<p>Here are the standings for the D3 Directors Cup, which measures the performance of a school across a wide number of sports. Results are tallied after each season with the final results published in the summer. Williams has dominated for the last decade, Amherst and Middlebury are usually in the top five and Tufts tends to bounce around between 6 and 16. NESCAC schools usually take around 4 of the top 10 spots. This could be a good year for Tufts if the spring season goes well.</p>
<p>Note that 7 of the top 10 sports programs are all familiar names to the CC crowd, so it really is a league of student athletes playing for the love of their sport. </p>
<p>Yep…and I can’t wait for the Men’s soccer season this fall. The team should be excellent with a great recruiting class of incoming freshman…many who were recruited by D! schools!!!</p>
<p>Soccer was definately the team to watch last fall with a great homecoming win over Williams! The soccer field is next to the football field and by half-time most fans had migrated from the football game to the soccer game!</p>
<p>Amherst also landed a couple of good soccer recruits from Massachusetts including a scholastic all-american. It should be an interesting matchup. Go Jumbos!</p>
<p>Let’s hope we can get the football team back on track as well, here is some potential good news:</p>
<p>The men’s ice hockey team made the NESCAC semi-finals for the first time in their history this year. Coach Brian Murphy was named NESCAC hockey coach of the year
By all accounts they have a strong recruiting class coming in…GO JUMBOS!</p>
<p>I just looked for information on the recruiting class. The ESPN site listed three recruits. The one who caught my eye is from Deerfield HS in Illinois. (He was also recruited by Cornell.) One ironic note, given the recent Tufts-Northwestern comparisons on this site, is that the star of Deerfield will play soccer for Northwestern.</p>
<p>Actually, one might find it ironic that one of the top 11 players in the entire Midwest District chose to join an up and coming division 3 soccer program, when there was an established division 1 program (that can give scholarships and which a fellow teammate and a couple of alums were already attending) right in his backyard. </p>
<p>Must have been for academic reasons </p>
<p>Congrats to both teams on what looks like a good set of recruits for their respective divisions! (I am a Wildcat fan as well as a Jumbo Fan)</p>
<p>Here are the links for D1/D3 commits. From a Jumbo perspective, I am more concerned about Amherst’s list than NW’s. Tuft’s list may not be complete, because I know Amherst’s is not. NW’s was listed on it’s webpage, so it is probably complete.</p>
<p>Mastadon, thanks for the informative links. Soccer was fun at Tufts last year. I wonder if the Tufts soccer page has any information on incoming recruits…I will check now. Thanks again.</p>
<p>Way to go Tufts!!! Congrats on #7 in the Learfield Sports Director’s Director’s Cup!!! Very impressive! Can’t wait for the fall men’s soccer season…</p>
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