Let’s hope this actually intimidates the other wrestlers.

While you’re catching up on sleep over break, Columbia’s teams are traveling to exotic locations like…Cleveland! And Texas! Sports Editor Abby Rubel brings you their spring break plans.

Wrestling: Three seniors will head to the NCAA Championships on March 17 in Cleveland. Markus Scheidel and Garrett Ryan earned auto-bids at the EIWA Championships last weekend and Tyrel White earned one of the at-large bids. As a sophomore, White won two matches in the 165 weight class, but did not perform as well last year, losing his first two bouts. Ryan went 1-1 on his first day, but lost the next day to finish the season.

Track and Field: Senior Sarah Hardie is the only athlete going to the Track and Field NCAA Championships in Texas this weekend. She qualified for the one mile race with a season-best time of 4:40.69 earlier in the season, good enough to put her in the first heat of the preliminaries. She’ll race at 6:50 pm, but only the top three times in each heat and the next fastest two times will go on to the finals.

Baseball: The 1-7 Lions will finish out their non-conference schedule over spring break with a series of games in the Lone Star state. They’ll kick it off this weekend with a four-game series against 5-5 University of Texas, San Antonio, then head to 10-2 Texas A&M Corpus Christi for a single game on Tuesday. Wednesday starts a series of games in Houston, where Columbia will face off against 6-7 Rice, 5-6-1 University of New Mexico, and 6-6 University of Houston. The Lions typically struggle more in the preseason thanks to a tougher schedule, but usually do well in conference play. That said, it would be nice if they went into their Ivy schedule with more than one win.

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