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Coed club tennis team earns bid to National Championship
By
Manisha Apte
| February 24, 2009
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.
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Men's squash crushed at nationals, women fall to Brown
February 24, 2009
BEN GETTINGER / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth men's squash team capped off a tough season with a last-place finish at the College Squash Association National Team Championships last weekend. The national competition, hosted by Princeton, pitted the top eight ranked collegiate teams in the country against each other in a three-round, single-elimination tournament that spanned the entire weekend. The Big Green men entered the contest ranked eighth nationally. Dartmouth (12-10, 1-5 Ivy) ended up bowing out to No.
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Toe to Toe: Knapp versus Rose (Rose)
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Jordan Rose
| February 23, 2009
People used to ask me during job interviews, "Oh, so you're a senior; are you excited to graduate?" What a silly question, I would think to myself: Of course I'm not excited to graduate.
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Toe to Toe: Knapp versus Rose (Knapp)
By
Michael Knapp
| February 23, 2009
EMILY van GEMEREN / The Dartmouth Staff This column should be renamed Toe-to-Toe: Knapp Owns Rose.
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Women's hockey comes up short despite thrilling effort
By
Arik Clausner
| February 23, 2009
The No. 8 Dartmouth women's hockey team mounted two comebacks this weekend, scoring four goals in the final period for a thrilling tie against Clarkson University before falling to St.
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Men's hockey posts big losses, holds fourth place in ECAC
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Stefanie Lazow
| February 23, 2009
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Skiing edges out UVM to win fifth consecutive carnival
By
Manisha Apte
| February 23, 2009
After maintaining a slim four-point lead after the first day of racing, Dartmouth's ski team pulled through to clinch its narrowest victory yet at the Middlebury Carnival this weekend.
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Women's basketball extends winning streak to 11
February 23, 2009
Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The Dartmouth women's basketball team beat both the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton over the weekend, extending its winning streak to 11 games. The Big Green (14-9, 9-0 Ivy) beat Penn 55-36 on Friday and Princeton 43-42 on Saturday. The Big Green warded off a strong second-half performance from the Tigers (9-14, 4-5 Ivy) to complete the weekend sweep.
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Weekend sweep keeps league title within reach
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David Jiang
| February 23, 2009
Marina Agapakis / The Dartmouth Staff A historic weekend has helped keep the Dartmouth men's basketball team's slim postseason hopes alive. On Friday night, the Big Green (8-16, 6-4 Ivy) defeated the University of Pennsylvania, 69-59, for the team's first season sweep of Penn (8-15, 4-5 Ivy) in 50 years, and its first victory at the The Palestra in 12 years.
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Dartmouth celebrates women's athletics
February 23, 2009
Basketball has always been a family affair for Darcy Rose '09, co-captain of Dartmouth's women's basketball team. "I grew up surrounded by brothers, so I always had someone to practice with," she said.
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Tennis teams send 'tweets' to connect with parents, fans
By
Alix Peabody
| February 20, 2009
ANDREW FOUST / The Dartmouth Staff Recently, the men's and women's tennis teams began providing match progress and results online to parents, fans and team alumni with the online tool "Twitter." Twitter is a social-networking website that consists of user's micro-blogs, similar to a Facebook status.
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KARR'S CHRONICLES: The Fall of Cornell
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Ryan Karr
| February 19, 2009
Several weeks ago, I received some criticism from Cornell students and fans when I claimed that basketball is the only thing that Cornell currently does better at than Dartmouth.
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Three hockey players vie for award
February 19, 2009
EMILY van GEMEREN / The Dartmouth The three leading scorers on the Big Green women's hockey team were nominated Sunday for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, given annually to the top player in NCAA Division I women's ice hockey. Maggie Kennedy '09, Jenna Cunningham '10 and Amanda Trunzo '11 are among 43 players in the nation nominated for the 2009 Kazmaier Award, which is presented by the USA Hockey Foundation. The award is named in honor of the late Patty Kazmaier, a defenseman for Princeton from 1981-1986 and an All-Ivy selection.
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Ski jump built by DOC founder reopens after renovations
February 18, 2009
Courtesy of HarrisHillSkiJump.org This past weekend, the 85th annual Harris Hill Ski Jumping Competition was held at Harris Hill in Brattleboro, V.T., approximately 67 miles from Hanover.
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Serpico '12 springs to success on the women's diving team
By
Alix Peabody
| February 17, 2009
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Track racks up qualifying times at Valentine's Invitational
By
Rachel Eggleston
| February 17, 2009
Larissa Cespedes / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth men's and women's track and field teams headed to Boston this past weekend as the track teams competed in the Valentine's Invitational at Boston University and the field teams at the Coed Invitational at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Go! Fight! Win!: The evolution of cheerleading at Dartmouth
February 16, 2009
Performing synchronized dance moves and hoisting up members in one-man stunts, the Dartmouth cheerleading squad has become a staple at home football and basketball games. Despite their strong showings this year, some students today still see the cheerleaders as a side show to the actual game. Up until the last few decades, however, cheerleaders at Dartmouth played a large role in bolstering the Big Green's reputation. In the past, selected sons, and later daughters, of Dartmouth directed the cheers of the undergraduate body at sporting events, representing the Big Green at home and away. Appointed first through popular election by the classes during the first quarter of the 20th century and then through tryout, Dartmouth's cheerleaders embodied the best spirit the College had to offer. By their prominence, the students were counted on to arouse enthusiasm that was at times lacking during games. The squad members used any means possible to stir up a response from the audience, from traditional chants and fight songs, to synchronized acrobatics along the field. They sometimes donned stereotypical Native American costumes during critical football games, a practice suspended in 1969 with the College's decision to discontinue use of the "Indian" symbol. The Big Green cheerleaders undertook a year-round effort to assure that Dartmouth spirit lived on. Off the field, the cheerleaders instilled enthusiasm in the freshmen, hosting rallies prior to athletic events in the fall. The College also entrusted the squad with the teaching of the traditional chants to the incoming classes. Linda Gridley '82 said that during her time as a cheerleader at Dartmouth, the squad was known for its unique, spontaneous and often humorous attempts at getting the crowd on its feet and bringing out Big Green spirit. The squad prided itself on periodically wearing outrageous and colorful outfits that drew laughs from the crowds, she said. "We did a lot more of stuff that would be considered illegal now-a-days," she said.