Mark Twain once said that comparison is the death of joy. Comparing the 2023-2024 Vanderbilt Bowling season to its counterpart a year before is a recipe for disappointment. This season’s squad braced a cold streak to begin the spring, bowed out early in the Conference USA Championship Tournament and fell just short of reaching the.
Vanderbilt Bowling finished second behind No. 2 Arkansas State at the NCAA Regional in Rochester, N.Y., closing the curtain on an up-and-down season. The defending national champions were selected as the second seed in a region featuring last year’s national runner-up, No. 16 Merrimack, William Smith and Fayetteville State. “I wouldn’t call it a failure,”.
No. 5 Vanderbilt went 10-3 en route to a fourth-place finish at the NC A&T Stallings Invitational from Feb. 23-25. The Commodores claimed 10 wins in consecutive tournaments for the first time all season, marking a noticeable turnaround from their struggles in January. “Instead of focusing on wanting to win nationals and Conference [USA], we’re.
No. 5 Vanderbilt Bowling corrected course from two consecutive eighth-place finishes by coming in second at the Mid-Winter Invitational in Jonesboro, Ark. The Commodores won a spring-best 10 matches before falling in the finale to host, No. 3 Arkansas State. “In some ways I think it’s coach speak and all that stuff, but I do.
Our myths often wither under the weight of the world; and, when the world itself is withering, and we have no means to escape it, our myths and our dreams and ourselves are often left to die. And thus it was that Caroline Thesier, the young prodigy hellbent on earning her way into Vanderbilt, arrived.