Sports
The Dartmouth men's and women's swimming and diving teams, newly united under head coach Jim Wilson, will open the 2006-07 campaign this weekend with meets against Boston College, Columbia and Maine.
The Dartmouth women's team (DWSD), which finished seventh in the Ivy League last season, enters the season after enduring a few tumultuous months of uncertainly after last year's coach, Joann Brislin, resigned from her position to become the Big Green's assistant director for physical education.
The team took another hit when, barely two months after the College announced the hiring of Jerry Foley, the former Bucknell University head coach cited family reasons as his reason for retracting his commitment to Dartmouth.
Foley's decision came less than a month before the swimming season began and the College decided to name Wilson as the head coach for both the men's and women's programs.
"I think we have already overcome our biggest challenge after Jerry Foley resigned, which was the feeling of limbo of what is going to happen to DWSD," Elizabeth Mancuso '08 said.