The Dartmouth Sports Weekly 10/17/2016

10.17.16 NARP Meets World with Matt Yuen ’19 p. 8 Just a Bit Outside with Sam Stockton ’19 p. 8

A brief history of

athletics

by Samantha Hussey p. 4-5

One-on-one with Carmen Braceras ’20 p. 5 The Big Green Weekend Roundup p. 2-3 Hot Takes with Max Zhuang p. 6 COURTESY OF RAUNER LIBRARY

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The weekend Roundup

Compiled by james handal, evan morgan and emma sklarin

VOLLEYBALL

“We’ve been performing at a pretty high level lately, but points here and there haven’t been going our way.

To finally get that win [against Cornell] really helped boost morale.”

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Cross-Country The women’s cross country raced the Indiana State PreNational Invitational this weekend, finishing in 27th place. Helen Schlachtenhaufen ’17 was the first Dartmouth runner to the finish line on the LaVern Gibson Championship 6-Kilometer Course, placing 84th with a time of 21 minutes and 19.2 seconds. Olivia Lantz ’19 followed shortly behind, finishing 99th in 21:24.9. Diana Vizza ’20 (21:51.1) came in 152nd, Lillian

Anderson ’19 (21:56.9) was 169th and Georgia Fear ’20 (21:59.4) was Dartmouth’s fifth runner, earning 175th place. The team ended the meet with 679 points, while overall winner the University of Colorado had 93 points.

This Saturday, the men’s cross country team travelled to Terre Haute for the Indiana State PreNational Invitational in and took home 18th place. Daniel Salas ’17 and Matt Herzig ’17 led the

team, finishing at 23 minutes and 56.3 seconds and 23:56.7 and coming in 56th and 57th on the LaVern Gibson Championship 8-Kilometer Course. Kyle Dotterer ’18 (25:19.4) came in 103rd, Nat Adams ’17 (25:27.7) finished in 127th and Julian Heninger ’17 (25:43.2) placed 162nd, rounding out the scoring for the team. The Big Green finished the day with 498 points, with the University of Oregon winning with 85 points.

EQUESTRIAN “The second-place finish was really pulled together by our last three riders – Cristiana Salvatori, Sophie King and Holly Langley – who all pulled in wins for the team to solidify our standing within the show.”

- JULIA LAU ’17

- CLAIRE BICK ’18 The equestrian team finished its second weekend of competition at Bowdoin College this Saturday, snagging the title of Reserve Champion behind first-place University of

New Hampshire. In the Open Fences class, Sophie Lenihan ’20 finished in second and Lilly Higgins came in fourth.

Cristiana Salvatori ’17 won the Novice Flat class, moving her

up to the Intermediate division. Sophie King ’19 won the Advanced Walk Trot Canter class for the second show in a row, and Holly Langley ’19 won the Walk Trot class.

FOOTBALL Photo by HOLLYE SWINEHART/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF Last Friday, volleyball picked up its first win in over a month.

The women’s volleyball team beat Cornell University and fell to Columbia University in a pair of Ivy League contests this weekend.

The Big Green beat the Big Red in five sets, 20-25, 25-15, 24-26, 25-22, 15-13 on Friday while the Lions beat Dartmouth, 3-1, on Saturday, 30-28, 25-27, 22-25, 17-25. The Big Green is now 7-10 overall and 1-6 in Ivy play, under first-year head coach Gilad Doron.

Emily Astarita ’17 recorded her 1,000th kill, becoming the sixth player in program history to do so.

Zoë Leonard ’19 and Astarita both recorded double-doubles versus Cornell with Astarita getting 19 kills, 18 digs and Leonard having 31 assists and 12 digs. The Big Green played well in the fourth and fifth

sets to take this close match versus Cornell.

In the game against Columbia, both Leonard and Astarita recorded double doubles again with Leonard getting 11 kills and 22 assists and Astarita recording 13 kills and 19 digs.

Carly Tower ‘20 had seven kills, 22 total attacks and five block assists to help the Big Green. Columbia took a close first and second sets with the Big Green taking the third to set a comeback. The Lions were able to comfortably win the fourth to take the match. These performances are markedly improved from the Big Green’s recent showings.

The Big Green face Bryant University on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Leede Arena before facing Harvard University away on Friday at 7 p.m.

SAILING The Big Green’s sailing team finished off a great long weekend of races at the U.S. Match Race Championship on Oct. 10, sending sailors all the way out to San Diego, California for the regatta. Dartmouth’s boat finished in third place in a tight competition of 10 boats,

skippered by Charles Lalumiere ’17 and crewed by Rebecca McElvain ’19, Madeline Cooney ’17 and Nate Greason ’17.

The team will be back in the water next weekend in Boston and on Mascoma Lake for the Mrs. Hurst Bowl.

Photo by HOLLYE SWINEHART/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF Clutch defense in the final minutes helped the Big Green stave off Towson University.

“[With an Ivy title unlikely], the new goal is to win the rest of our games and prove to ourselves, more than anyone else, that we’re still the team we thought we were at the beginning of the season.”

- DAVE MORRISON ’17 The Big Green was able to defeat Towson University 20-17 on Saturday to improve to 3-2 and 0-2 in Ivy play.

In the first quarter, Towson opened with a touchdown to lead 7-0, but kicker David Smith ’18 knocked home a field goal to cut the lead to 7-3. The Big Green dominated the second quarter with Vito Penza ’19 scoring a four-yard touchdown to lead 10-7. Smith hit another

field goal, giving the Big Green a 13-7 lead.

The third quarter began with a Towson field goal to cut the lead to 13-10. At 8 minutes and 45 seconds in, Drew Hunnicutt ’19 scored a 23-yard touchdown for the Big Green to lead 20-10. Towson was able to get a touchdown later in third to cut the lead to 20-17. The Big Green defense held strong in the fourth, not allowing Towson to

scores, blocking two field goals to preserve the three-point victory.

Jack Heneghan ’18 was 14-21 with an interception for 96 yards.

Abrm McQuarters ’17 was 1 for 1 with a touchdown. Ryder Stone ’18 led the Big Green in rushing and receiving with 14 carries for 92 yards and 5 catches for 25 yards.

The Big Green return to Ivy play next Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at Columbia University.

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MEN’S SOCCER minute, assisted by Tyler Dowse ’18 with a great pass down the field.

In the second half, Jonathan Nierenberg ’18 and captain Emmanuel Arteaga ’17 each netted a goal, both off of passes from Matt Greer ’18. In the 71st minute, Penn scored its first goal, but Wyatt

Omsberg ’18 scored a final goal off of a penalty shot at the end of the game. The team is now positioned at 4-2-5 overall and 2-0-1 in the Ivy League as it moves into the second half of the season.

Dartmouth will face Boston University for a non-conference game on Tuesday.

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The women’s soccer team tied the University of Pennsylvania 1-1 in its fourth Ivy League game of the season. The Big Green is now 6-5-1 and 0-3-1 in Ivy play. The first half was slow for both teams with the Quakers outshooting the Big Green 5-3.

Each team had two corner kicks. In the second half, Holly Patterson ’17 converted a penalty kick in the 55th minute for her second goal of the season. The Quakers tied it up in the 66th minute after a rebound from close range. Neither team could find a way to strike again with the game going to overtime 1-1.

In overtime, Penn outshot the Big Green 5-1, but neither team could find a game-winning goal. For the game, Penn led in the shots 16-7, but Dartmouth had a 8-6 lead in corner kicks.

The Big Green plays at Columbia University on Saturday at 4 p.m.

“We were battling in the air on all kicks.

We were just getting defensively right on top of them, putting our bodies in front of the ball hoping to make some sort of play.”

- REMY BORINSKI ’19

The rugby team finished this fall’s regular season with a 84-15 victory against Princeton University on New Jersey turf on Saturday. The women, leading the game 55-0 at halftime, did not release any pressure in the second half. Isabel Boettcher ’20 and Frankie Sands ’19 were the team’s high scorers of the day, bringing in four and three tries respectively. This puts Boettcher at a team-high of 10 tries this season, and Sands at seven.

Kat Ramage ’19 and Kendall Ronzano ’17 both had successful conversions throughout the game.

Mary Tobin ’20 had the first score of her career in the second half, and Casey Smerczynski ’20 followed suit with her first two tries of the season.

“At the half it was like 55-0, so we really just cruised and did our best, and as the second half came in, we started replacing people and made it more of a developmental game for us. It was a good day for learning.”

- KAT RAMAGE ’19

Photo by LAUREN GRUFFI/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF The Big Green is struggling to break a six-game skid.

Photo by LAUREN GRUFFI/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF Despite strong play, the Big Green tied the Quakers 1-1.

The Big Green fell to Yale University 4-7 on Saturday afternoon at Chase AstroTurf Field, leaving the team at 3-9 overall and 0-4 in conference play. The game was the sixth consecutive loss for the Big Green.

The Bulldogs offense dominated the first period scoring six goals and taking 18 shots compared to three goals and eight shots by the Big Green. Katie Spanos ’20, Morgan Philie ’18 and Evie Bird ’19 all recorded goals in the first period for the Big Green.

The second period was quiet for both teams as the Big Green and Yale each only had a single goal.

Bird recorded two goals and an assist on Saturday to lead the Big Green.

Emma Plumb ’20 and Hailey Valerio ’19 split time in the net, making two and eight saves, respectively.

The Big Green next play at Columbia University next Friday at 5 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY

RUGBY

Photo by ANNIE DUNCAN/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF Despite several close games, the men’s soccer team remains poised to be a competitor in League play.

WOMen’s soccer

Dartmouth’s soccer team defeated the University of Pennsylvania 4-1 at home on Saturday, extending its winning streak to three games, beginning with its wins against the University of New Hampshire and Yale University last week. Noah Paravicini ’19 scored the first goal in the fifth

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The history of sports and

by Samant

With 35 varsity sports, 33 club sports and 24 intramural sports and more than 75 percen at the College. However, not many people know the evolution of Dartmouth’s varsity athleti the College through an overview of landmark events, traditions and obscure sports.

1769: Dartmouth’s Founding, Early Athletics Originally founded as an institution to educate Native Americans, Dartmouth first officially recognized and recommended farming and similar manual labor to its students as a form of exercise. According to the 1893 book “Dartmouth Athletics: A Complete History of All Kinds of Sports at the College,” Dartmouth’s Original Code of College Laws recommended that students turn away from “puerile” activities such as playing with balls and bowls and instead focus on “exercises for their health,” including the “cultivation of gardens and other lands at the proper hours of leisure.”

Of course, despite what the College hoped, “puerile” activities such as swimming and skating were still quite popular among early students.

1803: Beginning of Cricket In a drawing by George Ticknor from 1803, a group of students are shown on the Green playing a game of wickets, more commonly known as cricket. While there is little evidence to confirm whether the game was ever extremely popular among the student body in the early 19th century, a group of students organized an unofficial cricket team with the help of faculty members. Currently, there is a Dartmouth Cricket Club that practices at Scully-Fahey Field.

structured game we know today, the earliest games were “free pursuits of the ball by every student that was not physically incapacitated” according to a timeline on the Dartmouth football team’s website. Moreover, since the location of the College and lack of athletic structure made intercollegiate competition hard, the “Old Division” later known as “Whole Division” brought competition on campus between seniors and sophomores versus juniors and freshmen or two all-inclusive literary societies, Social Friends and United Fraters. Students played the game “mob football” style.

Every year, the competition among the students culminated in a match called the Usual Football Rush or the Football Rush, which was played annually until 1948.

1880: Athletic Events Three sports — football, baseball and track and field – dominated the athletic scene in the second half of the 19th century. While students played baseball in a similar fashion to how it is played today, track and field has changed quite a bit over the years. In addition to standard track and field activities such as the 100-meter dash, shot put and mile run, athletes also participated in potato races and tug of war.

Branching off from track and field events, more obscure clubs such as the Dartmouth Bicycle Club and Dartmouth Lawn Tennis Club came onto the scene.

1885: Senior Canes The tradition of customized senior canes began when A. Herbert Armes, Class of 1885, asked his friends to carve their initials in his walking stick before Commencement. The Class of 1886 and 1887 solidified the personalization of senior canes as a tradition. Overtime, this simple gesture evolved to include more elaborate carvings.

In the late 1890s, Charles Dudley ’02 designed a popular Indian head cane, which after commercial production and a patent on the design, became the most common cane carried by seniors. Today, while it’s not a tradition for every senior to design their own walking sticks, some graduates, who are a part of a senior society, will carry canes carved with a griffin, sphinx, phoenix or other symbol during Commencement as the only public display of the student’s membership in his or her organization.

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An informal game of cricket can be seen in this picture taken in 1803.

1836: Cow Hunting During the first half of the 19th century, disputes between students and townspeople over the use of campus and the Green for a pasture also became a form of athletics for both sides. It was not uncommon to have village cows casually roam on the Green, which prompted another popular game among students — cow hunting.

In 1836, the “Senior Fence” was built to keep cattle off the College-owned Green.

While free-range cattle was no longer a problem by 1893, students advocated for a portion of the fence to be left up. Fence sitting was considered a seniors-only perk where they could socialize; any underclassmen caught on the fence was dunked in a water trough. While this tradition is no longer in practice, the fence still stands on the southwest corner of the Green.

1866: Green Adopted as the Dartmouth Color During a mass meeting spearheaded by A. A. Thomas, Class of 1867, students voted to make Dartmouth’s official color green. The students used a piece of ribbon to establish the shade of green, which can still be found in Rauner Library. In an article of The Christian Advocate published in 1908, the students described their selection as necessary “as one of the original colleges of the country to be represented by one of the primary colors.” While the inscription of the framed piece of ribbon suggests green was an “inspired choice,” according to some students it was a “fallback option” since it was the only decent color not taken. At the time of the article’s publication, Harvard University, Yale University and Brown University had adopted their respective colors. Many people describe the color as a forest green, but specifically on the Pantone Matching System, “Dartmouth Green” is PMS 349. A baseball game played in 1866 was also Dartmouth’s first intercollegiate game.

1867: Old Division Football Unsurprisingly, football became the first game of all-college interest, but unlike the

1892: Complete Athletics Overhaul June of 1892 marked “the time...for the recognition of athletics in the general discipline and culture of the college,” according to one of the College’s trustees at the time. At this time, the College released a plan to change the future of its growing athletic program. After a thorough investigation of athletics at Dartmouth and other college, the Executive Committee of the Alumni and the Advisory Committee decided to implement a plan to correct “certain evils which had grown up with the loose and irresponsible management” of athletics. As a part of this plan, the College completely separated the management of its physical education and sports with faculty and trustees in charge of the former and alumni and undergraduates in control of the latter.

1914: Gun and Rifle Fred Harris, Class of 1911, foun Outing Club in 1909. With help from team constructed the first traps built with clubs from neighboring towns a Harvard, Yale and Princeton Univer range and exchanged scores via tele Most of Dartmouth’s rifle team’s 1917 season. In 1918, E.O. Briggs, C who revived the team, which compe in 1921 because of a lack of funds.

1914: Men’s Gymnastics While informally introduced to t officially become a club sport in 1914 which resulted in a 27-27 tie. The t status in 1968. During its first year University of New Hampshire in th its first Ivy League title in 1980 with dropped its men’s and women’s gym

1918: Men’s Wrestling W.W. Cummings Jr., Class of 1 wrestling, started the movement that his time as a student, Cummings coa the team during its second year. Des good, with the earliest record on file year gap where the College did not from the 1972 and 1973 seasons, w Charles D. Estin ’74 helped lead tha to 1974, scoring a total of 179 point wrestling. In 1976, the College drop

1893: Committee on Athletics Created Building off of the plan from the prior year, the alumni elected a Committee on Athletics. This committee was made up of nine people: three alumni, three faculty members and three from the senior class, who were generally managers of the football, baseball and track teams and elected by their peers. The College left the entire management and control of various athletic sports to this Committee to formulate rules and regulations of the various sports teams, determine the eligibility of team members and how the program should raise and expend money. As a result, the alumni controlled the academic concerns of athletes.

1909: Freshmen Rule Following other Northeast institutions such as Harvard, Dartmouth instituted the “Freshmen Rule,” which meant that only upperclassmen could play on varsity sports teams. Some college administrations justified the rule because they did not want freshmen to worry about competing when they should be focusing on making the academic transition from high school to college. On the other hand, other colleges implemented this rule in order to build their teams. An editorial published in 1909 from The Dartmouth argued the rule would “open the way for a larger number of participants and for wider competition” by offering “the opportunity for preparatory work.”

Dartmouth’s freshman teams were generally very competitive, most notably in basketball. However, due to the location of the College, there weren’t too many opponents for freshmen teams to compete against. Instead, for competition’s sake, early freshman teams participated in popular interclass competitions between all four classes.

The men’s wrestling team comp

1919: Fencing A Dartmouth fencing team made letic carnival held in Bissell Hall in 1 recognized as a club sport until 1919 achieved varsity status from 1975 to 1976, the men’s team performed in conference to a spot in the bottom managed to qualify for a few nationa Julie Sudikoff Weisman ’79 comp nationals in individual competition in as a varsity sport.

At the time, fencing was not a po be respected as athletes, she noted.

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d traditions at Dartmouth

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nt of undergraduates participating, it is safe to say that a love for athletics runs deep ics program, beginning in 1769. This week, The Dartmouth explores the history of sports at

nded Gun and Rifle as well as the Dartmouth m a small group of trap-shooting enthusiasts, the in Hanover and the team held frequent contests and competitions between other schools such as rsity. Teams competed indoors, shot on their own egraph. s members left college for war service during the Class of 1921, headed a small group of athletes eted through two seasons but quickly disbanded

“It was such a funny team and the circumstances were unusual. Even though we were a varsity team, we didn’t have money so we were sort of this rag tag travelling team,” Weisman said. “We somehow managed to qualify as a team. We had some moments of glory, but we never did very well at nationals.”

In 1992, the team reformed as a club and remains a part of Dartmouth today, even taking home a first place finish at the National Club Championships in 2014.

While we are now referred to as the Big Green much like Harvard and Cornell are known as the Crimson and the Big Red, respectively, we have had several unofficial mascots. During the past 25 years, various student initiatives have proposed numerous candidates for a tangible mascot, symbol or nickname that could be used in addition to or an alternative to the Big Green. To date, none of these recommendations has received sufficient broad-based support from students or alumni to merit adoption.

the College in 1852, the men’s gymnastics team 4, when they competed in a meet against Harvard, team consistently ranked highly, earning varsity as a varsity sport, the men took second to the he New England Gymnastics League and won h an 8-2 record. In 1982, however, the College mnastics teams.

1922, also known as the father of Dartmouth t led to the sport achieving varsity status. During ached the first squad of wrestlers and captained spite his efforts, the earliest teams were not very e a 0-4. After the 1923 season, there was an 18have a wrestling program. The best record was when the team went 10-3 and 10-7, respectively. at team in the heavyweight category from 1972 ts as the lead scorer in the history of Dartmouth pped wrestling from varsity sports.

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Men and women competed for the varsity fencing team until 1979.

1945: Ivy Group Agreement Signed Although limited to football, the first “Ivy Group Agreement,” signed in 1945, affirmed the “observance of common practices in academic standards and eligibility requirements and the administration of need-based financial aid, with no athletic scholarships.” As a result of this agreement, the Ivy League created multiple committees including the Presidents’ Policy Committee, consisting of the presidents from the Ancient Eight institutions, the Coordination and Eligibility Committee, “made up of one senior non-athletic administrator from each school” and the Committee on Administration, comprised of the eight athletic directors.

1954: Ivy League Formed The Ivy League presidents extended the Ivy Group Agreement to all intercollegiate sports, forming the Ancient Eight conference, in which Dartmouth still competes to this day. Since the first year of competition in 1956, Dartmouth has won 138 Ivy League Championships as the sixth most in the conference.

Princeton leads with 465 championships, while Harvard has 404. Since 1957, Dartmouth has won 38 individual NCAA championships, which is the most of any other Ivy League institution, and three team NCAA championships.

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peted as a varsity team until 1976.

e its first unofficial appearance in an indoor ath1891. However, fencing did not become officially 9. After Dartmouth went coed in 1972, the team o 1979 for men and 1976 to 1979 for women. In nconsistently, moving from a top three spot in its three in only a month. The women, however, al intercollegiate women’s fencing tournaments. peted well in conference play and finished 24th at n 1979, the year that Dartmouth dropped fencing

opular sport, and women were just beginning to

The Evolution of Dartmouth’s “Unofficial” Mascot

1967: End of Freshman Beanies As part of a requirement, freshmen had to wear the iconic green baseball cap with their class year sewn on for part of the school year, unless first-year students won the annual tug-of-war against upperclassmen on Dartmouth Night, which is the Friday of Homecoming. The hat identified freshmen to upperclassmen, who often hazed them. In 1963, the freshman class burned their beanies on Dartmouth Night, foreshadowing the end of this tradition in 1967.

September, 1972: Dartmouth Becomes Coed Despite poor student response to the College becoming coeducational, Dartmouth admits its first class of women to the College and its first class of female athletes.

1984: Wearers of Green Established The Wearers of Green, Dartmouth’s Athletic Hall of Fame, honors students, alumni and coaches who have achieved specific criteria for athletic excellence in their respective sports. Current “wearers” include Olympians, All-Americans, National champions and major league professionals. Over the last three decades, more than 1,200 members have been inducted during a ceremony that occurs annually during Homecoming.

Lone Pine Originally known as the Old Pine, the Lone Pine refers to the pine tree, which stood on the hill behind the observatory and served as a gathering place for graduating seniors in 1828. In 1854, the location of the tree also served as the location for Class Day. After suffering damage in an 1887 lightning strike and an 1892 windstorm, the tree was cut down in 1895. The Lone Pine was admitted into the American Forestry Association National Hall of Fame in 1922 and was cited by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a “Famous Tree” in 1938. In 1967, the Class of 1927 planted a homage to the Lone Pine, which now grows at the entrance to the BEMA.

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The Old Pine served as a gathering place for seniors in 1828.

Indian Symbol In the 1920s, sports writers nicknamed Dartmouth sports teams “the Indians,” referring to the College’s founding mission. For the next 50 years, the nickname, though never officially adopted by the College, was used actively and interchangeably with the Big Green by the media. Moreover, in 1932, Walter Beach Humphrey, Class of 1914, created the Indian head symbol, which became popular among students in addition to appearing on uniforms of athletic teams as well as random novelties such as neckties, shirts and keychains. In 1972, the trustees declared the use of the Indian symbol “in any form to be inconsistent with present institutional and academic objectives.” The banning of the symbol was met with outrage from many alumni who clung to the old symbol and approval from the Native communities who were deeply offended by the symbol.

Keggy the Keg An unofficial mascot conceived by Nic Duquette ’04 and Chris Plehal ’04 during their senior year, the world’s most famous anthropomorphic beer keg has made a variety of campus appearances since then, from cheering at football games to mingling with voters during presidential debates. Keggy the Keg’s schedule is unpredictable: Just when you think he’s gone for good, he arrives on the scene to stir things up.

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base, ruthlessness on the basepaths and fearlessness to swing for the fences combine as a true spectacle to watch in baseball. However, he wasn’t always this way as his serious plate discipline issues at one point sent him down to the minors.

Now, he’s stealing home base in the NLCS. Kudos, to you Javy.

Sophomore year, year two or just a second chance; I have a theory that things only get better when you’re still kind of new to it, but not too new. Whether it’s a rookie baseball player who at first failed to meet tremendous expectations forced to toil in the minors for a year, recalled back up again to help carry his team to the National League Championship Series or a Dartmouth student who needs his freshman year to figure out the wild game and phenomenon of “pong,” 2016 has been the year for just getting adjusted to shine.

2016’s Sophomore Stars: Javier Báez — Javy Báez quickly became one of my favorite baseball players to watch this past year. His tendency to frequently makes spectacularly athletic plays at second

David Johnson — Johnson’s story is not one about making mistakes, adjusting to challenges and furiously taking the league by sophomore storm. No, think of Johnson more as a young star who is only getting better. After taking over the starting running back job during his rookie season, Johnson quickly showed that he could be a true workhorse running back. Since then, Johnson has been so successful that it’s almost boring. Perhaps Johnson summarized it best after the San Francisco 49ers game last weekend, “I’m continually growing and getting more comfortable.”

Johnson might be the most boring, yet consistently tremendous young star.

Heung-Min Son — Let me preface this and say that Son has played professional soccer for many years, but the reason that I’m counting him in on this sophomore action is because he’s just been in the English Premier League and on the Tottenham Hotspurs for his second season. Before this season began, Son wanted out of his situa-

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tion with the Spurs as he struggled throughout last season to even earn enough playing time on the team.

Instead, Son was given a chance to fight for his starting spot, and he’s completely run away with it as he was named Premier League Player of the Month for September.

Testing this theory out, let’s look at some players who might really take full advantage of the experience garnered from their first year. By combining new adjustments made with their youth and excitement these players could really explode on the scene to become the newest superstars in their sport.

2017 Sophomore Stars: Devin Booker — Booker reminds me of some combination between C.J. McCollum and Klay Thompson; he’s that talented at shooting the 3-point shot. And after a year in the NBA already, I think Booker looks to become not only just an elite perimeter shooter but also a guard who can score in just about any way possible. If I were the Phoenix Suns, I would build my team around him in and Dragan Bender for the next decade. Did I mention that Booker is only 19 years old?

Corey Seager — As a rookie, Seager batted an over .300 average while blasting in 26 home runs, absolutely ridiculous. Next season, I predict

Seager to be just a little bit wiser given the postseason experience and a little more refined on the field. It’s never been much of a question that Seager has the pop to hang in the Major Leagues but Seager isn’t perfect as he lead the National League in errors made by a shortstop. As some of his fielding woes will be remedied by more experience as a big-leaguer, I see Seager as a Cal Ripken Jr. or Troy Tulowitzki type — a big, bad shortstop.

Colin Kaepernick — To me, Colin Kaepernick falls a little bit in the Heung-Min Son category as someone who might not officially be a second year player, but is getting acclimated to a new situation and now, given playing time opportu-

nity will exceed most expectations.

Do I think Kaepernick will be a Pro Bowl caliber player? Can Kaepernick singlehandedly resurrect a franchise that really needs to be resurrected? Probably not, and no.

However, this will be Kaepernick’s chance to show that he can still be a (hopefully starting) quarterback in the NFL and actually bring his social agenda some substance.

He’s not that bad. I’m rooting for Kaepernick because growing up in the Bay Area, I still remember when he was a super talented young quarterback with the wheels and the arm strength to carry a team to the Super Bowl. Super Bowl ambitions may be too greedy for Chip Kelly’s mess of a team, but Kaepernick may be able to will them out of total humiliation.

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WITH CARMEN BRACERAS ’20

BY SABENA ALLEN

Carmen Braceras ’20 grew up playing ice hockey. At Dartmouth, she is using those skills to play for the field hockey team. Braceras, a freshman from Concord, Massachusetts, began playing field hockey in middle school. She played varsity at Concord-Carlisle High School, and she currently leads the team with 13 points.

Was the ice hockey connection the only draw to field hockey?

CB: Yeah, just because of the connection pretty much, I think. I had some friends who did it who also played ice hockey so I thought that maybe I would try it, and once I started I really liked it.

What is your favorite aspect of the game?

CB: I would say my favorite part is just after a goal is scored and just running together with your team and celebrating together.

What is an amazing game that you’ve had where you either scored a lot or just felt incredible afterwards?

CB: There was one game in high school when my team was losing for

a significant amount of the game, and the final buzzer ran out and we were down by one goal, but we had a penalty corner, and in field hockey you can score after the buzzer if it’s a penalty corner.

And the coach asked me what play I wanted to run and I told him which one I thought would work, and we did the play, and I scored on it. It was a great feeling because the whole team was really excited, and that was the game that actually qualified our team for the state tournament.

Why did you want to play for Dartmouth?

CB: Well, I’ve been coming to Dartmouth ever since I was little because my dad is an alum. So I’ve been coming for reunions, and I always knew that I wanted to play a sport in college. I didn’t know whether it would be field hockey or ice hockey, but once I started looking, I got to know the coaches, and I loved the team, the coaches and just the dynamic of the program here. So as soon as I was offered a spot, I accepted right away.

How does playing at Dart-

mouth differ from playing in high school?

CB: Well, the speed of the game in college is much faster. I think the team is also much closer-knit. The support system around athletics here is extreme. In high school, it was just an activity that people did after school. But in terms of the sport in general, I would say the speed is the main thing, and just everybody here knows how to compete, and there is nobody who doesn’t love the sport.

How often do you practice, and what do you do to prepare for games?

CB: So, we practice Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday always.

Then we’ll practice Friday, Saturday, Sunday on the days that we don’t have games. So we either have games Friday and Sunday or Saturday and Sunday. Monday is usually our off day, but other than that we practice almost every day.

And do you do anything to prepare for games specifically?

CB: Before games we always have a team meeting with the coaches, and we usually have team breakfast in the morning. Then in the locker room we have team rituals that we do before a game to get us pumped up, some dancing and everything.

Can you tell me what you love about playing for Dartmouth, and what some of your best

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moments here have been?

CB: I love how everyone on the team is so supportive. The upperclassmen have brought in all the freshman and taught us how to be good teammates. It’s been awesome, I have so many people to look up to on the team. I would say one of my favorite moments so far [is] probably just the moments before games when we all come together in the locker room then out on the field.

Are there any things that you like less about playing for Dartmouth, and any moments when you have been less than happy with the outcome?

CB: I can say that we’ve been less than happy when we’ve lost. We are actually in a bit of a losing streak right now. It’s been tough, but a lot of the games have been close. Some of them have been one-goal-games like [against Brown University], or our [University of Pennsylvania] game was double over time. We have definitely brought a lot more fight to the past few games, and so we can start turning around those close games and start winning them.

What do you think the team needs to do to start winning games again?

CB: Well, definitely that turning point that I talked about. In our past two games we’ve been kind of rethinking what we need to do to prepare for games. Everyone is out there to fight [her] hardest, and I definitely have seen that in the past two games. I think we will be able to get a few wins in the near future.

have particularly led to this slump?

CB: Yeah, I think so, I think everyone on the team has been working really hard at practice to get better at certain things, and I think we just need to put all the little things together to get the outcome that we want.

Is there anyone else that you think could help the team, or does everyone just need to come together at the right moments?

CB: Well, our team is really small this year. We only have 17 people.

Everyone on the team has been very important to every game no matter what [her] role, and the coaches make it clear that everybody’s role is equally important, and I think that’s really true. Because even though some people get different amounts of playing time, it’s just everyone is contributing in their own way.

Do you see anything in particular that could bring some more wins overall?

CB: I don’t think so. I think just staying on the same track, and just bringing the same focus to every practice, every game. And when it comes game time just turning up the intensity and being ready to fight.

What do you think you can do personally in order to help the team?

CB: I think just some technical things that the coaches have talked to me about, and taking more shots.

Our whole team would benefit from that, but I think I personally could do that significantly more.

What do you think the strongest aspect of the team is as a whole?

CB: I would say probably just our team unity in general and the resilience that we have. Obviously we haven’t always gotten the outcome that we wanted, but we have been able to turn around and work harder in different aspects, and to fight through it. And even though we are a very small team, we have great fitness compared to some other teams that have more people, so we can tire the other teams out, which has been very beneficial for us.

Do you think that technique and not taking enough shots

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

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THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS

MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016

SPORTS Just A Bit Outside: 27 Outs Baseball fans love to bring up the lack of a clock in baseball. No matter what happens in the first inning, you have to record all 27 outs to win the game. The difference between this and say, a 60-minute football game, is subtler than it might seem. In football, a big hit might set a tone that carries a team through all four quarters. An early lead of just two touchdowns may quickly seem insurmountable for the opposing side. No matter how much time is on the clock, momentum is always critical in sports with time limits.

Lesson #1 I promised myself I would never do this again, yet I once again find myself in the land beyond the pride. Going against every single thing I have learned in Disney’s “Lion King,” I find myself with no choice but to venture down to the darkest realms Dartmouth has to offer.

Here I sit alone in a prisonesque cubicle — cold, dark and depressed. I hear nothing but the haunting whispers of fallen Dartmouth students long before my time, frantically whispering at me to leave while I still can. In such

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One takeaway can completely shift the complexion of a game, and that shift can last for the game’s duration.

The same cannot be said in baseball. The momentum that builds over the course of a game or even a series can be reversed in a moment.

Game 3. The Chicago Cubs versus the San Francisco Giants. Madison Bumgarner, who has earned a reputation not only as baseball’s version of Paul Bunyan but also for long, dominant postseason starts and pitches on short rest come October, stood on the hill for the Giants. Bumgarner was fresh off a dominant complete game shutout of the Mets in the National League Wild Card game. With him on the mound, the Giants appeared poised to pull the NL Division Series to 2-1.

Then, in the top of the second, Bumgarner surrendered a three-run home run to the Cubs’ pitcher, 2015 Cy Young winner Jake Arrieta. Arrieta’s blast gave the Cubs a 3-0 lead in the game and made it seem inevitable that the team with the league’s best record in the regular season would move on to the NL Championship Series. You could see it in the Cubs’ dugout. Their reactions indicated that,

in that moment, they were a team that believed it could knock off the 2010, 2012 and 2014 World Series champs.

The Giants chipped away at the Cubs’ lead but still trailed by one going into the bottom of the eighth. Even though they had given up a few runs, the power of Arrieta’s homer seemed to linger over the game. Then, Conor Gillaspie tripled home two runs, and Brandon Crawford singled home Gillaspie, bring the score, 5-3, in favor of the Giants.

Just like that, the nature of the game completely changed. The Giants took control and brought in Sergio Romo to put the game on ice as well as put themselves right back in the series.

Then, Romo walked Dexter Fowler and gave up a home run to Kris Bryant that just squeaked over the left-field fence. 5-5. Once again, it seemed like the result felt inevitable. How could the Cubs possibly lose on the heels of such a dramatic comeback?

But once again, the game wasn’t over yet. There was still time for another narrative reversal. The game remained scoreless until the bottom of the 13th, when back-to-back doubles

by Crawford and Joe Panik gave the Giants a walk-off win, 6-5. This time,

not even 27 outs were enough to seal a win; it took 39, but the Giants got it done.

Going into Game 4, it felt like the Giants were sure to ride the energy of the previous night’s extra-innings victory. They built up an early lead, and, with a few exceptions, starter Matt Moore looked unhittable.

Fast forward to the top of the ninth.

The Cubs trailed 5-2. All series, with the exception of Bryant, the Cubs’ stars had been silent offensively.

Anthony Rizzo, Ben Zobrist and company kept quiet for most of the series. The series appeared posed to head back to Chicago for a winnertake-all Game 5.

Bryant led off the inning with a single off Derek Law. In keeping with the strategy he had employed almost every postseason game when Bumgarner didn’t pitch, Giants’ manager Bruce Bochy used one reliever per Cubs batter. Rizzo drew a walk from Javy Lopez. Then, a Zobrist double plated Bryant cutting the lead to two.

Joe Maddon pinch-hit for Addison Russell, bringing rookie Willson Contreras to the plate. Contreras singled home Zobrist and Rizzo. 5-5. Two batters later, Javy Báez brought home

Jason Heyward, and the Cubs took a one-run lead. Aroldis Chapman struck out the side in the bottom of the ninth, and the Cubs had advanced to the NLCS. If there is such a thing as momentum in October baseball, it is a fickle beast. The narrative of a playoff game cannot be written until 27 outs have been recorded and sometimes even after that. An early lead or late deficit can be erased without any notice.

There is a certain way in which football games can have a positive feedback loop. If you are moving the ball well, you will have the ball for more of the game and put yourself in a better position to win. In baseball, no matter how poorly a team plays through six or seven or eight innings, they still get the same number of opportunities to put themselves back in the game.

It allows a team that may have been outplayed to steal a game. It keeps games interesting when they otherwise might be over. Ultimately, the team that wins the World Series will be one that is able to finish off games while they have momentum and steal games back even when they don’t.

a desolate area, my only source of solace is that there are other classmates with me, slowly cracking under the pressure of academic rigor. But in the face of their looming problem sets, they have lost the fire in their eyes, utterly resigned to the inevitable fate of becoming a middling Ivy League student. I too am slowly losing any of the hope I had when entering this grim gruesome environment. By now you must have surely figured out exactly where I am, for no other place could be as depressing and demoralizing as the stacks.

But for what purpose does one ever willingly subject oneself to the unfathomable conditions of stacks level B? My friends, I am stationed in the lowest level of the stacks for one purpose and one purpose alone. In my last article, I gave you guys a small taste of what true entertainment looks like.

This week, I am back to deliver quality content in the midst of all the biased propaganda spewed by the right-left-up-sideways-winged media around us. But in doing so, I have committed a grave error.

This is a bit tough for me to say,

but I’ll just rip off the Band-Aid. I teased you guys last week. I lead you onto an amazing roller coaster of a journey of how a lowly NARP like myself quickly rose to be the biggest hotshot Hanover has ever seen. And to put salt in the wounds, I also made you guys wait a week before I would share my secrets of NARPly success. For that, I am truly apologetic and ashamed of my behavior, which is exactly why I HAULED myself down to the darkest pits of Hanover so I could spin an intricately woven article for your guys’ entertainment. This is the moral obligation I have put myself under, for a columnist is nothing without his readers.

Unfortunately, I have failed you all.

It is three hours past my column’s deadline, and I still do not have a single iota of insight as to what this week’s column is about.

I sit here frantically searching throughout every corner of my brain for a hint of creativity, only to retrieve a few useless calculus equations. Time is quickly ticking on the clock, and I am scrambling for ways in which I can salvage

this unintelligible conglomerate of buzzwords I call a column. But in the midst of all this confusion, desperation, and outright stupidity, I have made some fundamental realizations about the nature of life.

In reverence to the esteemed urban poet Biggie Smalls, here is the first pearl of wisdom I will share with you all: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” To give some context, I invite you all to take a look at one of the column’s greatest predecessors — Riding the Pine. In short, this column was a masterpiece not because it produced quality content on a weekly basis but rather because it got away with producing unequivocal nonsense for multiple terms. Bernie “the butt” Sanders?

Writing articles that have not the slightest pertinence to sports?

Calling the current editor of The Dartmouth a “bottom-feeder?” It is absolutely mind-blowing that these columns were actually published.

Yet, I too have fallen to the temptation that these two clowns before me have laid out for grabs.

What we have here is a classic example of monkey see monkey

do. Similar to the monkeys before me, I too have taken advantage of the broken system that is indicative of the lackadaisical upper echelon of The Dartmouth’s directorate.

As you probably noticed by now, I am writing an article that has absolutely no relevance to sports, I am making boasting claims about my prowess that are completely unsupported by any testimonial or empirical evidence and the intelligibility of this column is rapidly plummeting as this article goes on.

As this column quickly approaches the 800-word limit, the overall moral of this story is quickly rising to the surface. I am a phony bologna, a clown, a loser who cannot keep his promise. I am but a jester that has fallen off its high horse. I cannot share the secrets to overcoming the NARP barrier because there simply are none.

Once a NARP, always a NARP. Just kidding. Don’t you guys get it yet? This whole story is a huge metaphor to my first lesson in becoming the kingpin of Dartmouth, nay, to becoming a good person overall. Don’t make promises you cannot keep!