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Softball team looks to build upon successful past season

By Kaitlyn Lees | March 1, 2019

As reigning Ivy League Co-Champions, softball looks to build on their success and raise the standard of excellence that has been set through strong play the past few seasons even higher.

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Rothwell and Valenti defend titles as women take third at Indoor Heps, men sixth

By Osezele Okoruwa | February 27, 2019

In what finished as a mixed weekend for Dartmouth, with the women’s team taking third overall and the men’s team finishing sixth, two Big Green athletes performed like they’d been there before — because they had. Julia Valenti ’20 repeated as women’s pole vault champion, while Cha’Mia Rothwell ’20 took first in the women’s 60-meter hurdles, a title she has won in all three of her Ivy League seasons.

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An inside look at the women's basketball recruiting process

By Lili Stern | February 25, 2019

The Dartmouth women’s basketball coaching staff calls it the ABCD approach. Academics, basketball, cost, and Dartmouth: the mutual selling points between a recruit and the coaching staff that have to be in check to bring a student-athlete to Dartmouth.

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The Weekend Roundup: Week 8

By The Dartmouth Sports Staff | February 25, 2019

Sixteen teams saw action last week — women's basketball got two big wins, women's swimming and diving improved to sixth at Ivy League championships and Dartmouth skiing saw multiple podium places. Read on in this week's Roundup.

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Transfer Ary-Turner prepares to play for Big Green next season

By Baily Deeter | February 25, 2019

With only one senior leaving after this season, the Dartmouth men’s basketball team has a promising outlook for the 2019-20 campaign. For starters, the team will return its entire starting lineup and all but one of its key contributors. Additionally, Trevon Ary-Turner ’21, a transfer from Weber State University, will be eligible to play next season and will be a huge addition to an experienced roster.

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Men's baseball looks for success in Whalen's 30th season

By Eric Vaughn | February 25, 2019

With the Dartmouth baseball team tying a program record last season by reaching 11 consecutive seasons with more wins than losses in Ivy League play, head coach Bob Whalen, now in his 30th season at Dartmouth, is hungry for even more. When asked simply what his goal for the season was, his answer was succinct: win a championship.

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Pucks in Deep: Let the Hurricanes Have Some Fun

By Sam Stockton | February 25, 2019

If you haven’t been following the NHL season too closely, you may not have heard about the audacity of the Carolina Hurricanes, who have been so bold as to enjoy winning hockey games on home ice.

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The Redshirt Senior: Zion, Paying College Athletes and the One-and-Done

By Evan Griffith | February 25, 2019

Welcome back to The Redshirt Senior, boys and girls. In this week’s news, Nike stock drops $1.1 billion, the University of North Carolina traveled down Tobacco Road and beat its most hated rival on the road, and the NBA is considering lowering the draft age to 18. All of this, believe it or not, originates from one incident.

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The Accidental Fan: The Return of My Boy Benny… And Others (Who Are Less Relevant)

By Sabena Allen | February 25, 2019

Have you ever experienced that feeling when your favorite character gets phased out of a television show or maybe just gets mercilessly killed off?

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One-one-one with Bob Gaudet '81, men's hockey coach

By Addison Dick | February 22, 2019

Head coach Bob Gaudet ’81 sat down with the Dartmouth and looked back on the seniors’ trip to the Eastern College Athletic Conference tournament semifinals in Lake Placid, N.Y. in 2016 and their victory over defending champion Denver University last season. Gaudet also reflected on the character of the senior class and the team’s goal to return to Lake Placid this postseason.

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Women’s hockey stuns No. 4 Clarkson in 3-2 overtime win

By Evan Morgan | February 18, 2019

In a week that honored the Big Green’s seniors, it was a first-year who earned Dartmouth its biggest win in years.

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The Weekend Roundup: Week 7

By The Dartmouth Sports Staff | February 18, 2019

Women's hockey beats defending national champion Clarkson, lacrosse and women's golf play season openers, and more in this week's Roundup.

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Women’s Nordic ski team features depth of talent across classes

By Anna May Mott | February 18, 2019

This year, the Dartmouth women’s Nordic ski team has benefited from its extraordinary depth — a depth that now makes an already complicated choice all the more difficult for coach Cami Thompson Graves.

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Disciplined men's hockey is among nation's least-penalized teams

By Addison Dick | February 18, 2019

Tied in a scoreless game against No. 11 Clarkson University with under one minute to go in the third period, Drew O’Connor ’22 tipped in a centering pass from Clay Han ’20 to give the men’s hockey team a signature win. The game was a bit of an anomaly for the Big Green: the team committed six penalties on the night, tied for the most times the team has gone to the penalty box since November.

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Contributions from younger players anchor men’s basketball

By Baily Deeter | February 18, 2019

In the midst of one of its better seasons in recent years, one might guess that the Dartmouth men’s basketball team would be senior-heavy.

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Ivy leaders Penn and Princeton take down women's basketball

By Lili Stern | February 18, 2019

Dartmouth women’s basketball dropped both games at home this weekend against the two teams that sit atop the Ivy League standings: the University of Pennsylvania (16-4, 6-1 Ivy) and Princeton University (13-9, 5-2 Ivy).

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No. 9 women’s squash prepares for nationals next weekend

By Kaitlyn Lees | February 18, 2019

The women’s squash team started the season with the goal of breaking into the top eight in the country and came very close, finishing in a tie at No. 9 with a 5-7 record.

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The Redshirt Senior: The Evan Griffith Completely Accurate All-Divison I First Team

By Evan Griffith | February 18, 2019

The college basketball season is about two-thirds of the way through, and we’re that much closer to the Madness. It’s a great Saturday for me as I write this column since Syracuse doesn’t play, so my heart rate will stay at a reasonable level.

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The Accidental Fan: What is a sport?

By Sabena Allen | February 18, 2019

Neither dance nor football is easy. Both take extreme skill and stamina. But while football is inarguably a sport, I wonder if dance can be classified as such.

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Pucks in Deep: Anatomy of an irrelevant deadline deal

By Sam Stockton | February 18, 2019

By all accounts, the recent deal between the Los Angeles Kings and Montreal Canadiens appears pedestrian, almost so boring that it’s hard to understand how the involved teams came to discussing it.