Big Green hockey players Lindsay Holdcroft '14 and Matt Lindblad '14 were chosen as the Cross High Performance Athletes of the Week on Feb. 2, according to DartmouthSports.com. Holdcroft, the women's team's starting goaltender, earned victories in games against Yale University on Jan. 28 and Brown University on Jan. 29. She stopped 51 of 52 shots that came her way over the weekend and earned the third shutout of her rookie career. Holdcroft's strong play has propelled the Big Green into third place in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference. Holdcroft has also earned the conference's rookie of the week award twice this season. Lindblad a rookie forward on the men's hockey team played at full strength for the first time since falling ill a couple weeks ago. In a 7-3 win over Colgate University on Jan. 29, Lindblad tipped the puck into the back of the net to give the Big Green a 3-1 lead in the second period. Later in the game, he made two more heads-up plays, resulting in the final two Dartmouth goals. With 19 points, Lindblad is currently tied for third on the team in points, and leads the team with 16 points in ECAC play.
Dartmouth secured nine early-decision recruits and approximately 20 committed regular-decision recruits for the Class of 2015 during the unofficial national signing day for college football programs last Wednesday, according to Big Green Alert blog. Although the Ivy League does not recognize "national letters of intent," many recruits have made their final decisions, Big Green Alert reported. One of the prized recruits is defensive lineman Zack Fowler, who became the first graduate of Southwestern Pulaski County High School in Somerset, Ky., to join an Ivy League program. On the offensive side, quarterback Jordan Are' who amassed approximately 2,500 yards of total offense in 2010 from Alief Taylor High School in Houston, Texas, has chosen to play for the Big Green next season. Other Dartmouth recruits include A.J. Dillione a postgraduate lineman from Hun School in Princeton Township, N.J. and quarterback Charlie Storey and running back Ben Ticknor, who are teammates and roommates at Milton Academy in Milton, Mass. Teammates Mick Miller and Kirby Schoenthaler from Bartlesville High School in Bartlesville, Okla., will also play for Dartmouth. Defensive back Andrew Donahue from Mullen High School in Denver, Colo., will join his high school teammate, linebacker Hunter Foraker '14, on the team as well.
