Rugby continues early dominance
Doug Gonzalez / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The Dartmouth men's and women's rugby teams braved rain and wind this Saturday while playing against Ivy League teams at home on Brophy Field.
Doug Gonzalez / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The Dartmouth men's and women's rugby teams braved rain and wind this Saturday while playing against Ivy League teams at home on Brophy Field.
Dani Wang / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth women's soccer team had been searching for offense throughout the early part of its season, and for most of Saturday's game against Princeton University, it seemed the Big Green would again be left without a goalscorer.
Since beginning my Dartmouth career, radio stations back home have not intrigued me at all. The same songs are overplayed, and questionable artists get a ton of air time.
The Dartmouth women's volleyball team saw its five-game winning streak come to a sudden halt this weekend, as it lost two difficult games to Ivy League opponents.
Four first-half goals led the Dartmouth men's soccer team to a big win over defending Ivy League champions Princeton University on Saturday night at Burnham Field in the team's League home opener.
Dartmouth linebacker Luke Hussey '11 Th'12 was named a semifinalist for the 2011 National Football Foundation National Scholar-Athlete Award, IvyLeagueSports.com reported.
Facing over 100 teams and 390 competitors, the Dartmouth men and women's cross-country teams both placed eighth at the Paul Short Invitational on Friday, capturing 264 and 301 points, respectively. Ethan Shaw '12 clocked the highest Big Green time in the men's gold eight-kilometer race, finishing eighth in 24:19.
This week, I sat down with tennis player Xander Centenari '13 about his recent tournament win, his quirky health habits and the beginning of his first season as co-captain of his team. You recently won the A Draw at the 2011 USTA Billie Jean King NTC Men's College Invitational after upsetting the number-one seed.
Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Staff It wasn't pretty.
As the Dartmouth football team prepared to make history in its first-ever night game against the University of Pennsylvania, campus buzzed with excitement last week.
With its undefeated Ivy League record on the line and facing an unfamiliar playing surface, the Dartmouth field hockey team maintained its poise on Saturday afternoon, overcoming a one-point halftime deficit to defeat the University of Pennsylvania, 4-2. Penn (2-7, 1-2 Ivy) began the game with intensity, recording the first two shots of the contest.
This weekend constitutes a milestone for Dartmouth athletics. After 130 years and 1,132 games in daylight, the football team will play its first night game. Just imagine if you were dating someone at Dartmouth and you never once saw her at night.
Geoff Holman / The Dartmouth Staff Cole Sulser '12 was pitching his usually-excellent game last spring when he felt tightness in his right elbow.
Earlier this MLB season, an ugly incident transpired between veteran Yankees catcher Jorge Posada and his manager, Joe Girardi.
Jared Bookman / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth field hockey team's four-game winning streak came to a sudden halt on Wednesday afternoon, as the University of Vermont broke a tie in the last minute of the game to claim a 4-3 victory over the Big Green (6-3, 2-0 Ivy). Co-captain Kelly Hood '12 said the final result was disappointing given Dartmouth's relatively strong performance throughout the game. "The game was kind of frustrating," Hood said.
The Dartmouth women's golf team traveled to Princeton, N.J., last weekend, riding the momentum of a first-place finish in the Dartmouth Invitational.
Dani Wang / The Dartmouth Staff Had the first 20 seconds not counted, the match would have ended in a tie. Unfortunately for the Dartmouth women's soccer team, however, the Big Green fell to University of Massachusetts in the first play of their game, when UMass senior Julie Morrissey scored on a turnover in the defensive zone.
Nocholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff After a difficult preseason in which it won just two games, the Dartmouth women's soccer team lost its Ivy League opener in agonizing fashion on Sunday in Providence, R.I.
Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth sailing team placed well in five regattas this weekend, finishing first in two of the competitions.
I still have absolutely nothing to write about. It's been almost a year of me and this absurdly poor-titled column, and yet I still do not have much for you. As usual, I think about what people who get paid to write about sports usually write about at this time of year.