The Dartmouth Sports Weekly 2/5/18

2.5.18

Women’s ice hockey team drops weekend games p. 8 One-on-one with men’s basketball co-captain Miles Wright ’18 p. 8 Dartmouth and the University of Vermont compete for top spot in the East p. 6 Griffith’s Got Stats: Predictions for the Ivy League Tournament p. 6

Big Green sends 14 representatives to Winter Olympics p. 4–5

The Weekend Roundup p. 2–3 COURTESY OF BILL KELLICK

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The weekend Roundup

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ICE HOCKEY

Compiled by MAYA MOTEN AND ERIC VAUGHN

Squash Men’s squash lost to No. 6 University of Pennsylvania 5-4 and beat No. 7 Princeton University 5-4 this past weekend. Despite winning the first three matchesagainstPenn,theBigGreenwon only four out of the final six matches.

Reg Anderson ’20, Sam Epley ’19, Matt Giegerich ’19 and Carson Spahr ’19 all came out with victories. After Saturday’s loss, Sunday’s matchup with Princeton became ever more important. The back of the Big Green’s lineup dominated with Brandon de Otaduy Nam ’20 winning at the No. 5 slot and the Big Green sweeping the bottom three positions. Jack Harvey ’18 clinched the match for the Big Green after a huge 11-3, 11-8, 11-8 victory.

Women’s squash fell to No. 7 Penn on Saturday and No. 1 Princeton this

weekend. The Big Green has now lost seven consecutive matches, all against top-10teams.Theteamstruggledagainst Penn, with the top six courts losing in straight set battles. The bottom of the lineup fared much better for the Big Green, where Ellie Gozigian ’21, Zainab Molani ’18 and Emma Roberts ’19 all claimed wins to end the match 6-3. On Sunday, the Big Green was unable to get much going against Princeton, losing 9-0.

Becky Brownell ’18 fought in arguably the closest match of the afternoon, falling 12-10, 11-13, 11-6, 11-8.

Men’s and women’s squash travel to Providence, Rhode Island to face Brown University on Friday, before returning to Hanover to host Yale University on Sunday.

Skiing

The ski team had yet another victory at the University of Vermont Winter Carnival, winning for the third year with a total of 969 points, 37 points over host UVM. On Friday, Katharine Ogden ’21 started the day off strong for the Big Green finishing second in the women’s 15-kilometer freestyle with a time of 46.29 seconds with teammates Taryn Hunt-Smith ’19 and Abby Drach ’20 finishing in fourth (47:23) and fifth (47:25) respectively. In the women’s giant slalom, Foreste Peterson ’18 and Claire Thomas ’21 finished in second and third place with times of 2:10.01 and 2:10.14, respectively. The men had a strong showing with Luke Brown ’18, Callan DeLine ’18 and Gavin McEwen ’19 finishing third (53:37.8), fourth (53:48.9) and fifth (53:49.6), respectively, in the men’s 20-kilometer freestyle.

Going into Saturday, the Big Green

was leading UVM by seven points.

Peterson finished second in a time of 1:51.05 in the women’s slalom, with Alexa Dlouhy ’19 finishing third. In the women’s 5K Classic, Dartmouth placed three out of the top four. Ogden, who narrowly missed out on first place by three tenths of a second, Drach and Hunt-Smith helped the Big Green claim a team victory in the event. On the men’s side, Tanguy Nef ’20 and Brian McLaughlin ’18, finished in first and fourth place respectively, with Nef winning the event by two seconds. In the men’s 10K Classic, Brown and Deline came in fourth and fifth, respectively, finishing a tenth of a second within the other.

This win is important momentum going into Winter Carnival this weekend when Dartmouth hosts competition in the East.

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Women’s hockey currently sits at 5-17-1 overall and will play Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Union College this weekend.

The men’s team dropped a game on Friday against Harvard University 4-1. The loss dropped the Big Green to 9-12-2 overall and 7-8-1 in the Eastern College Athletic Conference. Harvard struck first, with the lone goal in the first period, only 3:58 into the game. However, Shane Sellar ’20 was able to equalize in the second period, assisted by Quin Foreman ’21 and Will Graber ’20, making it Sellar’s sixth goal of the year. Less than four minutes later, Harvard scored and never looked back. In the third period, Harvard added on to its lead with another goal and ended with an empty-net goal. The men will play two games away this weekend against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Union College.

The women’s team hosted two top-five teams this

weekend and did not fare much better. Against the No. 4 ranked Colgate University the women fell 5-1.

Despite the Big Green scoring six minutes into the first period, the Raiders responded with three goals within the first period and two more in the third period. The following day, the women played No. 5 Cornell and lost 3-1. Cornell’s defense proved to be too much as the Big Green remained scoreless until the middle of the third period when Tess Bracken ’19, assisted by captain Hailey Noronha ’18, found the back of the net. Unfortunately, it was too little, too late and the Big Green was unable to use the late momentum.

The women currently sit at 5-17-1 overall and 3-141 in the ECAC. They will look to get back on track against RPI and Union this weekend.

SwIMMING & DIVING

The men’s and women’s swimming and diving team traveled to the Big Apple this weekend where it competed against Columbia University in its last dual meet of the season. Both teams lost to the Lions, with the men finishing 162-134 and the women falling 61 points behind Columbia with a score of 114.

Allison Green ’19 took second in the 3-meter dive with a final score of 278.41, starting the meet for the women. Dartmouth’s first individual win was earned by Hayley Winter ’18 when she touched 21 seconds ahead of Columbia’s Clare MacNamara in the 1,000-yard freestyle. The co-captain continued her strong swimming throughout the day with a second first-place win in the 500-yard free. Green and Mackenzie Stumpf ’21 added two more first place wins of the day as they competed in the 1-meter diving and 200-yard individual medley respectively. After Columbia senior Nicole Papsco narrowly edged out Stumpf by three-tenths of a second in the 100-yard breaststroke, the first-year bounced back to lead the pack of Big Green competitors Molly Brickman ’19, Kenna Van Steyn ’21 and Melanie Zaraska ’19 in the 200-yard IM as they took the top four places each finishing within five seconds of each other. The Big

Green finished the day strong in its final event — the 200-yard freestyle relay. Dartmouth A, made up of Alie Hunter ’21, Cathleen Li ’21, Summer Martin ’21 and Sophie Smith ’20, finished in first with a time of 1:37.1. The Dartmouth B and C teams finished second (1:39.16) and third (1:43.56), respectively.

As with the women, the men’s team earned four of its six first-place wins in the freestyle events. Cocaptain Tony Shen ’18 earned the first Big Green win of the day in the 200-yard freestyle after a close race when he touched two one-hundredths of a second ahead of Columbia freshman Adam Osowski. Shen also bookended Big Green event wins, serving as the anchor leg of the Dartmouth A team, comprised of Carter Jacobsen ’19, Brandon Liao ’21 and Henry Patrick ’19 in the 200-yard freestyle relay. The Big Green led the pack with the B and C teams finishing next within two seconds of each other. Connor LaMastra ’21 also added three wins to the Big Green’s total by finishing nearly six seconds ahead of Columbia’s Alexander Walker in the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 1:48.67 and winning both the 500-yard freestyle and the 200-yard IM.

CORRECTIONS We welcome corrections. If you believe there is a factual error in a story, please email editor@thedartmouth. com for corrections.

Correction Appended (Feb. 2, 2018): A previous version of the Feb. 2 article “‘Jabber’ will explore converging cultures and adolescence” has been updated to more accurately reflect the event’s ticket pricing.

The tickets are $10 for Dartmouth students and $13 to $23 for the general public, not $13 to $23 for all attendees.

Correction Appended (Feb. 2, 2018): The Feb. 2 article “Winter Carnival features return of official snow sculpture” has been updated to correct quotes erroneously attributed to associate director of student involvement David Pack. The quotes were by Winter Carnival chair Adam Baillie ’18.

Correction Appended (Feb. 4, 2018): A previous version of the Feb. 2 article “Winter Carnival features return of official snow sculpture” incorrectly attributed the sculpture’s funding to the Class of 1969. The sculpture is funded by the Sphinx Foundation. This article has been updated to reflect this correction.

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Basketball

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On a nine game loss-streak, men’s basketball prepares to play against University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University this week.

Despite battling fiercely through 40 minutes of regulation twice, men’s basketball team faced back-to-back losses on the road this past weekend against Cornell University and Columbia University. During Friday night’s game against Cornell, co-captain Miles Wright ’18 became the 29th player in program history to score over 1,000 career points. The accomplishment, however, was spoiled by the 86-85 loss.

Cornell opened up a nine-point lead over the Big Green late in the first half, but two layups

by Taylor Johnson ’18, who led the team in scoring with 25 points, shortened the Big Red’s lead to four going into halftime. In the second half, Cornell roared out of the gate and quickly extended its lead to 10. Buckets by Will Emery ’20 and Johnson helped the Big Green shorten the Cornell lead, then two jumpers by Ian Sistare ’20 helped Dartmouth take the lead. Dartmouth traded points with Cornell throughout the rest of the game, with the Big Green holding a narrow lead heading into the final minute of the game.

After a late game foul by Wright sent Joel Davis to the charity stripe, Cornell took the lead for good with 25 seconds to spare. Johnson’s final jumper with four seconds to spare bounced off the rim, ending the Big Green’s hopes.

Columbia controlled play on Saturday, holding the lead for most of the night. Adrease Jackson ’21 led the Big Green with 24 points and 14 rebounds, earning his first career double-double. Despite Jackson and Johnson’s combined 20 first-half points, the Lions could not be stopped as they headed into halftime with a 12-point advantage. Jackson and Wright attempted to make a comeback early in the second half each scoring 17 and 13 points in the period, respectively, to bring the game within one with 42 seconds to play. A late foul sent Columbia’s Kyle Castlin to the line where he sank both free throws. Dartmouth attempted

one last shot but Brendan Berry ’20 had a threepointer blocked as time expired.

With the two losses to Cornell and Columbia, the team drops to 4-15 and 0-6 in the Ivy League. The Big Green will host the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University this Friday and Saturday, respectively.

Women’s basketball swept the weekend with back-to-back wins against Cornell and Columbia. The two wins move Dartmouth to 12-7 overall and 4-2 in the Ivy League, maintaining its fourth place standing in the conference.

The Big Green women started the weekend with a 55-40 victory over Cornell with strong efforts from co-captain Andi Norman ’18 and Kate Letkewicz ’18 who led the team with 18 and 11 points, respectively. Cornell was down two at the end of the first quarter before Dartmouth put an 11-point lead between it and the Big Red heading into the second half.

The Big Green maintained a comfortable double-digit lead for most of the third quarter and all of the fourth quarter, en route to the 15-point victory.

Dartmouth finished the weekend with an 8865 win over Columbia. Letkewicz led the Big Green in scoring with 20 points on the night. She added 10 boards to secure the double-double.

Cy Lippold ’19 put up 15 points and 12 assists to propel Dartmouth to its second straight win with a double-double of her own. After the Big Green accumulated an 11-point halftime lead, Columbia attempted to bounce back at the beginning of the third quarter, bringing the score within three points. Following Columbia’s run, Dartmouth stepped up its play, eventually leading by as much as 27 points in the fourth quarter. The Big Green shot 57.6 percent from the field.

The Big Green go on the road next week to compete against the Penn and Princeton.

Men’s tennis swept the weekend against Indiana University and the University of Louisville, improving to 6-0 this season.

The team edged out a narrow 4-3 victory over the Hoosiers on Friday. In doubles, Charlie Broom ’20 and David Horneffer ’20 started strong with a 6-4 victory against Indiana’s Raheel Manji and Keivon Tabrizi. Although the Big Green lost at No. 3 doubles, Roko Glasnovic ’19 and Casey Ross ’21 secured a tight victory at No. 2 to give Dartmouth the doubles point. The singles matches were highlighted

by Broom’s victory over defeating No.125 Manji in two swift sets and Dan Martin ’21’s win over Antonio Cembellin at the No. 2 spot.

The Big Green had an easier day on Sunday when it met Louisville.

The doubles point was quickly earned by the Big Green after wins

by Broom and Horneffer at the No.1 spot and Max Fliegner ’18 and Peter Conklin ’21 at the No. 3 spot. Dartmouth increased its lead as Ciro Riccardi ’18 beat the Cardinals’ Ciro Lampasas in two 6-1 sets. The Big Green finalized the win when Fliegner won at the No. 4 spot 6-4, 6-4. The Cardinals’ only point came at No. 6 singles.

The men return home this week to host the University of Minnesota, Rice University and Bryant University.

Women’s tennis hosted Boston College and William and Mary

College this weekend, losing to both teams.

Against Boston College on Friday night, the Big Green battled to a 5-2 loss. The Eagles began the scoring with victories at the No. 1 and No. 3 doubles spot to give them the doubles point. After two quick victories by the away team in singles, the score stood at 3-0 in favor of BC. In an attempt to recover, Allison McCann ’20 and Julia Schroeder ’18 won their singles matches in straight sets. The Eagles clinched the match, however, after No. 78 Kristina Mathis ’18 lost to Asiya Dair 7-5, 7-6 (9-7) with Boston College pulling ahead in a second set tiebreaker 9-7.

William and Mary dominated Sunday afternoon, beating the Big Green 6-1. Schroeder had the best outing for the Big Green, winning both her singles and doubles matches. Partnered with Abigail Chiu ’21, Schroeder easily took down Ekaterina Stepanova and Olivia Thaler 6-1. In singles, Schroeder’s victory over Clara Tanielian gave Dartmouth their only point of the day. Mathis fell in a third set super tiebreaker to Rosie Cheng at the No. 1 position.

The team falls to 3-3 with the two losses this weekend. The Big Green will be on the road this weekend, heading down to Princeton, New Jersey for the Eastern College Athletic Conference Indoor Championship.

TRack and field The women’s track and field team had a little more luck than its male cohort at the New England Championship, finishing in second with 89.5 points to the men’s seventh-place finish with 25.33 points.

Fa c i n g a t o u g h f i e l d o f competitors, Amos Cariati ’18 scored the first points for the men’s team after he finished fifth in the 400-meter dash, one second behind first-place finisher Northeastern University freshman Quinn Litherland. The Huskies got the best of the Big Green again as David Adams narrowly edged Tim Zepf ’21 out of first by two one-hundredths of a second during the 500-meter dash. Alec Eschholz ’19 added a few more points to the Big Green’s scoreboard when he took fifth with his 8.21-second time in the 60-meter hurdles. Corbin Mayes ’21 successfully cleared a 4.7-meter vault good for a threeway tie for eighth place with Central Connecticut State University’s Sam Borecki and University of Connecticut’s Chandler Ives.

The women’s team started scoring early in the day as Nicole DeBlasio ’19 took seventh for her 7.82-second 60-meter dash.

Immediately after, Cha’Mia Rothwell ’20 scored her first win in the 200-meter dash, finishing in 24.2 seconds. Despite improving her time from the preliminary rounds, Rothwell came in second in the 60-meter hurdles behind Quinnipiac University’s Jessica Lee, who broke the meet record with her time. As the day progressed, Dartmouth took home several other titles including the 4x800-meter relay (9:03.77) as Annalisa Crowe ’20, Anna DiMarcello ’21, Isabelle Giordano ’21 and Alexa Jennings ’19 finished five seconds ahead of the Bobcats. Maria Garman ’19 set the tone for the field events as her 1.74-meter high jump put her in a tie for first place with Quinnipiac’s winning Cary Timpson. Julia Valenti ’20 continued the strong showing, winning the pole vault while Rothwell finished the day with a second-place finish in the long jump.

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Meet Team

Thirteen athletes and one coach in the 2018 Winter Olympics are affiliated with D

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Nordic Skiing COURTESY OF SARAH BRUNSON AND U.S. SKI AND SNOWBOARD

PATRICK CALDWELL ’17

COURTESY OF TEAM USA

ANNIE HART ’14

The outstanding international track record continues for Dartmouth Nordic skiing alumni in the 2018 Olympics. Four former members of the Big Green women’s Nordic team will represent the United States in Pyeongchang along with Patrick Caldwell ’17, the 2015 NCAA champion in the 10-kilometer freestyle. Tucker Murphy ’04 will ski for Bermuda in his third Olympic appearance.

A pair of women’s Nordic alumni will make their Olympic debuts at Pyeongchang. Four-time AllAmericanRosieBrennan’11competed in the World Championships in 2015 and 2017 and won the 2015 U.S. title in the 1-kilometer freestyle and classic sprint. “[Brennan] is a really tough competitor and just waiting for that breakthrough race because I think she’s so close,”women’s Nordic skiing head coach Cami Thompson Graves said.

Annie Hart ’14 was Brennan’s teammate as a first-year and would go on to be a five-time All-American.

Hart was a discretionary selection to the team after late negotiations with the International Olympic Committee allowed Team USA to add more Nordic skiers.

Two-time Olympian Ida Sargent ’11 had a tough beginning to her 2018 Olympic season. Sargent broke her thumb in a training crash on Jan. 27 and had surgery to repair the damage, but she has begun the recovery process and plans to be back on snow early this week.The Orleans, Vermont native finished 19th in the freestyle sprint and 32nd in the 10-kilometer classic in Sochi in 2014. She has found consistent success inWorld Cup races, notably finishing third in a classic sprint in Pyeongchang last year.

Cousins Sophie Caldwell ’12 and Patrick Caldwell ’17 have Olympic cross-country skiing in their DNA. Sophie Caldwell’s father Sverre

Caldwell coached the U.S. team at the Calgary Olympics in 1988 and later became head coach at Stratton Mountain School, where his daughter raced before she became a five-time All-American at Dartmouth. She enters the Olympics riding high after getting her second career World Cup win in the freestyle sprint in Seefeld, Austria on Jan. 27. Patrick Caldwell is the son of Tim Caldwell ’76, himself a four-time Olympian.

Still establishing himself on theWorld Cup circuit, Patrick Caldwell heads to Pyeongchang after placing 49th in the 15-kilometer freestyle in Seefeld, Austria last Saturday.

Murphy attended St. Paul’s School as a rower before picking up a pair of cross-country skis. He competed in his first Olympics in Vancouver in 2010 while studying zoology at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. Murphy finished 88th in the 15-kilometer freestyle in Vancouver and 84th in the same race in Sochi four years later.

COURTESY OF SARAH BRUNSON AND U.S. SKI AND SNOWBOARD

IDA SARGENT ’11

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ROSIE BRENNAN ’11

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TUCKER MURPHY ’04

SOPHIE CALDWELL ’12 COURTESY OF REESE BROWN AND U.S. SKI AND SNOWBOARD

After a World Cup win, Sophie Caldwell ’12 will represent the United States at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Women’s Ice Hockey

COURTESY OF TEAM CANADA

LAURA STACEY ’16

Two of Canada’s key contributors hail from the Big Green: head coach Laura Schuler and forward Laura Stacey ’16. After guiding Dartmouth to a 7-21 overall record in her first season as head coach, Schuler stepped away from the team during the 2017-2018 season to prepare for the Winter Games. Schuler is no stranger to the Olympics — she skated for Canada in the 1998 Games, where the Canadian team claimed silver in the first women’s

ice hockey tournament in Olympic history. She is also deeply involved in Hockey Canada, serving as head coach of the U18 and U22 women’s national teams.

Stacey will be one of Schuler’s key skaters when Canada faces off against Russia on Feb. 11. During her Dartmouth career, Stacey tallied 31 goals in 108 games played. Since then, she has gone to play for the Canadian Women’s Hockey League’s Brampton Thunder and was named

the 2017 Rookie of theYear.While this is Stacey’s first Olympic appearance, she has represented Canada on the international stage before.

Stacey scored one goal and had an assist at the 2016 Nations Cup, where Canada placed first.

She was hailed the Offensive and Team MVP for her team. Stacey also played in the 2017 International Ice Hockey Federation’s Women’s World Championship and helped Team Canada place second.

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Dartmouth — the most ever Olympic participants for the College in a single Games.

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Alpine Skiing COURTESY OF U.S. SKI AND SNOWBOARD

NOLAN KASPER ’14

COURTESY OF U.S. SKI AND SNOWBOARD

DAVID CHODOUNSKY ’08

Four alpine skiers at Pyeongchang — David Chodounsky ’08, Andrew Weibrecht ’09, Tommy Ford ’12 and Nolan Kasper ’14 — are making a repeat appearance. All are Olympic veterans on a very experienced U.S. men’s alpine team, and Weibrecht is a two-time Winter Games medalist.

Chodounsky came to Dartmouth in 2004 and won the NCAA slalom championship as a first-year. He went on to captain the Big Green to the overall title in 2007, making the U.S. Ski Team after he graduated. The engineering and geology double major is now the top United States prospect in the slalom, according to men’s alpine head coach Peter Dodge, who coached the Dartmouth team throughout Chodounsky’s career.

The 34 year old has never finished on a World Cup podium, but he did crack the top 15 in a World Cup race in Kitzbuehel, Austria on Jan. 21 and will look to improve on his DNF in the Sochi games.

Bend, Oregon native Ford will return to the Olympics after missing Sochi due to injury. Ford placed 26th in the giant slalom in Vancouver in 2010, but a free skiing accident in 2013 resulted in a fractured femur.

After sitting out from World Cup competition from December 2013 to January 2015, Ford came roaring back with a three top-15 giant slalom finishes in the 2015-2016 season. His bestfinishthisseasonwasa10th-place showing at Beaver Creek in December.

Slalom specialist Kasper has also battled his way back from injuries to secure a spot on the team. He made the 2010 Olympic teams and took his first World Cup podium the following year. Kasper was injured in the 2013 season but recovered in time for the 2014 Games, finishing as the top American skier in the slalom.

He underwent knee surgery again in 2015 and finally returned toWorld Cup action in January in Kitzbuehel. Kasper said he has remained grounded

throughout his time on the world stage.

“I’ve realized that the mental aspect of the sport is really important,”he said.

“As I’ve bumped up levels, I’ve stayed aware that skiing is skiing regardless of whether you’re at the Olympics or you’re training or you’re racing a small race back east.”

Weibrecht is perhaps Dartmouth’s best medal hope. Nicknamed “Warhorse” for his perseverance through injuries and ability to perform in critical moments, Weibrecht still has not completed his Dartmouth degree, but according to Dodge, “He tells me he’s going to and he’s been at it a long time.” However he does have two Olympic medals to his name: He surprised with a bronze medal in the super-G at the Vancouver Olympics and followed it up with a silver in the super-G in Sochi. Weibrecht comes into Pyeongchang fresh off a 24th-place finish in the super-G in Kitzbuehel.

COURTESY OF U.S. SKI AND SNOWBOARD

TOMMY FORD ’12

COURTESY OF U.S. SKI AND SNOWBOARD

ANDREW WEIBRECHT ’09

Biathlon

COURTESY OF BILL KELLICK

EMILY DREISSIGACKER ’11

COURTESY OF TEAM USA

SUSAN DUNKLEE ’08

Emily Dreissigacker ’11 and Susan Dunklee ’08 will represent the Big Green and Team USA in the biathlon, a combination of cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. After beginning the event on skis, athletes stop to fire their rifles. If their shots miss, a penalty may be assessed, such as a lap around a 150-meter penalty loop, before the athletes finish the remainder of the race. Of the 15 sports in the Winter Olympics, biathlon is the only event in which the United States has never medaled.

While Dreissigacker is no stranger to skiing, she focused on rowing during her high school career, pulling her way to the Junior World Championships. At Dar tmouth, she rowed for four years and was named an all-American three times.

Dreissigacker grew up in a household of Olympians: Both her mother, Judy Geer, and father, Dick Dreissigacker, rowed for the United States in the Olympics. Her sister Hannah Dreissigacker ’09 Th’10 competed in the 15-kilometer individual biathlon race at the 2014 Sochi Games.

When Dreissigacker cut her hand with a woodsplitter in the fall of 2014,

she could not grip an ergometer for three months. To stay in shape, she turned to skiing at the Craftsbury Outdoor Center — a Vermont rowing and skiing haven which her family owns — to stay in shape. As one thing led to another, Dreissigacker made the decision to pursue biathlon full-time.

“Making the switch from rowing to biathlon was one of the best decisions I’ve made,” she wrote in an email statement. “I was at a point with my rowing where I was very unhappy but didn’t want to stop competing. I immediately fell in love with biathlon and haven’t looked back since.”

Dunk lee has already had an incredible biathlon career. Like Dreissigacker, she was also raised with an Olympics presence at home, as her father Stan Dunklee was a cross-country skier in the 1976 and 1980 Olympic Games. In the 2014 Sochi Games, Dunklee’s best individual performances included 11th in the mass start and 14th in the sprint. At the 2017 World Championship, she placed second in the individual race, becoming the first American woman to do so.

COURTESY OF BILL KELLICK

Susan Dunklee ’08 will return to the 2018 Winter Olympics after competing in the 2014 Sochi games.

Griffith’s Got Stats with Evan Griffith ’18

Predictions for the 2018 Ivy League Men’s Basketball Tournament The Harvard Crimson recently published an article entitled, “Wide Open Road for Men’s Basketball in Battle for Ivy League.” The article touched on some important points, including Harvard University’s men’s basketball team’s then-undefeated conference record and the Crimson’s non-conference losses to the College of the Holy Cross, Manhattan College and California State University at Fullerton. However, the article did not mention the Crimson’s shooting struggles, instead arguing that Harvard would “finish with the best record in conference.”

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Let’s analyze the validity of that statement.

As it stands right now, there is a very clear gap between the best teams in the Ivy League and those in other conferences. In the Ivy League, the teams at the top are the University of Pennsylvania (5-0), Harvard (5-1) and Princeton University (3-2).

Harvard’s start to Ivy League play has been surprising given its out-ofconference record. Looking at the numbers, the Crimson is a very onesided team. Harvard averages 97.0 points per 100 offensive possessions according to KenPom.com, 308th out of 351 teams in Division I and last in the Ivy League, while Harvard’s defense holds opponents to 99.0 points per 100 possessions, 70th in the country and second-best in the Ivy League to Penn’s 98.1.

Harvard’s defense can take it to the top of the Ivy League. Since Tommy Amaker became Harvard’s head coach in 2007, his defense has held opponents to less than 98 points per 100 possessions three times: in 2012, 2014 and 2015. And from 2012 to 2015, Harvard won the Ivy League and qualified for the NCAA Tournament, making it as far as the Round of 32 in both 2014 and 2015.

The road is not as open as it seems for Harvard to obtain the best record in the Ivy League. Harvard’s defense is returning to NCAA Tournament form, but the team’s offense is not

there yet. The 97.0 points per 100 possessions is the worst offensive efficiency by the Crimson since 2006. Harvard was 4-0 at the time the article was written, but it’s worth examining those wins. Two of those wins came against Dartmouth (4-15 overall, 0-6 Ivy), the team with the worst record in the Ivy League. One came against an injury-riddled Yale University (9-13 overall, 2-4 Ivy) team in New Haven, a game which Harvard won by two points, and the fourth was against a middling Brown University (10-9 overall, 3-3 Ivy) team. For Harvard to convincingly be in strong contention for first place in the Ivy League, the Crimson would have had to beat Columbia University (6-13 overall, 3-3 Ivy) on the road this past Friday, which it did not do, losing 83-76. Harvard came back with a win against Cornell University on Saturday to bring its record to 5-1.

Harvard will most likely make the Ivy League Tournament, but it’s difficult to see the team winning it all, much less being the top seed.

Princeton was the frontrunner in my eyes going into conference play. The Tigers had held their own against difficult opponents this year, their résumé including a win over the University of Southern California on the road and a two-point loss to a very good Middle Tennessee State University (18-5 overall). However, at 3-2 in the Ivy League, Princeton

is on the outside looking in at the top spot in the Ivy League. It lost to Penn on the road and against Brown in overtime. The Bears’ stud freshman Desmond Cambridge played his best game of the year with 32 points and nine rebounds. Princeton is, statistically, performing quite well on the offensive side of the ball in the league. In conference-only play, Princeton is the best team in the Ivy League in offensive efficiency (117.3 points per 100 possessions), effective field goal percentage (57.8 percent), turnover percentage (14.6 percent) and two-point field goal percentage (55.4 percent). Princeton’s defense must improve if it wants to have a better shot at the No.1-seed in the Ivy League Tournament. Princeton’s adjusted defensive efficiency is currently at 107.3 points per 100 possessions, the Tigers’ statistically worst defense since 2015. Princeton has the numbers of a top-seeded Ivy League team, and it has the advantage of previously winning the Ivy League Tournament, but the team has things it needs to improve on to get to the Palestra again.

This leaves the team with the best conference record at the moment: the University of Pennsylvania. The Quakers are an interesting team to look at this season. Before conference play started, the Quakers had the fourth best offensive team in the Ivy League with an adjusted offensive

efficiency of 103.2 and the second best defensive team in the Ivy League with an adjusted defensive efficiency of 101.0. The team’s defense has gotten better over time. Its ADE is currently better than Harvard’s at 98.1 points per 100 possessions, but its offense has gotten worse. The team’s AOE dropped to 99.4 points per 100 possessions, the second worst in the Ivy League. The team is still winning games despite this; since conference play started, Penn has won all its Ivy League contests. All of Penn’s league victories have come at home, and the team faces a tough test with five-straight road games over the next two weekends, including a visit to Princeton on Tuesday. That matchup will make the race for number one a little bit clearer.

All three of these teams have strengths, but they also have weaknesses to exploit. If I was a betting man, I’d bet on a different outcome than the one mentioned in the Crimson. The race for the No.1 seed in the Ivy League Tournament is way too close to call right now. If I had to make a prediction right now for the results of the tournament, I’d predict a Penn-Princeton final, with Penn winning it all. The tournament is held in Philadelphia, so I’m siding with home field advantage, since Princeton needed overtime to beat Penn in the first round of the tournament last year.

Big Green-University of Vermont rivalry takes center stage again

By EVAN MORGAN

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

Perhaps it w as fate that Dartmouth and the University of Vermont would come to rival each other in skiing. After all, the two schools are less than 100 miles apart. Both are quintessentially New England universities known for their outdoorsy students. Even their colors — the vibrant Dartmouth green and the bluer, paler UVM green­­— are nearly the same.

Fifteen schools compete in Eastern Intercollegiate Skiing Association carnivals, but on any given weekend — at least in the past decade — only the Big Green and the Catamounts are true threats to win. The last time another team captured a carnival crown was when Middlebury College edged UVM by three points in the 2008 University of Vermont Carnival.

This season, UVM and Dartmouth are neck and neck. The Big Green won the Colby College Carnival by 20 points, but UVM edged Dartmouth by 10 at the St. Michael’s College Carnival the next weekend. On Friday and Saturday, the Big Green beat the Catamounts on their home turf, 969-932.

“It’s a good rivalry because we push each other,” men’s alpine head coach Peter Dodge said. “We’re

pushing them, they’re pushing us.”

But where there’s rivalry, there isn’t bad blood. The tight-knit bonds of the skiing community — and the logistics of ski racing in New England — mean that competition happens on relatively friendly terms.

The circle of Eastern ski coaches is close, Dodge said. Often, the coaches’ skiers also know one another from competition before college. And because skiing is not a mainstream sport like football or basketball, carnival organization is left to the teams.

“We all have to get together to make [carnivals] happen,” Dodge said. “I might be the course setter at the UVM Carnival and the UVM coach might be the referee.”

Parity between the Dartmouth and UVM has been relatively rare in the past decade. From 2007 to 2010, Dartmouth won every carnival with the exception of the Middlebury win in 2008. The Big Green also won the NCAA Championship in 2007.

After 2010, though, the pendulum swung to the Catamounts. UVM won the NCAA Championship in 2012 and proceeded to sweep the next three carnival seasons.

But Dartmouth was always a close second. The College returned to form last season by winning every meet but the Dartmouth Carnival.

Even within the small world

of skiing, head coach of women’s Nordic Cami Thompson Graves said, UVM and Dartmouth recruit from slightly different populations.

UVM offers athletic scholarships and sometimes brings in older athletes who have experience racing after high school. Dartmouth, which does not offer athletic scholarships due to Ivy League restrictions, looks to bring in athletes directly out of high school, Thompson Graves noted.

Official Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association rules base the car nival season around the UVM and Dartmouth Carnivals, traditionally held in the third and fourth weeks of the season, respectively. According to Dodge and Graves, the competition in Stowe, Vermont often feels like a turning point.

“It feels like UVM and Dartmouth Carnivals are the Wimbledon and French Open of the ski season,” Dodge said.

The first two carnivals build up to the key events in Stowe and Hanover, according to the coaches.

The hosts of the fifth carnival of the season rotates between Williams College and Middlebury, giving Big Green skiers a breather before the final carnival, which doubles as the regional championship. To consistently win carnivals, a team

needs to be strong in several of the four disciplines — men’s and women’s alpine and men’s and women’s cross country.

“Some years all four teams are strong and you’re doing well,” Dodge said. “Other years one half might not be as strong or rebuilding and then we lose some points.”

Through the first three carnivals of the 2018 season, three Dartmouth teams — men’s alpine, women’s alpine and women’s Nordic — have an edge on UVM. The Catamounts’ Paula Moltzan, a past World Cup competitor and the 2017 NCAA slalom winner, has been a top contender in women’s alpine this season. At UVM this weekend, Moltzan won both the slalom and the giant slalom by multiple-second margins. But Dartmouth boasts its own World Cup competitor in Foreste Peterson ’18 and a deeper team. Peterson, Meg Currie ’17, Alexa Dlouhy ’19 and Kelly Moore ’18 are the core of a Dartmouth squad that has won all but one team event this season.

Tanguy Nef ’20 has torn up the slopes this season, leading the way for a men’s alpine team that, like the women, is the top squad in the EISA. Despite a DNF in Friday’s giant slalom, Nef won the slalom on Saturday and has now won three of the five carnival races this

season. Thomas Woolson ’17 and Brian McLaughlin ’18, who made his World Cup debut in December, have been close behind Nef, helping the men’s alpine team take first in the Colby and St. Michael’s carnivals.

UVM’s Max Roeisland rivals Nef as the top men’s alpine skier this season. While the Catamounts’ Sandy Vietze has put up the strongest results of his career in his senior season, UVM’s lack of a consistent third threat has given Dartmouth the edge so far.

The women’s Nordic team is so deep that even with three top skiers — Lydia Blanchet ’19, Lauren Jortberg ’20 and Sofia Shomento ’21— competing at the Junior World Ski Championships in Switzerland, the group still swept team honors at UVM. The Catamounts’ Alayna Sonnesyn has won every race this season, but Dartmouth has come out ahead in stiff competition.

Men’s Nordic has the most crowded field of the four disciplines.

Dartmouth has a strong core of skiers and has won two of the five team events this season. But Vermont, a much less consistent group, got the better of the Big Green at Colby, and Middlebury has beaten both the Catamounts and the Big Green on two occasions. With half the season left to go, the race for team leader remains wide open.

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By SABA NEJAD The Dartmouth Staff

Miles Wright ’18, co-captain of the men’s basketball team, scored his 1,000th career point against Cornell University this past Friday, making him the 29th Dartmouth player to reach the milestone. Wright, a Boston native and a sociology modified with African and African American Studies major, averages 12.1 points per game, putting him at 14th place in the Ivy League and second at Dartmouth.

What got you started in basketball?

MW: Basketball is something that’s been a part of my life as long as I can remember. I don’t remember when I first started, but there are baby pictures of me with a basketball. I started playing when I was four or five and have been playing ever since.

What made you choose Dartmouth?

MW: After my visit, when I got on

campus and saw what it was like, in my mind, it was ideal. It’s what I imagined college to be — a community. I have definitely made some lifelong friends here, and it’s something that’s very important to me. It was also my best bet for a combination of a great level of basketball and education.

What is your favorite part about playing at Dartmouth?

MW: It’s the people, my teammates, the coaching staff. It’s just a group of guys, especially this year, more than ever, that come in with the same mentality and purpose which isn’t something that always happens or happens everywhere, so I really appreciate that.

What do you think it is about this year that’s making things different?

MW: Everyone on the team is just so close. There’s no one or two people on the team that are really not part of the team. We’re all friends on and off the court, and I think this is something that is very important for a team — that

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chemistry and those connections.

What are some of the team’s goals for the rest of the season and for the future of the program?

MW: Our goal for the rest of the season is not only to win but also to keep growing. Our last few games have all come down to the last minute of the game, last 30 seconds or overtime.

Those losses are pretty tough, but they are also learning experiences. Especially with the younger guys — five freshmen and five sophomores — it’ll be a learning experience because we’re definitely going to be in those situations again and knowing what we have to do to finish and execute will be important to pull out a close win rather than come out on the short end of it.

How did scoring your 1,000th career point feel?

MW: I didn’t even know that I had scored it; I just didn’t really think about it. One of my teammates congratulated me after the game, and that’s when I realized it had happened. It didn’t really set in until the next day just because it was such a tough loss. Losing by one point on the road in a game we should have won kind of takes away from it a little bit, but after I had some time to myself to think about it the next day, I had some time to be proud. It feels pretty

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Miles Wright ’18 scored his 1,000 career point against Cornell University.

good to know I’m in elite company when it comes to that.

You were named Ivy League Rookie of the Year your freshman year and have come a long way since. What advice would you give a first-year now that you have the knowledge and experience that you do?

MW: Looking back on freshman year, I didn’t really expect to get Rookie of the Year. I didn’t know about it until I checked my phone and saw all of the “Congratulations” texts I had gotten.

That was obviously a great moment that I got to share with my teammates and my family, but between then and now there have been some up and

downs, like some high scoring games and then a coaching change. I would tell my freshman self to remain confident through the good and the bad. We’ve lost a lot of tough games and a lot of close games, so I’d say to stay confident and not just focus on the end result.

What’s next? Do you have any plans to continue playing after graduation?

MW: I hope to play professionally in Europe. Ideally, I’d say Spain — I’ve heard great things about Spain. They have a great league over there, so I think that would be a great fit for me.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.

Women’s ice hockey drops two games to top conference teams

By JAKE PHILHOWER The Dartmouth Staff

Women’s hockey has faced a tough schedule in the past two weeks, playing both Eastern College Athletic Conference foes and top talent in the country. The team went on a difficult road trip to play two key Ivy League opponents last weekend in Brown University and Yale University.

On Jan. 26, the Big Green faced off against the Bears, who despite their record of 2-19, proved to be a tough matchup for the Big Green as they came out with a strong offensive attack and solid defense, posting two goals and allowing only one shot from Tess Bracken ’19 to find the back of the net in the first two periods.

The Big Green responded well in the third period however as Bracken proceeded to put on a show, netting two goals, including the game-winning goal with only 45 seconds remaining in regulation.

Brown was unable to find an answer for Bracken’s offensive efforts as her first career hat trick proved to be just enough to get the Big Green a vital 3-2 victory in Providence, Rhode Island.

“The game against Brown was actually my first game playing forward,” Bracken said. “It was a bit of a whirlwind. I just tried to get the puck on net and luckily it worked out in my favor, but it was definitely an amazing feeling.”

Though Bracken was able to fill up the box score for the Big Green, she wasn’t alone in putting in the work required to pull out this important win. Several other players had strong performers for Dartmouth. Their efforts went beyond the scorecard but did not go unnoticed by their teammates.

Captain Hailey Noronha ’18 noted Christina Rombaut ’20’s performance.

“There was one particular play when we were stuck in our zone for a minute or so and all five skaters were

gassed,” Noronha said. “Once the puck was chipped out, [Rombaut] gave it everything she could to challenge the Brown defender to get a whistle to allow everyone to change. That is one single play, but [Rombaut] plays with that kind of edge every time she is on the ice.”

The road trip ended on a bit of a sour note for the Big Green, however, as it suffered a 6-0 loss to Yale in New Haven, Connecticut. The first period featured a fairly competitive matchup between the Ivy League rivals, but a four-goal second period for the Bulldogs proved to be more than enough for a Yale win. The tough loss hurt the Big Green as every ECAC is important for the playoff picture.

At home this weekend, the Big Green women had their work cut out for them as they hosted No. 4 Colgate University and No. 5 Cornell University, Dartmouth’s fifth- and sixth- ranked opponents, respectively, in its last eight games.

Dartmouth suffered two losses

this weekend to Colgate 5-1 and Institute and Union University.

Cornell 3-1.

“For us, those These games will determine the fate are the games that are the easiest of this Big Green team as it tries to make headway in the to get motivated for,” Caroline “We always play ECAC standings and work toward a playoff Shaunessy ’19 better against said after the berth. The women are in 11th place, ahead of Cornell game. the better teams Brown only. To make “We always play and try to have better against playoffs, the Big Green will have to finish the the better teams the underdog and try to have mentality and regular season ranked within the top eight of the underdog knock them off mentality and the conference.

“I think our team knock them off when they aren’t is in a great place going when they aren’t expecting it.” expecting it.” into these games next T h o u g h weekend,” Bracken D a r t m o u t h -CAROLINE said. “We played a strong game against fell to a 5-17-1 SHAUNESSY ’19 Cornell and the games record on the against both Union and s e a s o n , t h e re were positive takeways from the RPI are definitely winnable.” weekend. The team played a gritty Dartmouth is scheduled to face off game against one of the nation’s against RPI at 6 p.m. at Thompson top teams in Cornell and is looking Arena on Friday as it looks to pick to pick up a few wins this weekend up a crucial win to kick off its Winter against Rensselaer Polytechnic Carnival home stand.