Women's ski team strives for a thrid-place finish at Carnival
The 1994 NCAA carnival skiing season is turning out to be quite an adventure for the Dartmouth women.
The 1994 NCAA carnival skiing season is turning out to be quite an adventure for the Dartmouth women.
It involves kegs, ice and cold weather. Yep, Psi Upsilon fraternity's annual keg jumping competition is definitely Dartmouth. The tradition will continue this year when members of Psi U kick off the annual contest around noon on Saturday.
One has to wonder whether Maribel Sanchez '96 would be the runner that she is today if her parents had not decided to move to Hastings, N.Y. Fate would have it that a young and eager Sanchez would move next door to an avid runner of the same age.
The men's and women's squash teams may not be winning all their matches, but the scores alone certainly don't tell the whole story. Last weekend in Dartmouth's Berry Racquet Center, both squads were shut out by Princeton, and the men fell 5-4 to University of Pennsylvania.
The women's swim team raised their record to 7-3 with their sixth straight win against Army on Saturday. The squad won 13 of 16 events to dominate the Bulldogs. Coach Betsy Mitchell said, "The women who have already qualified for Eastern Collegiate Swimming Championships are swimming faster than they ever have at mid-season." "We could be winning meets and swimming poorly and it wouldn't mean anything to me.
The Dartmouth men's track team fell to 1-1 on the season with a second place finish this Saturday at Leverone Field House. The three-way meet was dominated by the University of Connecticut, who scored 105 points.
Colgate, Cornell slap Dartmouth with convincing losses
The women's ice hockey team was unstoppable Saturday night in New Haven, capturing its ninth victory of the season by demolishing Yale 14-1. The Big Green were led by Captain Gretchen Ulion '94, who broke her own record for goals scored in a game with eight.
Big Green's 31-point blowout brings win streak to five
If people still doubted that the Dartmouth women's basketball team was for real, they've certainly changed their minds by now. The Big Green emerged from their toughest road swing of the season with an impressive 59-55 defeat of two-time defending Ivy League Champion Brown and a hard-fought 69-65 loss to Yale. The weekend's two-game split upped the Big Green's record to 9-8 overall, and kept them perched atop the Ivy League standings with a 4-1 record. Not bad for a team that was picked to finish 5th in the preseason media poll.
The Men's Basketball Team hosts two important league games this weekend, putting its season-high three game win streak on the line against both Brown University and Yale University.
The Big Green will begin a crucial two-game road swing tonight when they square off against two-time defending Ivy League champion Brown University (9-6 overall, 3-0 Ivy League). Tomorrow night, Dartmouth faces Yale University (9-6 overall, 1-2 Ivy League). "These games are real important," Coach Chris Wielgus said.
The Dartmouth Women's Squash Team worked its way to a 5-4 win over Amherst College this weekend, and is now perched at 3-3 for the year.
Princeton, one of the powerhouses of the Ivy League, defeated the Engineers on Saturday. Despite the loss, several swimmers showed strong individual performances. Thomas Slabaugh '96 swam the 100-yard backstroke in 54.3 seconds, and the 200-yard backstroke in 1:59.
Some of the biggest plays in last night's women's basketball game weren't made by the people wearing shorts.
As the Beatles might say, it is coming together, right now. Last night in Leede Arena the men's basketball team finally displayed an ability to dominate its opponents, blowing out Holy Cross 80-58.
After four games on the road, the men's hockey team returned to Hanover this weekend for back-to-back engagements against Union and Rensselaer. On Friday night, the Big Green (3-12-1, 2-8-1) suffered a heartbreaking 5-4 loss to Union.