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Articles by Chris Boots
Balanced outlook made Moots senior leader
13 May 2008
For many gifted athletes, joy comes in the form of thriving under pressure, excelling in competition, and putting up numbers, either on the field, court, or course...
Zhang named Rookie of the Year
05 May 2008
Although he narrowly missed out on a postseason berth, first-year men’s tennis star Will Zhang tucked another honor under his belt Friday when he was named the UAA Rookie of the Year. ...
Lacrosse clubs to host Stagg games
02 May 2008
For most Maroon teams, home games on the sparkling new fields behind Ratner are the norm...
Eagles deny women's tennis
22 Apr 2008
Traveling to Wash U for the UAA Championship Tournament, the Maroons knew they would likely have to knock off powerhouse Emory for a shot at the title...
Track ready to defend indoor UAA crown
18 Apr 2008
Despite following up a pair of indoor UAA titles with a successful spring season, nothing is guaranteed for track and field as it looks to protect its crowns in an intensely competitive conferenc...
Track passes final test before hosting UAAs
15 Apr 2008
With their most important meet of the season only a few days away, Chicago raced in weather more suited for the indoor season as they got one last tune-up at the Wheaton Invitational over the wee...
Women’s tennis stumbles in rematches against old foes
08 Apr 2008
Fresh off a successful spring training trip, women’s tennis ran into a momentum roadblock over the weekend on their journey toward the upcoming UAA tournament. ...
Hirve places fourth in NCAA triple jump
04 Apr 2008
Before kicking off their outdoor season last weekend, one chapter of the winter remained for third-year Appie Hirve, who was representing the Maroons at nationals...
How sweet it is: women's basketball advances
11 Mar 2008
Fresh off of its first UAA championship in nearly 20 years, women’s basketball continued to make school history over the weekend, scoring Chicago’s first postseason win and using a dominant secon...
Men's tennis dominates Luther, falls to Bears
03 Mar 2008
Splitting a pair of home matches this weekend, men’s tennis showed that while it has the confidence and skill to dominate mid-level squads, it still needs some work before it can contend with the...
Men's basketball swamps NYU, comes from behind to topple Brandeis
26 Feb 2008
In the penultimate chapter of the regular season, the Maroons peaked at the perfect time and put the pieces in place for a storybook climax...
Von Tersch leaves volleyball
08 Feb 2008
After seven seasons at the helm of Chicago volleyball, head coach Dorinda von Tersch announced last week that she will not be returning next fall, citing family reasons...
After upset, men’s hoops takes UAA lead
05 Feb 2008
A year ago, men’s basketball overcame a slow start to lead the UAA, and this time around, the song remains the same. ...
Rookies carry men's tennis
29 Jan 2008
After opening their spring season with a 6–1 spanking from Northwestern, Chicago would have been justified to head into their next D-I match with trepidation. ...
Men's tennis at a glance
18 Jan 2008
The Recap Anchored by a corps of first-year talent, the Maroons made their way to a third-place conference finish last spring and a 10–8 record. ...
Bears stop women’s basketball in its tracks
15 Jan 2008
In their success so far this season, women’s basketball has relied on aggressive rebounding and a balanced, widespread, team-oriented attack. ...
Winter squads ready to take it up a notch
11 Jan 2008
Not all Chicago students have the luxury of a month-long break...
Early weaknesses apparent as men’s basketball splits weekend
27 Nov 2007
After a disappointing loss in the final game of last weekend’s Midway Classic, the Maroons had another chance to grab an early season tournament title on Sunday. ...
Sports Shorts 11/20/07: Wrestling places two at Concordia Invite
20 Nov 2007
After starting their season with a win over Wheaton last Wednesday, the wrestling team headed to Concordia, WI on Saturday to test its mettle against 332 athletes from dozens of regional schools ...
Wash who? Maroons down Bears
06 Nov 2007
With each second that ticked by, Chicago found itself closer to the end of its season, closer to accepting the fact that this would be the last time its seniors donned a maroon-and-white uniform...
Turnovers haunt football
30 Oct 2007
This fall, Maroon football has pulled off the feat of playing two separate seasons...
Sports Shorts: First goal earns first UAA recognition for Manuelli
26 Oct 2007
Continuing her climb into the Maroon spotlight, first-year defender Kate Manuelli netted UAA Athlete of the Week honors Tuesday after a week that saw her enter the boards in a big way...
Football guns for UAA win
19 Oct 2007
It’s the age-old question in sports: Can the best defense beat the best offense? On Saturday, fans will have another case study for fodder when Chicago’s tight-run blocking looks to shut down the...
Football can't bring back Cup
16 Oct 2007
Football is playing with the big boys now, and it found out on Saturday that the UAA is far less forgiving than regional competition...
Slump continues for injury-plagued volleyball
05 Oct 2007
As in the past few seasons, volleyball has entered 2007 looking for its breakout year...
Fresh faces bolster offense
30 Sep 2007
After edging Macalaster (2–2) last Saturday at home, football (2–1) will face Lewis and Clark for the first time in recent memory when the Pioneers (0–2) arrive at Stagg this weekend. Allo...
Vets, newbies look for right mix
30 Sep 2007
Riding a two-game win streak and finally showing signs of entering the groove they found last season, men’s soccer will have its momentum challenged when 18th-ranked Emory comes to town on Saturd...
Velo newcomer moves into fast lane
19 Sep 2007
In the world of sports, there’s beginner’s luck and then there’s proven talent. This...
Ushering in a new era, Omodele-Lucien dominated at doubles
01 Jun 2007
After sending two first-years to NCAAs in as many years, and boasting a starting order with only two upperclassmen, women’s tennis doesn’t deny the importance of youth to its rise as a competitiv...
Spring All-Maroons
25 May 2007
Top Team: Women’s Track Boasting top-notch competitors in multiple events, the squad responded to the loss of All-American Jessica Winter [A.B. ...
Wade stepped up to smash records when softball needed her most
25 May 2007
In her first two seasons as a Maroon, Petra Wade took a comfortable backseat to All-American Hannah Roberts (A.B. ’06) in pitching duties, starting in just under half of Chicago’s games. Ye...
Sport Short 5/18/07: UAA, Order of the C honor Maroons
18 May 2007
Letting the Maroons boast a quartet of honorees for the second week in a row, four athletes garnered UAA Athlete of the Week recognition Tuesday...
State of our athletics: A program at an impasse
15 May 2007
As we approach the 20th anniversary of competition in the UAA, it seems like there has never been a better time to be involved with Maroons athletics...
Crew takes on Dad Vail in spring finale
15 May 2007
For the University’s club rowers, a year of pre-sunrise practices and blistered hands paid off last weekend with the opportunity to post strong competition against hundreds of crews from across t...
Venkataraman eased tennis’s growing pains
15 May 2007
As the Maroons bested nationally ranked Carthage 6–3 for the first time in men’s tennis history this March, fourth-year Vivek Venkataraman could only have been thinking about how far his team had...
Weekend of milestones for baseball
01 May 2007
Breathing life into a slow-going season, Chicago bested a nationally-ranked team for the first time this year and scored a season-leading run total during a quartet of games in St. Louis...
Peaches and dashed dreams for track
24 Apr 2007
Coming off of heartbreaking results at the indoor championships last March, both track and field squads entered UAAs with a burning desire to set the pace...
NCAAs: Mission Impossible for tennis
20 Apr 2007
Riding an 8–1 crushing of Augustana in its final home appearance of the season, women’s tennis must harness its momentum and use every inch of its potential if it wants to come out on top at UAAs...
Illini’s loss was U of C’s gain with QB Rinklin
13 Apr 2007
With three losing seasons behind them and a dismal 3–6 record in 2004, Chicago Maroons football was in need of a fresh approach when Matt Rinklin, then a second-year at U of I, came calling for h...
Spring success has softball thinking repeat
30 Mar 2007
After posting an impressive 8-–2 mark against tournament-caliber competition during their spring break trip, softball has every reason to feel confident about the 2007 season. ...
Men's tennis survives Red scare
06 Mar 2007
Fueling the young squad’s momentum heading into spring action, men’s tennis earned a key upset over a top 25 program to further establish itself as a contender in the Central region. C...
With new depth, track set to take leauge by storm
02 Mar 2007
After years of looking at UAAs as a chance to improve on the previous showing, track has been putting itself in position to not only take gold but also to keep on running with some NCAA bids...
Broomball madness sweeps U of C
23 Feb 2007
“Prove you’re from Russia!” As second-year Sergey Novikov squares off in front of the net to take his team’s final penalty shot in a tied-up broomball match, his Shorey House teammates begin to ...
Women's swimming earns best UAA finish in 12 years
13 Feb 2007
Although their sixth-place finish may not bring glory and a UAA championship banner to deck the rafters of Myers-McLoraine, women’s swimming’s showing at the UAA meet marks the team’s best finish...
Women's hoops falls back to Earth
30 Jan 2007
Just days after climbing to the top of the coaches’ poll for the first time in program history, women’s basketball took a brutally hard fall. ...
Men ride outsdie shooting in routs
23 Jan 2007
Breaking UAA scoring records and setting season-high points totals, the Maroons’ high-powered offense made it look easy as they led men’s basketball to wins over Carnegie Mellon and Rochester in ...
Records tumble as swimming starts second half
19 Jan 2007
With both teams out of competition since November 18 but fresh from a winter training trip to Sarasota, Florida, there were a lot of questions hanging over what kind of times men’s and women’s sw...
Women's hoops stays hot
12 Jan 2007
Putting the final touch on the non-conference season before dealing exclusively with the UAA, women’s basketball may not have been in its top form, but it managed to get the job done and continue...
Men's basketball rides strong defense before running out of steam
28 Nov 2006
Leaving Ratner for the first time this season, the Maroons met with both success and failure on the road, extending their winning streak to four games before falling at the Trinity/Southwestern T...
Women’s basketball right at home in classic opener
21 Nov 2006
Sporting a new-look offense, women’s basketball started off its season on the right foot, posting a pair of lopsided victories in a season-opening sweep. ...
Football finishes with rout
14 Nov 2006
Determined to close its up-and-down season with a win, football pulled one off on Saturday and made it look easy...
After rough season, volleyball earns surprise fifth-place at UAAs
07 Nov 2006
After managing only four wins all season, volleyball fought nationally ranked competition one last time and upset two higher ranked teams to close out their 2006 season with a pair of huge wins...
Spartans' late strike leaves football in cellar
31 Oct 2006
Rain, hail, and lightning delays were all omens of bad luck for Chicago on Saturday, after things started out on a bright note for the struggling team...
Errors taint volleyball's last home stand
27 Oct 2006
A boisterous home crowd and a pair of strong starts couldn’t bring volleyball a win in its final two appearances of the year at Ratner. ...
Sports Shorts 10/17/06: Women's tennis ends fall season on high note
17 Oct 2006
Competing against a variety of local teams at the Chicago State Invitational over the weekend, the Maroons triumphed over opponents from higher divisions in a promising preview of spring season...
Sports Shorts 10/13/06: Athletic department to induct eight into hall of fame
13 Oct 2006
Note: This is the first in a two part series profiling this year's hall of fame inductees...
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