In our final Return to Play interview of the series, Sierra Tyson calls in from Barcelona to discuss her internship with PG&E, learning to surf in Oahu, and studying Conservation Biology. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided these Garnet student-athletes opportuni...
Aug 16, 2021•11 min•Season 3Ep. 13
SWARTHMORE, Pa.--On this episode of Return To Play, Andie Kapiloff, from Swarthmore College Women's Lacrosse shares about her experience playing and coaching lacrosse in Israel while taking a gap semester in the spring of 2021. She discusses the challenges she faced traveling internationally during a pandemic, a course at Swarthmore called Plants and People, and her favorite moment on the lacrosse field so far. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes w...
Aug 11, 2021•26 min•Season 3Ep. 12
SWARTHMORE, Pa. - Chelsea Semper, a senior athlete from the Swarthmore College Field Hockey team, joins the podcast for a new episode of Return to Play. Semper took a gap semester in the hopes of taking the field for the Garnet one more time. The defender discusses the new role she took during the 2019 season, summer research that she has been working on and what she is looking forward to most in the fall. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who ar...
Aug 11, 2021•12 min•Season 3Ep. 12
Swarthmore College senior Michael Brown joins the Return To Play podcast to discuss his time on the men's golf team and his gap year during which he gained valuable experience doing business analytics and marketing internships. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided the...
Aug 09, 2021•11 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Swarthmore College Women's Tennis' Jenny Lewis took a gap year after her freshman year and spent it doing research with orthopedic doctors at the University of Chicago and had the incredible opportunity to present a paper for publication that she was the first author of. She discusses her appreciation for chemistry courses at Swarthmore, trying to find places to play tennis in Chicago during the pandemic, and her goals for the future. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highl...
Aug 04, 2021•10 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Swarthmore College Men's Basketball forward Julian Levin took a gap year when he found out that the 2020-21 season had been canceled. In this episode of Return To Play, he discusses with host Brandon Hodnett his decision to take the year off from school, his cross country road trip touring national parks, and his internship training dolphins at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to compet...
Aug 04, 2021•21 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Swarthmore College's Riley Thompson, a mathematics major and member of the women's swimming team, joins Brandon Hodnett on the Return To Play podcast to discuss what it was like for her to try to return to the US from Jamaica when the world shut down, her forensics research on campus modeling fingerprint analysts complex decisions, and her interest in peace and conflict courses at Swarthmore. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to ret...
Aug 02, 2021•13 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Horace Shew, a senior for Swarthmore College Men's Swimming, reflects on his time at Swarthmore in the latest episode of Return To Play. Shew discusses winning a Centennial Conference Championship, struggling to find an open pool during the pandemic, his love of ancient languages like Latin, and doing research on campus analyzing the FBI's fingerprint database statistics. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in...
Aug 02, 2021•11 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Gwen Glatz from Swarthmore College's softball program, checks in for this new episode of Return to Play. Glatz discusses the challenges of training during a pandemic and what her family did to stay active. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided these Garnet student-athl...
Jul 27, 2021•6 min•Season 3Ep. 5
SWARTHMORE, Pa.--Swarthmore College's new Marian Ware director of athletics, physical education, and recreation Brad Koch has officially begun to lead the Garnet department of athletics. Director of athletics communications Brandon Hodnett sat down with Koch to find out more about his background, his passion for athletics, his hobbies, his vision for Swarthmore, and more in this latest episode of Getting To Know The Garnet. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podc...
Jul 26, 2021•20 min
Emma Novak, from Swarthmore College's women's cross country, track and field programs, checks in for this new episode of Return to Play. During Novak's gap year, she held several internships, but she also discusses her involvement with the performance arts at Swarthmore. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competiti...
Jul 21, 2021•8 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Kim Kockenmeister, a two sport student-athlete from the Swarthmore College women's basketball and soccer programs, checks in for this new episode of Return to Play. During Kockenmeister's gap year, she earned a certificate in Data Analytics and had a one-month internship turn into an eleven month experience. This new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlights student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates a...
Jul 19, 2021•11 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Jacinta Fernandes-Brough, from the Swarthmore College women's soccer team, calls in from Madrid for this new episode of Return To Play. During Jacinta's gap year, she has been playing soccer for Spain's FC Málaga City and has fallen in love with the way the game of soccer is played in Spain. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice . Help more people find this interview and more great content from Swarthmore Athletics by leaving a review, ...
Jul 14, 2021•10 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Swarthmore College Athletics is back with a new mini-series of podcasts called Return To Play, highlighting student-athletes who are ready to return to competition in the 2021-22 school year. Adjusting to life away from teammates and away from intercollegiate competition was a major change, but also provided these Garnet student-athletes opportunities to do things they might not have done otherwise. In this first episode, director of athletics communications Brandon Hodnett is joined by John Nic...
Jul 12, 2021•9 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Matt and Brandon wrap up their discussion of the Greatest Of All Time at Swarthmore by breaking down the standout stars from our fall teams. They also take a look at Swarthmore student-athletes who competed in the Olympics. Do you know of someone deserving of a spot in the Garnet Athletics Hall of Fame? Click here to nominate them. Watch this interview on YouTube or Facebook or listen to it on your podcasting platform of choice . Help more people find this interview and more great content from S...
Mar 11, 2021•27 min•Season 2Ep. 21
On this edition of the Swarthmore College Athletics podcast, Brandon Hodnett and Matt Judge continue the discussion of the greatest Garnet athletes of all-time, take a tour of campus in virtual reality, look at the new dining hall being built on campus, and go down the rabbit hole of Swarthmore's history. Visit SwarthmoreAthletics.com/facilities to tour campus virtually. Do you know of someone deserving of a spot in the Garnet Athletics Hall of Fame? Click here to nominate them. Watch this inter...
Feb 25, 2021•27 min•Season 2Ep. 20
On this week's episode of the Swarthmore Athletics podcast, director of athletics communications Brandon Hodnett and assistant director of athletics communications Matt Judge discuss some of the GOATs, the greatest of all time among Swarthmore spring sport athletes. Additionally, Brandon and Matt share some of their most memorable games working at Swarthmore and some obscure box scores they've discovered in their archival research project. Psychologist Amber Buller joins the show to give a Garne...
Feb 10, 2021•52 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Swarthmore College Athletics has been a home away from home for Marie Mancini who has been on the sidelines with Garnet since 1986. Mancini took over as the head athletic trainer in 2002 and recently transitioned to the role of director of sports medicine. On this episode of Getting To Know The Garnet, host Brandon Hodnett asks Mancini about her favorite memories on the sideline at Swarthmore, how Swarthmore is addressing concussions, mental health, and pandemic concerns, and her love for the Ph...
Jan 26, 2021•23 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Jim Heller has been the head coach of Swarthmore College Golf since the 2005-06 season and has twice been named the Centennial Conference Coach of the Year. Heller also takes pride in the academic success of his team which in two of the past three years was honored for having the highest team GPA in all of Division III. On this week's episode of Getting To Know the Garnet, host Brandon Hodnett talks with Heller, a Delaware County native, about rescuing people from a burning building as a Springf...
Jan 19, 2021•27 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Swarthmore College 2017 grads Sam Lebryk and Steve Sekula roomed together for three years at Swarthmore, each won a Centennial Conference Championship in their respective sports the same week of their senior year, and are now working together to produce a card game called Gem Blenders, a fitting name for a game created by Garnet alumni. In this episode of Then & Now, host Brandon Hodnett talks with Lebryk and Sekula about their time at Swarthmore, how they launched Gem Blenders on Kickstarte...
Jan 12, 2021•22 min•Season 2Ep. 16
William Schmidt '76 was part of three straight Middle Atlantic Conference Championship-winning Swarthmore College Men's Tennis teams in the 1970s. William was a fourth-generation Swarthmore student and a second-generation member of the men's tennis team. His daughter Abby continued the tradition, playing for the women's tennis team until graduating in 2016. William majored in history and is currently a senior VP for RBC Wealth Management in Philadelphia. His father Marshall was a guest on last w...
Dec 22, 2020•20 min•Season 2Ep. 15
On this week's episode of Then & Now, host Brandon Hodnett is joined by Marshall Schmidt from the class of 1947. Schmidt was a tennis star at Swarthmore when he put his education on hold to join the US Navy and fight in the Pacific aboard the battleship USS Wisconsin. He returned to Swarthmore to complete his degree in economics. Five days after graduation, he married a third-generation Swarthmore student, Kinnie Clarke from the class of 1946, and the two have been married for 73 years. Kinn...
Dec 16, 2020•25 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Val Gomez started at Swarthmore College in November of 2020 as the new associate director of athletics. She joined the Garnet team after roles at several Division I and III institutions, most recently working at Seton Hall University. In this episode of Getting To Know The Garnet, she talks with host Brandon Hodnett about her experiences as a student-athlete at Lafayette College, her love for Hamilton , her pursuit of a doctorate in education, and what she'll do as soon as the pandemic is over. ...
Dec 02, 2020•17 min•Season 2Ep. 13
As a student-athlete at Swarthmore College, Lucy Lang ’03 studied political science, achieving high honors, while playing four seasons of women’s lacrosse. After graduating from Columbia Law School, Lang began her legal career in New York. She worked as an assistant district attorney, a special counsel for policy and projects, and executive director of the Manhattan DA Academy. She has been the executive director of the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution at John Jay College, a lecturer in l...
Nov 24, 2020•22 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Clinical psychologist Amber Buller, Ph.D., has worked with the Swarthmore Athletics department since 2018, helping student-athletes with their mental health. On this episode of Getting to Know the Garnet, Amber talks with host Brandon Hodnett about her background , strategies for dealing with stress around holidays, and tips for being proactive about improving your mental health. To contact Amber or to schedule an appointment, please email GarnetHealthyMind@swarthmore.edu . For more information ...
Nov 17, 2020•19 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Swarthmore College Men’s Basketball alumnus Michael Greenstone, class of 1991, appeared on this week’s episode of Then & Now to discuss his time at Swarthmore and his career in economics with host Brandon Hodnett. Greenstone was a 1,000-point scorer for Swarthmore Men’s Basketball and earned his bachelor’s with high honors in economics. He earned his PhD in economics from Princeton and is now the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, the College, and the Harris School...
Nov 05, 2020•19 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Charley Parlapanides ’99 played defensive line for Swarthmore College football for four seasons and graduated with a degree in economics. After that Parlapanides went on to graduate from Loyola Law School, but from there his career took a turn and he became a Hollywood screenwriter alongside his brother Vlas. Their screenwriting credits include the films Death Note and Immortals and the upcoming series Blood of Zeus , which will be released on Netflix on Oct. 27. The eight-part anime series set ...
Oct 20, 2020•32 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Swarthmore College Women’s Soccer alumna Dr. Julia Luongo ’10, a former All-Centennial First-Team honoree and an All-Region midfielder, graduated from Swarthmore with a degree in engineering and earned her MS and PhD in mechanical engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Now, Luongo is the founder and managing director of Ramboll Shair, a startup venture that focuses on cloud-based air quality modeling. In this episode of Then & Now, Luongo talks with director of athletics communi...
Oct 14, 2020•25 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Matt Midkiff, Swarthmore College Baseball head coach, has been with Swarthmore since the 2013 season and has won the 2018 Centennial Conference Championship. In the same season, his team advanced to the College World Series for the first time in program history. He sits down with Matt Judge on Getting to Know the Garnet and they discus the World Series, his favorite things to cook and some lessons he learned from his time as a student-athlete.
Oct 09, 2020•26 min
As a student-athlete at Swarthmore, Rebecca Hammond ’13 earned All-American status in the 1,500-meter run and graduated with highest honors in biology. Since graduating, she went on to become the second-ranked Spartan Race athlete in the world, appear on the cast of the TV The Million Dollar Mile , and earn her MD from Harvard Medical School with plans to begin a residency program in psychiatry in 2021. In this episode of Then & Now , Hammond talks with Director of Athletics Communications B...
Oct 06, 2020•23 min•Season 2Ep. 6
