The Toronto Blue Jays picked
Matt Nuzzo
'09 in the 24th round of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player
Draft; he is the eighteenth Brown player chosen since MLB began its
draft in 1965. Nuzzo has been the starting second baseman with the
Auburn (N.Y.) Blue Jays of the Short-Season-A New York-Penn League....
Mark Gormley
'11, who played for the Hyannis Mets this summer, was selected as an
alternate for the West Division squad at the Cape Cod Baseball League
All-Star Game played in August at Fenway Park.... The Cape Cod Baseball
League honored
Arnold Mycock '50, a 2000 inductee into the CCBL
Hall of Fame, for sixty years of involvement in the league. The trophy
for the league's annual champion each year was named the Arnold Mycock
Award.... At the Brown Football Association's annual Kickoff Dinner at
Rhode Island Country Club,
Chris Berman '77 and
Ross Greenburg '77 were presented with the 2009 Joslin Award for outstanding contributions to Brown football....
Anna Willard
'06 won the 1,500-meter run at the London Grand Prix. At the IAAF
Golden League Track & Field meet in Paris, France, Willard earned
the highest-profile win of her career with a come-from-behind victory
in the 800-meter event. At the USA Outdoor Track & Field
Championships in Eugene, Oregon, Willard qualified for the World
Championships in two events, the steeplechase and the 1,500-meter
run.... Former tennis standout
Jamie Cerretani '04 improved his
world doubles ranking to forty-sixth by posting wins at both the French
Open and Wimbledon; he was 1–1 at each tournament.... The
gold-medal-winning 1998 U.S. women's Olympic hockey team, which featured
Katie King '97 and
Tara Mounsey '03, will be inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame.... Former hockey goalie
Yann Danis
'04 has signed a contract with the NHL's New Jersey Devils. Danis spent
last season with the New York Islanders.... Former men's hockey coach
Herb Hammond (1983-88) died of cancer on July 23 at his home in Fort Gratiot, Michigan....
Brianne Goutal '11 became the youngest rider ever to win the $75,000 RV Sales of Broward Grandprix of Lake Placid horse show....
Julia Robinson '11,
Carly Arison '12,
Heather Arison '12,
Megan Tuohy '12, and
Susan Restrepo '11 of the women's golf team were named to the National Golf Coaches Association 2009 All-American Scholar Team.... Swimmer
Dan Ricketts '09 was named a first team
ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American, becoming Brown's first-ever swimmer (men's or women's) to earn Academic All-America recognition.