Sports

Brendan Barry staying at Dartmouth after considering graduate transfer

By Devan Fink | April 7, 2020

Brendan Barry ’20 is coming back. Rather than complete his fourth and final year of NCAA eligibility as a graduate transfer elsewhere, Barry announced to the team last week that he is taking this term off, delaying his graduation and returning to Dartmouth as a fifth-year senior in order to continue suiting up for Big Green basketball.

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Ski team faces abrupt conclusion to NCAA skiing championships

By Caitlyn McGovern | April 7, 2020

After an exciting season, the Dartmouth ski team headed to Bozeman, Mont., to compete in the NCAA Championships, hosted by Montana State University, from March 11 through March 14.

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Women's basketball team looks to grow from challenging season

By Boyd Bragg | April 7, 2020

Dartmouth started the 2019-2020 season projected to finish sixth in the Ivy League standings, and it ended there too.

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Men’s basketball improves but comes up short in up-and-down season

By Devan Fink | April 3, 2020

This season, the typical Dartmouth basketball game went something like this: a hot start, a struggle in the middle, a furious comeback, a close loss. It is only fitting that the team’s season would follow the same arc. 

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Sports

Tennis teams’ strong starts halted by season cancellation

By Matt Krivan and Ethan Strauss | April 3, 2020

On March 11, the Ivy League canceled all spring sports in response to the rapidly escalating COVID-19 pandemic. For the Dartmouth men’s and women’s tennis teams, this announcement came during the season’s crescendo, as conference play and the postseason were just about to begin.

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Sports

Thinking About Sports: The Future Ain’t What it Used to Be

By Alex Fredman | April 3, 2020

Last week, my dad and I started watching “Baseball,” Ken Burns’ great documentary series telling the long and rich story of America’s national pastime.

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Student athletes grapple with loss of spring season

By Lili Stern and Anna May Mott | March 31, 2020

When Kipling Weisel ’18 arrived in Bozeman, Mont. earlier this month, he was ready to compete in an NCAA skiing championship for the last time in a Dartmouth ski suit.

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Co-Ivy Player of the Year O'Connor signs with Pittsburgh Penguins

By Olivia Morton | March 31, 2020

As the sports world shuts down across the country due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the success of Drew O'Connor ’22 provides some positive news for Dartmouth athletics.

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Sports

From the Bleachers: Brady Bucs On

By Baily Deeter | March 31, 2020

In my February 24 column, I complained about the lack of exciting sporting events this time of year as I pondered hobbies to pass the time. Little did I know that March was about to take that one step further.

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Sports

Q&A with athletics director Harry Sheehy on spring sports cancellations

By Justin Kramer and Addison Dick | March 12, 2020

The Dartmouth sat down with athletics director Harry Sheehy Thursday morning for an extended interview about the Ivy League’s cancellation of spring sports and its ramifications.

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Ivy League cancels all spring varsity athletic events

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | March 11, 2020

In response to the growing coronavirus outbreak, the Ivy League announced this afternoon that all athletic practices and competitions for varsity spring sports through the end of the academic year will be canceled. Following that decision, Dartmouth decided that all practices, competitions and spring break travel for club sports will also be canceled for the spring term.  

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Sports

Track and field teams take sixth and eighth place at Ivy Heps

By Emily Lu | March 6, 2020

Since the start of the season, a digital countdown clock had been running inside Leverone Field House, showing the exact number of days, hours, minutes and even seconds until the 2020 Ivy League Indoor Heptagonal Championships meet. The countdown hit zero this weekend as both the men’s and women’s track and field teams traveled to Cornell University to compete at Heps, finishing in sixth and last place, respectively.

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Sports

Men’s basketball still in Ivy tournament hunt after weekend sweep

By Devan Fink | March 2, 2020

Heading into the final weekend of the season, Dartmouth men’s basketball (12-15, 5-7 Ivy) is miraculously still alive.

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Sports

The Weekend Roundup: Week 9

By Addison Dick , Lili Stern and Boyd Bragg | March 2, 2020

Women's lacrosse won in overtime over Brown, men's squash finished in fourth at the CSA Hoehn Cup, baseball was swept by Virginia and more in this week's Roundup.

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Men’s lacrosse, 3-0 on the season, off to best start since 2006

By Kaitlyn Lees | March 2, 2020

Something is certainly different for the Dartmouth men’s lacrosse team this year. The team’s exciting 3-0 start marks its best start to a season since 2006. 

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Sports

Women’s basketball splits weekend against Cornell and Columbia

By Ethan Strauss | March 2, 2020

The Dartmouth women’s basketball team went 1-1 in its last two home games this season, defeating Cornell University (10-14, 3-9 Ivy) in overtime Friday night and losing to Columbia University (17-8, 8-4 Ivy) on Saturday night. 

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Men’s hockey splits weekend, earns six seed in ECAC tournament

By Olivia Morton | March 2, 2020

Big Green men’s hockey finished off its regular season at home this weekend with two decisive games against Union College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After beating Union 5-3 but falling 4-1 to RPI, the Big Green came out of the weekend with two points, solidifying its sixth-place finish in the Eastern College Athletic Conference. 

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Sports

The Redshirt Senior: Despite ‘Parity,’ Plenty of Excitement Can Be Found in College Basketball

By Evan Griffith | March 2, 2020

Evan Griffith '18 argues that there's plenty of individual play in men's college basketball to be excited about — even with the absence of a dominant team.

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Dartmouth baseball looks to rebound after pitching woes in 2019

By Devan Fink | February 28, 2020

If the uncharacteristic warmth this past weekend was not enough of a reminder that spring is almost here, perhaps the return of baseball season will be. 

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Men’s basketball nears elimination after split weekend at home

By Devan Fink | February 24, 2020

After sweeping its first Ivy League back-to-back in five years last weekend, the Dartmouth men’s basketball team (10-15, 3-7 Ivy) was mere inches away from doing so again. 

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