NEWS BRIEFS
A tee of their own
Women’s golf is now a varsity sport, thanks to the generosity of former Trustee James A. Pappas (W’68) and the growing interest in the game.
“We had young ladies interested in playing golf — one, two or possibly three — during my first three years as coach,” said golf coach Francis Vaughn. “This past year, we had five.”
Golf brings the count of women’s varsity teams to 16, only one shy of the men’s 17.
The new team is attracting lots of recruits for next year’s team, Vaughn said. But for this year, the team will number five or six.
What kind of season can we look forward to on the ladies’ links? we wondered.
“We’ll be better than we were last year,” Vaughn said.
Smart jocks
When you take the cumulative averages of the five men and five women selected by Penn as Spring ‘99 academic All-Ivies and average them together, you get a powerful 3.46.
When you consider that the top cume that went into that average was a 3.75 and the bottom a 3.26 — wow.
Academic all-Ivies are outstanding varsity team members with cumes of 3.0 or better, and Penn’s brainy brawnies are:
Julia Denisenko (C’99), track and field; Julia Feldman (W’99), tennis; Joanna Lopinto (C’00), lacrosse; Lauri Kauffman (C’99), women’s crew; Ruthie Neuhaus (C’00), track and field.
And Seth Beaver (EAS’01), track and field; Dan Blaney (EAS’99), rowing; Russ Farscht (W’99), golf; Ziggy Majumdar (C’99), lacrosse; and Kyle Moran (C’01), golf.