(USPA), cycling team (competes in ECCC), quidditch, and co-ed U.S. Figure Skating synchronized skating team. Basketball teams play in Vassar's new Athletics and Fitness Center. Volleyball teams play in Kenyon Hall, reopened in 2006. Soccer, baseball, field hockey and lacrosse teams play at Prentiss Fields, which have been completely renovated in 2007 to feature a lighted turf, four grass fields, a baseball field and a track surrounding the turf. Also in 2007, a varsity weight room was opened in the basement of Kenyon Hall, exclusively for the training of varsity athletes. In 2008, the Vassar men's volleyball team made the school's first appearance in a national championship game, beating UC Santa Cruz 3–0 in the semifinal before falling to Springfield in the championship game. In 2007, the Vassar cycling team hosted the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Championship in Poughkeepsie and New Paltz, New York. The competition included a road race over the Shawangunk Mountains in New Paltz as well as a criterium in Poughkeepsie just blocks from the school's campus. In a controversial move, on November 5, 2009, the athletics department leaders decided the men's and women's rowing team would transition over a two-year period from a varsity to a club sport as a cost-saving measure. In 1940, 1941 and 1942, Vassar athletes won national intercollegiate women's tennis championships each year in both singles (Katharine Hubbell) and doubles (Hubbell, Carolyn "Lonny" Myers). In 2018, the Vassar women's rugby team won the school's first team national championship, beating Winona State 50–13 in the final of the USA Rugby Women's Division 2. Notable people Notable Vassar alumni include: Elizabeth Hazleton Haight (1894), notable feminist and Classics scholar Anita Florence Hemmings (1897), their first graduate of African ancestry Edith Clarke (1908), the first female Electrical Engineer Mary Ingraham (1908), founder of the United Service Organizations (USO) Ruth Starr Rose (1910), artist Edna St. Vincent Millay (1917), poet Mary Calderone (1925), physician, public health advocate and "mother of sex education" Grace Hopper (1928), computer pioneer Mary McCarthy (1933), critic and novelist Elizabeth Bishop (1934), poet Carol F. Jopling (1938), anthropologist, Librarian, and chief librarian of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Frances Scott Fitzgerald (1942), writer and journalist Beatrix Hamburg (1944), physician Virginia Seay (1944), composer and musicologist Frances Farenthold (1946), politician and activist Vera Rubin (1948), astrophysicist Linda Nochlin (1951), Art Historian Lois Haibt (1955), member of FORTRAN development team Nina Zagat (1963), Zagat Survey