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February 17, 2026 | Latest Issue
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02.01.10.sports.MBball_2
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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.


02.01.10.sports.WBball
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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.


01.29.10.sports.hockey
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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.


01.29.10.sports.track
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Big Green track teams head to Terrier Classic

Anna Gaissert / The Dartmouth Anna Gaissert / The Dartmouth After the men's squad delivered a win in its first Ivy League meet of the season last weekend, the Big Green track and field teams will split forces this weekend, traveling to Massachusetts for both the Terrier Classic at Boston University and the Harvard Multi Meet. The men posted a total of 87.5 points against Yale University and Columbia University on Saturday.


01.29.10.sports.bball
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Meyer '10 leads on and off court

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Jared Bookman / The Dartmouth Staff Jared Bookman / The Dartmouth Staff It is hard to watch a women's basketball game without noticing feisty and vocal co-captain Michelle Meyer '10.



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Rec League Legends

After last week's first-ever athletic defeat to Dartmouth track star Joe Tracy '12, the Rec League Legends iced their biceps, rebuilt their egos (by looking up their high school stats) and came back ready to take on the D-I establishment once more. All week, the Legends' inboxes were flooded with challenges from the top athletes in the Upper Valley.



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Panel discusses standards for appropriate fan behavior

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College President Jim Yong Kim discussed the message that fan behavior sends to non-students present at athletic events and considered ways to make the environment at these events more enjoyable, at the panel discussion on fan behavior Tuesday night. The panel comes as a reaction to a squash match in early December that drew national attention.


01.26.10.sports.swimming
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Swimming suffers winless weekend despite top diving finish

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Ben Gettinger / The Dartmouth Staff Ben Gettinger / The Dartmouth Staff Erica Serpico '12 earned first-place finishes in both the one-meter and three-meter dives for the fourth straight meet this weekend, but her success could not bring wins to Dartmouth's swimming and diving teams.


01.26.10.sports.tennis
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Men's, women's tennis teams open season with host of wins

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Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth tennis started the 2010 season on a winning note, with the women's team blanking Temple University by a score of 7-0 and the men's team defeating Temple, 6-1 and 5-2, and Sacred Heart University, 5-2. The men fought off early jitters Saturday morning, dropping the doubles point to Temple.


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A VIEW FROM THE TOP

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What a basketball game that was on Saturday night. I really hope that what we saw there was a true sign of improvement for the Big Green and not just a result of the Crimson's abysmal shooting from three-point range 11.8 percent.


01.25.10.sports.Whockey
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‘Fine-tunings' bring women's hockey win over Dutchmen

Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth women's hockey team unleashed an assault of shots on Rensselaer Polytechnic University and Union College this weekend, narrowly losing to the Engineers (10-10-5, 7-4-3 ECAC Hockey) before dominating the last-place Dutchmen (5-20-1, 1-12-1 ECAC Hockey). RPI scraped by with a late-period goal for a final score of 2-1. Deadlocked going into the final frame, the Engineers' Allison Wright skated through traffic in front of the net to tip in the eventual game-winning goal for RPI. This was the Engineers' first victory over Dartmouth (7-11-2, 5-9-1 ECAC Hockey) in their last ten meetings. The Big Green had no difficulty creating opportunities, as the team put 46 shots on netminder Sonja van der Bliek. RPI's freshman goalie remained solid in between the pipes, disrupting Dartmouth's offensive efforts, head coach Mark Hudak said. "Getting that many shots with just one goal is very frustrating," he said. Dartmouth fired 22 shots in the opening period alone, to no avail. Alyssa Boehm '11 netted the Big Green's sole point of the match on a breakaway late in the middle frame.


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Briefly Noted

Sophie Reiser, a former Columbia University women's soccer stand-out, was drafted by the Chicago Red Stars of the Women's Professional Soccer league with the fourth pick in the fifth round (No.


01.25.10.sports.vault
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Men's track defeats Ivy rivals, women's squad falls in third

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Zach ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Zach ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The Dartmouth men's track and field team pulled off a convincing win over fellow Ivy League competitors Yale University and Columbia University on Saturday, while the women came in third by a mere two points.



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Six Dartmouth skiers head to Worlds

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In what has now become routine for the Big Green, Dartmouth sent six skiers to the Black Forest in Hinterzarten, Germany, to compete in the Junior Nordic Worlds Championships, U-23 Nordic Worlds and Biathlon skiing competitions. The races begin today and end Sunday, Jan.



01.25.10.sports.Mhockey
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Men's hockey upsets No. 13 Union

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Ashley Mitchell / The Dartmouth Staff Ashley Mitchell / The Dartmouth Staff After giving up an early lead and falling 2-1 to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Friday, the Big Green men's hockey team achieved a major upset over No.