KARR'S CHRONICLES: Kim the Athlete?
It is a time of astounding change at Dartmouth College in nearly all realms. The announcement of Jim Yong Kim as the College's 17th President marks a new era for Dartmouth.
It is a time of astounding change at Dartmouth College in nearly all realms. The announcement of Jim Yong Kim as the College's 17th President marks a new era for Dartmouth.
The Dartmouth Despite frosty weather in Hanover, the softball team was hot this weekend, opening its season with a 3-2 record in the Florida Gulf Coast Tournament in Fort Myers, Fla. The Big Green won their first three games before dropping the final two to the tournament's host Florida Gulf Coast University (19-4, 0-0 Atlantic Sun) in two high-scoring affairs. The key to the Big Green's success was coordinated offensive power, according to co-captain Ashley Gleason '09. "The entire lineup was batting well, and we helped each other out," she said. Dartmouth scored nine runs against FGCU on the weekend.
DOUG GONZALEZ / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth women's tennis team ended its indoor season over the weekend with wins against Quinnipiac University, Wellesley College and Temple University.
Courtesy of Lincoln Benedict Dartmouth's ski team finished off an undefeated season this weekend at the Colby Carnival, trouncing its competition with a season high 961.5 points and producing its biggest lead ahead of second place finishers the University of Vermont.
BEN GETTINGER / The Dartmouth Staff WOMEN'S GOLF After finishing ninth out of 17 teams at the ECAC Championships in the fall, the Big Green women's golf team is gearing up for it s spring season. Co-captains Lauren Strickler '09 and Tory Sheppard '09 are two of the team's most successful golfers.
BEN GETTINGER / The Dartmouth Staff Did you know how cold it was on Sunday?
The Dartmouth Writer's Note: This is the seventh part in an ongoing series of Michael Knapp dominating Jordan Rose in debates on the topic of Dartmouth sports. Unable to think of a topic this week, Jordan and I turned to our good friend Adam for advice.
SAM RAUCH / The Dartmouth Staff One night after the traditional tennis-ball-throwing frenzy at the men's hockey team's 2-0 victory against No.
SAM RAUCH / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth women's basketball team suffered its first Ivy League loss of the season Friday, falling to Cornell 66-61 in overtime in Ithaca, N.Y.
ANDREW FOUST / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth men's basketball team fell to Cornell Friday night 75-57, delivering a major blow to the Big Green's postseason chances. The loss to Cornell dropped the Big Green to three games back in the Ivy League standings with three games left in the season.
The Dartmouth women's hockey team beat Colgate University in a best-of-three series this weekend to advance to the ECAC Hockey semifinals.
"Fifty years. That's all you need to know." Those were the words of Dartmouth men's basketball captain Jarrett Mathis '09 when I posed the question to him that my editors asked me to ttake on in this column.
Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff I've made a terrible mistake.
Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth men's and women's basketball teams toward the end of their respective campaigns with high spirits and high expectations.
The Dartmouth With seven individual players scoring goals, the No.
Dartmouth Athletic Director Josie Harper said that recent budget cuts and a fall in donations has led the department to eliminate the positions of assistant ticket manager and coordinator for the fitness center, and implement an immediate salary freeze consistant with a College-wide plan. The athletic department's losses are different than those of other departments, because of the department's array of income resources, Harper said. She explained that since so much of the department's money comes from the Friends of Dartmouth Athletics funds and other alumni donations, the department has suffered a loss from multiple angles. "All of our soft money, or Friend money, is down, as well as our endowment," Harper said. Harper would not comment on the exact percentage that has been cut from the budget thus far, but she said that further cuts will be forthcoming as donations to the department continue to wane. "Right now we're bringing in 25 percent less in donations," she said. Members of the athletic department have been working hard to rework expenditures, Harper said. Harper explained that currently, the department is looking at cutting the budget in every way possible.
This is my favorite time of the year -- when February turns to March. The coming of March means two things this year: (1) A new U2 album on March 3, and (2) the official beginning of March Madness, the always-shocking, ever-glorious college basketball tournament that is one of the greatest sporting events in the country.
Dartmouth's varsity tennis teams will not be the only ones with a shot at national recognition this spring, as the Dartmouth club tennis team has earned a bid to the United States Tennis Association's National Campus Championship this April in Surprise, Ariz. After winning the New England Campus Championship on Saturday, the coed team earned an automatic place in the national championships, where it will square off with the likes of the University of Michigan and the defending champion University of Texas. The team, comprised of three men and three women, will be led by James Francis '10 as it prepares for the club's nationals debut. "It is definitely exciting, because the club has not even played in a regional before, and now we're going to the championships," singles player Maggie Bell '10 said.