Women's swimming breaks eight school records at Ivies
Brown (2-5, 2-5 Ivy) entered the final day of competition with a 100-point lead over Dartmouth (4-10, 0-7 Ivy), and the Bears were just able to hold on to their advantage.
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Brown (2-5, 2-5 Ivy) entered the final day of competition with a 100-point lead over Dartmouth (4-10, 0-7 Ivy), and the Bears were just able to hold on to their advantage.
The Dartmouth men's and women's swim teams spent their winter break training, globe-trotting and competing as they traveled to Las Vegas, Nev., and across the pond to Dublin, Ireland.
The Dartmouth women's varsity eight boat proved itself worthy of competing in the NCAA rowing championship last weekend. The Big Green captured second place in the Petite Final and eighth place overall.
Dartmouth had not been invited to the NCAA's since 1999.
This summer, the Dartmouth rowing program will host the men's national under-23 training and selection camp. The camp will begin on the tail end of finals on Tuesday, June 5, and could run as late as Saturday, July 21.
The Big Green women's first boat advanced to the Grand Final by placing second in the qualifying round behind Princeton, but was unable to hit its stride in the Grand Final, coming in fifth place in the heat.
Dartmouth brought two trophies home in its triumphant return to Hanover -- the Joseph H. Wright Trophy for winning Sprints and the Michael W. Christian 1960 Trophy, a new trophy given to the first Ivy League finisher.
Last summer, both Big Green women helped secure a gold medal for the US in the Under-23 boat at the 2006 FISA U-23 World Championships, and the team shows promise again this year.
The Harvard match marked not only the last contest of the season, but also the final match for the Big Green's two senior captains, Lindsay Winingham '07 and Kerry Snow '07.
Yale (11-8, 6-1 Ivy) was recognized by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association for its strong tennis with a No. 67 ranking last Tuesday. Going into the match against Dartmouth (8-10, 0-6), Yale had only lost one Ivy League match, against undefeated Ivy champs Penn.
After falling short of victory last weekend in two very tight matches against Columbia University and Cornell University, Dartmouth fell out of the top 75 ITA rankings last Tuesday, while Cornell managed to climb to the No. 69 spot.
The weekend leaves the Big Green (8-6, 0-2 Ivy) tied for seventh with Brown in the Ivy League standings at the start of its conference schedule.
Dartmouth's women's tennis team was upset 7-0 Saturday by Boston University. Dartmouth struggled on the unusually surfaced tennis courts at BU's Track & Tennis Center, falling to the Terriers for the second year in a row.
The Dartmouth men's tennis team extended its winning streak to nine games, stretching back to the beginning of January, by beating Army and Boston University this weekend. On Friday, March 2 in the Alexis Boss Tennis Center, Dartmouth snuffed Army 6-1 and swept BU 7-0 on the following day.
Dartmouth (11-6, 2-4 Ivy) entered the CSA Championships seeded No. 8 in the Potter Division, comprised of the top eight teams in the nation. The Big Green went into the competition with hopes of climbing up the charts by winning at least one match.
After the three unsure days of traveling that it took to get to Charlotte, the fatigued Big Green could not pull out a victory against Davidson.
The Dartmouth men's tennis team left the comfort and safety of the Alexis Boss Tennis Center this weekend, traveling to North Carolina to challenge teams from Davidson College on Friday, Feb. 16 and the University North of Carolina-Greensboro on Saturday, Feb. 17. The Big Green was able to successfully add to its nine-game winning streak by toppling Davidson 6-1 and UNCG 5-2.
Leverone is one of many athletic venues that has been renovated since College President James Wright came into office.
That No. 1 singles match was indubitably the match of the night. Dartmouth's team captain David Waslen '08 took on BC's senior captain Soma Kestrel of Budapest, Hungary. Kestrel played a very smart game against Dartmouth's captain, grinding him down from the baseline with a very soft return and few errors. At one point, Waslen disagreed with a call on his serve made by Kestrel and the two entered into a heated exchange. Waslen eventually fell to Kestrel after trying to rally back in the second set and push it to a super breaker. The Big Green's captain fell 6-3, 7-6.
Dartmouth's women's tennis team beat Albany 6-1 and swept Stony Brook 7-0 in the Alexis-Boss Tennis Center Saturday. All members of the women's tennis team had a chance to play in one of the double headers Saturday, demonstrating the team's abundance of formidable players.