Download - Ray Tompkins Report Fall 2014
As Yale Athletics commemorated 100 years of the Yale Bowl the football team posted its best season in recent years.
Finishing 8-2 overall, 5-2 in the Ivy League, the season fittingly came down to The [final] Game for a share of the Ivy
Title. While the end result wasn’t in the Bulldogs favor, their position in the league and strong season show great
progress. Many would agree this is thanks in large part to the work of senior running back Tyler Varga who scored a
school-record 26 total touchdowns and averaged 6.1 yards per carry and 142 yards per game. Varga was named first
-team All-Ivy and won the prestigious Bushnell Cup for the Ivy League Player of the Year. As part of the celebration
of the historic home of Yale Football, members of the All-Era team were invited back to the final home game against
Princeton and were honored at halftime. You can view the entire All-Era team here: http://news.yale.edu/2014/11/06/
legends-bowl-return-season-s-final-home-game .
The Ray Tompkins Associates Athletic Directors Excellence Fund addresses the most urgent needs across all sports.
Please consider making an additional gift in support of the RTA Fund. To do so, you can mail payment and the appeal
form included with this newsletter to Yale Athletics P.O. Box 1844, New Haven, CT 06508-1844, or make a gift online
at www.yalebulldogs.com/give.html. Thank you for supporting Yale Athletics!
Yale Volleyball won a record setting fifth straight Ivy Championship
and earned its fourth straight appearance in the NCAA
Tournament. The Bulldogs finished the season 18-8 overall and 12-
2 in the league. The team lost to the No. 14 Arizona Wildcats in the
first round. Notably, senior captain Mollie Rogers was named Ivy
League Player of the Year. After 12 seasons head coach Erin
Appleman has guided the Bulldogs to seven Ivy League
Championships, five NCAA Tournament appearances, five 20-plus
win seasons.
Senior forward Matt Townsend was
named a Rhodes Scholar, just the
fourth basketball player in Yale
history to earn the honor. Last year
he started a career-high 22 games
and finished fifth on the team in
scoring.
Senior running back Tyler Varga
received the Bushnell Cup as the Ivy
League Offensive Player of the Year.
Varga is third on Yale's career
rushing TD list with 31, fourth in
career rushing yards with 2,985 and
fifth with 529 rushing attempts in
just 24 games .
Yale Basketball stunned a crowd of nearly 10,000 people at
Gampel Pavilion on Friday, December 6th when Jack
Montague's three-pointer from the corner with 1.7 seconds
left lifted the Bulldogs to a shocking 45-44 victory over
defending national champion UConn. The loss snapped
UConn's streak of 68 consecutive victories against in-state
opponents.
To view the video, click here!
The mission of Yale varsity athletics is to attract outstanding student athletes,
who aspire to undertake the challenge of a high-level education while proudly representing Yale University in the pursuit of
championships. Through exceptional facilities and coaches, Yale Athletics ensures that our students learn the important values
of leadership, integrity, discipline and teamwork. The aspiration is that in the course of preparation and competition, students
enter a co-curricular laboratory for learning that will fit them to lead in all of their future endeavors.
Basketball Association Golf Outing Baseball Association Alumni Game
Field Hockey Association Alumnae Day 1989 Football Reunion
Craig W. Johnson ‘68 HW Crew Head Coaching Dedication Soccer Association Alumni Day
Lacrosse Association Alumni Game Hockey Association Golf Outing
Football Association Golf Outing Dernell Every Fencing Alumni Day
Men's Cross Country Kevin Dooney - All-American; 1st Team All-Ivy Women’s Cross Country Kira Garry - 1st Team All-Ivy Samantha Glass - 1st Team All-Ivy Field Hockey Nicole Wells - Honorable Mention All-Ivy Kelsey Nolan - 2nd Team All- Ivy Heather Schlesier - Honorable Mention All-Ivy Football Team - "Big Game National Team of the Week" honor from the Football Writers Association of America Jason Alessi ’18 - Ivy League Rookie of Week (Nov. 2); CSM Ivy Defensive Player of Week (Nov. 2); ECAC Rookie of Week (Nov. 2) Ben Carbery ’15 - First-Team All-Ivy; First-Team All-New England Hayden Carlson ’18 - Ivy Rookie of Week (Oct. 5) Kyle Cazzetta ’15 - First-Team All-Ivy; First-Team All-New England; 2-time Ivy Special Teams POW; USA College Football Honors (Nov. 2) Cole Champion ’16 - HM All-Ivy Will Chism ’15 - Second-Team All-Ivy Charles Cook ’15 - Second-Team All-Ivy Leo Haenni ’17 - HM All-Ivy Luke Longinotti ’16 - Second-Team All-Ivy Foyesade Oluokun ’17 - Second-Team All-Ivy Matthew Oplinger ’18 - Ivy Rookie of Week (Oct. 27) Deon Randall ’15 - First-Team All-Ivy; Dream Bowl Honors (Sept. 29) Candler Rich ’17 - HM All-Ivy; CFPA Honors (Nov. 2) Morgan Roberts ’16 - Second-Team All-Ivy; 3-time Ivy Offensive Player of Week; 2-time NEFWA Gold Helmet pick; CSM National Player of Week (Oct. 5); ECAC Offensive Player of Week (Oct. 5); CFPA National Player of Week (Oct. 27) Copache Tyler ’17 - Second-Team All-Ivy Tyler Varga ’15 - Invite to 2015 Reese’s Senior Bowl; Bushnell Cup Winner (Ivy Offensive MVP); First-Team All-Ivy; 2014 NEFWA Gold Helmet; First-Team All-New England; 3-time Ivy Offensive Player of Week; TSN National Player of Week (Sept. 29); ECAC Offensive Player of Week (Oct. 20); NFF & Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete; GCGB Swede Nelson Award
Grant Wallace ’15 - First-Team All-Ivy; First-Team All-New England; CFPA HM (Oct. 27) Men's Soccer Henry Flugstad-Clarke ’17 - 2nd Team All-Ivy Women's Soccer Melissa Gavin ’15 - 2nd Team All-Ivy; CollegeSportsMadness.com 1st All-Ivy League Team Meredith Speck ’15 - 1st Team All-Ivy; CollegeSportsMadness.com 1st All-Ivy League Team Elsie Wilcox ’15 - Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year; 1st Team All-Ivy; CollegeSportsMadness.com 1st All-Ivy League Team; Ivy League Player of the Week (Oct. 20); CollegeSportsMadness.com Ivy League Player of the Week (Oct. 7) Muriel Battaglia ’15 - 1st Team All-Ivy; 1st Team Capital One Academic All-District 1 Frannie Coxe ’15 - CollegeSportsMadness.com 1st All-Ivy League Team; 1st Team Capital One Academic All-District 1 Ally Grossman ’16 - CollegeSportsMadness.com 1st All-Ivy League Team Sarah McCauley ’18 - Rookie of the Week (Nov. 10) Carlin Hudson ‘18 - Honorable Mention All-Ivy; Ivy League Rookie of the Week (Oct. 6) Volleyball Kelly Johnson ’15 - 1st Team All-Ivy; Yale Invitational All-Tournament team; Mollie Rogers ’15 - ACVA Division I East All-Region; Ivy League Player of the Year; 1st Team All-Ivy; Villanova Classic All-Tournament team; Ivy League Player of the Week (Sept. 30, Oct. 14, Nov. 11, 18); Capital One Academic All-District 1 second team; Maya Midzak ’16 - 2nd Team All-Ivy; Maddie Rudnick ’15 - 1st Team All-Ivy; Kaitlyn Gibbons ’18 - Ivy League Rookie of the Week (Oct. 7) Kelsey Crawford ’18 - Ivy League Rookie of the Year; 2nd Team All-Ivy; Ivy League Rookie of the Week (Sept. 16, 23, 30, Nov. 11, 18); ECAC Rookie of the Week (Nov. 12)
Carl Knobloch ‘51 has made a $3 million gift to Yale Fencing which will endow the Carl W. Knobloch, Jr.
Class of ’51 Director of Fencing, supporting the program’s annual budget in perpetuity.
Thank you to all of the generous donors who have
helped us make progress towards goal of fully endowing our entire varsity sport operation. To view all of the naming opportunities for
endowment and capital support visit http://giftguide.yale.edu/beneficiary/show/1