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BEARS SPORTS NEW SUNDAY EDITION 01/19/2025

HIGHLIGHTS

Inside the White Rocks

  • Hockey has 2nd tough MAPHL loss followed by a BIG S/O win over league’s #1

  • Basketball played tough against 2 IAC foes and honored a 1,000 point achievement.

  • Indoor track posted multiple PBs at Mercersburg

  • Three more College commitments

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Winter sports

  • Bear L21, while captaining his college soccer team, was awarded a prestigious scholarship in a global competition. THAT’s a BEAR!!!

  • 9 Bear Alums involved in Pro (leads team in a number of stats) and College Basketball (a team leader of many #s, another leads team in mpg/played and a sophomore who has been a starter in 4 successive games)

  • 13 Bear Alums in hockey – Pro, College (Div. I & III) and club—one leads his team in points as a 1st year player

  • 2 Bear Alums on Swim and Dive teams; one won 3 in one meet and the freshman hit the pool

  • 2 Bear alums running for their colleges-

  • 2 Bear Alums on wrestling squads; one out for surgery

INSIDE THE WHITE ROCKS

  • BASKETBALL – Coach Chris Bohlen’s team earned a win for the IAC in its annual competition by beating St. James (an IAC member a few years ago) 48-33, A HARD FOUGHT BATTLE against SI’s #7 VA team SSSA 53-59 AND in a loss to EHS 55-60, senior FRANKIE MANNINO earned his 1,000th point.

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  • SWIMMING AND DIVING –  Jan 15, 2025 triangular meet : no results posted

  • INDOOR TRACK—

CLASS OF 2025 COMMITS

2 Quakers and a Bullet

BEAR TRAX


BEAR ’21 earns prestigious global scholarship

ISSA MUDASHIRU is one of just three Princeton students and 150 students globally to be accepted to the 2025-26 scholarship class. This year’s Schwarzman Scholars represent 38 countries and 105 universities, according to the program’s announcement.

Issa Mudashiru, a native of Bethesda, Maryland, [LANDON] is an anthropology major pursuing minors in East Asian studies and in global health and health policy. As co-captain of the men’s soccer team, Mudashiru was a leader for the Tigers on and off the field. Over his career, Mudashiru was a dependable and consistent force along the Princeton back line. In 2024, the center-back appeared in 13 matches, logging 637 minutes and scoring a brace against Seton Hall.  “I’m feeling nothing but gratitude for the coaching staff and all of my teammates over the years for their constant support and encouragement to pursue what brings me joy on and off the field,” said Mudashiru. Despite his strong influence on the pitch, Mudashiru’s impact was really evident in his involvements beyond the team. On campus, Mudashiru is a Student Athlete Wellness Leader, participates in the Princeton Varsity Club’s volunteer programs Johnson Park TigerPals and Reading with the Tigers, and he is a mentor with the Princeton University Mentorship Program, which helps first year students of color get acclimated to campus with the regular support of an upperclassman student of color. Mudashiru was also president of the Black Premedical Society, volunteered at Penn Medicine Princeton Health, and shadowed surgeons at Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Georgetown University Hospital, and Metro Orthopedics and Sports Therapy in Potomac, Maryland. He is also a member of Rockefeller College and was a student intern with the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding.

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In the summer of 2024, Mudashiru conducted ethnographic field research for his senior thesis in Sierra Leone at the Sierra Leone-China Friendship Hospital and Koidu Government Hospital-Partners in Health.  There, he studied the sociocultural and historical context that has led to the proliferation of the “friendship” brand in current Sino-Sierra Leonean and general Sino-African relations, while breaking down how the daily happenings within and around the China-Sierra Leone Friendship Hospital serve as a microcosm for the state of foreign investment in Sierra Leone’s struggling health system.  For his academic work, Mudashiru was named one of just  six ’25 members of the prestigious Global Health Scholars program through Princeton’s Center of Health and Wellbeing. Through the program, he received special advising and support on his global health related independent work, including full funding for his field work in Sierra Leone last summer. His work will culminate into an ethnography, which Mudashiru will write as his senior thesis.  Following graduation from Princeton, Mudashiru will now be obtaining his master’s degree with the scholarship, which he eventually hopes to build upon with a Md-PHd in medical anthropology in the future.  Mudashiru aspires to pursue a career in surgery while leading collaboration efforts between Chinese, Western, and African stakeholders to innovate healthcare systems in Sierra Leone, the nation of his maternal ancestry, and across Africa.  …

BASKETBALL 9

1 Pro; 1 Div. I coach; 7 college(3 Div. I);

PRO

  • Darion Atkins L11, SIGORTAM.NET ISTANBUL (16-5), #18, 20 gp, 29.9 min/game, 15.0 ppg, 7.9 rpg, 2.8 apg, 2.0 block/game, 0.8 steal/GAME [1ST IN REBOUNDS and MIN, 2nd IN PPG]

COLLEGE COACH

  • Christian Webster L09 VaTech Assistant Hokies (8-9)

COLLEGE

significant increase in category

  • Canin Reynolds, L20, Amherst senior, #2, Mammoths  (10-5)

  • Roger Pyfrom, L20, Seton Hall junior manager, Pirates (6-11)

  • Kino Lily, Jr. L21, Brown senior, #10, Bears  (8-6), #10 season so far 14 GS, 36.1 min/g*, 18.9. ppg*, 2.0 reb, 3.1 apg*, .8 spg– * leads Brown\

My hero= anyone, WHO causes the Conn Community College of New Haven PAIN,  is on my list. Hitting a 3 from the logo!!!

  • Mike Gray L22, University of Lynchburg sophomore, #5, Hornets (9-6), 5 starts in last 5 games;14 GP 6 GS, 19.9 ↑min/pg, 10.9.3↑ppg, 2.1  rpg

  • Tyler Perkins L23, Villanova sophomore #4, Wildcats (12-7), #4 PLAYED 19 GP*, 2 GS, 23.4 mpg. 6.3 ppg, 3.4 rpg, 1.1 apg * tied for lead

  • Ari Hobson L24, Washington & Lee freshman #13, Generals (3-12); #13, 6 GP, 25.0 min/g, 4 pts/g. 4 reb/g

HOCKEY 15

PRO

  • Sam Anas L’11 Minsk Dynamo24-15-1-3-3;#7; 44 GP, 15.3 TOI/G, 10 G 19 A, 1 PPG, 1 OTG, 2 GWG-  

  • Patrick Giles, L*18 Charlotte Checkers ( 20-10-2-2), #36, 23 GP , 4 G, 1A +3

COLLEGE NCAA Div. I and III

  • Matthew Brille L*20; Brown sophomore #19: Bears (4-8-2) recovering from hand surgery

  • Oscar Smink, L21, Amherst College junior #6, Mammoths (7-5-1) 12 GP, 1 G, 1 A, 12 shots, 30/40 faceoffs

  • Kareem Alazem, L*21? Connecticut College junior #7, Camels (6-6-1): 11 GP, 2 shots,10 blk

  • Will Lawrence, L*21? Connecticut College freshman #88, Camels (6-6-1):13GP, 4 G,5 A, 12 blk LEADS CAMELS IN POINTS

  • Ethan Goldman L22, Connecticut College sophomore #13, Camels (6-6-1): 1 GP

COLLEGE CLUB

  • JH Lages L*21, VaTech

  • Riley Knebel L22 UVA  

  • Owen Calderone L 23, LSU

  • Zaakir Khan L23, GMU

  • Arthur Smink L23, BC

  • Graham Haberle, L24 UVA

  • Alex McMillan, L24 UVA

  • Quinn Farland, L24, Wake Forest

SOCCER-

  • Professional Soccer 1

  • Kristian Fletcher L’23: Nottingham Forest FC (7-4-1-1) #46, 4 GP. 99 MIN.

Swimming-2

  • Ethan Tun L21, Carleton Senior, “Tun’s first win of the evening came in the 100-yard backstroke where he clocked a time of 54.22. He later added a nearly two-second margin of victory in the 200-yard breaststroke when he covered the distance in 2:12.78. His final triumph came in the 200-yard IM as he touched the wall at 2:00.55.

  • Olaoluwedji Jones L24 American University freshman – SWAM IN 200yd backstroke at 2:26.38 

Cross-Country/Indoor Track-2

  • Asim Hakim-Florian L23 Colgate; since then, meets but “no team scores”

  • Sam Cohen L24 Tulane; results for the huge Vanderbilt  meet only mention of 2 TU runners.

Wrestling-3

  • David LaPrade, L23, Williams College (4-3), sophomore, 2-2 in 197#. Two meets but Dave not mentioned.

  • James Hanley, L24, Roger Williams (10-3), freshman, injured now recovering from surgery,

  • Jonny Gherman, L19, 7th/8th grade wrestling coach St. Frances Academy, Roswell, GA

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