Jed Dupree, CC'01, in action this year.

With a 14-10 victory over Penn State's Nontapat Panchan, Jed Dupree, CC'01, became the first Lion since Ben Atkins in 1993 to earn a national fencing championship. The victory also earned him first team All-America honors.

Winning 12 of 23 bouts in the round-robin competition, Dupree beat defending champion Felix Reichling of Stanford in a semi-final squeaker, 15-14. A member of the U.S. Senior World Team, Dupree is likely to compete for the U.S. Team in the 2004 Olympics in Athens.

Overall, Columbia finished sixth out of 10 teams in the Kenosha, Wis. tournament, ahead of Penn, Ohio State, Yale and Wayne State. St. John's won the title, its first ever, and was followed by Penn State, Notre Dame, Stanford and Princeton.

Joining Dupree as All-Americas were: sophomore Kevin Eriksen, junior Paolo Roselli, senior Patrick Durkan, first-year Katie Cavan, and sophomore Monica Conley.

Softball Earns ECAC Bid

Competing as an intercollegiate varsity sport for only the second season, Columbia's women's softball team won eight of their last nine regular-season games and finished above the .500 mark (25-23), earning a berth in the postseason Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament.

After a heartbreaking 3-2 loss to Dartmouth in the tournament's opening game, the Lions rebounded to edge Stony Brook 4-3. April Jarvis hit a go-ahead single in the bottom on the seventh to give the team its first post-season victory. A 4-0 loss to Dartmouth in the next game eliminated the Light Blue from the tournament. East Carolina went on to capture the ECAC title with a 6-5 victory over the Big Green.

Barnard's Bamiduro Awarded Postgraduate Scholarship

Adebola Bamiduro, Barnard'01, was recently named one of five recipients of the John McLendon Memorial Minority Postgraduate Scholarship. The $10,000 award was given to five seniors who intend to pursue a postgraduate degree in athletics administration. Students eligible for the award must have a minimum 3.0 GPA and have demonstrated leadership qualities as an undergraduate.

Bamiduro, a four-year starter and co-captain of Columbia's women's lacrosse team earned a degree this May in Political Science, posting a 3.27 GPA. She was a member of the captain's council from 1999-2001, the Ivy Group Student Athletic Advisory Committee from 1999-2001 and was the Ivy League representative to the NCAA Student Athletic Advisory Committee for 1999 and 2000. The scholarship awards luncheon will be held on June 12 in Salt Lake City.

Three Columbians to Participate in 2001 Maccabiah Games

Senior basketball player Marc Simon, junior fencer Anya Brodsky and athletic trainer Neila Jacobson will travel to Israel this July to represent the United States in the 16th World Maccabiah Games.

The competition officially begins after the Opening Ceremony in Jerusalem on July 16. All three Columbians making the trip have been to the games before, Simon and Brodsky as competitors and Jacobson as a trainer.

Since 1948, the Games have been held once every four years and attract the finest Jewish athletes from all over the world. They provide a unique opportunity for athletes to compete against each other while learning more about Jewish culture and religious heritage.

During their trip, athletes will tour historic sites throughout the country and will be able to eat Sabbath dinner with an Israeli family.

Past athletes who have competed in the Maccabiah Games include: Brad Gilbert, former top-five professional tennis player and current coach of Andre Agassi; Lenny Krayzelburg, three-time Olympic swimming gold-medalist and former NBA players Dolf and Danny Schayes.