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Club fencing takes first national title

By Josh Koenig | April 10, 2014

In a first in College history, the Big Green men and women’s club fencing team won the U.S. Association of Collegiate Fencing Club’s national championship in Knoxville, Tenn., last weekend. Buoyed by strong performances across the board — including a first place finish in women’s foil and a second place finish in men’s epee — the Big Green fencers now answer to a new title: national champions.

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Pulse of the Sports World

By Daniel Bornstein | April 10, 2014

Since the National Labor Relations Board’s decision that Northwestern University’s football players are employees of the college and have the right to form a labor union, advocacy for collegiate student athletes has gained momentum. Many demands that are central to this movement appear to have little relevance to the scholarship-free Ivy League: compensation for players, scholarships that cover the full cost of tuition, funding for continued education and guaranteed retention of scholarships for athletes whose careers are ended due to injury. After all, treatment of student-athletes is on the national agenda largely because of the revenue-generating capacities of certain sports; the thinking has been that institutions gaining millions of dollars in lucrative television deals are obligated to the students whose performance enables such revenue.

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Equestrian team jumps rivals for Zone win, shot at national title

By Emma Willems | April 9, 2014

A weekend win at the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association Zone I New England Equitation Championships brought the Big Green equestrian team one step closer to the 2014 IHSA National Championships, the first time the team has qualified in its history as a varsity sport. Last weekend’s competition, held at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., matched Dartmouth against teams from Tufts University, Mount Holyoke and the University of Rhode Island. The team earned a spot in the 2014 IHSA National Championships, which will be held May 1-4 in Harrisburg, Pa.

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Tennis teams both beat Cornell, fall to Columbia over weekend

By Hayden Aldredge | April 8, 2014

The men’s and women’s tennis teams went 1-1 over a packed weekend, each defeating Cornell University and falling to Columbia University. The No. 40 men (14-5, 1-1 Ivy) hit the road for their matches, while the women (5-7, 1-1 Ivy) hosted the teams. The men beat the No. 52 Big Red (10-7, 0-3 Ivy) 4-2, before dropping the match against No. 17 Lions (16-1, 3-0 Ivy) 4-0. The women defeated Cornell (7-6, 0-3 Ivy) 6-1 at home on Friday, but fell 6-1 to No. 33 Columbia (14-2, 3-0) team on Saturday.

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Inside the Locker Room

My first piece of gear was a tank top designed by the team captain with “Dartmouth Squash” written on the front and “Caughey” written across the back. I was obsessed with it. As a walk-on, I was nervous about becoming part of the team, but with the tank I felt like I was officially a member.

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Track teams compete at Sam Howell

By Jordan Einhorn | April 7, 2014

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.

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Baseball falls in weekend doubleheader

By Gayne Kalustian | April 6, 2014

The Dartmouth baseball team hosted two of the League’s top teams this weekend — Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania — splitting the doubleheader against the Lions (11-15, 5-3 Ivy) and dropping both games against the Quakers (15-10, 8-0 Ivy). The sweep of the Big Green on Sunday represents the first time the team has been taken in a doubleheader since Biondi Park was built in 2009.

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Softball keeps rolling with four more Ivy wins

By Josh Schiefelbein | April 6, 2014

With two two-game sweeps. softball improved its Ivy League record 8-0 for the best start in the program’s history. The weekend closed with a 12-1 five-inning annihilation of the Ivy League’s defending champions, the University of Pennsylvania. Dartmouth worked on all cylinders, as the Big Green outscored Columbia and Penn by a combined 27-7 in the four games.

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Crew teams open spring season in three races across the Northeast

By Jehanna Axelrod | April 6, 2014

Dartmouth’s crew teams opened their spring race seasons this Saturday away from Hanover, with the women’s number one boat taking first place. The women drove to Boston to face University of Minnesota and Rutgers University, the men’s lightweight team trekked to Princeton, N.J. where it took on the University of Delaware and the men’s heavyweight team traveled to Overpeck Park, N.J. to compete against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the College of the Holy Cross and Columbia University in the Alumni Cup.

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Rec League Legends

It looks like spring has finally sprung here in Hanover. With warmer temperatures come two things: shorts and huge Dartmouth athletics home weekends. This past Saturday was one of those epic days where you can roll out of bed and go to games until you’re ready to get back into it. (Okay, we understand the first game was at noon, but lets be real, that’s when you roll out of bed, right?) These are the days Austin and I live for, right behind the day of the Granite League softball championship game and the final round of Masters.

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One-on-One

By Katie Jarrett | April 6, 2014

This week, I sat down with softball pitcher Kristen Rumley ’15, who has 11 wins on the year for the 18-13 Big Green. The Texas native leads the Ancient Eight in wins, strikeouts and saves. Rumley has 128 strikeouts in the early season, 51 clear of University of Pennsylvania junior Alexis Borden. After two two-game sweeps this weekend, the Big Green leads the Ivy League at 8-0. Last week, Rumley was awarded her second Ivy League Pitcher of the Week award of the season.

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The student-athlete question

By Josh Koenig | April 6, 2014

On March 26, as Dartmouth students trudged through lingering piles of snow on the third day of spring classes, student-athletes across the country had more than just the distant promise of better weather to celebrate. In Chicago, a regional director for the National Labor Relations Board ruled that football players at Northwestern University could be considered employees of the institution, giving them the right to unionize and bargain collectively — a landmark ruling for the college athletes’ rights movement.

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A View from the Woods

By Kelly Wood | April 3, 2014

Growing up, I always knew Dartmouth was a good school. My image was not characterized by the world-renowned faculty, unparalleled study abroad opportunities or alumni. I knew Dartmouth because of sports. I’m from Etna, 15 minutes east of campus — a townie, some would say. As the daughter of a sports reporter who covered the Big Green, I went to a lot of games. I mean, a lot of games. Now a senior and former Dartmouth athlete, I find myself reflecting on what it was like to grow up in the shadow of the College on the Hill.

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