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Williams Ephs
Weston Field
Basketball arenaChandler Gymnasium
Baseball stadiumBobby Coombs Field
Softball stadiumWilliams Softball Complex
Soccer stadiumCole Field
Lacrosse stadiumRenzie Lamb Field
Other venuesLasell Gymnasium
MascotEphelia the Purple Cow
NicknameEphs
ColorsPurple and gold[1]
   
Websiteephsports.williams.edu

The Williams Ephs (/ˈiːfs/ EEFS)[2] are the varsity intercollegiate athletic programs of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

The school sponsors 32 varsity sports, most of which compete in the

purple cow, and their colors are purple and gold.[3] The school's athletic director is Lisa Melendy.[4]

Williams, along with fellow NESCAC members

College GameDay in 2007.[10]

Williams has consistently won the NACDA Directors' Cup, an annual award for the most successful athletic program in each NCAA division. Since 1996, the year of the award's inception, Williams has won the Division III Directors' Cup 22 out of 24 years (the exceptions being 1998 and 2012).[11][12] For sixteen of the past seventeen years (2004–2011, 2013-2020), the college has held a dual #1 ranking in both athletics and academics by winning the Directors' Cup and placing first in the U.S. News & World Report liberal arts college rankings.[13] Alumni of the athletic program include two Nobel Prize winners, 33 Olympians, 19 Rhodes Scholars, four Marshall Scholars, and 44 Fulbright Scholars.[14]

History

Varsity intercollegiate sports began at the school on July 1, 1859, when Williams was defeated by Amherst 73-32 in the first-ever college baseball game. On May 3, 2009, Williams's baseball team played Amherst at

ESPN 360 and on tape delay on ESPNU.[15][16]

Williams was one of the 39 institutions that founded the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in 1905. Three other NESCAC schools, Amherst, Tufts, and Wesleyan, were also part of the founding group.[17]

Women's varsity athletics began at Williams after the college became

coeducational in the 1970–1971 school year. As a result, most of the college's 16 women's sports programs began varsity play during the 1970s,[18] with three exceptions (softball in 1987,[19] ice hockey in 1993,[20] and golf in 2004–2005[21]
).

National championships

From the formation of the NCAA through 1961, Williams allowed its teams to compete in the NCAA postseason. In 1961, the men's basketball program qualified for the College Division tournament. After defeating

Wittenberg. Williams lost the game, 64-51, and the unruly celebrations of Wittenberg students led Williams administrators to decide the school should no longer compete in national tournaments. When the NESCAC formed in 1971, the league's other ten members adopted Williams's policy. Despite this ban, the women's swimming & diving team won the 1982 and 1983 national championships by qualifying enough individuals to outscore all other teams.[22] The ban was lifted for the 1993–1994 academic year for all sports except football.[23][24][25]

The following is a list of Williams's 37 national championships.[22] Williams's total is tied for the most in the NESCAC with Middlebury.[26]

Men's Women's
Sport Year(s) Sport Year(s)
Basketball 2003 Crew 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Cross country 1994, 1995 Cross country 2002, 2004, 2015
Golf 2015
Soccer 1995 Soccer 2015, 2017, 2018
Swimming & diving 1982, 1983
Indoor track & field 2007, 2019
Tennis 1999, 2001, 2002, 2013 Tennis 2001, 2002, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017

Teams

Men's Women's
Sport Facility Sport Facility
Baseball Bobby Coombs Field Basketball Chandler Gymnasium
Basketball Chandler Gymnasium Crew Lake Onota
Crew Lake Onota Cross Country Mount Greylock High School Course
Cross Country Mount Greylock High School Course Field Hockey Williamson Field
Football Weston Field Golf Taconic Golf Club
Golf Taconic Golf Club Ice Hockey Lansing Chapman Rink
Ice Hockey Lansing Chapman Rink Indoor Track & Field Towne Field House
Indoor Track & Field Towne Field House Lacrosse Farley-Lamb Field
Lacrosse Farley-Lamb Field Outdoor Track & Field Lee Track
Outdoor Track & Field Lee Track Skiing Jiminy Peak (alpine)
Prospect Mountain (Nordic)
Skiing Jiminy Peak (alpine)
Prospect Mountain (Nordic) 		Soccer Cole Field
Soccer Cole Field Softball Williams Softball Complex
Squash Simon Squash Center Squash Simon Squash Center
Swimming & Diving Samuelson-Muir Pool Swimming & Diving Samuelson-Muir Pool
Tennis Torrence M. Hunt Tennis Center Tennis Torrence M. Hunt Tennis Center
Wrestling Lasell Gymnasium Volleyball Chandler Gymnasium

[27]

Men's

Baseball

The baseball team is coached by Bill Barrale, who has held the position since the start of the 2007 season. The team plays at Bobby Coombs Field on campus.[27][28] The program has had four players selected to the Division III All-America Team since 1971.[29] In rivalry play against Amherst (beginning in 1859), the team holds a 139–217–2 record, as of the end of the 2018 season.[30] In games against Wesleyan (beginning in 1892), the team holds a 158–134–1 record, as of the end of the 2018 season.[31]

On July 1, 1859, the team played in the first-ever college baseball game, losing to Amherst 73–32 in a game that lasted 25 innings. The two teams played a game on May 3, 2009, to celebrate the first game's 150th anniversary. Williams won the game 8-5.[15]

Six Williams alumni who played baseball for the program went on to play in the major leagues:

Alex Burr, and Charlie Perkins.[32]

The team has won the following honors:[33]

  • Little Three Titles (since 1990): 1997, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010
  • NESCAC Championships: 2001, 2007
  • NCAA Tournament Appearances: 1999, 2001, 2007

Basketball

The men's basketball team is coached by Kevin App, who has held the position since the start of the 2014–15 season. The team plays at Chandler Gymnasium on campus.[27] The program holds the record for the longest home win streak in men's Division III history, having won 64 consecutive games at Chandler Gymnasium from January 16, 2001, to January 4, 2005.[34] The team has had 14 players named to the Division III All-America Team since 1971, including three two-time and two three-time selections. The individual honorees include Harry Sheehy III (1974, 1975), Garcia Major (1990), Rob Bice (1994), Noah Clarke (1995), Geoff Chapin (1996), Michael Nogelo (1996, 1997, 1998), Matt Hunt (1999), Ben Coffin (2004), Michael Crotty (2003, 2004), Blake Schultz (2010), Troy Whittington (2011), James Wang (2010, 2011), Michael Mayer (2013, 2014), Duncan Robinson (2014), and James Heskett (2018). The team has also had two players named National Players of the Year, Michael Nogelo in 1998 and Blake Schultz in 2010.[35]

Basketball was first recognized as a varsity sport in the 1900–01 season.

NCAA Tournament national champion for the 1906–07 and 1909–10 seasons by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll.[37] In rivalry play against Amherst (beginning in 1901), the team holds a 120–102 record, as of the end of the 2017–18 season.[38] In games against Wesleyan (beginning in 1902), the team holds a 141–86 record, as of the end of the 2017–18 season.[39] In 2003, the team won the Division III National Championship.[36]

The team reached the quarterfinals of the 1961 College Division Tournament, where it lost to

Wittenberg 64-51. As a result of Wittenberg students' unruly celebrations after the game, Williams administrators decided to ban teams from participating in national tournaments. The ban was lifted for the 1993–94 academic year.[23][24][40]

For the 2012–13 season, the team ranked 26th in Division III in average game attendance, averaging 825 spectators per home game.[41]

The team has won the following honors:[36]

  • Little Three Titles (since 1990): 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 2009, 2010 (outright); 1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002–2004, 2011 (ties)
  • NESCAC Championships: 2003, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2018
  • NCAA Tournament Appearances: 1994–1998, 2000, 2002–2004, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019
  • Final Fours: 1997, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2017
  • National Runners-up: 2004, 2010, 2014
  • National Championships: 2003

Crew

The men's crew team is coached by Marc Mandel, who has held the position since the start of the 2017–18 season.

Olympics.[14]

The team has won the following honors:[44]

  • Little Three Titles (since 1990): 1992, 1994–1998, 2000–2006, 2008–2016, 2018, 2021, 2022
  • NESCAC Championships: 2004, 2009–2014, 2016, 2021, 2022
  • ECAC National Invitational Championships: 2010, 2012–2014
  • Head of the Charles Collegiate Eights Championships: 1997, 2008, 2009, 2011
  • New England Championships: 1994–1996, 2009–2012, 2014, 2022
  • IRA Division 3 National Championship: 2022

Cross country

The men's cross country team is coached by Peter Farwell, who has held the position since the start of the 1979 season.[45] The team's home course is located near Mount Greylock High School in Williamstown, approximately five minutes from campus.[27] The team has had numerous runners named to the Division III All-America Team and two individual national champions (Jeremie Perry in 1994 and Neal Holtschulte in 2005) since beginning varsity competition in 1912.[46]

The team has won the following honors:[47]

  • Little Three Titles (since 1988): 1988–2016, 2019-2021
  • NESCAC Championships: 1992, 1994–2000, 2006–2009, 2011, 2013–2016, 2019
  • NCAA Tournament Appearances: 1975, 1977, 1993–2004, 2006–2018
  • NCAA Tournament 5th Place: 1996, 2000, 2013
  • NCAA Tournament 4th Place: 1993
  • NCAA Tournament 3rd Place: 1998, 2008, 2019
  • National Runners-up: 2009, 2015
  • National Champions: 1994, 1995

Football

Main article: Williams Ephs football

The football team is coached by

Weston Field on campus.[27] The team has had 16 players named to the Division III All-America Team since 1974.[49] The program began varsity play in 1881.[50] As a NESCAC football team, the program is not permitted to play non-conference games or to participate in the NCAA Tournament.[25]

The team's annual

Weston Field (Williamstown).[10] As of the end of the 2013 season, Williams leads the all-time series 71–52–5.[51]

The team has won the following honors:[50]

  • Little Three Titles (since 1990): 1990–1994, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2005–2008, 2010 (outright); 1995, 1997, 1999 (ties)
  • NESCAC Championships (since 2000): 2001, 2006, 2010 (outright); 2002 (tie)
  • Perfect seasons (8-0): 1989, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2001, 2006, 2010

Golf

The men's golf team is currently coached by Josh Hillman, who has held the position since the start of the start of the 2013 spring season.[52] The team plays at the Taconic Golf Club in Williamstown, located next to campus.[27] The program has had eight players, including one two-time selection, named to the Division III All-America Team since varsity competition began in 1903.[53][54]

The team has won the following honors:[54]

  • Little Three Titles (since 1990): 1992, 1993, 1995, 1998–2011, 2013–2016
  • NESCAC Championships: 1984, 1986, 1994, 1996, 2000–2002, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2013–2016
  • NCAA Tournament appearances: 1996–2003, 2005, 2008, 2013, 2017
  • NCAA Tournament individual champion: Sam Goldenring (2019)

Ice hockey

The men's ice hockey team is coached by Bill Kangas, who has held the position since the start of the 1989–1990 season.[55] The team plays at Lansing Chapman Rink on campus.[27] Prior to the construction of Lansing Chapman in the 1950s, the team played outdoors on a pond near the current location of Cole Field, the Williams soccer facility.[56] The program has had seven players, including one two-time and one three-time selection, named to the Division III All-America Team since varsity play began in 1902.[56][57] In rivalry play against Amherst (beginning in 1909), the team holds an 89–36–3 record, as of the end of the 2013–2014 season.[58] In games against Wesleyan (beginning in 1958), the team holds a 40–6–7 record, as of the end of the 2013–2014 season.[59]

The program has won the following honors:[60]

  • Little Three Titles (since 1989): 1990–1994, 1996–1999, 2001–2005, 2013 (outright); 1989, 2006 (ties)
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