The Dartmouth men's and women's cross country teams raced in the Mayor's Cup in Boston on Sunday, placing fifth and seventh respectively. The race featured the teams' less experienced runners battling for the final few spots in the team's roster for the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, which take place on Oct. 29 in Princeton, N.J. In the men's eight-kilometer race, Dartmouth finished fifth with 192 points in a 10-team field of mostly club running teams. Pacing the Big Green were runners Mike Danaher '13, Dylan Summers '12 and Will Geoghegan '14, who finished 39th, 42nd and 49th, respectively, out of a field of 176 runners. Matthew Pierce '14, Silas Talbot '15, Jack Terwilliger '15, Luke Decker '15, Graham Keggi '12, Henry Russell '15 and Rex Woodbury '15 rounded out Dartmouth's solid performance, with the majority of the Big Green's runners finishing in well under 27 minutes. In the women's five kilometer race, Dartmouth placed seventh with 198 points in a field of nine teams, most of which were club teams. Chrissy Supino '12 led the way for Dartmouth with a time of 18:42 and a 31st place finish in a field of 95 runners. Not far behind Supino were Sarah Delozier '15, Ashley Ulrich '15, Nina Brekelmans '12, Melanie Wilcox '13, Claudia Pham '15, Alison Lanois '15, Julia Harrison '15, Jill Corcoran '15, Claire Arthur '14, Marissa Greco '12, Sam Harmon '15, Kelly Wood '14, Maggie Donovan '15 and Nancy Seem '14, most of whom finished in under 20 minutes.
Brown University officials recently announced plans to cut 20 admission slots for recruited athletes starting in the 2012-2013 academic year, according to a response to the Brown Report of the Athletics Review Committee written by Brown President Ruth Simmons. The reduction is expected to "appropriately rebalance academic goals and athletic interests in the Brown context," Simmons said in the response. Brown currently reserves 225 admission slots for recruited athletes. The institution will also raise the Academic Index an academic formula calculated based on GPA and standardized test scores for admitted athletes. While the plan for the cuts remains undetermined, the 20 slots will be eliminated by 2016 at the latest. Simmons recommended in the response that Brown should allow members of the fencing, skiing and wrestling teams to address concerns raised by the Athletics Review Committee before cutting the teams, as had previously been proposed.
