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YALE DAILY NEWS · FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2021 · yaledailynews.com
SPORTS
“Once you've committed yourself to something, pace yourself to the finish line.” MEB KEFLEZIGHI ERITREAN-AMERICAN LONG-DISTANCE RUNNER
In-person club sports make comeback
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During the 2020-21 season, club teams were unable to hold formal practices due to stringent pandemic protocols. CLUB SPORTS FROM PAGE 14 ule because they have yet to hear back from the gym, which has been overbooked for the past few weeks. Furthermore, like Kravitz, Sinclair indicated that the 20 person gathering limit would require significant adjustments, such as increasing the number of shifts for tryouts. Other team captains also expressed frustration with regards to the imbalances between club sport policy and varsity sport policy. For example, the current club sports policy limits fans at outdoor events to 50, all while Associate Athletic Director for Strategic Communications Mike Gambardella told the News that there is no capacity limit for spectators at the Yale Bowl, John J. Lee Amphitheater, Reese Stadium or Johnson Field. “There is an obvious disparity between what the club sports policies are and what the varsity sports policies are,” Sorensen said. “Varsity sports have been practicing for six weeks while club sports haven’t
Kingman preps for first home game HANDSOME DAN FROM PAGE 14 him running from group to group of Yalies studying and relaxing in the University’s many courtyards, eager for playtime and pets. Quick to follow is Haro, sometimes carrying a pack of Handsome Dan stickers for the lucky students. With Kingman, the goal is to get students to regularly experience the excitement of meeting Handsome Dan — and not just at athletic events, Haro said. This has already come true for the residents of Silliman College, which Kingman and Haro call home. “I saw Kingman a lot while living in Silliman this summer,” said Jeff Pham ’24, who attested to Kingman’s ability to energize people wherever he goes, especially when it is time for the big day at the Yale Bowl. “A big draw of live sports is the crowd atmosphere, especially when everyone is cheering for
good solution for the long term, according to Bark Busters, “is to look for a root cause or trigger behind what causes symptoms of distress at the game and focus on that with positive reinforcement like treats.” Haro already has a plan in place so Kingman can be his best self this Saturday. Between going on the field during warmups and meeting with fans in the stands, Kingman will have a cushy place to nap and rehydrate in one of the Yale Bowl’s air-conditioned luxury suites, if not his comfy outside bed Haro intends on bringing. “We’ve done a lot of work on noticing cues,” Haro said. “So we’ll know when he’s tired or irritated, when we need to take him out. Kingman’s wellbeing is my top priority.” The Saturday game will commence at 12 p.m. Contact KYLIE VOLAVONGSA at kylie.volavongsa@yale.edu .
been allowed to go to the fields yet; it just doesn’t make any sense to me. The fact that the Yale administration is willing to accept calculated risk with varsity teams but not with club sports is just disappointing.” In response to these discrepancies in policies between varsity and club sports, Gambardella stated that Yale’s COVID-19 Response Team is requiring club sports and intramurals to follow University gathering limits. Varsity sports do not have to follow those rules. Nevertheless, the upcoming season of club sports remains a source of excitement for club sports captains around campus. “I’m really looking forward to getting back to the barn,” Griggs remarked. “For members of our team, the barn is a great place to not only play polo, but also relieve stress and serve as a refuge from campus.” For a full list of club sports offered at Yale, students can visit the club sport directory. Contact ALEX YE at alex.ye@yale.edu .
COURTESY OF JESSIE CHEUNG
At Saturday’s game, Kingman will have a place to nap and rehydrate in one of the Yale Bowl’s air-conditioned luxury suites.
Cowles twins sail on SAILING FROM PAGE 14 ing on separate boats. Last weekend, the sisters raced in their first Yale meet at home at the Harry Anderson Trophy, where they took turns skippering on Yale’s second boat. Together, they placed fifth out of 18 teams. But long before they started sailing for the Elis, the Cowles twins set their foundation in sailing with the “Opti.” As they grew out of the beginner boat, the two transitioned to the double-handed International 420 boat class — Carmen became the skipper, while Emma, who is slightly taller, took the role of crew. They noted that by sailing together on the same boat, their parents did not need to maintain two boats or juggle two sailing schedules. To help distinguish between themselves on the water, Carmen began wearing a red hat, while Emma began wearing a black one. The colors stuck. The sisters’ teamwork and chemistry on the water certainly paid off as they won the 2017 and 2018 420 Girls World Sailing Youth World Championships. Their talent in these events paved the way for their win of the 2018 U.S. Sailing Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year, the first time the honor was awarded to a pair since 2004. The Cowles are also the second youngest to win the award. “One of the strengths that Carmen and Emma possess is an ability to learn from mistakes,” Steve Keen — the Cowles coach while they were sailing I-420 boats — told Sailing World in 2019. While they spent their whole career sailing together, they were prepared to compete for separate schools when they began considering collegiate sailing options. “We had both agreed that we were indifferent to whether [or
the same thing. Handsome Dan will definitely be an exciting and important part of gameday.” Still, there will be a lot to learn from K ingman’s first big football game, which Haro sees as a “trial run” for future events. Even with his experience interacting with smaller groups of the Yale community on campus, it is impossible to replicate the gameday spectacle of horns blaring from the Yale Precision Marching Band, let alone the roar of a stadium packed with fans. According to a representative from Bark Busters Home Dog Training, a company with dog trainers across the country including New Haven, a college football game can be a huge source of stress for young dogs. Too many things happening at once can lead to high anxiety and a lack of focus, depending on how he has been trained so far. Should Kingman find himself uncomfortable or stressed, a
Yale cross country finishes third at HYP XC FROM PAGE 14
COURTESY OF CARMEN AND EMMA COWLES
The Cowles twins, natives of the Long Island Sound, have been sailing together since they were nine years old. not] we went to the same school,” they told the News. “We both wanted to be on a competitive sailing team in college so that narrowed down the list.” As one of only 36 fully funded varsity sailing programs in the country, Yale’s team piqued the twins’ interest because of the liberal arts aspect of the University. When the pair applied to Yale, they always planned on taking one gap year between high school and college, meaning they would have started in New Haven in the class of 2024. However, they took a second year off due to the postponement of the Tokyo Olympic Games. Sailing as a team at the U.S. Olympic trials earlier this year, they placed second. Only the top team qualifies for the Olympics. Because of the pandemic, the sisters had to adapt their practice routine to minimize travel risks. Between spring 2020 and early 2021, Emma and Carmen trained in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts; Miami, Florida; and Vilamoura, Portugal, spending a few months in each location.
Because many international competitions were canceled due to COVID-19, it was difficult for the twins to compare themselves to their opponents. “We also didn’t travel nearly as much for training camps,” they admitted. “[This] actually proved to help us be very productive in our training and ultimately exponentiate our learning curve.” Now settled into New Haven — Carmen is in Silliman College, while Emma is in Trumbull — Emma noted that she loves the competitiveness of the Yale sailing program, which makes scrimmages in practice more fun. Meanwhile, Carmen appreciates learning from the different sailors on the team. The Yale sailing program competes at five tournaments this weekend: the Mens’ New England Singlehanded Championship, the Barnett Trophy, the Womens’ Regis Trophy, the Hatch Brown Trophy and a Tufts Invite. Contact MELANIE HELLER at melanie.heller@yale.edu .
In the women’s race on Saturday, Princeton defeated Harvard 36–37, while Yale finished with 49 points, a total calculated by summing the final positions of each team’s first five runners. DeLay set the pace with a 16:10.8, running at a clip that likely would have lifted her to a new career best if the race was a full five kilometers. To start the 2019 season, she ran a career-record 17:28 in a five-kilometer against Harvard at the Yale Golf Course. The Yale star and captain, who led the Elis in every race she ran in fall 2019, finished a comfortable 7.7 seconds ahead of Harvard’s Isabell Sagar in second. DeLay, who took a gap year last year, led the race consistently — she was in the lead pack after one mile and had jumped out to about a nine second lead by the time runners hit the 3.4-kilometer mark. “It doesn’t feel like it’s been two years since the beginning of the last cross country season,” DeLay said. “After this year, I am just so grateful to even have the opportunity to defend my Heps title this season. I was fortunate to be able to race a bit
in the spring and summer, so coming back this past weekend was a bit less of a rust buster for me than it was for most.” Zoe Nuechterlein ’22, a former managing editor of the News’ magazine, finished second for Yale and seventh overall with a 16:36.3 finish. “HYP was our first race as a team in a year and a half, so we wanted to get out there, compete and get a feel for racing again,” Nuechterlein said. “This was a rust-buster race, and we have a lot of training and racing to look forward to over the next couple of months.”In order, Maddie Ghazarian ’22, Jocelyn Chau ’22, Kosana Weir ’23, Julia Dvorak ’24 and Kylie Goldfarb ’25 rounded out the top seven for the Bulldogs. Ghazarian, who was running the first race of her Yale career after not competing in 2018 through 2020, finished in 10th, while Chau, Weir, Dvorak and Goldfarb came in at 15th, 16th, 19th and 21st, respectively. Both the Yale men and women next compete on Sept. 24. Contact MARGARET HEDEMAN at margaret.hedeman@yale.edu and WILLIAM MCCORMACK at william.mccormack@yale.edu .
YALE ATHLETICS
Harvard and Princeton bested Yale in team standings on both the men’s and women’s sides, as the Bulldogs finished third.
