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Kevin Gibson, longtime women's golf head coach, resigns

By Caroline Buck | May 18, 2011

Kevin Gibson, who had served as the women's golf head coach for 14 seasons, resigned on Tuesday, according to a press release by Rick Bender, director of varsity athletic communications.

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Dong's Top 10 from Paris

May 17, 2011

While the sports scene in the United States is heating up as the NBA and NHL playoffs wind down to their final rounds, the sports world here in France is relative quiet at the moment.

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Crew teams look back on seasons

By Elisabeth Lubiak | May 17, 2011

NIK MEDRANO / The Dartmouth Staff After successful performances at the Eastern Sprints Championship last Sunday, all three crew teams reflected on their 2011 seasons and looked forward to competing at the National Championships. After the women's crew team's first varsity boat took third place at Sprints, the team was selected by the NCAA Division I Women's Rowing Committee on Tuesday as one of 16 teams that will compete at the NCAA Championships on May 27-29.

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Women's lacrosse reflects on feats

By Sid Sathe | May 16, 2011

Katharine Pujol / The Dartmouth Staff Although the Dartmouth women's lacrosse team saw its 2011 campaign end this weekend with a first-round loss in the NCAA tournament falling to eighth-ranked Albany University on Sunday, 10-7 the team had a tremendously successful season.

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Hollisto's World

By Chad Hollis | May 16, 2011

The end of the NCAA's spring athletic season ushers in a dead period for Dartmouth sports. Although the D-Plan creates an incredible amount of opportunities for students here, it is awful for Big Green fans.

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Shaw: One-On-One

By Sid Sathe | May 15, 2011

Balancing school work and the practice-and-play schedule of Division I athletics seems challenging enough, so I'm always in awe of double-varsity athletes.

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Crew teams earn top finishes at Eastern Sprints

By Priya Krishna | May 15, 2011

Eight proved to be the lucky number for the men's lightweight and women's crew teams' first varsity boats, whose octets took second and third, respectively, in the Grand Finals at the Eastern Sprints this past weekend.

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Women's Lacrosse loses in NCAAs

By Claire Monagan | May 15, 2011

In a rainy and dramatic opening round game of the NCAA women's lacrosse tournament, the University of Albany knocked Dartmouth out of the competition with a score of 10-7, ending the Big Green's captivating season and marking Dartmouth's first loss of the season on Scully-Fahey Field.

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Briefly Noted

By Stefanie Lazow | May 15, 2011

Princeton University's women's lacrosse team advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Championship on Saturday.

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Any Given Monday

By Liz Sullivan | May 15, 2011

A few years ago, before I joined the hordes of afternoon treadmill warriors, I was a real athlete on real teams.

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Track competes at Championships in final qualifying push

By Anthony Yifeng Zhao | May 15, 2011

The Dartmouth track and field teams faced top-tier East Coast competition at qualifying championships at Princeton University over the weekend.

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Through the Lens of Lentz

By Dan Lentz | May 12, 2011

Ever notice that Dartmouth has its own version of the NFL draft? Or even a fantasy league draft? No, you say? The new room draw system is an eerie combination of the two. Picking a room is like drafting a player, be it fantasy or real life.

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Crew prepares for Eastern Sprints

By Elisabeth Lubiak | May 12, 2011

Nik Medrano / The Dartmouth Staff Correction appended### All three of Dartmouth's crew teams will compete in the Eastern Sprints Championship one of the most highly anticipated regattas in the region this Sunday.

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Calendar changes affect fall athletics

By Caroline Buck | May 12, 2011

Many varsity sports teams in-season in the fall may be affected by the shifting dates of the new academic calendar, which in the 2012-2013 year will be altered so that Fall term begins a few days earlier and ends before Thanksgiving.

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Irving '11 excels as multifaceted contributor on and off field

By Lilly Maguire | May 11, 2011

Thrower David Irving '11 could be described as the track and field version of the Renaissance man.

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One year later, Sheehy's presence begins to show impact

By Maddie Garcia | May 11, 2011

Jon Odland / The Dartmouth When College President Jim Yong Kim announced in August that Harry Sheehy would become Dartmouth's eighth athletic director, Sheehy said he would "hit the ground running" and offered cautious optimism about the future of Big Green athletics.

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Dong's Top 10 From Paris

May 10, 2011

After spending the first half of Spring term on the Paris Foreign Study Program, I have witnessed several strange and often amusing events in this city of romance.

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Baseball looks to promising future

By Jonathan Gault | May 10, 2011

Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth baseball team entered the 2011 season with high expectations, returning much of the squad that won the team's second straight Ivy League championship in 2010.

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Sailing falters at Championships

By Will Lowry | May 9, 2011

Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth coed sailing team hosted the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association Team Racing Championships at the team's home venue, Lake Mascoma, this past weekend.

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Hollisto's World

By Chad Hollis | May 9, 2011

If I was forced to choose between being on the losing end of a humiliating defeat and being the recipient of a frontal lobe lobotomy, I would sign up for the surgery every time.