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Spring Sports Schedules Announced
12/22/2022 12:00:00 PM | Baseball, General, Men's Golf, Men's Tennis, Women's Golf, Women's Rowing, Women's Tennis, Lacrosse, Heavyweight Rowing, Lightweight Rowing, Softball, Track and Field
NEW YORK — Over the past week, Columbia Athletics has unveiled the 2023 spring schedules on its social media channels. The first spring program to compete will be men's tennis, which debuts on Martin Luther King weekend.
Highlighting the seasons will be the opening of a new tennis center, opening up in early 2023 (more details to follow), as well as the expansion of the Ivy League Tournament to a four-team, regional style format in baseball and softball to be hosted by the regular season champions.
ARCHERY - COMPLETE SCHEDULE
Columbia's archery team begins its 2023 season on January 28 at the Lancaster Youth & Collegiate Trophy Tournament. The Lions are coming off a second-place finish at last year's Collegiate Target Nationals. They return All-American Sachiko Keane, who won three medals at the FISU America Games down in Merida, Mexico this past fall. Newcomers Lilian Han and Sydney Sullenberger were recently named to the USA Archery U21 Team. The Lions will look to defend their crown at U.S. Indoor Nationals Feb. 25-26. The 2023 Collegiate Target Nationals run May 18-21 in Statesboro, Georgia.
BASEBALL - COMPLETE SCHEDULE
Coming off its fifth Ivy League title since 2013, Columbia opens up the 2023 campaign with a three-game series at Virginia from February 24-26. After a trip to UNCW for four games, the Lions will spend spring break in the South, for a total of eight games at Alabama, Troy, Samford and Tulane. Columbia has the first of 10 home dates on March 22, when it hosts Manhattan. Ivy League play follows on March 25 when the Lions welcome Brown to town. The Lions will also take on two more teams that reached the NCAA Tournament last season in UConn (April 4) at home and at Army West Point (April 25).
WOMEN'S GOLF - COMPLETE SCHEDULE
The women's golf team will compete in four tournaments and one head-to-head matchup against Harvard as part of its 2023 spring schedule. The Lions tee it up Feb. 11-13 when they host the Columbia Classic down at Duran Golf Club in Melbourne, Florida. March will consists of two tournaments in South Carolina before the Lions prepare to take on Harvard in mid April. The season culminates with the Ivy League Championship, which takes place Friday, April 21 - Sunday, April 23 at Century Country Club in Purchase, New York. Last season, Columbia finished second at the championships by three strokes. Allison Paik led the Lions through the fall 2022 season with a 74.88 stroke average, including one top-10 and two top-25 finishes. Newcomer Emma Shen followed closely behind with a 75.86 stroke average.
MEN'S GOLF - COMPLETE SCHEDULE
The men's golf team will host two tournaments and competes in six total this spring. The season begins Feb. 18-19 down at The Club at Savannah Harbor, where the Lions will take on the field at the Savannah Harbor Invitational. The first of Columbia's two single-day tournaments that it will host comes April 3 in Springfield, Pennsylvania at Rolling Green Golf Club. Twelve days later, they'll host the Roar-EE Invitational at Wiltwyck Golf Club in Kingston, New York. That will serve as the last tournament before the 2023 Ivy League Championship, set for April 22-24 at Stanwich Golf Club in Greenwich, Connecticut. Columbia is coming off a fall in which it won the Columbia Autumn Invitational, tying the program's low-54-hole scoring record in relation to par (-10). They'll be led by Nathan Han, who set the 54-hole individual record in relation to par (-13) and became just the 17th golfer in NCAA history to card a round of 60 in that same tournament.
LACROSSE - COMPLETE SCHEDULE
Under the leadership of Head Coach Anne Murray in her second season, Columbia begins its 2023 campaign with a road contest on Saturday, February 18 against Lafayette. Four days later, the Lions will host their home opener against CCSU at Robert K. Kraft Field. After a pair of non-conference road games, Columbia will return home to host Penn for the team's Ivy League opener on Saturday, March 4. This year, the team will host Alumni Day on Saturday, April 15 against Dartmouth, before celebrating senior day on the last day of the regular season on Saturday, April 29 against Yale. The Ivy League Tournament will be held on Friday, May 5 and Sunday, May 7 at the site of the number one seed.
HEAVYWEIGHT ROWING - COMPLETE SCHEDULE
Season one of the Tom Terhaar era for the heavyweight rowing team begins at home against Rutgers at Overpeck Park for the Collins Cup on Saturday, April 1. Cup racing will continue for the next three weekends on the road before the postseason commences at EARC Springs from May 12-14 on Lake Quinsigamond. After a week off, the Lions will head to the IRA National Championships on Mercer Lake from May 31-June 4.
LIGHTWEIGHT ROWING - COMPLETE SCHEDULE
The national title defense begins for the Lions at the National Collegiate Lightweight Invitational on Saturday, April 1, at West Windsor. Columbia also takes on Navy on April 8 for the WIT Cup and Dartmouth and Cornell with trophies on the line on the Connecticut River on April 29. The lightweights and heavies will both be at EARC Sprints and IRA National Championships during the same weekends in May-June.
WOMEN'S ROWING - COMPLETE SCHEDULE
After hosting a scrimmage against Bucknell and Bates, Columbia will compete at the Doc Hosea Invitational on the Cooper River on April 1. The Lions return to Overpeck Park to welcome Northeastern for the Woodbury Cup on April 8. From there, Columbia will head to the Ivy League Invitational on April 15 and Eastern Sprints (April 30) and the Ivy League Championships (May 14), which are being held in conjunction with the men's EARC Sprints in Worcester, Massachusetts.
SOFTBALL - COMPLETE SCHEDULE
Columbia will open its 2023 campaign at the Knight's Classic in Orlando, Florida. The Lions will face Gardner-Webb and Purdue in an opening day doubleheader on February 24. Columbia will also compete in the Gamecock Invitational in South Carolina and the Long Beach/Cal State Fullerton Tournament in California before coming back to the Northeast for the remainder of its schedule. The Lions start Ivy League action at home on March 18 as they host Brown for a three-game series. The conference slate wraps up at the end of April when the Lions travel to Harvard.
WOMEN'S TENNIS - COMPLETE SCHEDULE
Women's tennis will start the spring portion of its schedule against a few of the nation's best teams. The Lions open in Virginia with a doubleheader against Old Dominion and Morgan State. The Lions will then travel to Malibu, Calif. to face Memphis in the opening round of one of 15 four-team pods that comprise the ITA Kick-Off Weekend. The Columbia vs. Memphis match will be played on the same day as the other opening round between host #8 Pepperdine and #63 Clemson. The winners of each first round match will face off on Jan. 29 to determine who advances to the 2023 ITA Division I National Women's Team Indoor Championship in February. Columbia will host its first home matches of the year on Feb. 19 when Michigan State and Hofstra come to the city for a doubleheader. Ivy League action starts on March 25 as the Lions travel to play Cornell. Columbia will host Princeton on Friday April 7 and Harvard (Senior Day) on April 16. Columbia will wrap up its conference schedule on the road at Brown on April 23.
MEN'S TENNIS – COMPLETE SCHEDULE
The Lions will head to the MLK Invitational hosted by North Carolina to open the spring season. Columbia will play Tulsa on Saturday, Jan. 14 to start the season. The Lions will also play Boise State on Sunday and North Carolina on Monday. The Lions will return to Chapel Hill to compete in the ITA Kickoff hosted by UNC on Jan. 28-29. Depending on the results from the ITA Kickoff, Columbia will either compete in the ITA National Indoors event or the ECAC Championships in February. Ivy League action starts on April 7 when the Lions travel to Princeton. Columbia will host Penn, Yale, Brown, and Cornell this season as part of the home Ivy League slate. The Cornell match on April 29 marks the end of Ivy League play.
OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD – COMPLETE SCHEDULE
The Lions begin the 2023 outdoor season with a trip to Raleigh, N.C. to compete in the Raleigh Relays hosted by NC State. The rest of the regular season schedule consists of nine meets, hosted by the likes of Yale, Princeton, William & Mary, Monmouth, UConn, Virginia, and Penn. The Ivy League Outdoor Heps will take place on Saturday, May 6 and Sunday May 7 in Philadelphia, Pa. The following weekend will be the IC4A/ECAC Outdoor Championships in Williamsburg, Va. NCAA Eastern Prelims will take place May 24-27, before the NCAA Outdoor Championships June 7-10 in Austin, Texas.
For the latest on Columbia athletics, follow @GoColumbiaLions on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and the web at GoColumbiaLions.com.
Highlighting the seasons will be the opening of a new tennis center, opening up in early 2023 (more details to follow), as well as the expansion of the Ivy League Tournament to a four-team, regional style format in baseball and softball to be hosted by the regular season champions.
Columbia's archery team begins its 2023 season on January 28 at the Lancaster Youth & Collegiate Trophy Tournament. The Lions are coming off a second-place finish at last year's Collegiate Target Nationals. They return All-American Sachiko Keane, who won three medals at the FISU America Games down in Merida, Mexico this past fall. Newcomers Lilian Han and Sydney Sullenberger were recently named to the USA Archery U21 Team. The Lions will look to defend their crown at U.S. Indoor Nationals Feb. 25-26. The 2023 Collegiate Target Nationals run May 18-21 in Statesboro, Georgia.
Coming off its fifth Ivy League title since 2013, Columbia opens up the 2023 campaign with a three-game series at Virginia from February 24-26. After a trip to UNCW for four games, the Lions will spend spring break in the South, for a total of eight games at Alabama, Troy, Samford and Tulane. Columbia has the first of 10 home dates on March 22, when it hosts Manhattan. Ivy League play follows on March 25 when the Lions welcome Brown to town. The Lions will also take on two more teams that reached the NCAA Tournament last season in UConn (April 4) at home and at Army West Point (April 25).
The women's golf team will compete in four tournaments and one head-to-head matchup against Harvard as part of its 2023 spring schedule. The Lions tee it up Feb. 11-13 when they host the Columbia Classic down at Duran Golf Club in Melbourne, Florida. March will consists of two tournaments in South Carolina before the Lions prepare to take on Harvard in mid April. The season culminates with the Ivy League Championship, which takes place Friday, April 21 - Sunday, April 23 at Century Country Club in Purchase, New York. Last season, Columbia finished second at the championships by three strokes. Allison Paik led the Lions through the fall 2022 season with a 74.88 stroke average, including one top-10 and two top-25 finishes. Newcomer Emma Shen followed closely behind with a 75.86 stroke average.
The men's golf team will host two tournaments and competes in six total this spring. The season begins Feb. 18-19 down at The Club at Savannah Harbor, where the Lions will take on the field at the Savannah Harbor Invitational. The first of Columbia's two single-day tournaments that it will host comes April 3 in Springfield, Pennsylvania at Rolling Green Golf Club. Twelve days later, they'll host the Roar-EE Invitational at Wiltwyck Golf Club in Kingston, New York. That will serve as the last tournament before the 2023 Ivy League Championship, set for April 22-24 at Stanwich Golf Club in Greenwich, Connecticut. Columbia is coming off a fall in which it won the Columbia Autumn Invitational, tying the program's low-54-hole scoring record in relation to par (-10). They'll be led by Nathan Han, who set the 54-hole individual record in relation to par (-13) and became just the 17th golfer in NCAA history to card a round of 60 in that same tournament.
Under the leadership of Head Coach Anne Murray in her second season, Columbia begins its 2023 campaign with a road contest on Saturday, February 18 against Lafayette. Four days later, the Lions will host their home opener against CCSU at Robert K. Kraft Field. After a pair of non-conference road games, Columbia will return home to host Penn for the team's Ivy League opener on Saturday, March 4. This year, the team will host Alumni Day on Saturday, April 15 against Dartmouth, before celebrating senior day on the last day of the regular season on Saturday, April 29 against Yale. The Ivy League Tournament will be held on Friday, May 5 and Sunday, May 7 at the site of the number one seed.
Season one of the Tom Terhaar era for the heavyweight rowing team begins at home against Rutgers at Overpeck Park for the Collins Cup on Saturday, April 1. Cup racing will continue for the next three weekends on the road before the postseason commences at EARC Springs from May 12-14 on Lake Quinsigamond. After a week off, the Lions will head to the IRA National Championships on Mercer Lake from May 31-June 4.
The national title defense begins for the Lions at the National Collegiate Lightweight Invitational on Saturday, April 1, at West Windsor. Columbia also takes on Navy on April 8 for the WIT Cup and Dartmouth and Cornell with trophies on the line on the Connecticut River on April 29. The lightweights and heavies will both be at EARC Sprints and IRA National Championships during the same weekends in May-June.
After hosting a scrimmage against Bucknell and Bates, Columbia will compete at the Doc Hosea Invitational on the Cooper River on April 1. The Lions return to Overpeck Park to welcome Northeastern for the Woodbury Cup on April 8. From there, Columbia will head to the Ivy League Invitational on April 15 and Eastern Sprints (April 30) and the Ivy League Championships (May 14), which are being held in conjunction with the men's EARC Sprints in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Columbia will open its 2023 campaign at the Knight's Classic in Orlando, Florida. The Lions will face Gardner-Webb and Purdue in an opening day doubleheader on February 24. Columbia will also compete in the Gamecock Invitational in South Carolina and the Long Beach/Cal State Fullerton Tournament in California before coming back to the Northeast for the remainder of its schedule. The Lions start Ivy League action at home on March 18 as they host Brown for a three-game series. The conference slate wraps up at the end of April when the Lions travel to Harvard.
Women's tennis will start the spring portion of its schedule against a few of the nation's best teams. The Lions open in Virginia with a doubleheader against Old Dominion and Morgan State. The Lions will then travel to Malibu, Calif. to face Memphis in the opening round of one of 15 four-team pods that comprise the ITA Kick-Off Weekend. The Columbia vs. Memphis match will be played on the same day as the other opening round between host #8 Pepperdine and #63 Clemson. The winners of each first round match will face off on Jan. 29 to determine who advances to the 2023 ITA Division I National Women's Team Indoor Championship in February. Columbia will host its first home matches of the year on Feb. 19 when Michigan State and Hofstra come to the city for a doubleheader. Ivy League action starts on March 25 as the Lions travel to play Cornell. Columbia will host Princeton on Friday April 7 and Harvard (Senior Day) on April 16. Columbia will wrap up its conference schedule on the road at Brown on April 23.
The Lions will head to the MLK Invitational hosted by North Carolina to open the spring season. Columbia will play Tulsa on Saturday, Jan. 14 to start the season. The Lions will also play Boise State on Sunday and North Carolina on Monday. The Lions will return to Chapel Hill to compete in the ITA Kickoff hosted by UNC on Jan. 28-29. Depending on the results from the ITA Kickoff, Columbia will either compete in the ITA National Indoors event or the ECAC Championships in February. Ivy League action starts on April 7 when the Lions travel to Princeton. Columbia will host Penn, Yale, Brown, and Cornell this season as part of the home Ivy League slate. The Cornell match on April 29 marks the end of Ivy League play.
The Lions begin the 2023 outdoor season with a trip to Raleigh, N.C. to compete in the Raleigh Relays hosted by NC State. The rest of the regular season schedule consists of nine meets, hosted by the likes of Yale, Princeton, William & Mary, Monmouth, UConn, Virginia, and Penn. The Ivy League Outdoor Heps will take place on Saturday, May 6 and Sunday May 7 in Philadelphia, Pa. The following weekend will be the IC4A/ECAC Outdoor Championships in Williamsburg, Va. NCAA Eastern Prelims will take place May 24-27, before the NCAA Outdoor Championships June 7-10 in Austin, Texas.
For the latest on Columbia athletics, follow @GoColumbiaLions on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and the web at GoColumbiaLions.com.
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