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With another academic year in the books, here’s a look back at the Continentals’ spring season highlights — and some of photographer Josh McKee’s favorite action shots.

The men’s and women’s tennis teams placed in final 2024-25 DIII rankings, individual athletes earned All-American and NESCAC honors, and senior awards capped the spring athletics season. See photographer Josh McKee's favorite photos below.

Individuality. Creativity. Collaboration. Dependence. To Charlie Ratner ’23, lacrosse has always provided the perfect blend of striving for success both as an individual and working together as a cohesive team. These qualities have been the building blocks of Ratner’s life; in fact, he describes his lacrosse stick as an inherent part of his very being.

With 10 teams in, action, the spring sports semester was a busy one, capped off with honors for senior athletes. Here’s a look at some of photographer Josh McKee's favorite action shots from the spring. To read more about Hamilton's successes during the spring sports season, visit the Athletics site.

Being tapped into the University of California at Berkeley Lacrosse Hall of Fame this year is a career-topping field goal for William “Bill” Barton ’69.

Every year, Hamilton selects project proposals from members of the senior class that exhibit a “spirit of inquisitiveness and a seriousness of purpose” worthy of $30,000. Hamilton’s Bristol Fellowship awards this generous funding for worldwide research projects that will encourage both “discovery of self and the world.” This year’s recipients, Abigail Moone ’23 and Charlie Ratner ’23 hope to make those same discoveries.

Hamilton students kept busy during spring break, exploring their passions at places far and near. Eighteen seniors traveled to Nepal to trek the Himalayas; the College Choir toured Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and West Virginia, where they performed with other college singers; Alternate Spring Break groups did volunteer work in Kentucky, Delaware, North Carolina, and Syracuse, N.Y. Athletic teams competed in the NCCAs and during trips to Florida, and the Curling team made it to nationals.

Members of the men's lacrosse team never imagined their new book club would lead to Zooming with a bestselling author and Hamilton alumnus, but that's exactly what happened.

COVID-19 put a pause on Hamilton College athletics for almost 13 months, but when the NESCAC decided sports could begin again with competition in early April, the Continentals responded with some outstanding individual performances.

NCAA championship participants Sophia Aulicino '21 and Lucas Wright '21 received the 2021 Jack B. Riffle Awards as Hamilton College Director of Athletics Jon Hind '80 revealed this year's senior varsity athlete award winners via a live video announcement on Thursday, May 20.