Women's track and field places sixth at Championships
Despite finishing sixth overall, the Dartmouth women's track and field team turned in some impressive performances at the 2010 Outdoor Ivy League Heptagonal Championships.
Despite finishing sixth overall, the Dartmouth women's track and field team turned in some impressive performances at the 2010 Outdoor Ivy League Heptagonal Championships.
Ashley Mitchell / The Dartmouth Staff Ashley Mitchell / The Dartmouth Staff Six years ago, the Dartmouth softball team finished in second-to-last place in the Ivy League for the second straight year and was in the midst of a coaching change.
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The Big Green football team joined up with DKMS Americas the largest bone marrow donor center in the world with over two million registered donors in hosting a bone marrow drive on Friday afternoon at Memorial Field.
Christopher Rhoades / The Dartmouth Staff Christopher Rhoades / The Dartmouth Staff The Big Green bats came alive in the final two games of the Ivy League Baseball Championship series against Columbia University as the baseball team won the Ivy League title for the second straight season.
Usually, this column is used to interview some of Dartmouth's most interesting athletes, but, after nearly instigating a Dartmouth baseball civil war between the pitchers and fielders, I figured I should change things up a bitthis week.
Anna Gaissert / The Dartmouth Staff Anna Gaissert / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth baseball team will compete in the Ivy League Championship Series for the third consecutive season this weekend in hopes of besting Columbia University and earning an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Dartmouth (23-15, 13-7 Ivy) qualified for the series by winning the regular season Red Rolfe division title and enters the series as the defending conference champion. Columbia (25-19, 14-6), meanwhile, returns to the Championship series for the first time since winning the overall title in 2008.
The Legends have already accomplished much in the wide world of athletics home runs in Little League, recruitment letters from various D-II colleges, 200+ (oz) bench presses and sub-5:00 miles.
Jennifer Argote / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Jennifer Argote / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The Dartmouth men's rugby team has begun training for the inaugural Rugby Sevens Collegiate Championship Invitational, which will take place at Columbus Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, from June 4-6. Sevens is a variation of traditional rugby that features only seven players on each side the usual number is 15 and two halves of seven minutes each.
Courtesy of the Associated Press Courtesy of the Associated Press Three months ago Andrew Weibrecht '09 was standing on a podium in Vancouver, Canada accepting the Olympic bronze medal for the Men's Super Giant "Super-G" Slalom competition.
The Dartmouth equestrian team finished its season on a high note, winning the Ivy League Championships, held two weekends ago, and placing third out of six at the Dartmouth Classic, held this past weekend at the Dartmouth Riding Center. In the Ivy League Championship held at the Dartmouth Riding Center, the Big Green topped Cornell University and Brown University, who placed second and third, respectively. The team swept first place in the entire open division and had six first place winners in 13 different shows overall.
After 30 years of coaching at Dartmouth, men's tennis head coach Chuck Kinyon is hanging up his hat and retiring. "It's just been great, every one of those 30 years," Kinyon said.
Last week, I chatted with a couple of Dartmouth baseball pitchers who made the bold claim that the members of the pitching squad are the best athletes on the field.
Anna Gaissert / The Dartmouth Staff Anna Gaissert / The Dartmouth Staff Anna Gaissert / The Dartmouth Staff Anna Gaissert / The Dartmouth Staff Behind a dominant performance from starter Kyle Hendricks '12 and six RBIs off the bat of Jason Brooks '11, the Dartmouth baseball team clinched its third consecutive Rolfe Division title with a 9-0 win over Harvard University on Senior Day.
Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff In their last regattas before the Eastern Sprints, the women's rowing team bested Cornell University, while the men's heavyweight team fell to the University of Wisconsin and the men's lightweight team lost a nail-biter to the Big Red. The women (12-2, 3-2 Ivy), who raced in Hanover, had one of their best races of the season, as Cornell is traditionally a solid team. "Every boat got faster, and that was pretty exciting," captain Sarah Alexander '10 said.
Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth men's lacrosse team suffered a heartbreaking loss at the hands of Brown University on Saturday, falling to the Bears in overtime, 10-9. If the Big Green (5-8, 2-4 Ivy) had won the game it would have made the Ivy League tournament as Harvard University lost to Yale University earlier in the day, giving Dartmouth a chance at a playoff berth. Head coach Andy Towers said the loss was disheartening because the team was improving. "It is disappointing for the season to end when we were peaking," he said.