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December 16, 2025 | Latest Issue
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Big Green rugby will compete in the national tournament come April.
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Men's rugby clinches spot in April national tournament

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Kasia Vincunas / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth rugby football club concluded its successful fall campaign with a second-place finish in the Northeast Final Four, clinching one of the two spots from the Northeast for the national tournament to be held in April.





The women's basketball team could not gain leads against Marist and the University of Maine, notching only 35 points in their home opener against Marist, the lowest-scoring match for the Big Green women since 1977.
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Big Green women's basketball falls to Maine and Marist

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Danny Gobaud / The Dartmouth Staff The young Dartmouth women's basketball team experienced some growing pains in their non-conference slate this past week, falling to perennial America East power the University of Maine 53-67 and dropping its home opener to a Sweet Sixteen team from last year's tournament, Marist, 35-71. The 35 points that the Big Green scored against the Red Foxes from Marist were the fewest tally for Dartmouth since 1977, when they lost 28-58 to Yale.




Dartmouth men's hockey was able to avoid being swept with a 3-3 tie against Colgate on Friday night.
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Men's hockey winless in weekend against ECACHL rivals

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Jennie Post / The Dartmouth Staff The Big Green experienced its first winless weekend of the year, tying against Colgate 3-3 on Friday night and falling 4-1 at the hands of Cornell on Saturday. Dartmouth (3-3-1, 2-3-1 ECACHL) now stands in fifth place in the ECAC Hockey standings, seven points behind league-leading Clarkson. On Friday, Colgate (4-6-2, 1-3-2 ECACHL) was able to draw first blood against the Big Green despite being outshot in the first period 16-7.



Men's and women's swimming and diving hope to improve this season after a very long dry spell.
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Swimmers look to close gap between academic, athletic showing

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Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth women's and men's swimming and diving -- the nation's top academic program according to a ranking of grade point averages collected by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America in August -- looks to perform as well in the water as in the classroom this season and to build on strides made last year towards becoming a winning program. The Dartmouth women's team (1-9, 0-7 Ivy) is coming off a season in which it set 10 school records.



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Big Green cross country finishes season in impressive form

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Big Green men's and women's cross country capped off frustrating seasons on Saturday with stellar performances in the NCAA Northeast Regional Meet. On the heels of a major letdown for both squads at the Ivy League Championship Heps race in late October, every single runner stepped up to finish the year with a bang.



Jenny Stone '10 and the Big Green women concluded a disappointing season with a spirited win over Brown.
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Women's soccer wins season finale

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Kawakahi Amina / The Dartmouth Staff Last Saturday, the Dartmouth women's soccer team (5-9-2, 3-3-1 Ivy) concluded a season of more downs than ups with a solid victory over the Brown University Bears 1-0. "Overall it was a pretty good game and we came out with the win," co-captain Annie Stanley '08 said.




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On Home Turf: A New Field for Big Green Soccer

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Big Green soccer has long been one of the most exciting sports to watch each fall. But the question for far too long among spectators has been, "Where the heck do I sit?" Up until this season, the home of Dartmouth men's and women's soccer was the un-glorious Chase Field, a low-tech, oft-overgrown playing surface that seemed little more than a natural clearing in the New Hampshire woods.


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