Baseball ’16s forego 14X to play ball
Excluding those nursing injuries, all members of the class of 2016 on the baseball team have played baseball in summer collegiate leagues since the end of spring term.
Excluding those nursing injuries, all members of the class of 2016 on the baseball team have played baseball in summer collegiate leagues since the end of spring term.
Only one thing on God’s green Earth keeps us going: a burning desire to please our interim sports editor Joe Kind ’16, who blogs under the handle “Foco Joe” at our old stomping grounds, Dartbeat.
After a banner year for Big Green softball, both head coach Rachel Hanson and assistant coach Dorian Shaw will head to the West Coast to lead Stanford University’s team. Hanson’s four years as head coach culminated in the team’s 2014 Ivy League championship, which brought the team to the NCAA tournament for the first time in program history.
This week, The Dartmouth caught up with Janine Leger ’15, who finished a month-long trip biking trip across Spain this week. Leger rode in memory of her friend and former roommate Blaine Steinberg ’15, who died of a heart attack March 7.
Head coach Christopher “Topher” Bordeau’s contract was not renewed for the 2014-1015 men’s heavyweight crew season. He departs after eight seasons as head coach and nine with the team in total. The search for a new head coach is underway.
Softball head coach Rachel Hanson will not return for the 2014-2015 season after four seasons with the Big Green, athletics director Harry Sheehy said Thursday. Hanson led the team to its first-ever Ivy League Championship title this past season, and the team played in the NCAA Tournament for the first time.
The NCAA published new guidelines on concussion safety earlier this month that limit full-contact practices to twice per week during season and encourage transparency in the process of caring for injured players. Dartmouth football players reflected on their experiences with and opinions on concussions, and playing under safety regulations, in interviews Monday.
In this week's Riding the Pine, Hank and Fish weigh in on the "biggest boss" on the PGA Tour, Tiger Woods.
Wendy Bordeau will move from leading the women’s crew team to helping lead Dartmouth Athletics as senior associate athletic director by this August. After 16 years of coaching, nine as the head coach for the Big Green, she said athletics administration will be a new challenge.
This week, recent graduate and sailing standout Matt Wefer ’14 and his partner Jordan Factor are competing in Athens, Greece in the 470 European Championship.The Dartmouth caught up with Wefer via Skype to check in on the regatta and his training regimen as he and his partner pursue their goal to represent the U.S. in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
Despite what by all accounts was a humiliating afternoon, Hank and Fish walked away from the dodgeball wasteland with a wry smiles twisted across their faces. Chuckling to themselves, they knew they had pocketed yet another piece of precious click bait.
As nationwide institutions adapt to meet new NCAA policies on the provision of food to student-athletes, certifications for strength and conditioning coaches and penalties for street drug use, Dartmouth does not anticipate having to make major changes to ensure compliance. Approved by the NCAA’s legislative council in April, the new policies will take effect Aug. 1.
Henry and Joe offer their take on potential NBA offseason moves.
With the departures of assistant coaches Michael Bocklet and Tim McIntee, the men’s lacrosse program will be without its former coaching staff in the upcoming year.
This week, The Dartmouth chatted with Alex Mitola ’16, a standout point guard on the men’s basketball team. Recently named as a captain for the 2014-15 season alongside Gabas Maldunas ’15, the sharp-shooter, honored as team MVP for his performance last season, opened up about leadership, his goals for the summer and his desire to win an Ivy League championship.
Golf tee times at the Hanover Country Club, introduced as part of the Prouty for the first time last summer, will be available to nearly 100 more participants this year, said Rebecca Gray, senior program manager of the friends of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center. During this year’s Prouty — the 33rd annual — golfers will be able to tee off at the Club on Saturday as part of the cancer research fundraiser.
Men’s lacrosse coach Andy Towers will not lead the team next season, Dartmouth Athletics announced Wednesday.
The All-Americans dismantled the Cambridge Light Blues, concluding with a decisive 27-15 victory, but the second team of All-Americans finished on the wrong side of a hotly contested 35-32 match against Ontario.
Just as Andy Dufresne in “The Shawshank Redemption” climbed through a river of sewage and came out clean on the other side, so too have we, Hank and Fish, emerged from the dimly lit, figurative basement of The Dartmouth, Dartbeat, to its crown jewel, the sports section’s back page.
When Abbey D’Agostino ’14 scored Dartmouth’s only six points in the 2011 NCAA Women’s Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, there was no way to predict that, three short years later, five Big Green runners would qualify for Nationals.