Hanbury passes puck to victory for Big Green club hockey
The lights grew dim and Thompson Arena's sold out crowd hushed as U2's "Where the Streets Have No Name" began to gradually crescendo in the mind of every spectator present.
The lights grew dim and Thompson Arena's sold out crowd hushed as U2's "Where the Streets Have No Name" began to gradually crescendo in the mind of every spectator present.
In the words of Big Green men's team captain Tyler Haney '03 "things have come full circle" and for the first time since his freshman winter, the Indoor Heptagonal Championships return to the comfortable confines of Nathaniel Leverone Field House here in Hanover. For the uninformed, Heptagonal Championships include the Ancient Eight as well as the U.S.
The sun has set on the 2002-2003 squash season, and although both Dartmouth teams might have had higher aspirations for their championship play, each squad finished the year with impressive records and national recognition. During the weekend of February 14-16, the lady squashers found themselves gunning for a national championship at the annual Howe Cup held at Yale.
In a ceremony held last weekend at Princeton University, Chuck Kinyon, head coach of the Dartmouth men's tennis team, was formally inducted into the National Intercollegiate Squash Racquets Association Hall of Fame. "I am very honored and proud to be inducted into the Intercollegiate Hall of Fame," Kinyon said.
By now, it should come as no surprise that the Big Green men's hockey team enjoys playing in Thompson Arena, where only three opponents have been able to beat Dartmouth all season long, and where some of the finest hockey programs in the country, including No.
A new season gets underway for the Dartmouth women's lacrosse team this Saturday afternoon at Scully-Fahey Field, as the University of New Hampshire Wildcats pay a visit to Hanover for a 1 p.m.
Led by Jamil Batcha '06's one assist, the Dartmouth club hockey team stormed past the Colby-Sawyer Chargers Sunday, winning 13-2 in front of a large and raucous crowd.
The Dartmouth men's volleyball team wrapped up divisional play over the weekend by capturing the New England Collegiate Volleyball League's western division title.
The Dartmouth athletic department may be handing out free towels to the first 100 students at Leede Arena this weekend, but it's not because anyone on the Big Green roster is sweating this weekend's matchups against Princeton and Pennsylvania.
Last Saturday, the Dartmouth Figure Skating team won second place at the Cornell University meet moving into a tie in the in eastern standings for first place along with the University of Delaware and Cornell.
The last home weekend for the Dartmouth men's hockey team is a crucial one as the team positions itself for the postseason against two of its toughest Ivy League and ECAC opponents, Harvard and Brown. In this year's format, every ECAC squad will make the playoffs with the following breakdown: the top four teams receive a bye into the second round, while five through eight play on home ice against nine through 12 in the first round. The Big Green (14-10-1, 10-8-0 ECAC) is stuck in a bottleneck at the fourth slot entering this weekend.
With only four games left in the regular season, the Big Green will travel to Erie, Penn. this weekend to face the ninth-ranked Lakers from Mercyhurst.
For any skater on a hockey team, the first goal of the season is a thrill. It represents a milestone in the season, and with any luck, the beginning of something bigger.
As the dust settled in Alumni gym in the early afternoon of Saturday, Feb. 8, the 2003 Dartmouth Men's Volleyball Team had a lot to be proud of.
Despite the inescapable pull of the most Hallmark of holidays, both the men's and women's track teams were able to pull themselves away from Hanover to compete in the Valentine Classic hosted by Boston University.
The Golden Age of Dartmouth club hockey stumbled, fell on its face and broke its nose Friday night as the longest winning streak in team history came to a heartbreaking end at the hands of the Babson Beaver club team.
Since opening the Ivy League season on Jan. 4 in Cambridge, the Big Green men's basketball team has sent a youthful lineup, containing only four upperclassmen, onto courts from Providence to Philadelphia.
The friendly confines of Thompson Arena will be a welcome sight to the men's hockey squad this weekend when they take the ice this weekend.
They had me worried there for a while. After starting the much anticipated season 5-1, the Dartmouth women's basketball team went into an impressive slump, dropping eight of the next nine games, a five-game losing streak included. In what was supposed to be a "Return-to-Greatness" season for the Big Green, it seemed that, for the first time in the school's history, the team would suffer its third consecutive season with a losing record. Following a 74-60 loss to Providence College on Jan.
Last Saturday, Dartmouth Women's Swimming and Diving fell to the Columbia Lions, 175-119, at Columbia's Uris Pool.