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Sports Roundup
May was quite a month for Shayla Livingston ’07
of Sharon, Vermont. Only a few weeks after graduating magna cum laude from Smith
College, she was among an elite group of eight college women who went to the 2007
NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships. In the post-season competition,
she finished fourth in the country in the 400-meter hurdles and earned All American
honors for her performance. Named a Smith College Scholar Athlete in each of the
four years she attended Smith, Livingston was also Smith’s Senior Athlete of
the Year. And based on her academic performance, she was elected to the highly selective
collegiate honor society Zeta Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa.
“I loved being a student-athlete,” says
Livingston. “When asked what I was majoring in, I always replied, ‘Government,
Spanish and track.’”
On July 1, Lynn M. Hersey took over as Smith’s
basketball coach. The women’s basketball co-head coach at Amherst College for
the past two seasons, Hersey earned a bachelor of science degree, with a major in
physical education and minor in health, at Plymouth State University in 2000 and
a master of science in sports management from the University of Massachusetts in
2003
Jaime L. Ginsberg is the new field hockey
coach at Smith College. A 1999 graduate of Slippery Rock University, Ginsberg received
her master of education in sports and recreation administration from Temple University
this spring.
The Pioneers rowed to fourth place out of
17 crews in the women’s division of the New England Rowing Championships in
early May. The team was all set to race at the Eastern College Athletic Conference
National Invitational Rowing Championships five days later when high winds and whitecaps
on the Dorchester Park waters in Whitney, New York, caused the cancellation of final
and semi-final races.
In May, Smith equestrians claimed fourth place
out of 10 teams competing in the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association’s National
Championship show in West Springfield, Massachusetts. Along with other members of
Zone 1, Smith hosted the national competition.
Senda Berenson, the first director of physical
education at Smith, from 1892 to 1911, was inducted into the National Jewish Sports
Hall of Fame and Museum in Commack, New York, in late April. After becoming friends
with Dr. James Naismith, who invented the game of basketball at Springfield College,
Berenson adapted his rules for a women’s game in 1892 and directed the first
women’s collegiate basketball game on March 22, 1893, in Smith’s Alumnae
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