Middlebury Athletics Celebrates 50 Team National Championships
Earlier this year, the Panther women鈥檚 lacrosse team captured the college鈥檚 50th team national title with an 8-6 victory over Wesleyan at Judson Stadium in Rochester, New York. The spirit of competition and tradition of success runs deep at Middlebury, with championship roots spanning five decades of varsity athletics. With the establishment of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) in 1971, significant doors opened to allow women to compete in collegiate athletics. That came to a head for the women鈥檚 skiing team in 1979. The Panthers outpaced some of the nation鈥檚 toughest teams to assume the 1979 AIAW…
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