1. The men\u2019s and women\u2019s soccer teams both made the MIAC playoffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. The women\u2019s volleyball team had its second winning season in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3. Both the men\u2019s and the women\u2019s cross-country teams finished fourth in the MIAC (the best finish for men in nearly twenty years and the best finish for women in nine years).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4. The football team ended its season with three straight wins to finish 5-5 on the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5. Every fall team had a better record than last year and no team finished below .500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
6. Men\u2019s basketball forward Badou Ba \u201925 (Dakar, Senegal), a recipient of four MIAC Defensive Player of the Week awards, was featured in a January Star Tribune<\/em> story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7. Sophomore guard\/forward Peyton Starks \u201925 (Ellisville, Mo.) was named MIAC Offensive Player of the Week for women\u2019s basketball on Jan. 9 after scoring 25 and 30 points in victories over St. Olaf and St. Scholastica, respectively.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Read more about recent wins from Macalester athletic teams.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1077,"featured_media":19613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[253,47],"class_list":["post-19483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","tag-athletics","tag-athletics-and-physical-education","mediatype-articles"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t