Reflections with Winter Olympic Gold Medalist and alpine skier Tanguy Nef ’20
This article is featured in the 2026 Freshman Special Issue.
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This article is featured in the 2026 Freshman Special Issue.
This article is featured in the 2026 Freshman Special Issue.
There are few schools where students regularly self-organize a fifty-plus mile hike twice a year, run weekly half-marathons or scale cliffs. Dartmouth, wedged in the White Mountains, is home to several student-organized extreme athletic events.
In four months, Dartmouth women’s lacrosse assistant coach Shea Dolce was drafted by the Boston Guard in the Women’s Lacrosse League’s inaugural collegiate draft, graduated from Boston College, started her job as an assistant coach of the Dartmouth women’s lacrosse team and won a gold medal with Team USA at the World Lacrosse Women’s Championship, where she was named Player of the Match in the final game. Now, Dolce is getting ready to start training with the Big Green in the fall while working toward a big goal of her own: making the cut to represent the United States at the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
On July 26, heavyweight rower Matthew Johnston ’27 captured gold with Team Great Britain in the Men’s Eight final at the World Rowing Under 23 Championships in Duisburg, Germany. The victory marked the seventh under 23 championship in a row that Great Britain has won gold in Men’s Eight.
While much of the allure of sports comes from watching the game, the game wouldn't be possible without the work of student managers behind the scenes. The Dartmouth sat down with two members of the Dartmouth Baseball analytics team, Caleb Lewis ’28 and Aaron “AJ” Sikora ’28 to discuss their work providing data on pitching statistics for members of the baseball team.
On July 19, soccer fans from the Upper Valley and beyond gathered on the Green to watch a broadcast of the FIFA World Cup final, in which Spain defeated Argentina 1-0 in extra time.
It’s Monday morning. While some students doze off in their 9Ls and others chat with Collis employees, a dozen or two students are finishing up their weekly 13.1-mile ritual.
The 45th annual Prouty raised a record-breaking $12.01 million for Dartmouth Cancer Center on July 10 and 11, making this year’s fundraiser the most successful in the event’s history. Nearly 4,800 participants and 500 volunteers gathered in Hanover and across the Upper Valley for the annual event.
On July 12, in the 10th round of the 2026 MLB Draft, the New York City Mets selected Dartmouth’s Nate Isler ’27, the 300th pick overall.
Starting on July 14, smoke from Canadian wildfires drifted into the Upper Valley and across much of the Eastern United States, turning the sky visibly yellow in Hanover on July 14 and 15. On July 16, the air smelled of smoke. Some students who exercise outdoors said the air quality worried them.
The Fifty — a Dartmouth tradition in which eight or nine teams of four students hike around 54 miles from Moosilauke Ravine Lodge to Robinson Hall on campus — will take place this year on the weekend of Aug. 8. The hike lasts between 24 and 36 hours, with six support stations along the way providing hikers with food, water and medical care. Students at the support stations often dress in flair, providing moral as well as physical support.
Bond Almand ’26 is an ultra-distance cyclist known for his record-breaking bike rides. From his Pan-American crossing in the fall of 2024, which he completed nine days faster than the previous record, to his most recent U.S. Eastern Seaboard crossing from Miami to Madawaska, Maine in just over eight days last September, Almand has captured the imagination of the Dartmouth community and the nation. He now boasts over 120,000 followers on Instagram, where he documents the highs and lows of his journeys.
This article is featured in the 2026 Commencement special issue.
This article is featured in the 2026 Commencement special issue.
Grassroot Soccer, a nonprofit organization co-founded by Dartmouth alum Tommy Clark ’92, MED ’01, uses soccer to educate young people around the world about HIV and AIDS, mental health, reproductive health and other health issues. According to the Grassroot Soccer website, since its founding, the organization has reached more than 25 million adolescents across over 60 countries.
A common sentiment in the world of competitive football boils down to this: Games are won and lost in the offseason. What we see on the field in the fall is the result of months of commitment and laser-focus on improving at every facet of the game. To showcase how this hard work plays out in real time, Dartmouth football recently held the annual spring game on May 9.
On May 9, Ben Hinchliffe ’27 won the road race at the USA Cycling Collegiate Road Race National Championships in Waterloo, Wis. Hinchliffe completed the 86-mile race with a time of 3:21:22, over two minutes ahead of his closest competitor. The next day, Hinchliffe placed 19th in the men’s club criterium, a high-speed circuit race where competitors complete as many laps as possible in 80 minutes.
The Dartmouth women’s soccer team had a historic season this year, defeating the top-seeded Princeton Tigers to win the Ivy League Championship on Nov. 9, 2025 and securing the Big Green a spot in the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Championship for the first time since 2005. The win follows a 2024-25 season in which the team won just one Ivy League game. In just one year, the Big Green went from last in the Ivy League to conference champions.
On March 21, Men’s ice hockey won the Eastern College Athletic Conference championship for the first time in program history. The win sent the team to the NCAA Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Tournament for the first time since 1980, where they ultimately lost to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the first round but left decorated with awards.