Hanks brings spirit to basketball
She slouched down in the chair and draped her leg over the side casually. Could this really be the same woman that had ripped Yale apart mercilessly for 13 points in the first half less than a week ago? In an age where extreme competitiveness drives athletes to compulsive gambling and fatal car crashes, one is surprised to see such an intense basketball player on the court such as Katherine "Kat" Hanks '03 display such an easy-going attitude as she did when she sat down for an interview last week. It's hard to believe that someone who in her spare time prefers "to do nothing" would play such an integral role on this year's women's basketball team. Though only a freshman, Hanks is the team's starting center and leads the team with 15.8 points per game and with 18 blocks, and is second on the team with 6.6 rebounds per game (6.6). What's really astonishing, however, is that she has never been known as a big scorer and she didn't even play center until she came to Dartmouth. "This is something totally new," Hanks said.