The Dartmouth Sports Weekly 9/18/17

The Weekend Roundup p. 2-3

09.18.17

Volleyball team looks to rebuild with six firstyears p. 8

Football team defeats Stetson University 38-7 p. 7

Potential golf course closure could affect varsity squads p. 6

Recounting the college athletic careers of Big Green coaches p. 4–5 ISHAAN JAJODIA/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

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The weekend Roundup

VOLLEYBALL

Men’s GOLF

Compiled by NATHAN ALBRINCK, EVAN MORGAN & CHRIS SHIM

T he men’s golf team opened the season with a fifthplace finish out of 16 teams at the Cornell Invitational.

At the par-71 Robert Trent Jones Golf course in Ithaca, the Big Green opened with a three-over-par 287, the fourth-best round of the day.

In the next round, the team climbed the leaderboard to second overall, leading the field with a 285. But a third-round 289 dropped the team down three spots. James

Turner ’21 and Riley Griffin ’20 each shot a one-over (214) to lead the team with Will Bednarz ’20 one shot behind.

Ian Kelsey ’18 was eight shots behind Bednarz to round out Dartmouth’s squad. The Big Green finished ahead of Columbia Univer sity and Brown University, two teams which Dartmouth beat out at the Ivy League Championship last year, as well as the University of Pennsylvania.

Wo m e n ’ s v o l l e y b a l l traveled to Durham, New H a m p s h i r e o n Fr i d a y to compete in the Holly Young Invitational, hosted by the University of New Hampshire. The Big Green b e g a n t h e i nv i t a t i o n a l against the University of Rhode Island, falling in a tight five-set battle.

Dartmouth started well, winning the first and third sets to position itself for a win. Rhode Island recovered in the fourth set, winning 2520, before ultimately besting Dartmouth 15-11 in the 5th set. Sara Lindquist ’18 led Dartmouth with 16 kills.

On Saturday, Dartmouth p l a ye d S i e n a C o l l e g e, winning in straight sets 25-

22, 25-18, 25-18. Mallen Bischoff ’21 led the Big Green with 14 kills and 10 digs, earning her first collegiate double-double.

Tori Dozier ’20 had 18 assists in the game.

In its second game of the day, Dartmouth played host UNH, falling 25-19, 25-23, 25-17. Dozier had another strong performance with 23 assists, 10 digs and a .500 hitting percentage. Maddy Schoenberger ’20 led the Big Green with 11 digs.

D a r t m o u t h ’s r e c o r d m ove d t o 4 - 5 i n n o n conference play. The team will play Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the conference-opener on Friday.

Ray Lu ’18 Editor-in-Chief

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Sailing Dartmouth traveled to three regattas for the second week in a row, heading to the Nevins Trophy at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, the Hatch Brown Trophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Stu Nelson regatta at Connecticut College.

The Big Green finished the Nevins Trophy in 11th out of 20 competing teams. Dartmouth had 21 single-digit finishes in a total of 45 races.

Georgetown University ran away with the victory, finishing with a total of 284 to the Big Green’s 450.

There was no wind on the Charles River on

Saturday, so the field of 20 teams ran just three races in the A, B and C divisions. The Big Green finished in the top five in all three A division races, but double-digit finishes in all B and C races meant Dartmouth finished the weekend in 10th.

The Big Green had its best performance of the weekend at the Stu Nelson regatta on the Thames River in Connecticut. The field of 18 raced six races in both divisions on Saturday under a southeast breeze, with Dartmouth picking up two wins and eight top-10 finishes. Dartmouth took third and fifth in its two races on Sunday to finish in sixth place overall.

FIELD HOCKEY

Philip Rasansky ’18 Publisher

Kourtney Kawano ’18 Executive Editor

09.18.17 Vol. CLXXIV No. 109 ISHAAN JAJODIA/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF

Evan Morgan ’19 Chris Shim ’18 Sports Editors

Nathan Albrinck ’20

Associate Sports Editor Eliza McDonough ’18 Hollye Swinehart ’18 Tiffany Zhai ’18 Photography Editors

The field hockey team lost to the University of Vermont and the University of Maine this weekend.

Field hockey fell to non-conference rivals University of Vermont 5-2 on Friday and the University of Maine 5-3 on Sunday. On Friday, Gemma Bautista ’19 and Kira Koehler ’21 each notched goals in the first half after the two teams went into intermission tied at two apiece.

However, the second half saw the Catamounts take the lead for good. Morgan Philie ’18 and

Evie Bird ’19 each picked up an assist.

On Sunday, Katie Spanos ’20 scored two goals and Carmen Braceras ’20 added one goal in the 5-3 loss. Hailey Valerio ’19 made eight saves, while Philie made one defensive save. Maine finished the way outshooting the Big Green 20-6 and held a 10-2 advantage on corners.

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WOMEN’S TENNIS

MEN’s SOCCER

TIFFANY ZHAI/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

Despite losing two seniors, the women’s tennis team opened its season this past weekend.

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After finding success in past seasons, the men’s soccer team continue to capitalize on offensive efforts.

Men’s soccer improved to 2-2 with a 1-0 win over the University of Massachusetts Amherst in its home opener on Tuesday. It was the fourth straight 1-0 game for the Big Green, and this time the lone goal came on a free kick in the 17th minute. Dawson McCartney ’21 lofted a free kick from the right side toward the front of the goal to Wyatt Omsberg ’18.

Goalkeeper Christopher Palacios ’21 was not forced to save any of the Minutemen’s four shots.

The offensive floodgates opened on Saturday night in a 5-0 road win against the College of the

Holy Cross. The Big Green went up 2-0 inside the first 10 minutes with goals from Noah Paravicini ’19 and Omsberg, both assisted by Justin Donawa ’19. In the 37th minute, Matt Danilack ’18 scored his first of the season off a rebound from the Holy Cross goalkeeper. The All-Ivy midfielder got a second unassisted goal five minutes into the second half. Eduvie Ikoba ’19’s goal in the 75th minute, his first of the season, iced the win. Dartmouth outshot Holy Cross 11-3 as Palacios earned his second clean sheet of the season.

FOOTBALL Football opened its season with a resounding 38-7 victory against Stetson University away at Spec Martin Memorial Stadium in DeLand, Florida this past Saturday.

Dartmouth looked strong on both offense and defense, dominating the rushing game while holding Stetson to one touchdown. Running backs Rashaad Cooper ’19 and Ryder Stone ’18 had 97 and 96 yards rushing, respectively, while Jack Heneghan ’18 threw for 71 yards, including a 27-yard completion.

The game was scoreless through the first quarter

after the Big Green fumbled twice in their own territory, but the team was able to prevent Stetson from gaining any ground.

In the second quarter, Heneghan rushed for 29 yards and Cooper carried it into the end zone to get the Big Green on the board. Stetson responded quickly with a touchdown of its own to tie the game, but kicker David Smith ’18 put Dartmouth in the lead for good with a 25-yard field goal. Jared Gerbino ’20, Cam Poole ’18, D.J. Avery ’20 and Matt Shearin ’19 all contributed touchdowns in the second half.

Women’s tennis opened its season this weekend at the Tribe Invitational in Williamsburg, Virginia. Dartmouth faced Old Dominion University, William and Mary College, and Iowa University over the three-day tournament. On Friday versus Old Dominion, Dartmouth struggled in its opening match of the season, losing all three doubles sets and all six singles matches. Abigail Chiu ’21 played the match of the day, falling 7-6, 4-6, 7-5 to Old Dominion’s Victoria Olivarez.

Allison McCann ’20 also fought to three sets before losing.

The Big Green returned to action Saturday against host William and Mary in an extended match that featured five doubles sets, eight singles matches and two exhibition singles sets. Julia Schroeder ’18 and Maddie Hwang ’21 were the lone Dartmouth pair to win in doubles, besting the Williams

and Mary No. 3 doubles team.

Chiu played a very efficient match, winning 6-1, 6-2 at the No. 3 singles spot. Racquel Lyn ’20 won her first match of the season 5-7, 6-4, 6-0. Hwang also won her singles match, and Shannon Mukerji ’18 won her exhibition set.

Dartmouth closed out the Tribe Invitational against Iowa on Sunday morning and played its best tennis of the weekend.

Lyn and McCann won their doubles set, but the Big Green fell in the other two doubles sets, yielding the doubles point to the Hawkeyes. Dartmouth fared better in singles, winning six of seven matches. Kristina Mathis ’18, Schroeder, Chiu, Lyn, Hwang and McCann won for Dartmouth.

Dartmouth retur ns to the courts on Thursday at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Oracle Masters in Malibu, California.

WOMEN’S SOCCER In a rainy road game at Northeastern University, the Big Green matched the Huskies goal for goal through the first half but could not answer the home team in the second half.

Northeastern’s Kayla Cappuzzo scored the first goal of the game in the 12th minute. Five minutes later, the Big Green’s Remy Borinsky ’19 responded on a free kick from 30 yards out, and the teams took a 1-1 tie to halftime.

Northeastern broke things open again in the 61st minute when

Kerri Zerfoss headed a Taylor Caparo corner into the back of the net. Northeastern continued to have opportunities on set pieces and connected on another in the 83rd minute to put the game away. The Huskies put offensive pressure on the Big Green all game, finishing with seven corner kicks to Dartmouth’s zero and 17 shots to Dartmouth’s 10.

Bianca Ribi ’18 and Borinsky led the Big Green with three shots apiece. Meanwhile in net, Mariel Gordon ’21 had eight saves.

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Recounting the college athletic ca

B y EVAN MORGAN and

The Dartmo

Buddy Teevens ’79 At Dartmouth: Head coach, football Collegiate career: football and ice hockey, Dartmouth College, 1975-1979 Honors: All-American quarterback, 1978 Postseason: guided Big Green to 1978 Ivy League title in football and helped Dartmouth to third place at NCAA hockey championship

Amy Fowler

At Dartmouth: Head coach, field hockey Collegiate career: University of Iowa, 1989-1993

*Stars on map indicate coaches’ undergraduate playing career locations

Position: sweeper Honors: All-American, 19901992 Postseason: 3 NCAAfinal four appearances Lost just one game in 1992, the NCAA championship game against Old Dominion COURTESY OF AMY FOWLER

“I thought what my coaches were doing was pretty special and never thought I had it in me to not actually have a hand on what is happening in the game.”

Wyatt Allen

At Dartmouth: Head coach, men’s heavyweight rowing Collegiate career: University of Virginia, 19972001 Walked on to the rowing team at Virginia By his senior year, pulled a 5:56 for 2000 meters Won gold medal at the 2000 Champion International Collegiate Regatta with the Virginia Varsity 8+ Won Olympic gold with the United States in Greece in 2004

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areers of Big Green head coaches

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outh Staff

Barry Harwick ’77

At Dartmouth: Head coach, men’s track and field and cross country Collegiate career: Dartmouth College, 1973-1977

Records once-held: mile run (4:09.10), 3200-m relay (7:35.60) Postseason: competed at 2 NCAA championships “When I came to Dartmouth, I didn’t think that there were many people that even thought about trying to qualify for nationals. I was very proud to be part of a group of guys that were ambitious enough and wanted to challenge ourselves to try to achieve that.”

Traveled to Pakistan as part of the USIA “Sports America” program, conducting clinics for coaches and athletes of the Pakistani national team in Islamabad

Ron Rainey

At Dartmouth: Head coach, women’s soccer Collegiate career: Virginia Tech University, 1987-1988 Wilkes University, 1989-1992 “As you get older ... you remember going out to practice, you remember some different things you did with teammates. You remember at the end of games when you’re up a goal and you have a buddy who’s on the wrestling team and he’s the one being the ballboy and he delays one or two minutes at the end of the game and you laugh about it.”

Chris Drake

At Dartmouth: Head coach, men’s tennis Collegiate career: Brown University, 1999-2003 Honors: unanimous All-Ivy, 2002 & 2003 Postseason: won Brown’s first-ever Ivy League Championship in 2002 after the team went 7-0 Ranked as high as 92nd in the world in doubles and was 10th highest-ranked American player Won ITA Region I Rafael Osuna Award for sportsmanship, academics and outstanding tennis

COURTESY OF RON RAINEY

Position: backer Honors:All-MiddleAtlantic Conference, 1989-1991

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Potential golf course closure could impact varsity teams several golf clubs in the Providence area.

The Dartmouth Senior Staff “As a resource itself, [the golf Dartmouth officials confirmed course] was instrumental in our earlier this month that the college development as a team,” Simmons is “evaluating” the operations said. “Just having that option to go of the Hanover Country Club. . and practice as a freshman, even Shuttering the golf course could if I didn’t have a car, was huge.” directly affect the Big Green golf Dartmouth’s golf teams already teams, according to former team face a competitive disadvantage members, whose players would due to winter snows which can lose an easily accessible practice stay on the ground until late facility and an important selling spring. Simmons recalled seasons point for recruits. in which the golf course did not Built in 1899, the 123-acre open until after the Ivy League country club has Championship its clubhouse at “The beauty of in late April. the far end of But according Occom Pond. Dartmouth’s course is t o S i m m o n s, I t s g r e e n s that it’s walkable for the accessibility front Hanoverof the course, o w n e d P i n e almost any student with its private Park on the west to get there...” driving range and extend as and practice far as Lyme holes, can partly Road on the -KENAN YOUNT ’06 compensate for east. the weather.

W h i l e “ O n popular with Monday on my walkers, joggers day off, I could and sightseers, go hit balls if not to mention it I wanted to,” serves as the site Simmons said. of Dartmouth’s “If suddenly a n nu a l c ro s s the course goes c o u n t r y private and invitational, they don’t allow the Hanover Country Club is Dartmouth golfers to do that particularly important to the anymore, you’ve lost a whole day College’s golf teams. Easily of practice for players who would accessible from campus, the golf want to go hit balls.” course serves as the men’s and The course is also a selling women’s golf teams’ primary point when recruiting high school practice facility. golfers.

“It’s a great course,” former “I can’t imagine what we’d tell a golf team member Tara Simmons recruit [if the club is shut down],” ’17 said. “It has its challenges Yount said. “They’re in the middle ­— some small greens, some blind of nowhere in New Hampshire and shots — but the staff at Hanover you have to drive 30 minutes to does a really good job keeping the the nearest golf course — I don’t course in good shape.” think that’s a bargain you could When Kenan Yount ’06 was a sell any potential recruits. You can member of the men’s golf team, practice on a driving range all you he and his teammates would strap want, but at some point you’ve got their golf bags to their bikes after to play.” class and head down to the course. A letter to the Valley News “The beauty of Dartmouth’s penned by Yount and Elizabeth course is that it’s walkable for Wegener ’08 and signed by more almost any student to get there, than 50 golf team alumni argued a five-minute walk down Rope that the course is an asset whose Ferry Road,” Yount said. “Almost value can be salvaged. no college has that proximity to “There remains unrealized the campus.” opportunity for improvement to W h i l e o t h e r m e m b e r s o f [Hanover Country Club] that the Ivy League have indoor would increase its value to the training facilities, the closeness campus and the community,” the of Dartmouth’s course to the letter said. “Selling the [country College is unique among the Ivies. club] now would also mean Princeton University and Cornell sacrificing forever 123 acres of University are the only other open air real estate … foreclosing members of the Ancient Eight that Dartmouth’s long-term options for have golf courses relatively close growth and development.” to campus. Columbia University Golf team alumni had not practices at the St. Andrew’s Golf been informed about the potential Club, a 20-minute drive away. changes to the golf course until Brown University does not have a news surfaced in mid-August. set course, instead rotating through Some alumni initially thought the

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news was not serious, according to Yount, but their outlook changed when athletic director Harry Sheehy confirmed the story to Yount and others in an email.

Sheehy stressed that “changes related to the facility are only a possibility at this time,” and the club is still accepting memberships for 2018. However, the tone of his message spurred alumni to action.

Yount said he and other alumni would like to see Dartmouth improving its facilities rather than closing them. He was concerned when College representatives were unable to refer him to a specific person who was in charge of decisions regarding the golf course.

“We have about 50 or 100 folks who want to donate their time, donate their resources, their ideas to help fix the situation, and they didn’t even have an idea of who to contact,” Yount said.

At the moment, the fate of the golf course remains up in the air.

College President Phil Hanlon, not the Board of Trustees, will have the final word on its future.

What would the golf program look like without the Hanover Country Club? It might resemble the University of Pennsylvania program, whose teams practice

at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, as Simmons described — would be nearly 20 miles away from their much more difficult. campus.

“We improved every year I was A 2016 story in the Daily at Dartmouth, slowly improving Pe n n s y l v a n i a n d e t a i l e d t h e our rank in the country and among challenges of practicing so far from the other Ivies,” Simmons said. campus. Because each practice In 2017, the women’s golf team requires nearly an hour of travel, tied for fifth in the Ivy League, Quaker golfers the program’s have to use their highest finish “We’ve had some time as efficiently in the past 13 as possible. seasons. of our greatest With the “To lose the one memories at the Hanover Country asset that we C l u b g o n e, t h e course and so have have would be B i g G re e n g o l f detrimental,” a number of nonteams would be in she added. a similar situation. golfers.”

A ccording to Likely candidates Yo u n t , m o s t for a new practice golf team f a c i l i t y a re t h e -KENAN YOUNT ’06 alumni agree.

Montcalm Golf “ We ’ v e h a d Club, 12 miles away some of in Enfield, and the our greatest Highland Golf memories at the C o u r s e, n e a r l y course and so 15 miles away in have a number Hartford. And the of non-golfers,” teams would still he said. “It’s have to cope with devastating for NCAA regulations which prohibit the team if we lose the course.” them from practicing more than Representatives for the Friends four hours per day. With the links so of Dartmouth Golf, the Hanover far from campus, informal practice Countr y Club and athletics ­— walking over to the course and administration were not available hitting balls on the practice holes, for comment.

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Football team opens season with win against Stetson University

By CHRIS SHIM

The Dartmouth Senior Staff

The Big Green football team opened its season with a 38-7 victory against Stetson University on Saturday night at Spec Martin Memorial Stadium in DeLand, Florida.

“It was great to get the first victory and do it on the road,” co-captain and starting quarterback Jack Heneghan ’18 said. “Last year, we opened up at home and so to open on the road and win was a good experience and one we want to use going forward.”

Earlier in the week, however, it was not clear whether the game would even be played. The threat of Hurricane Irma devastating the state put a question mark on the entire team’s trip to Florida.

“At the beginning of the week, we worried if we would even play the game because we didn’t really know the damage and how the land surrounding the stadium was,” linebacker Eric Meile ’18 said.

Elsewhere in Florida, college football programs had their practices and games postponed or moved as a result of the storm. The University of Central Florida was scheduled to play the Georgia Institute of Technology, but the game was cancelled after UCF’s Spectrum Stadium was

refashioned as a staging area during of the game, including a net loss of the cleanup effort. The University of three yards on 26 carries, while the Miami and Florida State University offensive line and running backs drove were unable to practice last week the attack on offense. until their campuses were reopened. “Our linebackers played really The University of Florida’s campus well, swarming to the ball; everyone in Gainesville, Florida survived was flying around to the ball making the storm with no major damage it difficult for the Stetson offense,” and hosted its Meile said. “Our matchup against [defensive backs] “...the credit goes the Univer s ity also played very o f Te n n e s s e e to the offensive well in coverage o n S a t u r d a y.

— all around, on line and the Fortunately, Stetson all levels of the avoided the brunt running backs... defense, everyone of the storm as well. played very well having those “Everything and made it seemed pretty clear guys makes it difficult for Stetson where we were at,” to make any plays, pretty fun for the running back Ryder and we held them Stone ’18 said. quarterback...” to seven points “You could clearly which is great.” see the damage The Big Green from the hurricane, -JACK HENEGHAN ’18 got off to a slow but there was a big start, highlighted cleanup effort in the by two fumbles in area and the game the first quarter was a rallying point that fortunately for the community did not have any so it was nice to see a big turnout negative consequences. After a there.” scoreless first quarter, running back The season opener was an Rashaad Cooper ’19 rushed for 10 impressive effort on both offensive yards to get the Big Green on the and defensive fronts. The defensive board. Stetson was quick to respond line held the Stetson attack to just and tied the game at seven apiece. A 94 offensive yards over the course 25-yard field goal by David Smith ’18

put the Big Green up 10-7 at halftime.

In the second half, the Dartmouth offense came alive. Immediately after halftime, the Big Green got off on the right foot with a nine-play, 71-yard drive to the end zone culminating in a quick one-yard run by Jared Gerbino ’20. On the next drive, Heneghan found senior tight end Cam Poole ’18 in the end zone for a touchdown, putting the Big Green in front 24-7.

The touchdown was the first of Poole’s career as well as his first catch.

Later in the third quarter, defensive back D.J. Avery ’20 intercepted a Stetson pass at the Dartmouth 30yard line into the endzone for a picksix. Running back Matthew Shearin ’19 put the finishing on the offensive attack with a 16-yard carry to put the Big Green up 38-7.

“The running game was huge in this game — the credit goes to the offensive line and the running backs,” Heneghan said. “Having those guys makes it pretty fun for the quarterback, so it was great to see all of those guys have such a huge day.”

Indeed, the Big Green came in knowing that the focus of its attack would be the running game.

“We came in knowing that they were a younger team and that they hadn’t had the best start of the season,” Stone said. “We did our study on film and saw that we could run the

ball against them and other teams had had success against them doing that in the past, and that kind of turned into our game plan for yesterday.”

After a long night of travel, the team returned to campus at 5:30 a.m. on Sunday with areas to improve.

“We want to pay more attention to detail on some of our assignments and continue to execute on offense,” Heneghan said. “We were still rusty on Saturday.”

The Florida trip also provided an opportunity for team bonding.

“We had a great time Friday, we had the opportunity to go see the beach for a little bit and go play in the water for a minute,” Stone said.

“So we just had some good time to just bond with the team before the game.”

The Big Green will face the College of the Holy Cross this Saturday in Hanover.

“Holy Cross is a very good football team — they beat a very good University of New Hampshire team [on Saturday],” Meile said. “And they have a very good quarterback, so they’ll be throwing the ball a lot so we have to play very well in the back end and coverage. If everyone does their job and we play 11-as-1, we should be successful.”

Kickoff against Holy Cross is at 7:00 p.m. at Memorial Field.

TIFFANY ZHAI/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF

After finishing 4-6 last season, Big Green football kicked off its season on Saturday.

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After loss of seniors, volleyball team rebuilds with six first-years in program history. To help replace the outgoing seniors, the Big The Dartmouth Staff Green added six first-years: Tola After graduating a record eight Akinwumi ’21, Mallen Bischoff seniors, second-year head coach ’21, Lauren Douglas ’21, Olympia Gilad Doron and the volleyball Nagel-Caland ’21, Elise Petit ’21 program head toward league and Leeza Poselski ’21, as well play with a young team in a as Tori Dozier ’20, a sophomore rebuilding year. The Big Green transfer from North Carolina (4-5) concluded tournament play State University. New assistant this past weekend at the University coach Marissa Prinzbach, a former of New Hampshire’s Holly Young Division I setter, adds playing Invitational, its third consecutive experience to the coaching staff. weekend tournament and the last With league play on the horizon, non-conference matchup before Doron has stressed the need for a the Ivy slate begins. higher level of commitment from Last season, with assistants returning athletes if they want this Eyal Zimet and Tara Hittle, the season’s outcome to be different.

Big Green finished with an overall “The recruits we brought knew record of 9-16, 2-12 in league why we were bringing them, so play and eighth in the Ivy League. for them it’s about the transition According to Doron, a host of from high school or club and how unforeseen circumstances affected much they have to commit to be the team’s performance. a student-athlete at Dartmouth,” “We had some major injuries, Doron said. “For the return[ing so we never got to see the team players], it’s more about how much in full potential,” Doron said. “I better did they get from last year thought the team worked really and what do I bring to the team hard, but unfortunately we didn’t to make us better knowing what get the results we wanted. We the coaches’ demands are.” started well, but once we lost our Doron considers this year’s starting setter [Stacey Benton ’17] squad to be an entirely new team. to a season-ending injury, things “It is a smaller g roup of forced us to try too many things.” players, and we have been working Sara Lindquist ’18, one of really hard,” three current Doron said. c a p ta in s a n d “With a new “We feel like the lone senior we have more program, there is of the team, talent where we found that it always an adjustment can be more took time both period and I think we competitive this for the coaches year.” to get used to definitely felt that Po s e l s k i h a s the Big Green last season...” felt the team prog ram and is slowly but the team and surely finding for the team to -SARA LINDQUIST ’18 its rhythm and get used to the figuring out coaches. the role each “With a new team member program, there needs to fill to i s a lw ay s a n make the team adjustment period and I think we successful. definitely felt that last season, but “Coming in, I think [Doron] we’ve definitely melded to each recruited a class that he knew other and we are all on the same would come in and make an page now,” Lindquist said. “[Last impact,” Poselski said. “Even year], we had a lot of talent and I though we lack a lot of seniority, think we went into the season with there is not a lack of leadership a lot of high expectations, but for on the team. Even as freshmen, whatever reason we had a hard anyone can come on the court and time finishing.” lead the team.”

At the end of last season, Going into league play, what Dartmouth lost eight players to both coaching staff and players find graduation, making the Class of is that any school can win on any 2017 the largest graduating class given night, depending on “who

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brings the edge and momentum,” according to Lindquist.

Doron expects improving on last season’s results to be a challenge.

“The league is much better than it used to be,” Doron said. “I think Princeton [University] and Yale [University] are very strong teams this year. Cornell [University] and Columbia [University] have a lot of returners and can stay up there, and I think Harvard [University] is always very talented, so it’s going to be a challenge for us every game.”

One goal for the Big Green is to beat the Princeton Tigers. Since 1977, Princeton has won 15 Ivy League Championships, putting it first among the Ivies with the most conference titles, with the University of Pennsylvania next at 10. Neither Dartmouth nor Columbia has ever won a league title. Dartmouth’s 1998 season, the

program’s best ever, finished with “We have to be patient and the Big Green tied for second with as long as we direct our players Princeton. and they are “[Princeton] “We have to be responding and getting definitely has a patient and as long target on their better, I have full confidence back,” Poselski as we direct our said. “We are that we will get players and they the underdogs, there,” Doron said. “Whether I t h i n k , s o are responding and we’re looking happens this getting better, I have ityear, to surprise next year full confidence that everybody.” or three years D o r o n we will get there...” down the road, said that the that is to be ultimate goal determined, for the coaching -GILAD DORON, WOMEN’S but I think we staff is to already see an bring an Ivy VOLLEYBALL HEAD COACH i m p rove m e n t championship, from last year.” the first in League play for p r o g r a m the Big Green history, but also noted that the begins on Friday, Sept. 22 against rebuilding process takes time.

Harvard.

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Following the loss of eight seniors, the volleyball team hopes to rebuild its program, beginning with six first-years.