Swimming wins weekend competition
The swim and dive teams swept the competition this weekend, with both the men and women coming in first at the annual Dartmouth Invitational held at the Upper Valley Aquatics Center in White River Junction.
The swim and dive teams swept the competition this weekend, with both the men and women coming in first at the annual Dartmouth Invitational held at the Upper Valley Aquatics Center in White River Junction.
The women’s ice hockey team gained a critical four points this weekend, defeating Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Union College, both in come-from-behind fashion. The team now enjoys a three-game winning streak, which started with a 4-2 win over Colgate University on Jan. 18. The 2-1 win against Rensselaer (10-13-2, 6-7-1 ECAC) marked the second time that Dartmouth (7-13-1, 6-8-1 ECAC) has beaten the Engineers this season. Union College (8-17-1, 3-11-0 ECAC) won the two teams’ earlier meeting this season, but the Big Green took Saturday’s game 4-3 after surmounting a third period deficit.
When Will Geoghegan ’14 crossed the finish line on Saturday at the Terrier Invitational at Boston University in 3:58.04, he crossed into the history books as well. The senior from Brunswick, Maine, ran the fastest mile in the nation this year, breaking Dartmouth and Ivy League records.
The men’s and women’s hockey teams face crucial ECAC games this weekend. The women (5-13-1, 4-8-1 ECAC) will play Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Union College, looking to pick up four points in the standings, while the men (3-13-3, 2-9-1 ECAC) square off against RPI on the road.
Basketball, captain Tyler Melville ’14 said, is in his blood.
Sasha Nanji ’13 is a former Big Green hockey player and will write a column every other week about her life post-Dartmouth as a professional hockey player in Canada.
As the women’s hockey team gears up for two major conference tilts this weekend against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Union College, all eyes will be on forward Lindsey Allen ’16, who leads Dartmouth in scoring with 15 points and 10 goals.
Note to readers (May 23, 2014): When The Dartmouth found thatJake Bayer '16 had fabricated a quotation, wedecided to remove his articles from our website.\n For a full statement, clickhere.
The women’s swimming and diving team lost a close home meet to the University of New Hampshire on Friday before defeating the University of Vermont soundly on the road in its Sunday matinee.
The gun went off, and Abbey D’Agostino ’14 shot to the front of the pack. Less then one lap in, she cleared the field, going on to win the women’s 1,000-meter race in 2:46.88, over seven seconds ahead of the second-place Columbia University runner. Overall, the Big Green women came in second in the Ivy League tri-meet Saturday at Leverone Field House, while the men easily took home first.
The men’s tennis team dominated on Saturday, handily defeating Bryant University and Villanova University in a morning-afternoon doubleheader. Both competitions ended 7-0, marking the second time in the past three seasons the Big Green has swept its opening weekend.
Note to readers (May 23, 2014): When The Dartmouth found thatJake Bayer '16 had fabricated a quotation, wedecided to remove his articles from our website.\n For a full statement, clickhere.
This weekend, the Big Green men (3-13-3, 2-9-1 ECAC) battled Colgate University and No. 12 Cornell University in two tough, physical matchups, losing 4-1 on Friday to the Raiders (11-9-3, 7-3-1 ECAC) before fighting to a draw on Saturday against the Big Red (9-4-4, 5-3-3 ECAC).
The women’s ice hockey team had an inconsistent weekend, falling to No. 2 Cornell University on Friday, then coming from behind to win against Colgate University on Saturday. The Big Green (5-13-1, 4-8-1 ECAC) was shut out against Cornell (14-2-3, 9-1-2 ECAC) 3-0. Dartmouth rallied from a one goal first period deficit to beat Colgate (5-17-2, 2-10-0 ECAC) 4-2 on Saturday.
The Big Green men’s and women’s basketball teams experienced mixed results this weekend, as the women (3-12, 0-1 Ivy) picked up their first road win against the New Jersey Institute of Technology, 48-45, and the men (7-8, 0-1 Ivy) fell 69-55 to St. John’s University. Both games marked the teams’ last outside the Ivy League this season.
At Dartmouth, where almost a quarter of the student body participates in a varsity sport, rumors of athletic pipelines and exclusive athletes-only information sessions are infinite. But is there any truth to them?
The men’s and women’s squash teams were both shut out by undefeated teams from Trinity College on Wednesday night in Hartford, Conn.
As the Big Green men’s basketball team travels to St. John’s University tomorrow, players are part of a long history of teams eagerly descending on New York City to play at the center of college hoops. But as I wrote in last week’s column, the relationship between college basketball and New York has been dramatically altered in a tragic way.
Dartmouth men’s hockey returns home for the first time since Dec. 30 with a two-game homestand against Colgate University on Friday and No. 12 Cornell University (8-4-3, 4-3-2 ECAC) on Saturday.
Returning to Ivy League competition, the men’s and women’s swim and dive teams struggled against the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University in New Haven, Conn. last weekend despite individual successes.