By Elizabeth SullivanThe Dartmouth Senior Staff Sometimes the chase just isn't satisfying.
I realize I have made disparaging remarks about many Dartmouth sports in the past few weeks.
Spring in Hanover typically includes afternoons spent lying on the Green, swimming in the Connecticut River and, for many students, taking advantage of good weather by staying physically active outdoors.
Alexi Surtees / The Dartmouth Staff Even though the snow and ice have melted away, Dartmouth winter athletes are working hard to stay in peak physical condition to succeed when the cold weather rolls back around next winter. The men's hockey team took a short reprieve after a successful season, returning to practice in the second week of Spring term after a three-week hiatus. "Three weeks is definitely a good thing for people to recharge mentally and physically," team member Doug Jones '12 said. Despite the absence of competition, the team works out four days a week. "We lift Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, we do plyometrics on Tuesday and we do off-ice skills on Thursday," Jones said. The removal of ice from Thompson Arena eliminates the team's ability to practice in the arena during the spring, but the Big Green manages by focusing on other aspects of training until the ice is reset in the fall.
KATHARINE PUJOL / The Dartmouth Staff When Greta Meyer '11 joined the women's lacrosse team as a freshman before the 2008 season, the Big Green squad was in the process of rebuilding.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Princeton University's women's lacrosse team advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Championship on Saturday.
A few years ago, before I joined the hordes of afternoon treadmill warriors, I was a real athlete on real teams.
The Dartmouth track and field teams faced top-tier East Coast competition at qualifying championships at Princeton University over the weekend.
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.
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.
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.
Thrower David Irving '11 could be described as the track and field version of the Renaissance man.