One on One
I decided to stick with the interview welfare theme this week, and talked to Erik Storck '07, one of the nation's top sailors.
I decided to stick with the interview welfare theme this week, and talked to Erik Storck '07, one of the nation's top sailors.
Led by numerous strong individual performances, Dartmouth equestrian narrowly missed upsetting home team Vermont on Saturday, finishing only one point behind their regional rival.
Two Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Hockey League (ECACHL) titles in the last five years; four NCAA Frozen Four appearance in a half decade; four former Olympians, including three from the gold-medal winning Canadian women's hockey team at the 2008 Olympic Winter Games in Torino, Italy; two preseason All-League selections; the top-ranked team in the Ivy League and ECACHL preseason polls; and to top it all off, a No.
Emma Haberman / The Dartmouth Senior Staff It's tough to defend someone who was supposed to be Troy Smith.
EMI ITO / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth men's soccer team seems to be back on winning terms after a disappointing start of the season.
Dartmouth women's volleyball extended its winning streak to five games on Friday against Brown before falling to Yale on Saturday of Homecoming. Homecoming excitement seemed to spur the women on, as Dartmouth (9-7, 3-3 Ivy) made a habit of jumping out to early leads over the weekend.
It was 7:30 p.m. on Friday night. Walking with my girlfriend, Jeannie, to Food Court from her dorm room in the Choates (she's a UGA, I swear), we could tell there was something unusual in the air other than the pleasant briskness of a fall evening at Dartmouth.
Memorial Field has traditionally been the first, and oftentimes only, stop for a Big Green sports fan on homecoming weekend.
The Dartmouth The Homecoming football game this year will be a competitive match between Dartmouth and Holy Cross, the current leading team within the Patriot League.
The men's club rugby team will rival Harvard University's team on Saturday in the second of only two home games all season. The Homecoming game against Harvard holds a lot of weight for the team according to Paul Huelskamp '06, a member of the team.
Members of the Dartmouth Big Green Football team, invoking their 2006 motto "Bringing it Back," hope to defeat Holy Cross at the Homecoming game Saturday. Seniors on the team want their final Homecoming game to end with a victory. "Really, we just want a win," Joe Gibalski '07, a linebacker for Big Green, said. Football games, now a staple of Homecoming weekend at Dartmouth, once had a less prominent role.
Jennifer Wang / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth women's tennis team posted solid team results at the highly competitive USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center College Tennis Invitational in Flushing Meadows, N.Y.
Asafu Suzuki / The Dartmouth Staff Despite some strong play in the latter half of regulation, the Dartmouth field hockey team suffered a tough loss Monday evening, falling to Holy Cross 2-1 in overtime at Scully-Fahey field. During the seven-on-seven overtime frame, the Crusaders (10-3) held the ball in the Big Green end before Tara Welch picked up a ball in front of the cage in the 18th minute and fired her 12th shot of the contest past a diving Ashley Heist '08 to secure a Holy Cross victory. The game was played evenly for the first 70 minutes, but the stalemate was due more to a lack of execution on the part of both squads, especially in the first half.
EMI ITO / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth men's soccer team (3-5-3, 1-1-1 Ivy) finally managed to break its recent unlucky spell and record a win, its first in the Ivy League and third of the season, after downing Yale 1-0 in an overtime contest at Chase Field on Sunday. The Big Green ended a three-game losing and a four-game winless streak.
After a strong third place showing at home in the Dartmouth Invitational held at the Hanover Country Club, the men's golf team hit a road bump this weekend at the MacDonald Cup, held at The Course at Yale in New Haven, Conn. The Big Green finished in 10th place out of a field of 17 teams with an overall team score of 945 in a rare three-day tournament.
This weekend spread the Big Green sailors from the murky waters of Boston to the beautiful shores of Annapolis, testing the team's grit and drive in a mix of big breeze and light wind. Dartmouth sent a veteran team of Kate Hacker '07, Killarney Loufek '07, Betsy Bryant '08, Andrew Loe '06, Erik Storck '07 and Ben Sampson '08 to the Coast Guard Academy for the Hap Moore Team Race. Dartmouth's experience paid off, as the Big Green finished with 13 wins and three losses, good for second in a field of 12 of the nation's best teams.
The Big Green's top runners were resting this past weekend, revealing a glimpse into the bright future of Dartmouth cross country.
Men's diver Andrew Berry '08, Ivy League finalist, sits down with The D's resident Big Green sports enthusiast for a chat about coaching changes and abs.