Hamilton College’s Olivia Strigh ’25 (Hammonton, N.J./Hammonton HS) and Aubrey Lee ’28 (Oradell, N.J./Bergen County Technical HS) were selected for the 2025 New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Women’s Golf All-Conference Team on Tuesday, May 13.

Strigh and Lee were two of eight golfers voted to the second team by the conference’s coaches. The all-NESCAC honor was the first for both golfers.

Strigh posted an 18-hole stroke average of 80.47 for 15 rounds during the 2024-25 season. She saved one of the best tournaments of her career for last with a tie for seventh place out of 39 golfers in the 2025 NESCAC Championship in early May. Strigh shot rounds of 76-78-78 at Yahnundasis Golf Club in New Hartford, N.Y., as Hamilton hosted the event for the first time. She tied for 18th place out of 60 at 160 for 36 holes in the 2025 Williams College Spring Invitational on April 19 and 20.

Lee averaged 78.53 strokes in 17 rounds this season. She tied for 14th place in the conference championship with rounds of 78-77-84. She was the individual medalist at the Trinity College/University of Hartford Spring Invitational with a 36-hole score of 157 on April 5 and 6. Lee really made a name for herself at the 2024 Golfweek Division III October Classic in Miramar Beach, Fla., where she tied for 18th place out of 124 golfers after rounds of 75-76-72 against some of the top competition in Division III.

The duo helped the Continentals achieve a ranking as high as 13th in the Division III Top 25 coaches poll on Feb. 28. Hamilton finished in third place in the NESCAC championship, captured the Trinity/Hartford Spring Invitational team title and tied for eighth out of 24 teams at the Golfweek Division III October Classic.

 

By: Maddie Omana

HANOVER, N.H. – Five men’s and women’s track and field student-athletes were given All-Ivy honors, as announced by the Ivy League on Tuesday afternoon. 

For a second time in the 2024-25 season, Jada Jones has been named to the first team, following another successful performance at the Ivy League Outdoor Championships last weekend. She defended her title as the 200m Ivy League Champion with a 23.55 finish in the event, setting a new school record in the process.

Similarly, Jack Intihar and Madeleine Locher were each given second team All-Ivy honors for the second time this year.

This past weekend, Intihar brought home a silver medal for the Big Green after recording a new personal best of 7321 points in the decathlon. He improved his best score by 360 points and put himself at sixth all-time in program history. Additionally, Intihar recorded a personal record in six of the ten decathlon events, including an eighth all-time program record of 7.32m in the long jump. 

Locher earned a silver medal in the 5000m during the Ivy League Outdoor Championships, following her 16:25.45 performance. She has had a successful senior season for the Big Green, putting herself at sixth all-time in the 5000m with her 16:12.30 mark at the Penn Relays and earning a silver medal in the 5000m at the Ivy League Indoor Championships. 

Bella Pietrasiewicz and Mason Childers were each given Academic All-Ivy honors for their contributions to the track and field program, as well as their strength in the classroom. 

During the indoor season, Pietrasiewicz ran a 2:39.85 in the 1000m, which is the third fastest in NCAA history. She is the only Ivy League student-athlete in the NCAA’s top 25 all-time rankings for the event. 

This season, Childers, a team captain, helped the men’s 4x400m team break a program record of 3:08.89 at the Bill Carson Invitational. Additionally, he helped the men’s 4x100m team record a second all-time best of 40.97 at the Sean Collier Invitational.

By: Rebecca Osowski

First-year goaltender Michaela Hesová had a standout rookie season with the Big Green. A unanimous ECAC Hockey All-Rookie team selection, being named to the Ivy League’s second team, and being named an ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Year finalist, naming her one of the top three first years of 73 in the league.
 
On top of those recognitions, Hesová broke the program record for saves in a season, making 848 total saves, the only first-year to be in the top ten. Her .922 save percentage also puts her in the top ten, sitting eighth overall.
 
Hesová, a native of Prague, Czech Republic, has been representing her country since she was 16. This past month, she reached the highest level, playing for Team Czechia in the 2025 IIHF Women’s World Championship, held nowhere else but her home country.
 
“Representing my country on whichever level at whichever tournament is always the biggest honor one can achieve in hockey,” Hesová said. “Especially this year, with the world championships being back home, I was incredibly grateful and incredibly thankful for the opportunity.”
 
Team Czechia’s second game of the tournament was against the United States, a game that Hesová got the nod for.
 
“I was told about the fact I was going to start 24 hours in advance which I’m very grateful for because I had the day before to have the time to freak out about it,” Hesovaá said. “The next day I just went about business as usual. I was very excited because all of our games were sold out. There’s 6,000 people, there’s countless kinds watching me, so I was very excited.”
 
Despite Czechia falling to the World Champions, Hesová did not crack under pressure. She made 44 saves, posting a .916 save percentage, a performance that earned her Player of the Game honors.
 
Hesová also appeared in Czechia’s game against Canada, making eight saves in just under one period of play.
 
With both Dartmouth’s season and the World Championship concluded, Hesová says the support of her family, coaches, and teammates both on the national team and in Hanover gave her all the confidence she needed.
 
“I knew that I had a lot of people behind me, and I knew no matter how that game would have gone, I would still have people who would love me and that would be super proud of me,” Hesová said.
 
She also credited her success on the international stage to her preparation at Dartmouth, both on and off the ice.
 
“I had just about anything and everything I could have needed or wanted. I was doing cognitive training; I was doing mental performance training; I was doing video with the coaches every other week; I had goalie sessions whenever I wanted,” Hesová said. “On top of that, I got a lot of opportunities to play in a lot of games that were sometimes very shot heavy. I wasn’t intimidated by the amount of shots I was about to get [against the United States].”
 
Now back on campus, Hesová and the rest of the Big Green will shift their focus to the 2025-26 season, continuing to build on the process implemented in the first season under Head Coach Maura Crowell.
 
“I think the main goals for the upcoming seasons as a team are to be better, to get better every single day and to be the hardest team to play against, as we were this year,” Hesová said. “We need to keep on growing the culture that we’ve been growing and be the most competitive team out there.”
 

Alabama Crimson Tide quarterback Ty Simpson is making moves off the field. On Monday, Simpson, along with safety Bray Hubbard, was announced as an ambassador for a new line of Crimson Tide apparel, marking a significant NIL partnership for the duo.

The latest addition to Alabama’s Crimson Tide Outdoors program is an official camouflage pattern, blending the school’s iconic branding with a rugged, outdoorsy aesthetic. The move taps into the deep-rooted hunting and fishing culture in Alabama, giving fans a fresh way to rep their team beyond the traditional crimson and white.

David O’Brien played for the Long Island Gulls this past season. (Brian Kelly/NEHJ)

It’s a big year for the ’08s. The first step of that was this past weekend at the Mass. Hockey boys festival.

From Friday to Sunday, players battled for spots in the Final 40, which were just announced. Players now turn their attention to making it to USA Hockey’s Select 17 Camp, which is big. There, colleges get a great glimpse of prospects taking on other top players in their age group. It’s also the first time the next NHL Draft class is scouted.

I caught the ’08s on Sunday morning, getting to see every team once. Some top ’08s aren’t in this story, and it doesn’t mean they had bad weekends — it just means they weren’t standouts when I saw them on Sunday.

Let’s dive in.