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In our final Return to Play interview of the series, Sierra Tyson calls in from Barcelona to discuss her internship with PG&E, learning to surf in Oahu, and studying Conservation Biology. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided these Garnet student-athletes opportunities to do things they might not have had the chance to do otherwise. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels.

SWARTHMORE, Pa.--On this episode of Return To Play, Andie Kapiloff, from Swarthmore College Women's Lacrosse shares about her experience playing and coaching lacrosse in Israel while taking a gap semester in the spring of 2021. She discusses the challenges she faced traveling internationally during a pandemic, a course at Swarthmore called Plants and People, and her favorite moment on the lacrosse field so far. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided these Garnet student-athletes opportunities to do things they might not have had the chance to do otherwise. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels.

SWARTHMORE, Pa. - Chelsea Semper, a senior athlete from the Swarthmore College Field Hockey team, joins the podcast for a new episode of Return to Play. Semper took a gap semester in the hopes of taking the field for the Garnet one more time. The defender discusses the new role she took during the 2019 season, summer research that she has been working on and what she is looking forward to most in the fall. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided these Garnet student-athletes opportunities to do things they might not have had the chance to do otherwise. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels.

Swarthmore College senior Michael Brown joins the Return To Play podcast to discuss his time on the men's golf team and his gap year during which he gained valuable experience doing business analytics and marketing internships. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided these Garnet student-athletes opportunities to do things they might not have had the chance to do otherwise. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels.

Swarthmore College Women's Tennis' Jenny Lewis took a gap year after her freshman year and spent it doing research with orthopedic doctors at the University of Chicago and had the incredible opportunity to present a paper for publication that she was the first author of. She discusses her appreciation for chemistry courses at Swarthmore, trying to find places to play tennis in Chicago during the pandemic, and her goals for the future. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided these Garnet student-athletes opportunities to do things they might not have had the chance to do otherwise. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels.

Swarthmore College Men's Basketball forward Julian Levin took a gap year when he found out that the 2020-21 season had been canceled. In this episode of Return To Play, he discusses with host Brandon Hodnett his decision to take the year off from school, his cross country road trip touring national parks, and his internship training dolphins at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided these Garnet student-athletes opportunities to do things they might not have had the chance to do otherwise. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels.

Swarthmore College's Riley Thompson, a mathematics major and member of the women's swimming team, joins Brandon Hodnett on the Return To Play podcast to discuss what it was like for her to try to return to the US from Jamaica when the world shut down, her forensics research on campus modeling fingerprint analysts complex decisions, and her interest in peace and conflict courses at Swarthmore. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided these Garnet student-athletes opportunities to do things they might not have had the chance to do otherwise. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels.

Horace Shew, a senior for Swarthmore College Men's Swimming, reflects on his time at Swarthmore in the latest episode of Return To Play. Shew discusses winning a Centennial Conference Championship, struggling to find an open pool during the pandemic, his love of ancient languages like Latin, and doing research on campus analyzing the FBI's fingerprint database statistics. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided these Garnet student-athletes opportunities to do things they might not have had the chance to do otherwise. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels.

Gwen Glatz from Swarthmore College's softball program, checks in for this new episode of Return to Play. Glatz discusses the challenges of training during a pandemic and what her family did to stay active. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided these Garnet student-athletes opportunities to do things they might not have had the chance to do otherwise. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels

SWARTHMORE, Pa.--Swarthmore College's new Marian Ware director of athletics, physical education, and recreation Brad Koch has officially begun to lead the Garnet department of athletics. Director of athletics communications Brandon Hodnett sat down with Koch to find out more about his background, his passion for athletics, his hobbies, his vision for Swarthmore, and more in this latest episode of Getting To Know The Garnet. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels. Click here to read the original press release announcing Koch's hiring. To see what Swarthmore student-athletes have been up to since they last competed in the 2019-20 school year, watch the Return To Play series on YouTube.

Emma Novak, from Swarthmore College's women's cross country, track and field programs, checks in for this new episode of Return to Play. During Novak's gap year, she held several internships, but she also discusses her involvement with the performance arts at Swarthmore. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided these Garnet student-athletes opportunities to do things they might not have had the chance to do otherwise. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels.

Kim Kockenmeister, a two sport student-athlete from the Swarthmore College women's basketball and soccer programs, checks in for this new episode of Return to Play. During Kockenmeister's gap year, she earned a certificate in Data Analytics and had a one-month internship turn into an eleven month experience. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided these Garnet student-athletes opportunities to do things they might not have had the chance to do otherwise. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels.

Jacinta Fernandes-Brough, from the Swarthmore College women's soccer team, calls in from Madrid for this new episode of Return To Play. During Jacinta's gap year, she has been playing soccer for Spain's FC Málaga City and has fallen in love with the way the game of soccer is played in Spain. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels.

Swarthmore College Athletics is back with a new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlighting student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided these Garnet student-athletes opportunities to do things they might not have done otherwise. In this first episode, director of athletics communications Brandon Hodnett is joined by John Nichols-Daly from Swarthmore College Men's Tennis. Nichols-Daly discusses transferring into Swarthmore, struggling to find open tennis courts initially in Vermont, and trying to stay in touch with his teammates. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview, and by subscribing to our channels.

Matt and Brandon wrap up their discussion of the Greatest Of All Time at Swarthmore by breaking down the standout stars from our fall teams. They also take a look at Swarthmore student-athletes who competed in the Olympics. Do you know of someone deserving of a spot in the Garnet Athletics Hall of Fame? Click here to nominate them. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview and by subscribing to our channels.

On this edition of the Swarthmore College Athletics podcast, Brandon Hodnett and Matt Judge continue the discussion of the greatest Garnet athletes of all-time, take a tour of campus in virtual reality, look at the new dining hall being built on campus, and go down the rabbit hole of Swarthmore's history. Visit SwarthmoreAthletics.com/facilities to tour campus virtually. Do you know of someone deserving of a spot in the Garnet Athletics Hall of Fame? Click here to nominate them. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview and by subscribing to our channels.

On this week's episode of the Swarthmore Athletics podcast, director of athletics communications Brandon Hodnett and assistant director of athletics communications Matt Judge discuss some of the GOATs, the greatest of all time among Swarthmore spring sport athletes. Additionally, Brandon and Matt share some of their most memorable games working at Swarthmore and some obscure box scores they've discovered in their archival research project. Psychologist Amber Buller joins the show to give a Garnet Healthy Mind update and assistant director of athletics for recreation & wellness Max Miller gives an update on all of the offerings for intramurals and more this spring. Do you know of someone deserving of a spot in the Garnet Athletics Hall of Fame? Click here to nominate them. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview and by subscribing to our channels.

Swarthmore College Athletics has been a home away from home for Marie Mancini who has been on the sidelines with Garnet since 1986. Mancini took over as the head athletic trainer in 2002 and recently transitioned to the role of director of sports medicine. On this episode of Getting To Know The Garnet, host Brandon Hodnett asks Mancini about her favorite memories on the sideline at Swarthmore, how Swarthmore is addressing concussions, mental health, and pandemic concerns, and her love for the Philadelphia Phillies. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview and by subscribing to our channels.

Jim Heller has been the head coach of Swarthmore College Golf since the 2005-06 season and has twice been named the Centennial Conference Coach of the Year. Heller also takes pride in the academic success of his team which in two of the past three years was honored for having the highest team GPA in all of Division III. On this week's episode of Getting To Know the Garnet, host Brandon Hodnett talks with Heller, a Delaware County native, about rescuing people from a burning building as a Springfield police officer, being revived by CPR recently, Swarthmore's indoor golf facility, and what course he dreams of playing on. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview and by subscribing to our channels.

Swarthmore College 2017 grads Sam Lebryk and Steve Sekula roomed together for three years at Swarthmore, each won a Centennial Conference Championship in their respective sports the same week of their senior year, and are now working together to produce a card game called Gem Blenders, a fitting name for a game created by Garnet alumni. In this episode of Then & Now, host Brandon Hodnett talks with Lebryk and Sekula about their time at Swarthmore, how they launched Gem Blenders on Kickstarter and how to play the game. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview and by subscribing to our channels. Click here to watch more interviews with alumni

William Schmidt '76 was part of three straight Middle Atlantic Conference Championship-winning Swarthmore College Men's Tennis teams in the 1970s. William was a fourth-generation Swarthmore student and a second-generation member of the men's tennis team. His daughter Abby continued the tradition, playing for the women's tennis team until graduating in 2016. William majored in history and is currently a senior VP for RBC Wealth Management in Philadelphia. His father Marshall was a guest on last week's episode. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by sharing this interview online and by subscribing to our channels.

On this week's episode of Then & Now, host Brandon Hodnett is joined by Marshall Schmidt from the class of 1947. Schmidt was a tennis star at Swarthmore when he put his education on hold to join the US Navy and fight in the Pacific aboard the battleship USS Wisconsin. He returned to Swarthmore to complete his degree in economics. Five days after graduation, he married a third-generation Swarthmore student, Kinnie Clarke from the class of 1946, and the two have been married for 73 years. Kinnie was sitting just off screen during this interview and contributed at certain points in the interview. The two have been a part of Swarthmore in different roles for their entire adult lives, and two of their children and three of their grandchildren are Swarthmore alumni. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by sharing this interview online and by subscribing to our channels.

Val Gomez started at Swarthmore College in November of 2020 as the new associate director of athletics. She joined the Garnet team after roles at several Division I and III institutions, most recently working at Seton Hall University. In this episode of Getting To Know The Garnet, she talks with host Brandon Hodnett about her experiences as a student-athlete at Lafayette College, her love for Hamilton, her pursuit of a doctorate in education, and what she'll do as soon as the pandemic is over. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview and by subscribing to our channels. Click here to watch more interviews in the Getting To Know The Garnet series.

As a student-athlete at Swarthmore College, Lucy Lang '03 studied political science, achieving high honors, while playing four seasons of women's lacrosse. After graduating from Columbia Law School, Lang began her legal career in New York. She worked as an assistant district attorney, a special counsel for policy and projects, and executive director of the Manhattan DA Academy. She has been the executive director of the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution at John Jay College, a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School and a founder and teacher of Columbia University's innovative Inside Criminal Justice seminar. Additionally, Lang is a current member of Swarthmore's board of managers. In this week's episode of Then & Now, Lang shares with host Brandon Hodnett her memories of her time at Swarthmore and the faculty that mentored her, reflects on her career path, and discusses ways she's envisioned and enacted criminal justice reform. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by sharing this interview online and by subscribing to our channels.

Clinical psychologist Amber Buller, Ph.D., has worked with the Swarthmore Athletics department since 2018, helping student-athletes with their mental health. On this episode of Getting to Know the Garnet, Amber talks with host Brandon Hodnett about her background, strategies for dealing with stress around holidays, and tips for being proactive about improving your mental health. To contact Amber or to schedule an appointment, please email GarnetHealthyMind@swarthmore.edu. For more information about Swarthmore Athletics' wellness initiatives, visit SwarthmoreAthletics.com/wellness Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview and by subscribing to our channels.

Swarthmore College Men's Basketball alumnus Michael Greenstone, class of 1991, appeared on this week's episode of Then & Now to discuss his time at Swarthmore and his career in economics with host Brandon Hodnett. Greenstone was a 1,000-point scorer for Swarthmore Men's Basketball and earned his bachelor's with high honors in economics. He earned his PhD in economics from Princeton and is now the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, the College, and the Harris School, as well as the Director of the Becker Friedman Institute and the interdisciplinary Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. Greenstone previously served as the Chief Economist for President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, where he co-led the development of the United States government's social cost of carbon. His research has influenced policy globally and focuses largely on uncovering the benefits and costs of environmental quality and society's energy choices. In this episode, he recounted scoring his 1,000th point while being guarded by his brother, how Swarthmore encouraged his intellectual curiosity, how his Air Quality Life Index has helped visualize pollution's impact on life expectancy, and how he's currently studying COVID testing. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, sharing this interview and by subscribing to our channels.

Charley Parlapanides '99 played defensive line for Swarthmore College football for four seasons and graduated with a degree in economics. After that Parlapanides went on to graduate from Loyola Law School, but from there his career took a turn and he became a Hollywood screenwriter alongside his brother Vlas. Their screenwriting credits include the films Death Note and Immortals and the upcoming series Blood of Zeus, which will be released on Netflix on Oct. 27. The eight-part anime series set in the world of Greek mythology follows the quest of Heron to save the world from a demonic army. Parlapanides joined director of athletics communications Brandon Hodnett to discuss what it takes to be a Hollywood screenwriter and to look back on memories of being a student-athlete at Swarthmore. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by sharing this interview online and by subscribing to our channels.

Swarthmore College Women's Soccer alumna Dr. Julia Luongo '10, a former All-Centennial First-Team honoree and an All-Region midfielder, graduated from Swarthmore with a degree in engineering and earned her MS and PhD in mechanical engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Now, Luongo is the founder and managing director of Ramboll Shair, a startup venture that focuses on cloud-based air quality modeling. In this episode of Then & Now, Luongo talks with director of athletics communications Brandon Hodnett about her time at Swarthmore and about her expertise in indoor and outdoor air quality science, highlighting relevant current topics like west coast wild fires and coronavirus transmission risks. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice. Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by sharing this interview online and by subscribing to our channels.

Matt Midkiff, Swarthmore College Baseball head coach, has been with Swarthmore since the 2013 season and has won the 2018 Centennial Conference Championship. In the same season, his team advanced to the College World Series for the first time in program history. He sits down with Matt Judge on Getting to Know the Garnet and they discus the World Series, his favorite things to cook and some lessons he learned from his time as a student-athlete.

As a student-athlete at Swarthmore, Rebecca Hammond '13 earned All-American status in the 1,500-meter run and graduated with highest honors in biology. Since graduating, she went on to become the second-ranked Spartan Race athlete in the world, appear on the cast of the TV The Million Dollar Mile, and earn her MD from Harvard Medical School with plans to begin a residency program in psychiatry in 2021. In this episode of Then & Now, Hammond talks with Director of Athletics Communications Brandon Hodnett about her time at Swarthmore and her life since then. Watch the interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice.

Karin Colby, Swarthmore College Men's and Women's Swimming head coach, has been with Swarthmore since the 2015-16 season and has won two Centennial Conference championships and was twice named the conference's coach of the year in men's swimming. Her teams have won 73.5 percent of their meets, and she's coached four All-American relay teams. She joins Brandon Hodnett on Getting to Know the Garnet and they discussed her degree in geology, her appreciation of cheese curds and disdain for triathlons, and some of her favorite memories at Swarthmore. Watch the interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to in on your podcasting platform of choice.

Swarthmore College Men's Soccer head coach Eric Wagner has been at the program's helm since 2002 and has won 197 games since then. He coached the Garnet to the No. 16 ranking nationally in 2019 and to an appearance at home in the Sweet Sixteen. He chats with host Brandon Hodnett about Swarthmore's storied history with soccer and its deep alumni ties, going viral on Twitter, rooting for Manchester City, and spearheading Swarthmore's Garnet Go Green program. Watch the interview on YouTube and Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice.

Swarthmore College Women's Tennis head coach Jeremy Loomis has been with Swarthmore since 2002-03 and has the most Centennial Conference wins in league history with 143. He's won the league championship three times and has made the NCAA Tournament five times. On eight occasions, he has had a student-athlete named Centennial Conference Player of the Year. In this episode, Coach Loomis chats with Brandon Hodnett about how tennis has taken him all over the world (including a stint coaching in Indonesia), some his favorite players to watch and emulate their styles, the cancellation of his alma mater's men's tennis team, and his dark horse pick for who will the women's US Open in 2020. Watch the interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

On this episode of "Getting to Know the Garnet" we feature Chris McPherson, director of sports performance and Matchbox Fitness Center Coordinator. McPherson, who is entering his fifth season at Swarthmore, discusses how his time as a former student-athlete prepared him for his current position.

Chris Bourne '17 was a 1,000-point scorer on the men's basketball team and is now in his fourth year as a PhD candidate at the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. He is part of a collaborative program with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and is researching ways for the immune system to fight cancer. He recently received an NIH F31 Fellowship with the National Cancer Institute. Chris talks with Brandon Hodnett on this episode of Then & Now about his research, how to understand scientific publications, reminiscing about his time playing basketball at Swarthmore, and being an admitted bandwagon fan in the NBA. Watch the interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

Dr. Kathryn Riley '10 played softball at Swarthmore and is the program's all-time leader in hits, home runs, wins, innings pitched, strikeouts and more. Now she's an assistant softball coach and a chemistry professor at Swarthmore who just had another article published in the academic journal Environmental Science. The name of the article rolls right off the tongue--Emerging investigator series: quantifying silver nanoparticle aggregation kinetics in real-time using particle impact voltammetry coupled with UV-vis spectroscopy. She explains her research in silver nanoparticles, tells of her dramatic no-hitter win over Ursinus in the Centennial Conference playoffs, and offers suggestions on the way that Swarthmore and the sport of softball can help improve Black representation in the sport.

In our latest interview, we caught up with Peter Carroll, head coach of the cross country and track & field programs. Carroll talks about his love of Villanova basketball, what goes into picking the right running shoe, and more!

Brothers Victor Brady '13 and Jacob Brady '20 were known as being the voice of the Garnet during their time as students at Swarthmore. Victor was an honors political science major with a history minor and is about to begin his fifth year as the head coach of Bryn Mawr College field hockey. Jacob was an honors neuroscience and political science double major and will be starting work in a neuroscience developmental lab at NYU. The brothers chat with Brandon Hodnett about some of their favorite moments at Swarthmore, their announcing influences, Victor's legendary YouTube videos, and more.

Michael Dukakis '55 ran cross country, played tennis, baseball and basketball during his time at Swarthmore College. He went on to serve in the Army, attend Harvard Law School, lead the state of Massachusetts as governor for three terms, and run for President as the Democratic nominee. He chats about his time at Swarthmore, hitchhiking across North America, cutting hair, and running for President.

On this episode of Getting to Know the Garnet, Swarthmore Men's Lacrosse head coach Pat Gress discusses the 2020 season, changes to the game and the Swarthmore coaching legend that has helped him throughout his career.

Allison Hudak has been working with the Garnet since 2008 and is the Head Athletic Trainer at Swarthmore.

On this edition of Getting to Know the Garnet, Swarthmore Women's Lacrosse head coach discusses being one of the best to ever play women's lacrosse, the evolution of the game, and dealing with failure and changed plans. Plus her knowledge of Bruce Springsteen is put to the test with trivia questions about The Boss.

In this important round table discussion moderated Sha Duncan Smith, Swarthmore Athletics student-athletes, coaches and administrators talk about their experiences as Black student-athletes and talk of ways of dealing with systemic racism. The panel includes Tobin Adams, Samantha Barnes, Andre Butler, Chris McPherson, Dr. Kathryn Riley, Abass Sallah, Candice Signor-Brown, and Kwane Smith.

In this episode, Matt Judge catches up with Tobin Adams, our new Assistant AD for internal operations. He also happens to be another administrator with a past life as a DJ!

We'll bet you didn't know just how adventurous Swarthmore Volleyball head coach Harleigh Chwastyk is! Take a listen to this interview with her to find out more about who she is on and off the court.

Did you know Adam Hertz was a radio DJ in Hawaii? We chat music, collegiate sports and Philadelphia sports misery with our AD.

In our first episode, Brandon Hodnett chats with Max Miller, Assistant Athletics Director for Recreation and Wellness at Swarthmore.