Ava Dreyer

In seventh grade, my mom bought me a pair of lacrosse socks that reached halfway up my shins. Embroidered on the front of them was a brown mountain hawk, wings spread wide. I never thought twice about them. When I started high school, I would watch over my mom’s shoulder as she flipped through her college yearbooks from the ‘90s, giving me an abridged story of her experience at a school built into a mountain.

No. 4 Lehigh football defeated Colgate 27-7 today on the road in Hamilton, New York. Lehigh came out of the gates fiery, driving all the way into the endzone with sophomore running back Aaron Crossley rushing 2 yards down the middle, bringing the score to 7-0. With about five minutes left in the first quarter, the Mountain Hawks found themselves 3rd and 8 yards, looking for a crucial first down.

When Myrto Lianoudi stepped onto Lehigh’s campus for the first time this fall, she was more than 4,900 miles from home and in a country she’d never visited before. The first-year guard from Athens, Greece, instantly noticed the lack of skyscrapers and the quiet nature of campus. She said she hoped to come to Lehigh and find a new family. With time, she found it on the Lehigh women’s basketball team, joined by two other international recruits.