Men’s tennis continues Ivy success
Coming off of a pair of crucial Ivy League wins, including a dramatic third set tiebreaker, the men’s tennis team heads into the weekend with an opportunity to lock up its best Ivy finish in over a decade.
Coming off of a pair of crucial Ivy League wins, including a dramatic third set tiebreaker, the men’s tennis team heads into the weekend with an opportunity to lock up its best Ivy finish in over a decade.
During the indoor Dartmouth Relays, nestled between collegiate races, is a very special race: the Grafton County One-Lapper. The race, in which children take to the track, is one of the most uplifting things I’ve witnessed.
Followed every step of the way by its new unofficial mascot named Axel, a stuffed Dartmouth bear sent by a fan, the club figure skating team took third place at the U.S. Figure Skating Intercollegiate Team Championships last weekend in Adrian, Mich.
The Concato name doesn’t hang in the Baseball Hall of Fame. The family holds no Division I record and is represented by no athletes in the major leagues. In fact, when brothers Louis Concato ’14 and Mike Concato ’17 were born to two New York University-educated physicians, it seemed more likely that they would grow up to perform open heart surgery than open an inning on the mound.
Note to readers (May 23, 2014): When The Dartmouth found that Jake Bayer '16 had fabricated a quotation, we decided to remove his articles from our website. For a full statement, clickhere.
In the women’s lacrosse game Monday, Hofstra University’s goalie Kelsey Gregerson stopped two shots in the final 30 seconds to secure a 9-8 Pride (6-8) win. The Big Green (5-7, 2-3 Ivy) was done in by a 1-3 day in free position shots and 12 turnovers in its final non-conference game of the season.
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.
I walk to the locker room precisely three and a half hours before each game. And every time, my hands start to shake, and questions begin racing through my head: Is my team ready? Am I ready? How will the game turn out? Stress is probably a familiar emotion to most Dartmouth students. Picture students fumbling through notes to cram in a few last-minute equations before an exam, hearts pounding.
Well, loyal readers, it finally happened. The spring finally came and, with it, the best day of the year: “Sports Day.” During “Sports Day,” classes are canceled (because it’s always on a Saturday), social events are enjoyed (often on porches) and friends come together to cheer on Dartmouth sporting events and throw every chirp they can possibly imagine at opposing teams from lesser colleges and universities.
This week, I sat down with Robbie Anthony ’14, a center on the men’s rugby team and former wide receiver on the football team. Anthony transferred to Dartmouth after his freshman year at Clemson University and joined the rugby team after the Big Green’s football season ended with a win over Princeton University. Anthony recently helped the rugby team defeat Harvard University for the Ivy League Championship and his former squad in the Champions Cup.
The men’s lacrosse team (1-8, 0-4 Ivy) dropped its sixth consecutive game on Saturday, a 13-10 loss to No. 17 Princeton University. Last season, the team upset the Tigers 10-9, but this time around, the Tigers (7-4, 2-2 Ivy) came out firing, ripping 31 shots in the first half en route to 53 in the game.
With the fate of the season on the line, the Big Green baseball team stepped into Biondi Park for back-to-back doubleheaders this weekend against Red Rolfe Division leader Yale University (13-18, 6-6 Ivy), settling for a 3-1 split. The weekend series made one thing clear: the Big Green offense has broken free from its early season frustration and is looking for blood.
While many of Dartmouth’s almost 1,000 varsity student athletes were recruited to join their teams, a small percentage of those who represent the Big Green on the field, court, rink and water chose to join their respective teams after they arrive on campus. Walking onto a Division I varsity team is no easy task, and each team treats potential members a little differently.
After the women’s lacrosse team fell to the University of Pennsylvania 10-6 in a rematch of last year’s Ivy League tournament championship game, both players and coach had the team’s character in mind. With this loss, the Big Green drops to 5-6 on the season and 2-3 in Ivy play.
The softball team continued to roll through its competition, extending its win streak to 13 and maintaining a perfect 12-0 Ivy League record with a four-game weekend sweep of Yale University.
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.
Note to readers (May 23, 2014): When The Dartmouth found that Jake Bayer '16 had fabricated a quotation, we decided to remove his articles from our website. For a full statement, clickhere.
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.
The Big Green baseball team’s offense began to show signs of life this week in non-league, midweek victories. The wins follow a slow season opening in which Dartmouth struggled to display the strength with which it trampled the Red Rolfe Division last season.
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.