One on One
The D: You guys just came off a pretty successful weekend. How's the season going so far?
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The D: You guys just came off a pretty successful weekend. How's the season going so far?
The D: How's the squash team shaping up this year?
Dartmouth (6-7, 1-0 Ivy) trailed big early. The Big Green went into halftime with the score at 35-23, but the squad stormed back in the second half, outscoring the Crimson (7-8) 41-29 in the closing stanza to tie things up. Dartmouth continued the surge in overtime, pulling away for the victory.
Apparently we have a bunch of Olympians on the women's hockey team. One of them, Sarah Parsons '10, was the youngest player on the U.S. team, and took home a bronze medal. If you're scoring at home, that makes her life resume way more impressive than yours. That is, unless you're one of her Canadian teammates who won gold. We sat down and talked about playing hockey with parents and the Dartmouth team dynamic.
A crew team formal held in FUEL was interrupted by Safety and Security this past weekend following reports of offensive costumes and underage alcohol consumption.
I'm quite often tempted to blow things off. I can usually convince myself that, in the grand scheme of things, whether or not I hand in a paper really doesn't matter. I usually remain convinced until about 12 hours before an assignment's due, at which point I seat myself in front of a computer, and, savoring the soul-crushing blend of panic and resignation, pound out the page requirement. I thought to myself earlier this week, however, what if I had a excuse for blowing things off? What if I had a plan for my life after college that didn't revolve around my convincing someone in a well-tailored suit that I'm far more capable than my resume leads them to believe? So, I decided to talk with New York Mets prospect Will Bashelor '07 to find out what that might be like.
It was not a good week for me. I soiled quite dramatically in both academic and athletic venues, leaving me with my journalism career to fall back on, which is never good for the old self-esteem. In light of my impressive failings, I decided to grab a few minutes with Nick Christman '08. A starter on the soccer team for most of the year and an academic hard guy, I thought I'd sit him down and see if I could pick up some life lessons, or at least a laugh or two.
A week or two ago, I glanced at the front page of the paper and noticed a picture of a girl with a unicycle. It was, apparently, a slow news day. I recognized the name in the caption, although I couldn't figure out from where. A few days ago, I figured it out. The subject of the photo was Susan Dunklee '08, a cross country runner. A masochistic unicycle rider. I had to know more, and decided that you should too.
I decided to stick with the interview welfare theme this week, and talked to Erik Storck '07, one of the nation's top sailors. He let me know what the deal is with the team this year and what it's like to be talented and ignored.
I've always wondered why my roommate, Andrew Berry '08, disappears for hours at a time during the day. Nearly every afternoon he packs a small bag and hits the road for a while, returning a couple of hours later smelling of chlorine. I've also wondered why he has so many man-thong style swimsuits.
My varsity letter sweater is in my room at home. I'm quite proud of it. I had visions of wearing it at a far-off reunion, but I got a medium, and the Food Court Philly cheesesteak is working diligently to make that decision a regrettable one. I walked on to the golf team at the beginning of sophomore year, and making the team was a pretty big accomplishment for me. Unfortunately, no one else seems to care.
The D: The men's soccer team has enjoyed a great deal of success in recent years. Last year you guys earned Ivy League championship rings. How does it feel to have The Dartmouth devote more space to the football recruiting class than your league title?
Tiger -- in addition to earning eight figures on the PGA Tour money list each year despite playing only the majors and when one of his sponsors, Buick, asks him, politely, to show up to its tournaments -- rakes in a pile of money each year by loaning his name to EA Sports. I don't have a problem with Tiger's video-game-self bombing it 350 yards down the middle every time, or an issue with Tiger Vision making every putt on the green a tap-in. What bothers me is that he appears to be playing that game on TV every weekend.
The Red Sox are three games ahead of the Yankees in the AL East, and the starting outfielders for the Yankees would still be playing in Columbus if the baseball gods hadn't decided it was finally time to smite the Bronx Bombers. I would like to think that the continued existence of George Steinbrenner is the only thing wrong with the world, but another problem is fast approaching. Tuesday night's All-Star Game is fundamentally flawed and is polluting the purity of America's pastime.
Barely more than a week removed from Dwyane Wade and the Heat hoisting the Larry O'Brien trophy, the hoop industry is cranking up the hype machine once again for the NBA Draft.
The women's hockey team announced its new Class of 2010 members earlier this month, naming half a dozen talented freshmen who will join the squad that finished fourth in the Ivy League last year.
The women's lacrosse team made an impressive run all the way to the NCAA championship game this spring, validating their preseason national ranking of third. The team struggled early, dropping a couple of games to less touted opponents and opening the season with a devastating 11-10 double overtime loss to Syracuse. A loss to Duke to close the regular season put in question the at-large bid to the tournament that the team had hoped for, but the selection committee smiled on the Big Green, paving the way for Dartmouth's dash to the finals.
The cycling team flew to Lawrence, Kans. in the wee hours of May 11 to compete in the cycling national championships. Dartmouth, the Division II national champions in 2002, 2003 and 2004, finished sixth.
The white squad's bend-but-don't-break defense kept the green out of the end zone in the waning moments of the annual Green/White intrasquad football scrimmage at Memorial Field on Saturday morning, leaving the white with a 21-14 victory in the team's final action of the spring.
In a busy winter and spring for Dartmouth club sports programs, five teams have either competed, or are preparing to compete, in national tournaments, including men's volleyball, men's rugby, fencing, figure skating and cycling. Both the men's and women's ultimate frisbee teams could join that list with strong performances in Regional competition later in May.