Women’s ice hockey finds spark under new leadership
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On Saturday, approximately 4,670 spectators — the most since 1981— threw tennis balls onto the Thompson Arena ice rink.
Nearly 850 fans poured into Leede Arena on Friday night to watch the women’s basketball team face Cornell University.
The Dartmouth ski teams began their season with back-to-back victories at the Bates and St. Lawrence Carnivals on Jan. 10-11 and Jan. 16-18, respectively. Securing a combined 21 podium finishes across both weekends, the teams’ early dominance positions Dartmouth as a top contender heading into February.
On Jan. 25, Dartmouth men’s ice hockey bounced back to defeat Cornell University 6-1 after a 3-2 loss to Colgate University the previous night. This season’s sweep of Cornell put the Big Green back in the ranks at No. 19, according to USA Hockey.
The men’s and women’s swim and dive teams made waves last weekend at the Tate Ramsden Invitational in Hanover. Facing the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the men’s team swept all swimming events, while the women’s team won eight of 18 events across swim and dive against UMass and Northeastern University.
Following a 2-2 tie with Cornell University on Jan. 24, the women’s ice hockey team lost its Alumni Day home game against Colgate University on Saturday. The team fell 4-1 to the Raiders, who are ranked fifth in the nation.
Leede Arena was buzzing.
Men’s hockey ended its three-game losing streak, defeating Brown University 5-2 on Saturday. The day prior, the Big Green lost to Yale University 3-2 as the Bulldogs scored the winning goal with less than five seconds left in the game.
The Dartmouth equestrian team is galloping into the spotlight after an undefeated fall season that has vaulted them to the number-one spot in the Eastern College Athletic Conference. Since its transition in 2021 from the Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association to the more competitive ECAC — a single-discipline league for English riding on the East Coast — the team has shown tremendous growth and determination.
Somewhere in West Texas last September, Bond Almand IV ’26 lapped water from a cow trough. The cyclist was out of water, and the next town was 20 miles away. He sweltered under 106 degree heat as a forest of oil rigs stretched out before him.
After the rest of the student body went home for winter break, the Dartmouth men’s hockey team continued to grind at Thompson Arena, playing eight games throughout December.
On Tuesday, the Dartmouth men’s basketball team — which was represented by the Service Employees International Union, Local 560 — withdrew its petition to unionize. On March 5, 2024, players on the men’s basketball team voted 13-2 to join the SEIU Local 560, becoming the first successful student-athlete unionization in the nation.
The Ivy League will compete in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs in 2025, ending an 80-year-old policy that kept the Ivy League out of the postseason to maintain a focus on academics. The historic change allows Dartmouth and the other Ivy League teams to compete in postseason football for the first time since 1945.
After upsetting No. 6 Cornell University 4-3 on Friday night, men’s hockey tied with unranked Colgate University 4-4 on Saturday to end its five-game winning streak. The Big Green forced a shootout against the Colgate Raiders but failed to pick up the extra point.
The women’s rugby team continued its undefeated season, picking up its eighth win of the season against Brown University on Nov. 16. The 47-33 win at Brophy Field sends the Big Green to the Division I Championship against Harvard University onNov. 23 at Hanover’s Burnham Field.
Dartmouth men’s basketball lost 87-73 against the University of Albany on Nov. 13, putting the team at 2-1 this season.
After a weekend sweep, men’s ice hockey is nationally ranked for the first time since the 2019-2020 season at 17th. The Big Green defeated nationally-ranked Quinnipiac 4-2 on Nov. 8 and demolished Princeton 5-1 the next day to start the season 4-0-0 for the first time since the 1957-1958 season.
The Dartmouth women’s basketball team opened the season strong by taking down the Keene State College Owls in a 98-47 statement victory on Nov. 8. The Big Green lost 53-58 the next week in a tight battle against the University of Albany Great Danes on Nov. 13, bringing their record to 1-1.
For months, Maggie Emerson ’25 could not bear to even think about ice hockey.