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(06/07/14 9:56am)
Running up to meet me by the track, Abbey D’Agostino ’14 flashed her signature smile. It was hard to guess that she was working ahead on a final paper, preparing to miss most of finals and reading period to run for the Big Green at the NCAA Regionals in Jacksonville, Florida. On an overcast spring day in Hanover, concrete bleachers towered above a stretch of track on which D’Agostino improved from an unheralded recruit to a national champion.
(05/14/14 7:27pm)
At the Ivy League outdoor Heptagonal Championships at Yale University last weekend, Kaitlin Whitehorn ’16 was everywhere. Running back and forth between the track and the high jump, she competed six times over the course of the weekend. After competing in the 100- and 200-meter preliminaries Saturday, she woke up Sunday with four events ahead of her: the 100- and 200-meter finals, the 4x100-meter relay and the high jump.
(05/11/14 9:05pm)
Just 13 points separated the Dartmouth women’s track and field team from the Ivy League title at the outdoor Ivy League Heptagonal Championships at Yale University this weekend. The meet was not decided until the women’s 4x400-meter relay, the final track event of the day, finished. The men’s team improved on its sixth-place finish at the indoor championships, finishing in fifth place.
(05/08/14 7:14pm)
After the women finished second and the men finished sixth at the indoor Heptagonal Championships this winter, the track and field teams look to a strong finish at this weekend’s outdoor Heptagonal Championships, hosted by Yale University.
(04/27/14 8:33pm)
The men’s and women’s track and field teams earned two new school records as they split up again this weekend to compete in the historic Penn Relays, featuring the Championship of America races, and the University of New Hampshire Wildcat Invitational.
(04/20/14 10:09pm)
The track and field teams split up this weekend, heading to California for the Mt. SAC Relays and invitationals at Yale University and Princeton University.
(04/14/14 8:32pm)
The track and field teams competed in two meets this weekend, with some athletes attending the George Mason Spring Invitational and the majority of the teams heading to Durham for the Wildcat Invitational at the University of New Hampshire.
(04/07/14 7:51pm)
Building on momentum from the indoor season, the men’s and women’s track teams saw strong performances all around at their outdoor opener, earning two school records the Sam Howell Invitational.
(04/03/14 8:06pm)
Coming off an indoor season where six track and field athletes earned All-American honors, records were shattered, one runner eclipsed the sub-four minute mile barrier and one woman became the first female runner to win both the 3,000 and 5,000-meter run in back-to-back indoor championship meets, expectations are high for the outdoor season.
(03/23/14 11:16pm)
Abbey D’Agostino ’14 made history at the NCAA Division I Indoor National Championships in Albuquerque, N.M., becoming the first woman in Division I history to win the 3,000-meter race and 5,000-meter race national titles indoor in back-to-back years. As a result she was named the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association 2014 Women’s Division I Indoor National Track Athlete of the Year, an honor she received in 2013 and in the fall cross-country season.
(03/03/14 12:47am)
As the crowd erupted with cheers of “Go Abbey D” and “Let’s go Dartmouth,” Abbey D’Agostino ’14 took the baton from Meggie Donovan ’15. She soon opened up a 50-meter lead before passing off to Liz Markowitz ’16 in the finals of the women’s 4x800-meter relay at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships at Leverone Field House.
(02/28/14 12:15am)
Full of verve and anticipation, the men’s and women’s track teams huddled up in the Class of 1953 Commons Thursday night to perform their ritual cheer. Shouting in a circle in the middle of the dining area, the team shared their excitement for the weekend with campus.
(02/26/14 12:37am)
The Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literature cancelled its Arabic foreign study program in Tangier, Morocco for the fall of 2014, marking the second consecutive year that the program has been called off due to low enrollment.
(02/17/14 9:36pm)
With a time of 8:51.91, Abbey D’Agostino ’14 set a Dartmouth record in the 3,000-meter race this weekend, coming away with the fastest time in the nation this year and the fourth-fastest indoor time ever run by a female collegiate athlete. Racing at the Millrose Games in New York on Saturday, she came in fourth, behind professional athletes, and broke the record she set last season by three and a half seconds.
(02/16/14 11:56pm)
This week, I sat down with Janae Dunchack ’14, a multi-event athlete on the women’s track and field team. Dunchack has been a dominant force for the team and is the three-time defending Ivy League champion in the pentathlon at the Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Track and Field Championships. Dunchack hopes to sweep the event for her college career with a win at Leverone Field House on March 1 and 2. She came to Hanover as a high jumper but switched to multi-events her freshman year.
(02/14/14 12:56am)
The Geisel School of Medicine has suspended admissions to its M.D./Ph.D. program, Geisel School Dean Wiley Souba announced in an email to the Geisel community Thursday morning. Since the decision was first revealed in a Feb. 6 meeting, around 1,000 students and faculty have signed a petition outlining concerns.
(02/09/14 11:32pm)
The men’s and women’s track and field teams broke two more school records this weekend at Boston University’s Valentine Invitational.
(02/06/14 8:37pm)
Ranked the sixth best winter carnival in the world by National Geographic in 2012, the College’s annual celebration has held the media’s fascination for decades, and has been featured in publications ranging from Playboy magazine to the Boston Globe.
(02/05/14 12:48am)
Tina Ma ’14 spent Saturday morning celebrating an early Valentine’s Day with Alzheimer’s patients from across the Upper Valley. “Golden Oldies” music and movies played in the background, including clips of the dancing duo Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Ma watched her partner, an older woman suffering from fairly advanced Alzheimer’s disease, write a Valentine to her husband bemoaning the fact that today’s youth cannot dance like Astaire and Rogers.
(02/03/14 12:37am)
Dartmouth runners broke a school record for the fourth time this season this weekend, this time in the men’s distance medley relay. Friday’s 9:37.33 time run by John Bleday ’14, Phil Gomez ’17, Steve Mangan ’14 and Will Geoghegan ’14 at the Pennsylvania State University narrowly eclipsed the old mark of 9:37.61, which was set in 2006.