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MIT athletes earn four NEWMAC championships The fall season was another successful one for MIT Athletics as the Engineers achieved both athletically and academically.
Academic All-Americans | MIT News Edging out the University of Notre Dame, this year MIT moved into second place in the all-time national rankings for Academic All-American student-athletes.
Top five players at each position in college football – Defense edition:
Top five players at each position in college football – Defense edition:
Finishing up on my top five positional rankings for this upcoming NCAA football season, we switch over to the defensive side of the ball. Once again, these lists are about where those guys stack up as college players – not as eventual draft prospects. So the criteria I base them on is the tape I watched on them the last couple of seasons and the jump I project them to make this year. With that…
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Top five players at each position in college football – Offense edition:
Top five players at each position in college football – Offense edition:
After revealing my most intriguing storylines heading into the 2018 college football season, I wanted to release my top five positional rankings, like I did a year ago as well. To make the criteria clear – this list is about the actual college players, as a combination of what they showed me last season and what I expect them to be in 2018. So this is not a look forward to these young men as…
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Butts and Brooms Presents: The Attractive All-Americans (Female Edition)
The same rules apply as in the male edition: This team is comprised of the female players who embody the greatest combination of skill and hotness. The one change: because there are barely any female keepers, I chose to replace the keeper spot with a fourth chaser. Let's get to it:
Chaser: Sarah Holub (UT).
Holub, both a T8M and #BBAA selection, has one of the sassiest smirks in the IQA. She also likes Disney. A lot.
Chaser: Audrey Wright (UT).
Audrey Wright is the legs of Texas Quidditch. And the arms.
Chaser: Vanessa Goh (UCLA).
Goh, both a T8M and #BBAA selection, has the hottest boyfriend in the entire IQA. She was also proposed to by a stranger after falling into the crowd during the World Cup Finals (watch yourself, buddy).
Chaser: Becca DuPont (TAMU).
DuPont, both a T8M and #BBA selection, is also known as a "shewolf." I'm not exactly sure what that means, but she certainly makes all the boys and girls howl.
Beater: Mollie Lensing (TAMU).
Lensing, who played for the Silver Phoenixes this season, was a member of Team USA, and a finalist in this year's #BBI. Yes, I still have the photo. No, you can't see it.
Beater: Savannah Allison (TAMU).
If the IQA had an official #twerkteam, Allison would be its captain.
Seeker: Molly Pietroski (Lost Boys).
Pietroski is the hottest seeker to come out of Emerson since Dan Hanson.
Butts and Brooms Presents: The Attractive All-Americans
I'll be releasing two of these lists: one for males, and one for females. The players selected for each of these lists are, in my opinion, the best combination of attractiveness and skill at their respective positions. Without further ado:
Chaser: Drew Wasikowski (TAMU).
Drewski was selected as an All-American by both T8M and Butts and Brooms. He is also the only quidditch player to have won a medal for swimming at the Olympic Games.
Chaser: Simon Arends (UT).
Arends, a first-team #BBAA selection and second-team T8M selection, recently got a haircut. Men, women, and children everywhere wept.
Chaser: Kifer Gregoire (TAMU).
Gregoire serves as TAMU's sure-tackling point defender with the swaggiest of on-field swag.
Keeper: Chris Morris (UT).
Morris, a #BBAA selection, has played every position for the Longhorns, including male model.
Beater: Jacob Adlis (UT).
Adlis, who usually breaks hearts with his ripping physique, missed most of the season with a broken wrist. He was a #BBAA selection, and moonlights as an actor under the stage name "Edward Norton."
Beater: Mathieu Gregoire (TAMU)
Kifer's swag is the swaggiest. Mathieu's stache is the stache-iest.
Seeker: Donovan McNiff (Cal).
Donovan McNiff is going to change the world, one intercontinental flex at a time.
Butts and Brooms Presents: The All-Americans
Male Chasers: Simon Arends and Kody Marshall (Texas).
Defense wins championships. Arends and Marshall are two of the best defenders in the business. However, unlike many great defensive players, these two are just as unstoppable on the offensive end, having the ability to literally grind their way through the tackles of all the opposing team's chasers in succession en route to a goal. They're also great distributors to boot. These are, unquestionably, the best all around chasers in the game, and undisputed first team all-americans.
Female Chaser: Vanessa Goh (UCLA).
The first team girl chaser position for most people is a coin-flip: is it Vanessa Goh, or is it Sarah Holub? Both are able to tackle male chasers consistently. Both are able to score, catch, and pass effectively and consistently. There are, however, slight differences in these chasers' skill sets. Whereas Holub is godlike at making leaping two-handed catch-dunks, Goh excels at one handed catches away from her body, and making defenders miss in space. Although Goh is not as proficient at the catch dunk, her superiority in space gives her the slight edge over her Longhorn counterpart in the versatility category, and a first team all-american accolade.
Beaters: Colin Capello and Hope Machala (Texas).
Though UT is known primarily for its aggressive, physical chaser play, the style of play that has made the likes of Marshall and Arends household names is not exclusive to the Longhorns' quaffle players. Capello and Machala are just as tenacious as their chaser counterparts, with the former's being possibly the most notorious in the nation. Whereas some beaters intimidate with their cannon arms, Capello intimidates with both his bludger and his body, which he will use to drive opposing beaters into the ground whenever given the opportunity. Machala's quick reactions and accurate throws make her a formidable force as the rear beater in Texas's stack beater defense, and her aggressiveness allows her to seamlessly pick up the slack if their point beater is taken out by an iso.
Keeper: Zach Luce (UCLA).
Zach Luce is by no means the most physically gifted keeper in the league -- he isn't carved out of marble with blazing speed, nor is he a behemoth middle linebacker. However, his individual performance at the World Cup was undoubtedly the best. With fellow keeper Alex Browne out due to injury during the finals and semi-finals, Luce completely took over the championship field, racking up goals against Baylor and UT like no player had ever before done. Despite his skinniness, Luce is incredibly slippery, giving him the ability to slip and spin out of tackles by even the likes of Texas's point defenders. He is also a marksman from range. And, whereas most lanky keepers are only known for their shot blocking, Luce is a proficient tackler who can take down ballcarriers who make it through the perimeter defense.
Seeker: Steve DiCarlo (Lost Boys).
Steve has caught, like, 45 snitches this year. Just ask him about it.
Utility: Missy Sponagle (UCLA).
Missy Sponagle is the ultimate support player. While other girl chasers are getting attention for flashy dunks and shots, Sponagle is quietly flying under the radar, doing all the little things that make UCLA's offense run, such as setting screens to open up her teammates, and opening herself up for outlet passes to stretch the defense and create passing/driving lanes for the ballcarrier. She can also take the ball up herself, and can score consistently when given the opportunity. Sponagle is also a very exceptional beater, who would undoubtedly earn an all-american spot were she to focus all of her time to the black headband. As an added bonus, she has a 100% snitch snatch rate as a seeker. She also tackled August that one time.
Check out the second and third teams after the Read More.
