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Joshua Monette ’19 died unexpectedly
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SOFTBALL FINDING STRIDE IN CONFERENCE PLAY
The softball team huddles before a home game this past weekend.
Student arrested for assault
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Dartmouth student Jarion Brown ’19 was arrested S a t u r d a y, A p r i l 1 o n assault charges, according t o t h e H a n ove r Po l i c e Department’s press log. The Valley News reported that Brown pleaded not guilty to felony seconddegree domestic assault and misdemeanor domestic
simple assault charges last week. According to documents obtained by the Valley News, Brown allegedly attacked his romantic partner after an argument in Andres Hall, pushing her into a chair and choking her. College spokesper son Diana Lawrence confirmed to The Dartmouth that Brown is a Dartmouth student but “is not enrolled at Dartmouth.”
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The Valley News reported that Brown was transported by police to the Grafton County House of Corrections in North Haverhill after the incident and has since posted his $7,500 cash bail. Patrol officers Gordon Cunningham and Michael Alterisio responded to the incident.
Joshua Monette ’19 died last week near his home in Neah Bay, Washington, College President Phil Hanlon wrote in a campus-wide email sent Friday. He was swept out to sea while harvesting seafood with a family member on the shoreline at Cape Flattery in Washington. He was reported missing on Sunday, April 2. The U.S. Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound and the Neah Bay Fire Department both began searches for him on April 2. The Coast Guard suspended its search on April 3, and the fire department suspended its search the following day. Monette was a member of the Makah Native American tribe and the Native American community at the College. He studied linguistics and Native American studies. Monette’s family held a celebration of his life yesterday in Neah Bay, and a memorial will be held on campus at a future date. A scholarship fund is being created in Monette’s memory. Donations can be sent to 1st Security Bank, c/o Rachel Venske for Joshua Monette, 134 W. 8th St., Port Angeles, WA 98362. In Hanlon’s email, he wrote that students, faculty and staff can speak to counselors through the Office of Counseling and Human Development, the College chaplain’s office, the dean on call and the Faculty/ Employee Assistance Program. Safety and Security can help community members find assistance 24/7 at (603) 646-4000.
The Rochester Americans announced the signing of Troy Crema ’17 to an amateur tryout contract on Friday afternoon. Crema made his debut for Rochester, the American Hockey League affiliate of the Buffalo Sabres, on Saturday evening in the team’s 5-0 win over the Utica Comets, but did not record a point. Yesterday, the team headed to Toronto, Crema’s hometown,
the Toronto Marlies but was defeated 4-3. ATOs are offered by National Hockey League, East Coast Hockey League and AHL teams and provide players who are leaving college or who have graduated from junior leagues with the opportunity to test their skills in the professional ranks. They are regarded as a low-risk, low-cost way for a team to assess new talent and fill their ranks with healthy bodies as the grueling minor league seasons play on. There is no
games limit for a player signed with an ATO, but the player is subject to being released at any time as they seek to earn a fulltime contact with a professional team. Crema led Dartmouth in goals (17) and points (29) this past season and was named to the All-Ivy First Team and ECAC Third Team at the conclusion of his senior campaign. The opportunity with Rochester marks the first step in Crema’s journey towards the professional ranks.
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Q&A with psychology professor Mark Detzer By REBECCA FLOWERS The Dartmouth
Psychology professor Mark D e t z e r w o rk s a s a c l i n i c a l psychologist at the White River Junction Veterans Affairs Medical C e n t e r. H e i s i n t e res ted in health psychology, the study of the influence of psychological processes on physical health, and his work at the VA Medical Center is devoted to pain management of chronic diseases. Some of his research has included improving pain management techniques in the field of health psychology for people with cystic fibrosis and adolescents with diabetes. Detzer teaches an undergraduate course every winter called Psychology 54.02, “Health Psychology.” What got you interested in the field of psychology? MD: My dad actually got his doctorate in theology and he became a minister, which was the plan, but eventually he wanted to teach, so he ended up teaching at the college level, and he was really interested in psychology of religion. He taught classes in medical ethics and was always interested in mind-body interrelationships. These days, people seem to be much more accepting of the mind-body connection, but in the old days often people that worked on the medical side did not see as much value on the psychology side. With any kind of change there’s a leading edge to that, so my dad would go to these conferences and I’d tag along with him where there were these world-renowned, certainly nationally known experts. So when I went to college, I went to University of California, Davis, which was a state school. I have always been interested from those early days of being exposed to mind-body health of the interrelationships, so I ended up majoring in nutrition science and minored in psychology. I wasn’t at that point ready to go on to the next steps, so I actually taught high school science for five years. That was my first career. I had only planned to do it for a couple years, but I really enjoyed it, so I kept doing it. I taught chemistry and physiology and spent time trying to decide what I wanted to do. Around that time, I got exposed to this whole sort of field that was developing around health psychology, the idea that there was a scientific study of these kind of things that really mattered to me most: how people manage their health and kind of the mind-body connection and how people think about their health and how we use the mind to help us better manage
our lives.
Why did you decide to work at Dartmouth? MD: I went to grad school at the University of Vermont and I went back out to California. I interned in the VA in Palo Alto and I did my post-doc at Stanford [University], so at that point I really thought I would end up in an academic medical center setting, kind of like I am now. But a job opportunity working with patients with chronic pain that was in the private sector was really appealing, and actually took us to Arizona, and what I found is I really missed working with a variety of patients. I really missed the teaching and learning process of an academic medical center setting. We loved New England and Vermont, and this job at Dartmouth-Hitchcock opened up and I applied and was accepted, and I developed a program for adolescents with chronic medical issues. I worked at Dartmouth Hitchcock across pediatrics and psychiatry, and during that time explored the idea of teaching a class at the College in health psychology, and the faculty were really receptive and supportive of that. [Psychological and brain sciences] has a very strong neuroscience department — it’s very highly regarded, with amazing professors in neuroscience, and at the same time they really value the application and the clinical part, so there’s several clinical psychologists like myself who are teaching more the clinical and applied classes. It ends up being a real nice win-win for everybody, I think. So, I started teaching at Dartmouth in 2004 while I was still at Dartmouth-Hitchcock. There was one point at which I was teaching both a first-year seminar in positive psychology and also the health psychology class. As I switched over to the VA for my clinical hospital work, I just got too busy with the hospital-based work, and I couldn’t manage two courses a year anymore and so health psych became the main course. With just a few exceptions, I’ve taught that pretty much yearly since 2004. What do you hope students take away from your class “Health Psychology”? MD: So I spend a little bit of time at the beginning of the class trying to get people oriented to that way of thinking about things. I always say it’s not a textbook class — at times I haven’t used a textbook, we use a lot of peer-reviewed scientific journals. There’s a high expectation of reading peerreviewed literature or scientific literature, and then I have popular press books that are written by
M.D. and Ph.D. doctors who are experts in the field and who are addressing some of the more clinical side of this. When there’s things like sleep, I have students track their sleep for a week and reflect on what they learned, kind of what patterns they see, get them to talk about it with each other and have larger group discussions. I remember a professor told me: “I don’t care if they come to class, if they can pass the test and get an A, then they’ve mastered the material,” and my approach to education is the opposite of that. I want them there engaged every class because that’s how they’re going to get the most out of this material and this method of education. I have a pretty strong bias on active learning and hands-on learning. We do a lot with mindfulness and health and mindfulness meditation over the course of about a threeto four-week period, and so I try to sort of spice it up with some guest speakers, and the students tend to really take to that. So my goal is to create a really dynamic atmosphere where the students take away a lot, and I think I tend to get people that are game for that.
What research projects are you currently working on? MD: At Dartmouth-Hitchcock we did a lot with cystic fibrosis. I worked a lot with the cystic fibrosis team, and some of that was looking at quality of life, and worked with a project with diabetes. Since I’ve been at the VA, I’ve been part of some papers that looked at immediate access to care. The model is really mental health of the future that we’ve been doing at the VA for a while now of embedding mental health into medical settings. We have several articles that looked at how to do that, how to embed, how to create sort of immediate access. This is an outpatient clinic that’s staffed to take walk-ins, and it’s sort of the entry point to mental health care at the VA. So, it’s how mental health should be, in my opinion. You shouldn’t have to wait two months to go see a mental health provider. If you have a mental health issue you should be able to go in today and have that assessed and then come up with a treatment plan and talk about different treatment options, whether it’s medicine or individual or group therapy or some combination of that, and so we do that in that clinic. One of the things that I spend a lot of time on in the course of the chronic pain work in the VA is we’ve developed a high dose opioid clinic for folks that have significant chronic pain and who have been
maintained on very high doses of opioids, and there needed to be closer monitoring of patients in that category. So we’ve put a lot of time and energy and work into that clinic over the last three years. We’ve presented the outcomes of that clinic, we’ve had a pretty significant tapering of opioid medications for people on very high doses, so that’s been really COURTESY OF MARK DETZER rewarding and hard work. Psychology professor Mark Detzer teaches “Health Psychology,” in addition to working at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
How do yo u t h i n k t h e b e h av i o rs of college students today, and Dartmouth students especially, are affecting their health? MD: One of the reasons why I like doing the positive psych stuff at the beginning is that it’s really trying to get them to look at their own values and strengths. I think at a place like Dartmouth, you guys obviously were all very highachieving folks in high school. That hasn’t changed — what’s changed is now all those people are all gathered together in one group of 1,000 or 1,200 as a class, and so I think students really struggle at having to not lose sight of their strengths and not feel like they have to do everything, and to try to just be comfortable with who they are. When it comes to the substance use, I think, like students at all universities, people under stress are at more risk for drinking more and using drugs. And so in the course of Dartmouth students’ health, part of why I try to hit the sleep stuff right away is — and believe me I relate to this — there’s a bit of burning the candle at both ends, and that can catch up with you. So I think sleep is really, really important for all kinds of reasons, health-wise. All that can kind of get thrown out the window once people start to get stressed, like two weeks in or three weeks in when the first set of midterms really hits. I remember a student told me one time, “I start behind and I never catch up.” And I think that’s the challenge and the stress of these trimester systems because it goes so fast. I think this
should be more than just getting your pre-med requirements done or getting all your business classes and networks set up so you’re going to be successful on Wall Street. So I think that Dartmouth students are at risk for overcommitting, not getting enough sleep and then overdoing it with partying. I think there’s a culture — a history with Dartmouth because of the all-male school. We’re still dealing with some of that even though we’re what, 50 years in since women have been part of the Dartmouth scene, and so I think there’s still this sort of struggle about how do you create the healthiest community possible. One of my final exam questions was writing a letter to President Phil Hanlon about how the students, based on the current state of the science of alcohol education and support for college students, based on the best peer-reviewed evidence as of 2017, would direct Hanlon to set up the best possible system for this 18- to 22-year-old population in terms of their relationship with alcohol and staying healthy. And I’m always so impressed with what the students put together for that, and how thoughtful they are, and based on their own experiences and just seeing what the literature shows makes a difference for college students. So, anyway, I really love them thinking about how they can be as healthy as possible and also at the systems level, could we be doing something better. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.
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Senior Spring: men’s Nordic skier Fabian Stocek ’17 p. 8 One-on-one with sailor Rebecca McElvain ’19 p. 8 Just a Bit Outside with Sam Stockton ’19 p. 7 The Weekend Roundup p. 4-5
Softball finding stride in conference play
Despite a subpar overall record, Dartmouth’s softball team has rattled off four straight Ivy League victories. p. 6 By Mark Cui
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Baseball
Photo by HOLLYE SWINEHEART/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF Matt Feinstein ’19 leads the Big Green with a .356 season average.
The Dartmouth baseball team split a game apiece in its doubleheader against Princeton University on Saturday at Red Rolfe Field. The Big Green dropped the first game 4-2 but pulled ahead in a tight second game to win 7-6. In the first game, Michael Danielak ’16 pitched six innings, conceding four runs on eight hits. The Big Green took an early lead courtesy of a two-run double from catcher Adam Gauthier ’16 in the bottom of the second but was held scoreless thereafter. In the second game, Dartmouth and Princeton traded runs in the first and third innings, before Dartmouth pulled ahead in the fourth off of an RBI triple from Justin Fowler ’18 and an RBI single from Michael Calamari ’20. Fowler went 3-for-3 in the second game, with one run and two RBIs. Dartmouth extended its lead to 7-3 in the fifth inning off of RBIs from Fowler and Calamari and a run from Kyle Holbrook ’18. A run by Princeton in the sixth inning narrowed the gap to three. In the eighth inning, Princeton’s Paul Tupper hit a pinch-hit two-
run homer to bridge the gap to 7-6, but Chris Burkholder ’17 was able to close out the game in the ninth inning. Cole O’Connor ’19 got the victory, after pitching five innings, giving up four runs on six hits with two walks and two strikeouts. On Sunday, the Big Green split its doubleheader against Cornell University, falling in the first game 2-0 but taking the second game 5-0. In the first game, Beau Sulser ’16 pitched a complete game, conceding two runs off of eight hits while striking out five. Matt Feinstein ’19 and Holbrook each went 2-for-3 during the game. Cornell’s runs came off of a solo home run from Will Simoneit in the fourth and an RBI triple from Tommy Wagner in the fifth. The second game was a different story for the Big Green, as Dartmouth shut out Cornell 5-0. Jack Fossand ’18 pitched seven innings of one-hit ball, while walking two and striking out two. Michael Ketchmark ’17 went 3-for-4 with two runs and an RBI. Fowler continued his stellar weekend with a 3-for-4 performance and a pair of RBIs. Also contributing RBIs were Holbrook and Calamari.
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Track and Field Both men’s and women’s track and field teams traveled down to Princeton, New Jersey, this past weekend to compete in the Sam Howell Invitational. The meet kicked off Friday afternoon with the long distance events. Performances to highlight include Ben Szuhaj ’19 and Sander Kushen ’19 placing eighth and ninth in the 10,000-meter run in 31:11.63 and 31:15.71, respectively. Will Shafer ’18 finished 16th in 9:52.50 in the 3000-meter steeplechase and in the 5000-meter, Sean Laverty ’20 placed 27th in 15:12.50. On the women’s side, Dartmouth was well represented in the 5000m. Leigh Moffett ’18 finished fifth in 16:53.68, Diana Vizza ’20 was 16th in 17:26.71, and Lily Anderson ’19 was 18th in 17:31.08. The only event off the track on Friday night was the women’s hammer throw. Amelia Ali ’19 finished 11th in the event with a throw of 152-01 feet/46.37 meters. The Big Green was well-represented on Saturday. In the men’s field events, Max Cosculluela ’17 won the pole vault, clearing 16-08.75 ft/5.10m. Alex Frye ’17 was fifth in the high jump with a 6-03.50 ft/1.92m leap, while Hendric Tronsson ’20 was fifth in the long jump with a 22-06.50 ft/6.87m jump. Lucas Ribeiro ’19 was seventh in the shot put with a 53-08.25 ft/16.36m. In the javelin, Cole Andrus ’20 and Ben Colello ’18 finished fourth and fifth with 199-10 ft/60.90m and 183-10 ft/56.03m throws, respectively. On the track, Parker Johnson ’19, Frye and Colello placed second, third and fourth in the 110-meter hurdles with times of 14.53, 14.64 and 14.78 seconds, respectively. Johnson also placed third in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 54.31 seconds, and Alec Eschholz ’19 was fifth in 54.80 seconds. Dartmouth had three compete in the 400-meter dash, with Amos Cariati ’18 in third in 49.23, Myles Holt ’20 in seventh in 50.44 and Zach Plante ’18 ninth in 50.57 seconds. In
the 800-meter run, Phil Gomez ’17 led the way for the Big Green with an eighth-place finish in 1:52.15, with Henry Raymond ’20 and Trevor Colby ’19 just behind in 10th and 11th with times of 1:52.50 and 1:52.77, respectively. Pat Gregory ’18 was sixth in the 1500-meter run with a time of 3:53.48, while Reed Horton ’19 was 14th with a time of 4:01.16. Guy Green ’17 was 10th in the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.17 seconds and ninth in the 200-meter dash with a time of 22.89 seconds. On the women’s side, Cha’Mia Rothwell ’20 was second in the long jump with a 18-05.75 ft/5.63m leap, while Folasade Akinfe ’20 was sixth, jumping 18-00.50 ft/5.50m. Akinfe was also second in the triple jump with a 38-04.25 ft/11.69m jump. Julia Valenti ’20 placed second in the pole vault, clearing 12-07.50 ft/3.85m. Ali placed sixth in the discus with a 123-01 ft/37.53m throw. Bridget Douglas ’18 was fifth in the javelin with a 128-08 ft/39.23m throw. Miranda Lawson ’17 and Maria Garman ’19 were 12th and 14th in the javelin, throwing 104-10 ft/31.95m and 89-02 ft/27.18m, respectively. On the track, Rothwell placed second in the 100-meter hurdles in 14.02 seconds. Nicole Deblasio ’19 was fifth in the 100m dash with a time of 12.25 seconds and fourth in the 200m dash in 25.15 seconds. Lawson was 13th in the 200m as well with a time of 26.49 seconds. In the 400m dash, Kayla Gilding ’19 was 14th in 58.61 seconds. The Big Green had five runners in the 800m run, highlighted by Helen Schlachtenhaufen ’17 finishing second in 2:08.79, with Bridget Flynn ’18 in fifth in 2:10.42 and Claire Dougherty ’20 in seventh in 2:11.43. Bridget O’Neill ’18 placed fourth in the 1500m run with a time of 4:29.70. Katy Sprout ’17 finished seventh in the 400m hurdles in 1:03.91.
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Equestrian Five Dartmouth equestrians traveled to Mount Holyoke College to take on the best riders in New England at the Intercollegiate Horse Association Zone 1 Championships. Two riders, co-captains Meg Rauner ’17 and Claire Bick ’18, nabbed spots at nationals by finishing second in their classes. Bick earned her nationals spot in the intermediate flat class after besting five other riders in a no-stirrups test. In her novice flat class, Rauner rode well in a no-stirrups and counter-canter test to clinch second
No. 4 Dartmouth had a right to feel confident ahead of this weekend’s New England Team Race Championship. The Big Green’s win at the Lynne Marchiando Trophy last weekend was its first New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association team race victory since 2002. Given the strong performance at the Marchiando, the New England championship was a disappointment for the Big Green. Dartmouth finished fifth, barely missing out on a spot at the 2017 Team Race National Championship. Boston College and Dartmouth both finished 14-9, but two losses to No. 2 Boston College sealed the tiebreaker in favor of the Eagles. Also finishing ahead of Dartmouth
place. Elsewhere in the ring, Sophie Lenihan ’20 was seventh in open fences, Storey Dyer Kloman ’17 was sixth in novice fences and Charlotte Johnstone ’17 was tenth in walk-trot. Also representing the Big Green at nationals will be Erin McCarthy-Keeler ’19 in the McDonald Scholarship Challenge and Olivia Champ ’19, the high-point rider in Zone 1 Region 2 in the Cacchione Cup.
were No. 1 Yale, No. 11 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and No. 12 Tufts University. The regatta was held at Tufts’ Mystic Lake, the only boathouse in the nation with a full fleet of Larks. After the first day of competition, Dartmouth led Roger Williams University by virtue of the tiebreaker, but Boston College rode a strong performance in the Round of 8 to sneak by the Big Green on Sunday. The No. 15 women’s team also competed at Coast Guard’s Emily Wick Trophy where it finished 12th in a field of 20 competitors. In 10 races on Saturday and five on Sunday, Dartmouth managed two top-five finishes in the A division and a four top-fives in the B division.
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CORRECTIONS Correction Appended (April 7, 2017): The article “Men’s and women’s rowers step off the ergs and onto the water” incorrectly stated that the team’s spring break trip lasted 10 weeks, not 10 days. This article has been updated to reflect these changes.
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Softball On Friday, the Big Green won 9-8 against Cornell University on a walk-off single by Alyssa Jorgensen ’17. Down two in the seventh, the Big Green’s rally started with a groundout by Tiffany Dyson ’18 that allowed Micah Schroder ’20 to score and tie up the game. The second game was postponed until Sunday. On Saturday afternoon, the women’s softball team won both games of a doubleheader against Princeton University at Dartmouth Softball Park. The Big Green scored a decisive 6-0 victory in the first game before clinching a 6-5 victory from behind in the second game. The first game was scoreless through three until Claire Bird ’18 broke through in the fourth inning with a three-run home run to left field. Dartmouth scored two more runs in the fifth courtesy of a two-run home run off the bat of Maddie Damore ’17. Dyson followed up with an RBI single to allow Bird to score the last run. Workhorse Breanna Ethridge ’18 pitched a complete game shutout, allowing only five hits with one walk and three strikeouts on the day. In the second game, the women’s team found itself down 5-1 after two innings of play after the Tigers scored four in the second inning. A home run from Morgan Martinelli ’19 in the third and an RBI single from Jorgensen in the fourth brought Princeton’s lead to two. The Big Green then put together a three-run fifth inning to take the lead. Morgan Ebow ’20 turned in five innings of work, giving up five runs on six hits,
Photo by ISHAAN JAJODIA/THE DARTMOUTH Calista Almer ’20 had a single and an RBI against the Tigers.
and Ethridge pitched two scoreless frames for the save. Dartmouth defeated Cornell on Sunday afternoon 3-1 in Hanover. Ethridge pitched her 11th complete game of the season, giving up one run on four hits with three strikeouts. The game remained scoreless until the bottom of the sixth, when Martinelli hit a two-run double and Bird brought her home with an RBI single to give Dartmouth a 3-0 lead. Cornell added on one run in the top of the seventh but was unable to string together a rally.
Rowing The women’s rowing team competed in the Class of 1985 Cup against Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania at the Housatonic River in Derby, Connecticut. In the varsity eight race, Dartmouth was third with a time of 6:14.6 over the two-kilometer distance, with the team from Yale taking the win in 5:59.9. The Big Green was also third in the second and third varsity eight races, with times of 6:29.7 and 6:47.5, respectively. In the varsity fours, Dartmouth finished third in 7:06.9 and was third in the B-race with a time of 7:12.5. Yale dominated, winning all five races during the cup. On Saturday, No. 8 Dartmouth men’s heavyweight rowing competed against No. 3 Yale University for the Olympic Axe in Derby, Connecticut. Yale edged Dartmouth in all four races en route to earn a comfortable win over the Big Green. In the first varsity eight, the Bulldogs bested Dartmouth’s time of 5:27.6 by just over eight seconds. The Big Green
rowed a 5:30.6 in the second varsity eight, while Yale finished in 5:23.4. In the third varsity eight, Yale’s time of 5:23.5 beat out Dartmouth’s 5:39.4, the biggest margin of the day. Lastly, in the fourth varsity eight, the Bulldogs edged the Big Green by just under two seconds. No. 10 Dartmouth lightweight rowing competed against No. 4 Princeton University and No. 8 University of Delaware on Saturday. Late in the first varsity eight race, the Big Green got debris caught in their rudder, causing the team to steer into the other lanes. Despite the hiccup, Dartmouth fell to Princeton by nine seconds and beat out Delaware by five seconds to finish the race in second place. In the second varsity race of the day, Delaware and Princeton finished in 6:29.8 and 6:35.5, respectively, while Dartmouth finished in 6:56.6. In the Big Green’s third and final race of the day, it crossed the finish line in 7:00.4, while Princeton won with a time of 6:41.5.
Golf Over the weekend, Dartmouth men’s golf competed in the Irish Creek Intercollegiate in Kannapolis, North Carolina. In the first round on Saturday, Will Bednarz ’20 led the Big Green with an even par 71. Sean Fahey ’17 and John Lazor ’19 also carded strong rounds, finishing with a 73 and 75, respectively. In the second round of the day, Ian Kelsey ’18 found his stride, scoring a teamlow 69, seven strokes better than his first round. Jeffrey Lang ’17 also scored his best round of the tournament in the second round, a one-over-par 72. The Big Green finished the day in 13th place. On day two, Lazor scored a 73 to lead Dartmouth’s final round efforts. Lang ended his weekend with a 76. As a team, the Big Green dropped one spot on the day to finish the tournament in 14th place. Dartmouth men’s golf has two weeks off before the Ivy League Championship in Greenwich, Connecticut on April 21-23. Dartmouth women’s golf traveled to Annapolis,
Maryland over the weekend to compete in the Navy Spring Invitational. On day one, Jamie Susanin ’17 led the Big Green with a 79, while teammates Maddie Nelson ’20 and Jessica Kittelberger ’18 finished with 82s. Dartmouth finished the day tied for fifth with host United States Naval Academy. On Sunday, Dartmouth matched the best round of anyone in the 12-team field with a team score of 310. Tara Simmons ’17 carded a 74, the lowest round of the day and the best round of any Big Green player in the tournament, improving her first-round score by 17 strokes. Kittelberger and Susanin continued their strong play, finishing with scores of 75 and 79, respectively. Individually, Kittelberger’s performance was tied for fourth best in the field, while Susanin’s was tied for sixth best. Behind the big day two effort, Dartmouth finished the tournament in third place. The Big Green has two weeks off until the Ivy League Championships on April 21-23.
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Lacrosse Dartmouth men’s lacrosse suffered a 13-6 defeat at No. 17 Yale University on Saturday afternoon. The Big Green was outshot 47-20 as the team continued to struggle on the road and dropped to 1-8 overall and 0-3 in Ivy League play. Leading scorer Richie Loftus ’18 led Dartmouth’s offensive effort with two goals and an assist. Attackman Ben Martin ’20 added to the score sheet with a goal, his 12th of the season, and an assist. Midfielder Jack Richardson ’20 led the team in ground balls with four. In net, George Christopher ’20 continued his strong play against Yale’s high-powered offense, making 15 saves in the loss. He was relieved in the final minute of play by Griffin Miller ’19 who did not have to make a save as the clock wound down. The Big Green looks to get off to a better start at home against University of Massachusetts, Lowell on Tuesday evening. Dartmouth battled to the end against the River Hawks last year in Lowell before dropping an 11-10 nailbiter. Dartmouth women’s lacrosse team fell 17-6 on the road at No.
11 University of Pennsylvania on Saturday afternoon. With the loss, the Big Green fell to 5-5 overall, and 0-4 in Ivy League play. Elizabeth Mastrio ’19 (2), Courtney Weisse ’17, Taryn Deck ’17, Kierra Sweeney ’19 and Ellie Carson ’20 all picked up goals for the Big Green. Deck and Campbell Brewer ’19 were also credited with assists. The due of Caroline Cummings and Alex Condon shined for the Quakers, as they torched the Big Green four goals a piece and kept Kiera Vrindten ’20 busy throughout the game. Vrindten continued to be a bright spot for Dartmouth, making 13 stops in the afternoon, including some big saves in the beginning of the contest to keep Penn from running away too quickly. Dartmouth held a 12-11 advantage in face off draws but was outshot 39-19 as well as out hustled on the ground, as Penn held a 20-8 advantage in ground balls. Dartmouth seeks to return to the winner’s circle on Wednesday at home for non-conference game against No. 17 Boston College at 3 p.m.
Tennis over Brown University. The duos of Wall and Horneffer and Broom and Fliegner started the day with doubles wins for the second straight match. Dartmouth took off from there, notching straight-set victories from Riccardi at No. 1 and Broom at No. 2. Brown got one back against Diego Pedraza ’17 at No. 6, Photo by TIFFANY ZHAI/THE DARTMOUTH but Wall sealed up the SENIOR STAFF Women’s tennis split last week’s pair of games. win shortly after with a 6-4, 6-2 triumph. A week after dropping its Ivy The women’s tennis team opener to Harvard University 4-1 clinched a victory against Yale on at home, the men’s tennis team Friday after also dropping its Ivy scored its first Ivy victory of the opener to Harvard a week before. season against Yale University on The women’s team defeated Yale Friday. 4-3 in a tight game that came down The doubles pairings of George to the final match. Yale pulled Wall ’17 and David Horneffer ’20 ahead initially with victories by the and Max Fliegner ’18 and Charlie No. 1 and No. 3 doubles positions. Broom ’20 scored the doubles point However, the women’s team dug in for the Big Green. The three singles and pulled through, with wins from wins for Dartmouth were in straight Taylor Ng ’17, Jacqueline Crawford sets. The deciding match between ’17, Kristina Mathis ’18 and Allison Wall and Andrew Heller was a close McCann ’20. match, with Wall pulling ahead Brown was not as friendly to the 7-5, 7-5. The Bulldogs only point Big Green, as Dartmouth fell 5-2 came from the match between Ciro to the Bears at home on Sunday. Riccardi ’18 and Yale senior Tyler Strong wins in doubles — 6-0 at Lu, who is ranked No. 60 in the the No. 1 position and 6-1 at No. Intercollegiate Tennis Association 2 — gave Dartmouth the doubles rankings. point. But Brown won five of the On Sunday, the Big Green six singles matches to turn its initial notched a decisive 4-1 victory 1-0 deficit into a convincing victory.
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After slow start, softball finding stride in conference play
important role one way or another on this team thus far this year, anywhere from starting to pinch Given its recent success of hitting to base running,” Ethridge two league championships in the said. “They have all jumped into past three years, the Dartmouth a specific role and have embraced women’s softball team faced high it, and they continue to compete expectations entering this season. with the upperclassmen every day However, with an overall record on the field, pushing us to be the of 6-21-1 thus far, the team has best players we can be.” fallen significantly below the high Maddie Damore ’17 echoed a expectations set for the season. similar sentiment, emphasizing After winning back-to-back that the freshmen and remaining league championships in 2014 members of the team have stepped and 2015, the team had another up in place of the ’16’s class. successful campaign last year. “The ’16’s were a big part of Finishing with an impressive 27-15 our team, but this year we’re seeing overall record and a 15-5 record in how a lot of people can step up conference play, the Big Green fell to different roles that need to be just short of the league title, losing filled,” Damore said. “We’re seeing 8-5 against Harvard University contributions from all aspects, in the final game of the regular whether it’s offense, defense or season. the bench. It’s good to see people So far, the team’s redemption take on new roles and take charge campaign has fallen flat this of filling those roles.” season. The team generally views the One major difference between season in two parts, according this year’s team and last year’s is the to Ethridge. In the preseason, personnel loss to graduation. Star the team travels down south or shortstop Katie McEachern ’16, out west to play some of the who holds school records in RBIs best competition in the country. with 129, runs with 128, home Following spring break, the team runs with 40, hits with 203 and begins to play Ivy League teams, a finished with a school-best batting stretch the team considers to be the average of .380, “main season.” graduated So far, in the “We had a rocky l a s t ye a r. I n main season, addition, the start, but we learned the team has B i g G r e e n a lot. We got a lot of seemingly turned added a total of things around. eight freshmen: the kinks out early “ We h a d a Calista Almer on, which will be very rocky start, but ’20, Sophia learned a lot,” important in the long we Au s mu s ’ 2 0 , Damore said. J a d e B r a v o run. It’s been a roller “We got a lot of ’20, Tatyanah coaster, but we’re kinks out early Castillo ’20, on, which will be Morgan Ebow currently hitting our very important ’ 2 0 , T e s s a stride” in the long run. Grossman It’s been a roller ’20, Micah coaster, but we’re Schroder ’20 -MADDIE DAMORE ’17 currently hitting and Loghan our stride.” Thomas ’20. T h e t e a m i s Given the loss currently on a of McEachern four-game win and the many streak, including new faces, two wins the team has over Cor nell gone through University and g r o w i n g p a i n s d u r i n g t h i s two wins over Princeton University. significant adjustment period. Ethridge attributed the wins as a “This season, we struggled total team effort. early putting everything together,” “I wouldn’t necessarily say there Breanna Ethridge ’18 said. “There was any key to the weekend we were days when two of the three had against Cornell and Princeton aspects of the game [offense, other than the fact that everyone defense and pitching] would be on committed to their roles on the and some days even three, but we field,” Ethridge said. “There struggled to find the [win] early.” wasn’t just two or three people who However, given the short time solely helped our team win, but frame and learning curve, the rather one through 18 contributed. first-years, comprising nearly half They were truly team wins.” of the entire team, have done an Damore added that the team admirable job adjusting on the has improved its defense and field. fixed many of the little things that “Each of them has played a very plagued them earlier in the season.
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“We’ve cleaned up our defense,” Damore said. “We’ve focused on the little things in practice, and the little things add up to big things in softball. Our pitchers have also done a heck of a job, and it’s clear that all the little pieces are starting to come together. The team has so far fared well against its Ivy League opponents, maintaining a solid 5-3 record in the conference. All three of its losses were by a mere one run — the team fell to Columbia University 4-3 and 6-5 on April 1 and lost to the University of Pennsylvania 8-7 on April 2. In general, the team places a premium on the Ivy League games since only the winner of the Ivy League moves on to regionals. Feeling confident, the team looks to continue its hot streak against Ivy League opponents. “Thus far, the Ivy League has been very unpredictable and each game has been a battle,” Ethridge said. “Currently, there is no team that is the top-dog, so every single game counts. At this point, every game in Ivy play is going to be a battle, and we are up [to] that challenge.” D e s p i t e i t s c u r re n t fo u rgame winning streak, the team understands that there is still much to fix. The Big Green hopes to continue improving and focusing on one game at a time as the season progresses. “Even after the good weekend, we recognize that there is still quite a bit to work on,” Ethridge said. “One of our sayings this year is ‘turn the page.’ Even though we had a good weekend, now it’s time to focus on the next weekend. Every day is an opportunity to learn and grow from the past. One thing we learned from last year is to not focus too much on the future, but rather focus on the next game or even the next out. Each game at this point matters so much that we can’t put too much pressure on what we hope to accomplish this season.” Propelled by its recent win streak, the team maintains lofty goals for the season, hoping to win the Ivy League and move on to regionals. Damore, however, understands that unlike last year, each game will be a tough and close battle. “The main goals are to win an Ivy League Championship and bring it back to Hanover and to get to Regionals,” Damore said. “We hope to continue getting all the pieces to work together. The games are going to be dog fights this year, but it will be an exciting rest of the season.” The team will host Brown University next weekend in a fourgame series.
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Breanna Ethridge ’18 has started 18 of the Big Green’s 28 games this season.
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Just a Bit Outside with Sam Stockton ’19 Just A Bit Outside: On Kyle Schwarber and The Perfect Lineup in 2017 0 for 4, 0 hits, 1 walk, 2 strikeouts. That is Kyle Schwarber’s stat line from the 2016 regular season. Schwarber, an Indiana University product, played just two games last season before tearing the ACL and LCL in his left knee in a collision with Dexter Fowler in leftcenter field. If you don’t understand why Chicago Cubs brass is so high on Schwarber, consider the following: .412, .500, .471. That is Schwarber’s slash line from the 2016 World Series, stats the Ohio native accrued after playing no pro baseball between early April and late October. When asked before Game 1 of the Fall Classic began when he thought he might be able to return to the Cubs lineup, Schwarber responded “about six days ago.” Schwarber’s comeback is perhaps the most impressive feat in recent baseball history. Not only did the powerful lefty come back with unprecedented expedition, he returned to the lineup as if he’d never left. With only a pair of Arizona Fall League games under his belt since the injury, Schwarber ripped a double off the wall that came just shy of being a home run and drew an impressive walk against Cleveland Indians star reliever Andrew Miller. In the offseason, Schwarber became a topic of fascination for Cubs fans. He had spent his entire baseball career as a catcher until just before his big league debut in 2015. But the Cubs were reluctant to put him behind the plate and potentially take years off his career, a hesitance exacerbated by Schwarber’s knee injury. He has spent most of his major league career in left field, where much has been made of his perceived deficiency. Many pundits speculated that the Cubs would trade Schwarber, talks that dated back to the trade deadline last July, when he was frequently discussed as a potential trade chip as the Cubs sought to find a left-handed reliever. Ultimately, the Cubs acquired the lefty reliever they sought, Aroldis Chapman, without trading their promising youngster. Schwarber came back, and the Cubs won their first World Series since 1908. However, questions still remained. Where would Schwarber play in the field? Was it worth it to keep him
around if he appeared destined to spend his career as a sub-standard left-fielder? Wouldn’t he be more valuable to an American League team who could use him as a designated hitter and save him the trouble of the field altogether? Then, manager Joe Maddon made a surprising announcement: Schwarber was the leading candidate to take over the role of leadoff man. The move defied traditional baseball wisdom. The archetypal leadoff man is small, a base stealer, and not much of a home run threat. With all due respect to the bag he craftily nabbed in Game 7 of the World Series, Schwarber is none of these things. At 6 feet and 235 pounds, he is by no means small. One of his greatest strengths is his ability to hit a baseball out of sight — check out the home runs he hit in the 2015 playoffs if you don’t believe me — not grinding out infield singles. But let’s reconsider the leadoff role for a minute. Schwarber does fit many of the basic needs. He has an excellent eye at the plate, seldom chasing pitches he can’t hit and frequently drawing walks. Based solely on his ability to work counts and get on base, he is a valuable asset at the top of a lineup. His ability to hit for power is more of a bonus than a disqualification for the leadoff role. For obvious reasons, the leadoff man inevitably gets more plate appearances than any other player on the team — he who hits first in the order will come to the plate most often. Schwarber, one of the best hitters in the league, will hit more often by virtue of batting at the top of the order than he would if he were relegated to fourth or fifth, spots that power hitters with limited speed have traditionally occupied. This advantage becomes even greater when you consider who hits in Schwarber’s vicinity. Batting second and third for the Cubs are Kris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo. Rizzo was in the discussion for Most Valuable Player last season and is capable of delivering timely hits and home runs. Bryant, in case you’ve been living under a rock for the past year or so, is the reigning National League MVP, an excellent hitter and base runner. Each of these three hitters has a legitimate case to claim the title of “best hitter in baseball.” None of them is a prototypical leadoff man. Schwarber, though, has an elite ability to get on base in addition to his power. Thus, he is a consistent threat to be on base for Bryant and Rizzo, and because he hits leadoff, he forces opposing starting pitchers to face the Cubs’ star trifecta in order in the first inning of every single game. Schwarber, Bryant, Rizzo. That’s a scary thought for a pitcher to fall asleep to the night before a playoff game and an easy way for the Cubs to strike quickly in every game they play. Another point worth mentioning: according to statistical simulations, the order in which your nine hitters hit is far less important than who the nine hitters are. The Cubs lineup on any given day will be occupied almost exclusively by
elite major league hitters. While it is fun to speculate at the possible order in which those hitters will be deployed, the reality is that order does not matter very much in the long run. With this in mind, the most relevant conversation around Schwarber is not about his value as a leadoff man but about his ability to be a leadoff man for the 2017 Chicago Cubs. Their lineup is collectively exceptional, almost to a man, yet has no obvious leadoff man. In 2016, Fowler could hit for power, get on base, steal bases and work counts, but the centerfielder signed with St. Louis in the offseason. Perhaps the most natural fit at the leadoff spot is super-utility man Ben Zobrist. Zobrist excels on both sides of the plate, controls the strike zone with his plate development and can extend at-bats by fouling off borderline strikes. However, for these same reasons, Zobrist fits ideally behind Schwarber, Bryant and Rizzo to protect the muscle at the top of the order. Maddon, who has established that he prefers to hit Zobrist behind the Cubs top trio rather than in front of it, refers to Zobrist as the ideal “protector” in the lineup, particularly because he can switch hit so effectively. It is also important to bear in mind the depth of the Cubs lineup. The Cubs’ Javy Baez, Albert Almora Jr. and Jason Heyward will often hit late in the lineup but get on base regularly. It’s not as if Schwarber will never bat with ducks on the pond. In the third game of the young 2017 season, Schwarber walloped a three-run homer to give the Cubs a lead in the rubber game of their three game opening set in St. Louis, proof that it won’t be a season of solo bombs from the Cubs’ answer to Babe Ruth. Even if all of this makes sense, there’s one concern left: if he can’t field a fly ball in left, how much can his bat help? The primary exposure of the casual baseball fan to Schwarber in left field is the 2015 National League Championship Series. In that series, a four game sweep to send the Mets to the World Series, Schwarber misplayed a few fly balls and at times looked lost in left field. It feels worth reiterating that Schwarber had only been playing left field for a year or so when he injured his knee. While most big league players can make defense look easy, that ease is the product of thousands of repetitions over the course of a lifetime playing baseball. Schwarber actually shows plenty of natural ability in left field, reading the ball well and taking good routes in pursuit. He just needs to develop a feel for the position by playing it more. That feel will come with time, especially because Schwarber is a better athlete than most give him credit for. Schwarber was an all-state linebacker in Ohio, receiving plenty of attention as a football recruit before opting for baseball at the IU. To sum up a wide array of thoughts in only a few words, the Cubs may have the perfect lineup. Watch out for a full season of Kyle Schwarber.
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17 Consecutive games that Kyle Holbrook ’18 has reached base, the longest streak for Big Green baseball so far this season
+7 Bump in sailing team world rankings, from No. 11 to No. 4
11 Number of years since the College of the Holy Cross baseball team last defeated Dartmouth, before Wednesday
74 Golfer Tara Simmons ’17’s score on day two of the Navy Invite, tied for best score of the tournament
18 Total games started by softball’s Breanna Ethridge ’18, who averages 5.12 innings per game
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Senior Spring: From the cradle of skiing to king of the hill
By JONATHAN KATZMAN The Dartmouth Staff
It couldn’t be more fitting: Dartmouth’s top cross-country skier hails from a town known as the “the Cradle of Czech Skiing.” Surrounded by a family of Nordic enthusiasts, Fabian Stocek ’17 discovered his passion for cross-country skiing at a young age in the small town of Jilemnice, one of the Czech Republic’s northernmost towns, right on the edge of the Krkonoše mountains. “My parents and relatives all did Nordic,” Stocek said. “I also did a bit of snowboarding because my father snowboarded, but I was much more interested in cross-country skiing than alpine due to the influence of those around me.” Despite hailing from Eastern Europe, Stocek’s high school is a familiar name at Dartmouth. The Holderness School is a private prep school located just outside of Plymouth, New Hampshire, about 50 miles from Hanover. Holderness’ Nordic program, under the guidance of former U.S. Nordic Team coach Pat Casey, is second to none, with a long tradition of producing world-class athletes like Olympians Charlie Kellogg and Carl Swenson. Stocek spent his sophomore
year of high school, his first in the United States, at Hopkinton High School in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, where he lived with a homestay family before moving on to Holderness. While Stocek has made headlines this year on the snow, skiing wasn’t what drove his move to the U.S. “When I was 15, some of my cousins and family friends did a year abroad, and I figured I might as well try going abroad as well to learn English better than I had,” Stocek said. “I also thought it would be valuable life experience to be away from home and really have to figure out what the real world was like.” Had Stocek not spent two years at Holderness, he may not have found his way to Dartmouth. At Holderness, the Nordic standout came into the orbit of Head of School Phil Peck ’77, a former member of Dartmouth’s Nordic team and a former assistant coach with the U.S. National Nordic ski team. Stocek, a neuroscience major, credits Peck’s influence, as well as the tremendous research opportunities available to undergraduates, as the most significant factors in his decision to attend Dartmouth. Stocek spent the first two years of his Big Green career in the shadow of NCAA champion Patrick Caldwell ’17. When Caldwell left after the 2015
ONE ON ONE
with Rebecca McElvain ’19
By SAM HUSSEY The Dartmouth Staff
At the Lynne Marchiando Trophy in Boston, Massachusetts last weekend, Rebecca McElvain ’19 helped the Big Green sailing team win its first conference team race in 15 years. McElvain, one of Dartmouth’s top crews, and teammate Charles Lalumiere ’17 swept the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association weekly awards. W hy did you choose Dartmouth? RM: I chose Dartmouth because I definitely knew that I wanted to go somewhere on the East Coast and New England for sailing — it’s where sailing is most competitive. Dartmouth was one of my options, and when I visited I really liked it. The team was super inviting, and it really was a family culture.
What was the transition to collegiate sailing like? RM: My high school team was very disciplined, and we happened to have a very similar schedule to college sailing as far as practicing every day and putting a lot of time into our practices and our regattas. I think that made the transition into college sailing much easier for me because college sailing is so time-consuming. Can you describe your training, both in and out of season? RM: In season, it is a lot. We have practices four times a week and regattas every weekend. We usually get two weekends off in the fall. The offseason is a little more relaxed. We will have three lifts a week and some meetings once a week to talk about sailing and strategy. Spring is our championship season, so we will have nationals in June, and that is where all of our practice comes together. Spring is a little difficult.
season for the U.S. Ski Team, Stocek became an important team contributor during his junior year. But it wasn’t until his final season in the Green and White that he really exploded. Stocek went six straight weekends — the entire carnival season — with victories, picking up wins at the St. Lawrence Carnival, University of New Hampshire Carnival, University of Vermont Carnival, a pair at the Dartmouth Carnival, one at the Middlebury Carnival and gold at Eastern Regionals. A spot on the EISA All-East First Team complemented his stellar season, which fittingly concluded with the NCAA Championships in Jackson, New Hampshire, where he was the top-seeded Eastern division skier in both the 10-kilometer and 20-kilometer races. In 2016, Stocek missed out on AllAmerican status by a hair, finishing 11th in the 20k classic at the NCAA championships. This year, the senior finally nabbed the prize that had eluded him. His fifth place finish in the 20-kilometer event, just two seconds behind the winner, earned him First Team All-American honors. “I had been hoping to achieve AllAmerican status for the past two years, and after a 11th place finish last year, I figured I would stick with it for one
more try,” Stocek said. “I think the race specifically was one of the most exciting in my career because I knew the whole race that could have potentially landed myself on the podium. At the end I had a surge and thought I potentially could win because the result was literally down to the finish line.” Going forward, Stocek is looking to push himself even further. He will remain on campus the summer after his graduation as he seeks to publish neuroscience research on habitual behavior before applying for graduate programs in Europe. He will take next year off to focus on skiing, mostly through “marathon races” in both Europe and China. While Stocek’s longest collegiate races were 20 kilometers, marathon races can stretch to as many as 90 kilometers, making them skiing’s ultimate test of strength and endurance. A spot on the Czech Republic’s 2018 Olympic team remains the dream, though Stocek insists on remaining realistic. “I tried to qualify for the Czech team last year, but it did not work out just by a little bit,” he said. “I am still going to try this year to shoot for the Olympics in two years. I will do enough training to achieve that, and if it works out, great. I am happy to change my plans for the next few years if it does.”
If anybody knows how to put in the kind of work needed to compete on the international stage, it is Stocek. Balancing rigorous course work with extra time in the lab and as many as 700 hours of ski training in a single year, Stocek embodies all that an Ivy League athlete is supposed to represent. As Stocek climbs to greater heights, he will look back on his Dartmouth experience fondly. “You can go mountain biking or run with members of the U.S. Ski Team before class, and then sit down for a lecture with one of the most accomplished professors in his or her field,” he said. “In the afternoon you can go work in a lab and then even dedicate time to community service and activism before meeting your professors for drinks. The great outdoors, combined with research opportunities and cool people, makes this place pretty special.” As Stocek’s senior spring progresses, it’s hard to say where he could be found at a given moment. He could very well be biking through the mountains, lifting in Floren Varsity House, studying in the classroom or researching in the lab. Rugged, outdoorsy, brainy, accomplished. Stocek sounds like the prototypical Dartmouth guy. Just don’t test him on the snow and expect to win.
The winter weather makes it hard to practice in New Hampshire, but we travel to Boston twice a week to get in the time we miss here. It is a lot of time commitment, but it’s worth it.
challenging.
A lot of other teams let that affect them. You could hear it when they were talking about not wanting to sail, and we just make it a rule not to talk about how that affects us. We forget about that and think about sailing. I think that’s what really helped us on Saturday, and then Sunday was a lot easier sailing-wise. It was sunny and nice with a wind that was a bit easier to sail in, so I think coming off of a good first day helped us in the second day and increased our confidence about the regatta.
How would you describe the dynamic of the team? RM: In my two years here, I think this year the team has been by far the most determined and disciplined. We have made the biggest improvements because of that. I think that we are a lot more confident this year as well in our ability to have a chance at winning nationals, which is pretty huge. All-inall, we are a family-like group. We are all friends but we push each other a lot too, which is good.
How have you seen the team’s performance change from the fall? RM: At the beginning of winter break, we had a week-long training trip in Charleston, South Carolina, and then again during spring break. In the transition between the fall and the spring seasons, it matters a lot how much effort we put into those two training trips, and I think these were the most productive training trips we have had. A lot of the seniors say the same, and it’s reflecting in our performances in the spring so far. We had a good fall season, but I think we’re going to have an even better spring season because of that.
What has been the most challenging aspect of sailing? RM: I think the most challenging aspect is being able to stay level-headed, especially with team racing. You will see other teams’ boats yelling at each other between races. It’s very easy to be frustrated when things don’t go your way. There is a lot of bad luck to be had with sailing — a lot of things that don’t work out the way you want them to. Obviously, conditions also make it
What can you tell us about the recent Lynne Marchiando Trophy? RM: There was a high level of competition there, and I think that was encouraging for us to perform our best, and it was a trial run for what nationals will be like. It was tough conditions on Saturday. It was snowing and pretty windy, but our team is really focused on being mentally prepared and not letting difficult conditions get to us.
How are you and the team going to build on this momentum? RM: I don’t really have anything to compare to. I think our team has been pretty good as long as I have been at it. I think we deserved to win it. There have been many opportunities to win in the past where we barely haven’t and there will be more opportunities in the future. It’s exciting for it to be our first win in a while, but I think that the results don’t necessarily reflect our abilities. It was deserved, but it wasn’t surprising. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.