From the News section of the
Middlebury College site:
"By capturing national championships in both men's and women's Division III ice hockey this year, Middlebury joins eight other schools in pulling off double-gender championships in the 2003-04 season, according to the NCAA News. The others are Stanford (Division I cross country), Adams State College (Division II cross country), the University of Connecticut (Division I basketball), Auburn (Division I swimming and diving), Kenyon (Division III swimming and diving), Louisiana State (Division I indoor track and field) and the University of Southern California (National Collegiate water polo).
"Middlebury's director of athletics, Russ Reilly, told the NCAA News that Middlebury holds some additional distinctions within the group of eight. 'We won it on the same day, within the same hour, in the same state. We had a brother on one team and a sister on the other. We had a boyfriend on one team and a girlfriend on the other,' said Reilly, who didn't mention that both teams' coaches are named Bill (Mandigo and Beaney)."
But which team was the boyfriend on, Russ?
The term "double-gender championships" is Middlebury's own. Weird though it may be, I left it alone in quoting the above passage. (I couldn't resist, however, fixing an errant apostrophe. Try and find it!)
Here's a
breakdown of the tournament. The men played three overtime periods in the last two rounds.