After four months of triumphs and challenges, Mount Holyoke Basketball’s 2024-25 season has at last come to a close. The Lyons competed in 25 games: 13 home and 12 away. The season opener pitted Mount Holyoke College against Dean College in Franklin, Massachusetts, on Nov. 9. The hard-fought game resulted in the Lyons falling short as the Dean College Bulldogs broke a 62-62 tie with just over a minute remaining in the fourth quarter.
As the fall season concludes, the Mount Holyoke Ice Hockey team has had quite an eventful term. They have completed 14 weeks of evening practices and six matches with neighboring colleges, such as Smith College and Wheaton College, and universities farther away such as Fairfield University, the University of Rhode Island and Colby-Sawyer College. The team practices at Fitzpatrick Ice Arena in Holyoke on Tuesday and Thursday nights, with an additional off-ice practice in Kendall on Monday nights. The program holds its final practice of the semester tonight, Dec. 9, at 7 p.m.
Following a cumulative seven-year career coaching rowing at the University of California San Diego, Jeffrey Collett has joined the Lyons community as the assistant coach to the varsity rowing team. A former student-athlete at the University of California, San Diego, Collett was a member of the Varsity 8+ crew that led the Tritons to their first-ever appearance at the 2009 Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships. His experience in coaching rowing spans throughout 15 years, from youth rowing to collegiate crews to non-profit organizations.
