The Dartmouth Sports Weekly 9/12/16

09.12.16

Breaking Down the Boat

BRIDGES JOINS RUGBY STAFF p.6

THE PRESEASON ROUNDUP p.2-3

HOT TAKES WITH MAX ZHUANG ’19 p.7

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The Preseason Roundup Compiled by Ashley DuPuis

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Women’s soccer “So far we’re off to a pretty great start... We’ve got a strong incoming class, [and the rest of the season] it’s looking very positive… I always look forward to [Ivy] League play. With women’s soccer it’s always incredibly competitive and exciting.”

- HOLLY PATTERSON ’17, CO-CAPTAIN returning to Hanover on Sept. 9 for the Dartmouth Invitational, again displayed impressive prowess on the court. The team prevailed over Central Connecticut State University, Niagara University and University of Hartford but suffered their first loss of the season against the United States Military Academy.

The Big Green will continue tournament play next week at the West Virginia Invitational Sept. 16 to 17. The regular season will kick off on Friday, Sept. 23 in a home match versus Harvard University. The team will be led by captains Emily Astarita ’17 and Kaira Lujan ’16, under the direction of new head coach Gilad Doron and first year assistant coaches Eyal Zimet and Tara Hittle.

VOLLEYBALL

Finishing third in Ivy League play with a program best of 9-5 in regular season play, the Big Green’s 21-player roster will see 16 returnees, including eight seniors, comprising the largest graduating class in the program’s 23-year history. Looking to improve on last year’s recordbreaking season, Dartmouth women’s volleyball returned to the court on Sept. 2 as part of the Sacred Heart Hampton Inn Invitational.

In their first match of the season, the Big Green faced the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, sweeping the Panthers in three sets. The team went on to dominate the tournament, defeating George Mason University and Sacred Heart University in each set. The Big Green,

Despite finishing seventh in the Ivy League, Dartmouth women’s soccer allowed only 12 goals during the 2015 season, which was the second-fewest goals allowed in the Ivy League.

Looking to improve on last year’s overall record of 8-4-4, the Big Green will rely on the strengths of returning and incoming players to compensate the loss of four seniors to graduation, including last season’s

leading scorer Lucille Kozlov ’16. The team will be captained by veterans Holly Patterson ’17 and Hayley Snyder ’17, and has added seven rookies to the roster.

Kicking off the 2016 season, the Big Green returned to the field on Aug. 26, defeating Marist College at home 1-0 after two overtimes. The team continued its home field attack triumphing over Iona College 3-0.

The early win streak ended with

a loss at Wake Forest College on the road, followed by a win at Gardner-Webb University.

The Big Green returned home this past week with another loss against Central Michigan and a 1-0 win against Fairleigh Dickinson on Sunday.

The team has two more preseason games lined up before starting Ivy League play on Sept. 25 at home facing Brown University.

Photo by ANNIE DUNCAN/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF Women’s soccer, only having lost four players, looks for a stronger finish this season.

Photo by GAYNE KALUSTIAN/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF With a 6-1 record, volleyball is poised to have one of its all-time best seasons.

football “[Despite senior losses] we have more depth than we may ever have had... The incoming class just added to the players we already had… [The scrimmage against Harvard] was very encouraging [with] offense complementing defense.”

- BUDDY TEEVENS, HEAD COACH The Big Green looks to defend its share of the Ivy League title after splitting the championship three ways with Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania in 2015.

The 2015 campaign saw Dartmouth achieve its first conference title in 19 years, its 18th title in program history. The team’s overall record last year of 9-1 is its best since 1996, in addition eight players earned All-Ivy First Team honors.

The Big Green will kick off the 2016 season with a game against the University of New Hampshire at home on Sept. 17.

Ivy League play will commence Sept. 30 with a home game against Penn. In the 2016 Football Preseason Media Poll, the Big Green are predicted to finish third, with Harvard and Penn claiming the first and second spots

respectively. Although it is important to note that over the past seven seasons, Dartmouth has finished higher in the final standings than was predicted by the media poll. While the Big Green likely lost the most players in the league with 17 starters on offense and defense graduating, the team still shows promise in returning players and in newcomers.

The team’s leader in yards rushed, Ryder Stone ’18 returns, as well as receivers Houston Brown ’17 and Jon Marc Carrier ’17 who achieved a combined 40 catchers, 568 yards and five touchdowns. All of Dartmouth’s kickers will also be returning, including two time All-Ivy Second Team punter Ben Kepley ’17.

The team will be captained by seniors Folarin Orimolade ’17, Brandon Cooper ’17 and Dave Morrison ’17.

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men’s soccer

- MANNY ARTEAGA ’17, CO-CAPTAIN Hermann Trophy watch list.

The team will also see a strong and deep leadership bench with captains James Hickok ’17 and Manny Arteaga ’17, and assistant captains Omsberg, Tyler Dowse ’18 and Matt Danilack ’18. Reigning Ivy League Coach of the Year Chad Riley will also return to the team for his fourth year as head coach. Joining him will be assistant Ryan Fahey, bringing three years experience with the team, and new assistant coach Brian Plotkin.

The Big Green began its season at the start of the month, ending its two first games, against the University of Kentucky and Xavier University, in double overtime ties. Over the last week, the team held its home opener against the University of Washington, a game which ended in the Big Green’s first lost of the season. On Sunday, the team bounced back to gain a late game victory over Seattle University.

Regular season play will commence at Princeton University on Oct. 1.

Photo by GAYNE KALUSTIAN/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF Men’s soccer is showing up on the national stage this season, receiving votes in the NSCAA Coaches Poll and landing at No. 20 in RPI.

rugby In its second year as a varsity team, the Big Green looks to defend its Ivy League 15s title this coming season. Last year’s play came to a rousing conclusion with a comeback win over the defending champion Brown University Bears. The team looks to build off of last year’s success and raise the level of competition, scheduling seven teams that qualified for the inaugural Women’s Rugby Varsity 15s National Championship last year on this year’s calendar.

The 2016 campaign kicked off on Sept. 3 in a home opener against American International College.

Dartmouth prevailed over the Yellow Jackets, who finished third in country last season, winning by only a two-point margin after a late game surge by their opponents. The next week, the Big Green could not continue their success, falling 12-63 to the United States Military Academy. Dartmouth came out strong with an early try and successful conversion, leaving Army ahead by only one try at halftime; however, the Black Knights turned the tables during the second half, scoring 51 points. The Big Green will commence Ivy League play this Saturday at Brown

field hockey

University, returning to Hanover on Sept. 24 to take on Columbia University.

Six freshmen and one transfer student from Norwich University with two years of eligibility remaining join the Big Green for the new season, Frankie Sands ’18. Sands was named to the Women’s National Team player pool. The team will be captained by Ashley Zepeda ’18 and Camille Johnson ’19. The team’s coaching staff has also expanded with the addition of Stacey Bridges, who is a current member of USA Rugby’s Women’s National Team.

“I feel like the team is really strong right now. Our new assistant coach is amazing, and I am really excited for the coming season.”

- ANABEL MORENO-MENDEZ ’19

The field hockey team finished sixth in the Ivy League last year, with an overall record of 7-10. The team will return only six starters from the 2015 roster. Despite being a young team, the Big Green have welcomed six talented incoming freshmen into their ranks, including Emma Plumb ’20, who is a member of the U.S.’s Women’s National Indoor Field Hockey Team.

Dartmouth kicked off the 2016 campaign on the road facing No. 9 University at Albany, SUNY on Sept. 3. Despite stand-out performances by returning and incoming players, the Great Danes defeated the Big Green in 1-3. Dartmouth continued on

Cross-Country

The women’s and men’s cross country teams started their 2016 seasons this past Saturday with victories in the annual Dartmouth Invitational. Saturday’s race comes after a preseason trip to northern New Hampshire on the Second College Grant.

The meet took place at the Hanover Country Club, featuring an 8-kilometer race for the men and a 6-kilometer race for the women. Dartmouth faced off against Keene State University, Middlebury College and the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Both sides made a grand statement, with the men and women both finishing in first place. On the men’s side, Quinn Cooney ’20 led the Big Green with a first place finish at 25 minutes and 16.01 seconds behind two unattached players. He was closely followed by Kyle Dotterer ’18, Henry Raymond ’20 and Ben Szuhaj ’19. The women’s side also saw top finishes, with Bridget Flynn ’18 taking home first place with a time of 22:11.41. She was closely followed by teammates Lauren Sapone ’20, Leigh Moffett ’18 and Lillian Anderson ’19.

In total Dartmouth women claimed the top eight spots of the race, and 12 of the top-15 finishers. Both the men and women will next take part in the Boston College Coast to Coast Invitational in Boston this Friday.

“I think getting two draws on our trip to Kentucky and Ohio were a reflection of where we stand, and I think it’s a great spot for the rest of the season. It’s going to be a great time… We’re not a team that’s going to back down from a challenge, we’re going to rise to the occasion… I’ve had a fun time getting to meet the new guys… [during] preseason you start building this family atmosphere.”

The Big Green stands to defend their back-to-back Ivy League titles in the coming season. The past two years have been record-breaking seasons, garnering the team’s most wins in a two-year stretch in program history.

In 2015, Dartmouth returned to the NCAA College Cup, defeating Hartwick College in the first round in an overtime win before falling to Syracuse University in the second round. If the Big Green claims another championship this season, it will be the first team to win three consecutive Ivy League titles since the late 1980s, when the Columbia University Lions won eight consecutive titles from 1978 to 1985.

Several key players will return from last season, including Amadu Kunateh ’19, who earned Co-Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors, and Wyatt Omsberg ’18, who was named to the College Soccer News Preseason All-America Third Team and to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America

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the road playing the University of Maine on Sept. 5, suffering a second loss at 3-7. In the first home game of the season, the Big Green found success, defeating Bryant University 2-1 in a shootout after two overtime periods.

In its second home game of the season on Sunday, the Big Green lost to University of the Pacific, 0-5.

The team will be captained by Morgan Philie ’18, and headed by coach Amy Fowler, who starts her 17th season as head coach. The team will return to action this Friday, taking on the University of Vermont at home at 3 p.m. Regular season play will commence at Princeton University on Sept. 24.

Photo by KATE HERRINGTON/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF Field hockey is 1-3 to start the season.

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Rowers cannot see where they are going while they are in the boat.

Two Dartmouth rowers competed in the 2016 Olympics, lightweights Anthony Fahden ’08 and Josh Konieczny ’13.

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Bow Pair

“The bow pair are arguably the most technical pair in the boat, the lighter guys who are there to balance the boat.”

-Nevin Cunningham ’17, heavyweight

Teams have several boats at one time and rowers fight to make it to the 1V, the first varsity boat. Coaches switch rowers in events called seat races. “At base terms we take two boats out, do multiple set intervals. And in between intervals, you switch rowers with the same distance rowed and same interval.

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Using the oar

“The general gist is that you want to get the oar in the water as fast as you can at full compression. As the rowers are moving on the boat, they’re sitting on seats that can slide back and forth. So when you’re on the recovery going forward for the next drive, you actually have a lot of momentum. You come out to full compression at the start of the drive, you put the blade in the water, push your legs, swing your body, which is leaning back your body and you want to make that as powerful of a motion as you can.”

-Sean Healey

Coxswain

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-Linda Muri, women’s head coach

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Carin Carroll’17 Women’s

Greg Zales’16 Heavyweight coxswain

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Captain of USA Eagles comes to coach Dartmouth rugby

By MATT YUEN

The Dartmouth Staff

As Dartmouth welcomes in a new class of students, the women’s rugby team welcomes Stacey Bridges as its new assistant coach. But unlike eager first-years with months to plan and pack for their arrival, Bridges arrived empty handed, having been offered her position only in August.

“We barely got her in time for preseason,” co-captain Camille Johnson ’19 said. “We were scrambling last minute to make sure everything was approved so that she could be here for preseason.

She actually flew in without having packed anything — no clothes.”

Bridges joins head coach Katie Dowty and assistant coach Matthew Cameron, who both began coaching at Dartmouth last year. Bridges brings with her the experience of playing rugby on a national level, as the current captain of the USA Rugby Women’s National Team, and coaching different rugby programs across the country.

She also earned a master’s degree in kinesiology from Texas A&M University, the institution at which she also attended as an undergraduate. When Bridges first set foot on

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the Texas A&M campus, she didn’t know what rugby was, having been a soccer and softball player previously.

“I started playing rugby at Texas A&M University in 2006 — I had never heard of the sport before,” Bridges said. “At their open house, I ran into the rugby team there. They convinced me to try it out and I was hooked from the first practice.”

Bridges’ rugby career picked up steam from that point. Four months after her first practice, she was asked to play for a select side team for the West U19 team, a regional team for rugby players under 19 years old that competes with other regions in the United States. From there, she caught the eye of a USA U19’s coach and was selected for a U19 tour to England and Wales. Afterwards, Bridges progressed through the different rugby levels, playing for USA A-Side, a developmental side for senior women.

The year 2009 proved to be a big one for Bridges. In 2009, she was recruited into the senior pool and selected for the 2009 Nations Cup, playing Canada, France and England. She has been selected for every tour since 2009 for the U.S. side. In 2010, she was the youngest player for the U.S. at the 2010 World Cup. And in 2016, she was the captain of a U.S. National Team for the Utah Super Series.

While playing for U.S. rugby teams on a national and international level, she served as a coach and helped develop rugby programs across the country. She first started coaching in Minnesota with the University of Minnesota women’s team. Bridges also worked for Minnesota’s youth rugby, teaching rugby to students in grades K-12. And in January of 2016, Bridges moved to D.C. to help in the launching of Scion Rugby Academy, a national

development academy that pairs higher-level athletes for competition and development in the national pool. While in D.C., she coached the United States Naval Academy’s women’s rugby team.

For Bridges, teaching rugby has proved beneficial to her rugby career in many ways.

“I feel like you learn a lot more about the game when you have to explain the game to others and coach others — it helps your development as a player,” she said.

Her experience may be why the athletic department trusts in Bridges to execute the changes already made to the team in the first few weeks of her tenure.

In its transition from a club sport to varsity sport, the women’s rugby team lost several of its forwards.

Rather than recruit and train rookies in the preseason crunch, Bridges got innovative.

“She has already moved around players that were playing in the back line, for example, and then moving them to the scrum,” co-captain Ashley Zepeda ’18 said. “She took the skills she knew people already had and put them in different places and made it work. She’s just so good at taking what we have and utilizing that to our best advantage.”

However, simply moving around players to different positions isn’t enough to produce a competitive and viable rugby team. Even great coaches, no matter how much they instruct their players, cannot overcome lack of experience, but Bridges seems to be transcending those limitations.

“We have three new girls who are starting at second role [in the scrum] who have never played that position in their life, and are now playing it as well as anyone who has been playing for years,” Zepeda said.

“She’s just so good at teaching us.”

While verbal instruction is essential to any coaching style, sometimes words just do not cut it. And in those instances, Bridges is not afraid to jump in and show the women proper positioning and technique.

“That goes leaps and bounds for our team specifically because we do still have a lot of walk-ons,” Zepeda said. “To have a coach that’s willing to get in there and show us technique is very, very important for us as developing players, versus a coach who just talks.”

Leading by example happens off the field with Bridges as much as it does on the field, Zepeda noted.

“She’s at the gym just as much as we are,” Zepeda said. “She’s eating healthy, we’re eating healthy. We just follow her in so many different respects.”

And most importantly, Bridges impact on the new forwards comes from her love of the game and of striving for excellence, Zepeda added.

“Bridges is very much a gogetter,” Zepeda said. “She wants to win, and that’s pretty much her top goal. I think she wants to take us all the way this season and I have no doubt she’ll do that.”

At the end of the day, Bridges’ influence on the girls goes beyond improving their rugby skills, physical fitness or even passion for fitness.

“Having someone who is currently playing rugby and such a leader on the team, she has a certain influence by the way she portrays herself walking around the field and speaking with people,” Johnson said.

“She’s very conscious of the influence she has on people, and she can really get the best out of everyone.

She’s a great source for me to look to in trying to figure out how to be a leader myself.”

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Hot Takes: Max Zhuang ’19 talks love of Golden State Warriors

By MAX ZHUANG

The Dartmouth Staff

Hot Takes: The Warriors (Week of 9/5 - 9/12) I woke up this morning thinking about the Warriors and how excited I am for Kevin Durant. I made coffee, checked my email and headed to the gym. For not even one second could I stop thinking about buckets. Buckets for Curry. Buckets for Thompson. Buckets for Draymond.

And most importantly, buckets for KD. Everyone else in the world probably hates us Warriors fans. From calling us pansies to making memes that also call us pansies, existing as a sentient fan of the Warriors involves being made fun of, a lot. However, I can assure you guys that we don’t care. What can I say, “they hate us ‘cause they ain’t us.”

6:30 p.m. Sept. 5, President Barack Obama: Colin Kaepernick, “exercising constitutional right” — One of the largest sports stories to come out this summer was Colin Kaepernick, the backup quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, sitting out of the national anthem during preseason games. By refusing to stand for the national anthem, Kaepernick is trying to bring attention

to what he considers “failings in the United States’ treatment of racial minorities.” Obama got involved, saying what Kaepernick was doing is cool and it is; it’s peaceful, sincere and has brought attention to racial issues in America. Even my 3-point shooting angel Steph Curry applauded Kaepernick “for taking a stand.” Will Kaepernick be remembered as this generation’s Rosa Parks? Should someone else rather than the backup quarterback of a mediocre football team head the protest? I don’t know. I do believe that Kaepernick is aware of the controversy and it’s rejuvenating him into one of those football guys that goes on to have a surprisingly decorated career in politics.

much different than it did a decade ago. Back then, we expected our heroes to be flawless. Remember when LeBron had a basketball camp and got dunked on by a high schooler?

Oh you don’t? That’s probably because he had the tapes confiscated.

And that was as recently as 2009.

Imagine what ESPN would have to say, today, if Curry tried to remove the footage of his tour and hide it. Anyways, firing up the hot take cannon: Ayesha leaves Steph Curry within the next four days.

2:02 p.m. Sept. 6, Filipino teenager blocks Steph Curry’s shot — If you haven’t heard, Curry has been “on tour” in Asia. During the tour some teenage kid blocked Curry’s shot and sports memes went bananas. When the media gets more chances to criticize major athletes like rockstar tours, public appearances and whatever other debauchery J.R. Smith is up to, it becomes only a matter of time before someone screws up.

Today, when everyone has a highdefinition camera in their pocket, celebrity status means something

7:11 a.m. Sept. 8, Mets sign Tim Tebow — Look, he’s a professional athlete and you’ve got to respect it.

His contract includes a $100,000 signing bonus. The guy plays sports for money, leave him alone. There’s almost no chance Tebow will make the bigs and the Mets are probably just riding out the last of Tebow’s relevancy to generate publicity.›› As the Warriors start to fall into a one-game losing streak during the middle of the season, I bet we sign Tebow and he quickly rises from the ashes of mediocrity to become

11:51 p.m. Sept. 6, my best friend sends me a selfie in his new Durant Jersey — Warriors propaganda has become inescapable. And selfies are gross.

this generation’s Brian Scalabrine.

11:00 a.m. Sept. 10, Jerry Jones buys Dallas Cowboy-themed helicopter — Jones, the owner, president and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys, bought himself a new helicopter and had this to say: “You can shoot out of it. You can shoot pigs out of it. You can do a lot of things in this helicopter.”

Enough said.

1:00 p.m. Sept. 10, my Fantasy Football season officially begins — I completed my last draft online with some buddies. My main takeaways include the following. Cam Newton is taken way too high — don’t be the dude that picks him in the fourth round. People do not give Matt Forte enough respect; aside from the fact that like everybody else he is one year older, the Chicago Bears

mindlessly choosing not to keep talented players is not necessarily a bad move. Just ask his teammate Brandon Marshall. Lastly, why can’t there be any football super teams?

The only time outside of Fantasy that I’d be able to see Ezekiel Elliott, Rob Gronkowski, DeAndre Hopkins and Golden Tate on the same team would be in the fraudulent mess of what they call the “Pro Bowl.” We have super teams in basketball. Talk to Derrick Rose who officially has moved on as the face of the Chicago Bulls to form a “superteam” in the Knicks, which he believes is “in the same class as the Warriors.” Or look at the Chicago Cubs in Major League Baseball, achieving 90 wins this past weekend. I challenge Jerry Jones to build a superteam, since I think he’s the only person who is both insane and self-confident enough to do it.

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