Angie Hind named new head coach of women's soccer team
A new era in Big Green women's soccer began Monday with the official selection of Angie Hind as head coach.
A new era in Big Green women's soccer began Monday with the official selection of Angie Hind as head coach.
It was a landmark day for the women's tennis team Tuesday, as the new Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings not only saw the return of the Big Green to the national rankings, but also co-captains Jayme Ahmed '05 and Sarah McNally '05 garnered the No.
While the temperatures in Hanover dropped back below zero over the weekend, a few members of the sailing team were able to escape to sun and sailing in their first regatta of the spring season.
Dartmouth's women's squash team lived up to its own high expectations this weekend, taking fifth place at the Howe Cup, otherwise known as the women's national squash championships. The weekend tournament began on Friday as the women dropped a match to host Princeton, 8-1.
Dartmouth club hockey hosted its annual tournament, named after legendary defenseman and club founder Sasha Kraev '01, in November of last year.
The Dartmouth women's tennis team toppled No. 66 Boston College in an outstanding road performance Sunday afternoon to improve its record to 5-1.
With a loss that, according to Chris Snizek '05, "could prove to be the most important of the year as we head towards the playoffs," the Big Green fell out of fourth place in the ECACHL and, more importantly, lost control over its own destiny. The 6-2 collapse against Princeton (7-18-2, 5-14-1) forces Dartmouth to scoreboard-watch in the final weekend of the regular season and hope for a sweep of Brown and Harvard, as well as a Vermont loss.
In another heartbreakingly close weekend, the University of Vermont edged Dartmouth out of first place by an extremely narrow five points at the Williams Carnival.
Beginning a four game homestand, the Dartmouth men's basketball team (5-5, 8-15) finally seemed to have hit stride for the first time this season, garnering a .500 record during its defense of its home court.
Dartmouth women's basketball looked for a clean sweep this weekend. And they got it. In the last week, it has become apparent that the Big Green would be the team to beat this season and maybe next season, as well. "We knew it would be tough to win on the road, especially with the long bus trips, but we knew that we could get both games," Jeannie Cullen '06 said. While many teams disregarded Dartmouth's first-place ranking in the media preseason poll, the Big Green's wins over Cornell and Columbia this weekend attracted serious attention from fellow league rivals. Although the Big Red and the Lions aren't the real threats to Dartmouth's run for the League title, the Big Green's immaculate 9-0 record in Ivy play alarms runner-up teams, Harvard and Brown. This weekend's trip to New York was perhaps the most demanding test on Dartmouth.
This weekend, the Dartmouth Figure Skating Team took first place at the Boston University Intercollegiate Figure Skating Competition. Competing against teams from 10 other schools in the Eastern Conference, Big Green skaters blew away the field with 119 points.
Jayme Ahmed '05 Tennis Dartmouth tennis' senior co-captain Jayme Ahmed lived up to her title, coming through with two wins against nationally ranked Boston College.
Dartmouth made both games over the weekend too close for comfort, but in the end, the Big Green took two wins and reclaimed a share of the conference lead. On Friday night, Dartmouth (23-3, 16-2 ECACHL) came from behind and edged by Yale with a 3-2 victory in Thompson Arena.
Dartmouth women's basketball enters the second round of competition for the Ivy League title this weekend with a perfect 7-0 record against League squads.
As the college basketball season enters the madness that is March, the Big Green most likely will end up on the outside of the bracket.
When questioned as to the impact of the next several days on Dartmouth men's hockey, team co-captain Lee Stempniak '05 said it all: "This weekend is the most important of the season to this point." The Big Green will be looking to avenge an early-season shutout at the hands of Princeton when the team travels to the Garden State for a Friday night match up.
Leave it to Jose Canseco. The muscle-bound, steroid-using meathead now has another title to add to his lengthy resume -- whistleblower. We have been hearing rumblings of a tell-all book from Canseco for quite a while now, and until recently, the idea was laughed at.
Hot off a pair of wins against Brown University this weekend, the Dartmouth men's and women's squash teams are busy preparing to enter post-season play.
With the season on the brink of collapse, the National Hockey League faces a bleak future. Despite a core of exciting young players, viable rivalries and a devoted fan base, the NHL has precipitously fallen from the national spotlight.
As the men and women of Big Green track and field rolled into the Boston University Valentine's Invitational on Friday, uncertainty hovered ominously over their heads. Though both Dartmouth squads submitted impressive performances against rivals Columbia, Yale, Vermont and New Hampshire, the level of competition in these early match-ups paled in comparison to what they were sure to face over the weekend.