Beat Cornell

The best time of the year is finally here! After an exciting summer of jobs, internships, vacations and sunshine, Kohawks near and far were ready to come home and finally be reunited with all their best friends, professors and classmates. After spending the summer here at Coe, I was more than excited for all my friends to make their way back campus and join me in kicking off senior year with a bang. My semester started a little earlier than most other students' when all my teammates stepped on campus to begin a record-breaking season.

Traditional first day of class roommate picture! So excited to take on senior year with these wonderful girls.

We started our journey with a team camping trip to Backbone State Park in Dundee, Iowa. We arrived at our campsite early Friday morning and spent the next 48 hours pitching our tents, cooking questionable meals over the fire, hiking, making s'mores, and laughing. A lot of laughing. After a few inches of rain and many memories made, we headed back to Coe for some fitness tests, meetings and two exhausting weeks of preseason practices.

Team selfie outside Backbone State Park during our preseason camping trip.

All the hustle and bustle of preseason has proven to be well worth it as we've kicked off the season with a great start. We are undefeated so far with a record of 8-0-1 going into conference play next Saturday. One of the highlights of our season so far was beating Cornell on our home field during Beat Cornell Week.

Coe Women's Soccer team ringing the Victory Bell after a big W!

The Coe and Cornell rivalry is the longest living rivalry west of the Mississippi and has been the reason for excitement all over Coe's campus since 1891. Every Kohawk athletic team battles Cornell once a season for a chance to gain a point for our school in the Bremner Cup. The Bremner Cup is an all-sport traveling trophy created in order to ensure the tradition of intense athletic competition continued despite Cornell officially leaving our conference in 2012. On Saturday, our football team creamed Cornell 50-3 just in time for us to play them on Wednesday. We played under the lights at our stadium in front of hundreds of fans and beat them 7-1. Volleyball and women's tennis have also already beat Cornell this season so Kohawks everywhere are thrilled to be winning the Bremner Cup 4-0 and looking forward to continuing the success!

Women's soccer cheering on the volleyball team to another Bremner Cup point

Just another reason Coe College is the best.

Go Kohawks!
- Hannah