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News & Notes for the week of 1/23-1/29

By Dylan Balsamo

Former Ram’s Greek Success
Former Fordham Women’s Basketball standout G’mrice Davis is having her moment in the sun – in Greece! This week saw Davis claim her fourth Player of the Week Award as a member of Kalyvion in the Greek A1 Basketball League. She made her case for the honors this week in Kalyvion’s win over Esperides on Sunday, scoring 27 points and bringing home 24 rebounds.

Busy Weekend for Squash
The Rams Squash squad was on the road for the majority of the weekend, playing five games between Saturday and Sunday, and making up for last week’s snow cancellation with a whopping three games on Saturday. Starting at home with an 8-1 loss to Bucknell, Fordham turned it around for the remainder of the weekend, winning games against Colgate and Hamilton on Saturday and against Bard and Siena on Sunday. The force was led by Griffin Fitzgerald, who had two wins on Sunday, including one against Siena’s top player. The Rams are now 16-5 on the year and play their home finale againsyt NYU on Saturday Feb. 9.

Swimming & Diving Dominate
Both the Men’s and Women’s Swimming & Diving teams went on the road blew Iona out of the water this weekend. The men, winning 150-144, saw Bryce Bolleson win both the 50 and 100 freestyle events and join Travis Monahan, A.J. Frakes and Auston Ramsay for a win in the 200 fresstyle relay. The women won 199-85 and had Caitlin McNary and Natalie Ortof both win their own pairs of individual events.

Women’s Track Medley Win
When the Rams Women’s Track team kicked off their weekend at the Terrier Classic, they found the most success in the 4x800m relay, with the team of Sydney Snow, Kate McCormack, Aidan Moroz and Laurel Fisher coming in first with a time of 9:13.34. Moroz additionally finished seventh in the 500m, and McCormack, Fisher and Snow all ran in the 1,000m, finishing 13th, 16th and 17th, respectively.