VOL. 23, NO. 3	September 19, 1997

Field Hockey Head Coach Susan Eichner, right, is glad to have Meghan Dalton, CC'01, on the team. Dalton will also play for the women's lacrosse team, coached by Celine Cunningham (not pictured). Photo by Bill Steinman.

  The official hosts of the evening were the team captains and coaches, who were thoroughly pleased to add to their rosters the more than 200 talented athletes of the Class of 2001.

  The enthusiasm has not been one-sided.

  "I am coming to Columbia because when I walked onto the campus, I fell in love with it," field hockey and lacrosse recruit Devin Fitzpatrick, CC'01, said in the latest Lines on Lions, the publication of the Varsity "C" Club and Athletic Communications. "I had never felt that way at any other college."

  Fitzpatrick is an eight-letter athlete from Baltimore, who was a member of the U.S. Field Hockey Association National Futures Team and was selected for Team Maryland in lacrosse.

Wrestling captain Arkee Allen, CC'98, left, and Wrestling Head Coach Lou Montano, right, welcome first-year Samuel Polk, CC'01. Photo by Bill Steinman.

  New Yorker Noah Ochsenhaut, CC'01, a defensive lineman in football, said the combination of New York City, the Core Curriculum and playing football is "an ideal situation" for him: "Columbia has always been my first choice."

  Michael Bilsborough, CC'01, a cross country distance runner from Barstow, Calif., said: "Columbia will challenge me athletically, academically and culturally. New York City is an adventure, far from home."

  Women's crew member Adelaide Webster, BC'01, of Chicago, summed it up: "The opportunities are endless at Columbia."

  This weekend, four of Columbia's teams head to Harvard, where the Lions will face the Crimson in football on Saturday at 1:00 P.M. Earlier that day, field hockey will play its second Ivy League game of the season, after holding its own despite a loss against Cornell (2-1) last week. At home this weekend is volleyball, in the Columbia Classic, at 10:00 A.M. Saturday.