This past week in Hoya sports may be as good as it gets. No need to expound on the success enjoyed by the sixth-ranked men's hoop team thus far this season - they added a couple more victories to one of the best starts by the team ever.
On the indoor circuit last weekend, multiple men and women track & field performers posted 56 post-season qualifying times in a variety of events at the invitational meet hosted by Yale. Highlighting these performances was a sub-four minute mile run by Hoya junior Andrew Bumbalough. Wow!
Even the Hoya natators, who week after week swim valiantly against high quality competition, savored a victory last weekend by the women's team.
But the yell of all the yells is reserved for the women's hoop team who took down #22-ranked Syracuse last Saturday and then St. John's in a comeback win last Wednesday for back-to-back conference victories. Improving to a record of 13-9, here is a team with a whole lot of upside. Now in her fourth season as head coach, Terri Williams-Flournoy and her staff have been putting together a winning squad -- brick by brick. This is no easy task as intra-conference play on the women's side is surely the toughest in the nation. One day soon though, they will be contending for more than just a winning record.
At this moment, coming off a wonderful winter week of Hoya triumphs, and with realistic hopes of even more success with an entire spring sport schedule still unplayed, the resulting feelings of optimism may be too good to last.
But for now, it sure feels swell.
