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The Dartmouth
April 12, 2026
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Romaniw '13 starts off strong in mid-distance

In his Dartmouth distance running beanie and oversized hockey jersey from high school, men's track and field team member Anthony Romaniw '13 carries his past with him even in his first track season as a Dartmouth student-athlete. Although Romaniw played hockey growing up in his native Canada, he is now fully dedicated to running, he said. "Track is a huge time commitment here, and if I'm not training I'm usually studying, eating or sleeping," he said.



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UNH defeats women's swimming

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Doug Gonzalez / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Doug Gonzalez / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Despite another stellar diving performance from Erica Serpico '12, the Dartmouth women's swimming and diving team lost a grueling dual meet to Granite-State rival University of New Hampshire, 173-127.


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Rec League Legends

It's Thursday and that means it's time to be Legendary. In this week's episode, the Rec League Legends take on Dartmouth women's squash player Julia Watson '12. Back-to-back defeats at the hands of D-I athletes left the Legends questioning their abilities and even left Katz wondering, "Would I even get recruited at Middlebury?" When Watson agreed to a battle of the sexes, the Legends regained their swagger.


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‘Calm, patient' Mello '12 earns time

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Christopher Rhoades / The Dartmouth Staff Christopher Rhoades / The Dartmouth Staff Growing up in Chicago, Big Green goaltender James Mello '12 was introduced to hockey by both his father and his next-door neighbor renowned goalie Ed Belfour, who ranks third all-time in the NHL with 484 wins. After starting two of the last three games for the Big Green, Mello is beginning to cultivate his own reputation and earn consistent time on the ice.


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Blackmun uses athletic, legal experience as Olympic CEO

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Former Dartmouth soccer goalkeeper Scott Blackmun '79 persues his passion for athletics off the field following an announcement earlier this month that he will serve as the new Chief Executive Officer of the United States Olympic Committee Board of Directors. Blackmun began his work with the USOC in the fall of 1992.


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Women's tennis remains undefeated, men split weekend

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Jared Bookman / The Dartmouth Staff Jared Bookman / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth women's tennis team remained undefeated this weekend with a tough road victory over long-time New England rival Boston College on Saturday and a dominating defeat of Army at home on Sunday.


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Men's, women's swim teams pick up two victories each

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Ben Gettinger / The Dartmouth Staff Ben Gettinger / The Dartmouth Staff The women's swimming and diving team notched its first win of the season this weekend when the Big Green men and women took on Boston College and the University of Maine in a two-day meet in Orono, Maine.


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Men's squash battles Bates for a win

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While the Dartmouth men's squash team brought home two victories from Maine on Sunday defeating Bates College and Bowdoin College the women fell to Stanford University, 6-3, on Sunday at Williams College. The Big Green men (8-5, 0-3 Ivy) began their doubleheader with a 6-3 win over Bates (17-6, 5-2 NESCAC). After an initial 3-2 Dartmouth deficit, the Bobcats and the Big Green battled it out in the last matches, with impressive wins from Chris Hanson '13 in the number one spot, who won in three games, and Michael Lewis '11 in the third spot. "The last four guys to go on court managed to win, which was huge for us," Brian O'Toole '12 said.


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At track meet, athletes post first-place finishes

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The Dartmouth men's and women's track and field teams saw strong performances at this weekend's Terrier Classic Invitational at Boston University, where five of the women captured personal records, while 11 men notched top-five finishes. The Big Green secured two first-place finishes, as women's co-captain Natalie Stoll '10 took first in the 500-meter run with a time of 1:14.54, while rookie Barret Folk '13 won the pole vault, clearing 4.71 meters. Stoll earned a personal record in the 500-meter, running the second fastest time in Dartmouth history. "I always had an idea of what I wanted to do and I just went out and did it," Stoll said.




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A View From The Top

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Talk of impending budget cuts is reaching a Super Bowl-like fever pitch heading into this weekend's Board of Trustees meeting, and the open letter to College President Jim Yong Kim and the Board, submitted this week by 75 professors, once again brought the athletic department to the forefront of the discussion ("Faculty protest layoffs in letter," Jan.


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Men's hockey suffers loss to Tigers

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Sophie Novack / The Dartmouth Staff Sophie Novack / The Dartmouth Staff Thompson Arena fell victim to a barrage of tennis balls when Doug Jones '12 potted Dartmouth's first goal in Saturday's 5-3 loss to Princeton University, one day after the Big Green (6-15, 4-10 ECAC Hockey) defeated Quinnipiac University, 4-3. Assisted by Evan Stephens '11 and Matt Reber '11 during a power play, Jones scored with just over two minutes remaining in the first period to tie the game against the Tigers (9-10-2, 5-8-1 ECAC Hockey) at 1-1. "The guys I was on the ice with made a good play to get the puck to me and it worked out from there," Jones said.


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ONE-ON-ONE: Dan Freeman

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I sat down with Dan Freeman '10 to talk about the final tennis season at Dartmouth for both him and head coach Chuck Kinyon. This fall you won both the Dartmouth and Harvard Invitationals.


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Winless in Ivies, men's basketball overwhelmed by Cornell

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Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff Coming off a close 62-58 loss to Harvard University last Saturday, the Dartmouth men's basketball team looked to parlay that momentum into victories as it hit the road to face Cornell University and Columbia University this weekend.


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A Parent's Support Makes All the Difference

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The music business has its groupies and the Twitter scene calls out to followers, but the biggest fans of Dartmouth sports are most commonly called devoted parents and there is no shortage of loyal athletes' parents making extraordinary efforts to attend as many of their children's Big Green sporting events as possible. Mary Alice Rippe, mother of Dartmouth swimmer Carolyn Rippe '10, attended and helped out at her daughter's meets throughout her childhood in Texas and still comes to her daughter's meets, despite the distance. "[Carolyn] has been active in [swimming] from a very young age," she said.


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Women's basketball ends six-game conference win streak

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Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff In its first home Ivy doubleheader of the season, the Dartmouth women's basketball team slipped past Cornell University, 55-53, Friday night before falling to title contender Columbia University, 72-59, Saturday. The split marked just the second time that Dartmouth (7-10, 2-1 Ivy) has lost to an Ivy opponent in the past year snapping the Big Green's six-game conference winning streak. "We almost had two weeks off, and it looked like it," head coach Chris Wielgus said. After the weekend action, the women's squad is now tied in third place in the league with Harvard University.


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Women's hockey defeats Eagles with four-goal comeback

Christopher Rhoades / The Dartmouth Staff Christopher Rhoades / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth women's hockey team shredded through Boston College's early two-goal lead with a four-goal surge in the second period to notch its second consecutive win on Wednesday. Five different players contributed to the 6-3 victory, including freshman blue-lineman Sasha Nanji '13, who picked up a pair of goals and an assist for a career-high three points on the night. The Big Green's (8-11-2, 5-9-1 ECAC Hockey) unrelenting pressure on BC (5-13-9,4-8-4 Hockey East) was a key factor in Dartmouth's triumphant comeback, head coach Mark Hudak said. "[The pressure] makes the other team panic and they start to worry too much about the puck, instead of the other players," he said.