WUSA's Courage has a 'keeper' in Luckenbill '01
Call it a "Lucky" break. While Kristen Luckenbill '01 was the brick wall behind Dartmouth's women's soccer success in the late '90s, the Women's United Soccer Association did not exist.
Call it a "Lucky" break. While Kristen Luckenbill '01 was the brick wall behind Dartmouth's women's soccer success in the late '90s, the Women's United Soccer Association did not exist.
With the announcement of the Major League Baseball's All-Star Game rosters, America's true favorite pastime -- second-guessing the selections -- can begin in earnest.
After posting impressive victories on Wednesday and Thursday, all three Dartmouth crews were eliminated on Friday at the Henley Royal Regatta at Henley-on-Thames, England. The men's lightweight eight lost to Harvard in the quarterfinals of the Temple Cup.
As someone for whom going to class this term can best be described as a secondary activity, I've decided I should invest the mental energy normally directed to my primary reason for being at Dartmouth into what has overtaken academics in importance -- golf. I've been playing more than is healthy, seriously.
Following in the footsteps of such journalistic luminaries as Mike Wallace, Barbara Walters and Ed Bradley, The Dartmouth's Mark Sweeney catches up with the big names on campus and asks the questions that others have too much professionalism or integrity to ask.
Heavies take second place in the elite eight competition
The Dartmouth men's hockey team's star rookie forward, Hugh Jessiman '06, was selected 12th overall by the New York Rangers in the first round of the NHL draft on Saturday in Nashville, Tenn.
In a field of 16 coed pairs, Emily Chenel '04 and Andy Hunter '04 finished Sunday's Dartmouth Outing Club Challenge atop the podium.
The Dartmouth Formula Racing Team returned to Hanover earlier this week with an impressive 18th-place finish in the annual international Formula SAE competition. The race car is designed and built entirely by Dartmouth and Thayer School students, who handcraft almost everything in the car, including frame, suspension and bodywork. The competition is held at the Pontiac Silverdome outside of Detroit, and is sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers and the big three automotive companies: Ford Motor Company, General Motors and the DaimlerChrylser Corporation. This year was the 23rd annual running of the event and saw the largest and most competitive field to date.
Editor's Note: This is the third in a series of articles profiling former Dartmouth sports stars currently playing professionally. One might expect that after being the seventh player drafted in the 2003 Women's United Soccer Association Draft, Mary McVeigh '03 spent her winter term anticipating the excitement of her professional debut with the Philadelphia Charge. However, despite her status as a first-round draft pick, McVeigh seemed just as ready to return to Hanover for her senior spring to finish up her Dartmouth coursework as she was to embark on a professional soccer career. Now, though, as the spring term winds down in Hanover, McVeigh's rookie season with the Charge is in full swing.
The Dartmouth 4 x 800-meter relay broke the school record by nine seconds with a second-place finish of 8:44.32 at the joint ECAC/IC4A Track and Field Championship that concluded Sunday at Princeton Competing in the memorable 4 x 800 for the Big Green were Cecily Garber '03, Kersti Miller '02, Meaghan Olds '06 and Jessie Allen-Young '03.
Dartmouth women's crew placed seventh for the Willing Point Trophy at Sunday's EAWRC Sprints on the Cooper River in Camden, N.
In yet another impressive weekend of competition, the Dartmouth men's heavyweight crew defeated Syracuse for the Packard Cup at Onondaga Lake in New York on Sunday. With an unbroken streak dating back to 1991, this was the Big Green's 13th straight victory over the Orangemen at the Packard Cup. Syracuse fell victim to the Big Green's all-star boat in the first varsity competition.
Brad Ausmus '91 admits that his Houston Astros teammates like to joke about where he went to college and "make fun of the prototypical Ivy League student that you see in the movies: smoking a pipe, wearing a sweater vest." It is difficult, however, to hold a pipe while wearing a Gold Glove, and the former Dartmouth government major has one for each hand. For the last two years, Ausmus has won the Rawlings Gold Glove Award, becoming the first catcher in Houston history to receive the honor, and establishing his reputation as one of baseball's elite catchers.
The Dartmouth cyclists will be Division II omnium champions for another year after winning the national championships this past weekend in California.
With some athletes resting for next weekend's IC4A and ECAC Championships, several Dartmouth athletes competed this past weekend in the New England Championships.
Dartmouth men's heavyweight crew continued its unbelievable season with yet another impressive finish at last Sunday's Eastern Sprints Regatta on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass. For the first time since 1994, the first varsity boat medaled in the grand final, taking home the bronze in a time of 6:10.61.
The past two weeks have been filled with excitement for members of the Dartmouth Boxing Club. Saturday, May 3, marked the first return of a boxing event to the college campus since the early 1950s. 10 matches took place in front of a crowd of 300.
Big Green uses tough home victory to advance to the second round of the NCAA Tournament
The Dartmouth talked with Andrew Goldstein '05, Tom Daniels '04 and Brandon Wright '05 about the men's lacrosse team and the upcoming game against the defending champion Syracuse Orangemen. The Big Green is coming off its first Ivy League title since 1965 after defeating Harvard 5-4 last Friday night.