — Philly’s first-ever Super Bowl win. Stoutland is the author of four
children’s books and a monthly blog — inchbyinchbooks.com. She’s also married to Jeff Stoutland, ’84, M.S. ’86, the offensive line coach for the Eagles — and on Feb. 4, she and the couple’s children, Jake and Madison, were at Super Bowl LII, cheering alongside the team’s die-hard fans. It’s one of the many topics Allison writes about in her blog: the joys and challenges of being the wife of a
professional football coach. “In the last 25 years we have lived in nine places — each one we’ve called home. We’ve trained three dogs, raised two children, coached six teams, and adopted over 400 players as our sons,” she sums in a Feb. 2 blog post. The couple’s romance began in New Haven at Boppers, a dance club with an oldies-music theme. Jeff asked Allison, then a teacher at the Strong School in New Haven, to dance. Six months later, he proposed in front of her classroom of starry-eyed kindergarteners. (Call it serendipity: construction has begun on the new Strong School — to be renamed the Barack H. Obama Magnet University School, which will be located on Southern’s campus. See page 4.) [From left] The Stoutlands take the field to celebrate the Eagles’ Super Bowl win. • The family gathers after an earlier victory.
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