Women's hockey continues success
Natalie Cantave / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth women's hockey team continued its recent hot streak this weekend, taking down conference rival Colgate 3-2 before tying No.
Natalie Cantave / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth women's hockey team continued its recent hot streak this weekend, taking down conference rival Colgate 3-2 before tying No.
Coming off an eventful and snow-filled Winter Carnival, the Dartmouth ski team competed this past weekend at the Middlebury Carnival and placed second overall with 859 points, following the University of Vermont's 933 points and beating third-place Middlebury by nearly 100 points. The Big Green had a successful first day of alpine and Nordic races, finishing only 11 points behind Vermont.
Natalie Cantave / The Dartmouth Staff Despite missing several key upperclassmen, the No.
Mulin Xiong / The Dartmouth While each Big Green team has a unique policy for electing its leadership and dictating responsibilities, many captains have similar experiences in their roles. Whether they are juniors or seniors, co-captains or tri-captains, Big Green captains take pride in their position, are honored to be elected and work hard to help the team succeed. Typically, the entire team votes for the following year's captains when the season ends.
Zonia Moore / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth men's basketball team suffered a tough loss to Ivy League powerhouse Princeton University 73-55 on Friday night at Leede Arena, and while it seemed that Dartmouth would put the University of Pennsylvania in its place on Saturday, the Big Green struggled to overtake the Quakers at home. The Tigers (12-9, 5-2 Ivy) trampled the Big Green on Friday night, grabbing 14 more rebounds and 18 more points by the end of the game.
This week I sat down with Ailish Forfar '16 on the women's hockey team to discuss the season, her life in Canada and this winter's weather. How did it feel to receive consecutive Rookie of the Week honors and then be named ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Month? AF: It was pretty awesome to be recognized for something.
As I hope you've figured out by this point, life isn't fair. So it shouldn't surprise you that sports aren't fair, either. My high school soccer coach had a saying, "Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard." What's left unspoken is that, presuming talent doesn't stay up drinking all night before a game and actually has a desire to get better, talent will usually win.
Like a typical Dartmouth student, Dovydas Sakinis '16 spends most days attending classes and frequenting the library, but, for a few weeks each year, the Big Green tennis player represents Lithuania in the Davis Cup, one of international tennis's biggest stages. The Davis Cup brings together players from around the world to compete in three days of elimination rounds. "The Davis Cup is a lot of fun because a lot of people come out to watch," tennis co-captain Xander Centenari '13 said.
Zonia Moore / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth women's basketball team is now riding a four-game Ivy winning streak after suffering a 12-game losing skid during the regular season.
Natalie Cantave / The Dartmouth Staff The Big Green Hockey teams are going back to the basics for weekend games against Colgate University and Cornell University.
\n Natalie Cantave / The Dartmouth Staff \nNote to readers (May 23, 2014): When The Dartmouth found thatJake Bayer '16 had fabricated a quotation, wedecided to remove his articles from our website. For a full statement, clickhere.
Nordic skier Sam Tarling '13 has skied around the world, but one of his fondest career memories happened at Dartmouth carnival this past weekend.
Cecelia Shao / The Dartmouth Staff With the Class of 2013 taking their places on the starting blocks in Karl Michael Pool for the last time, both the men's and women's swimming and diving teams fell short of Columbia University in the Big Green's final dual meet of the season on Feb.
A few months ago, assistant women's soccer coach Brittany Cameron was cheering for the Big Green from the sidelines as the team won its last seven games in a row, posting the second-best winning percentage in school history.
Cecelia Shao / The Dartmouth Staff In a surprising turn of events, the Dartmouth men's and women's squash teams fell in their final matches of the season on Sunday when the No.
Full disclosure. It's 7 a.m. on Sunday morning and my playlist consists of Katy Perry, the Script, Jesse McCartney and the Lumineers. My Winter Carnival was out of control but in the best way possible.
Despite suffering a tough loss against Cornell University on Sunday, the Dartmouth men's basketball team pulled off a win in a nail-biter against Columbia University on Friday night, breaking their 24-game road losing streak in Ivy League play.
As you are now likely aware, the Baltimore Ravens won the Super Bowl last Sunday. Obviously, the game had a great effect on many people: Baltimore's legions of fans; Colin Kaepernick, who placed the final nail in Alex Smith's coffin; and Ray Lewis, who goes out as a champion after 17 seasons. There is one person, however, who is impacted by the Super Bowl more than anyone else, and it is the same guy every year the winning quarterback.
Natalie Cantave / The Dartmouth Staff On Friday night at Thompson Arena, the Dartmouth women's hockey team defeated Brown University by a score of 2-0.