09.26.16 Just a Bit Outside with Sam Stockton ’19 p. 6 Hot Takes with Max Zhuang ’19 p. 7
Taylor Ng ’17 and Kristina Mathis ’18 remain nationally ranked p. 7 One-on-One with Quin Cooney ’19 of men’s cross-country p. 8
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Phil Claudy ’18 runs an Ironman on the same weekend Dartmouth hosts the 2016 North American Orienteering Championships COURTESY OF DAVE YEE
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The weekend Roundup
Women’s soccer “It’s definitely going to be challenging, but we’re going to treat every game as a blank slate. Games you’ve already played and games you have coming up can distract you from the game you’re about to play.”
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- ALYSSA NEUBERGER ’20
held strong, finishing the set easily 25-16. In the third set, Dartmouth started off strong leading 6-2, which Harvard quickly matched by tying the game at 8-8. With consistent ties and runs on both sides, the game was tied again at 21 each. While the Big Green put themselves in a position to take the set after a crucial kill by Abby Kott ’20, the Crimson did not ease up ultimately took the third set 25-23 to win the match. Sara Lindquist ’18 led Dartmouth with an impressive 12 kills, five digs, and two block assists, while Corinne Cox ’20 and Sierra Lyle ’19 pitched in 15 assists and 10 digs respectively. The Big Green will be on the road this upcoming weekend where they are scheduled to play the University of Pennsylvania on Saturday and Princeton University on Sunday.
Photo by HOLLYE SWINEHART/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF The Crimson defeated the Big Green in the Ivy opener this weekend.
VOLLEYBALL
In Friday’s Ivy League opener, the women’s volleyball team fell to Harvard University in three sets (2527, 16-25, 23-25), which dropped the Big Green to 6-5 and 0-1 in conference play. Dartmouth led the first set, 6-0; however, halfway through the set, Harvard, with a five point run, tied the game at 17-17. The set went back and forth, with five more ties, before Dartmouth took the lead at 25-24 following a kill by Emily Astarita ’17. Nevertheless, the Crimson bounced back with three consecutive points to clinch the first set 27-25. During the second set, the Crimson took an early lead to which the Big Green quickly answered. Both teams stayed neck and neck, until point ten when Harvard pulled ahead by four. While the Big Green tried to close the gap, the Crimson
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The Dartmouth women’s soccer team played an excellent game against Vermont to improve to 6-2-0. The first half of the match was definitely one that showed that the team was evenly matched with the Catamounts when several shots were taken on goal from both
sides. However, the women stepped it up in the second half when Meredith Gurnee ’17 took a bold shot from the outside box to take the lead at 55 minutes. The exceptional goal gave the Big Green a surge of momentum that propelled helped
them hold on for a 1-0 victory. Yesterday, the women lost, 1-0, against Brown University, putting itself at 0-1 in Ivy League play and 6-3-0 overall. Casey Cousineau ’17 made three saves, and Dartmouth outshot Brown, 12-4.
woMEN’S GOLF
“It was really nice having the first tournament of the season on our home course. The greens are in great shape right now, they’re rolling great, and the weather was nice on top of that.” -ANGELA ZHANG ’19 In their 2016-2017 season debut this Saturday and Sunday, the women’s golf team hosted the Dartmouth Invitational at the Hanover Country Club. After the first round, the Big Green sat in second place of 15 teams with a round of 13-over and 301 points. The only team that was ahead of the Big Green after
the first day was Boston College, which finished the first day at five-under. The Big Green was led by Catherine Roddy ’19 who sat on the leaderboard at fifth place with a score of one-over 73. Julia Calbi ’19 was tied for seventh place, and Maddie Nelson ’20, ended the first day at two-over.
Dartmouth also entered a B team to compete, which, after round one, finished fifth with a score of 309 and 21-over. The second round and final results were not available as of press time. This weekend, the Big Green will travel to Princeton, New Jersey to compete in the Princeton Invitational.
football “If you can come out playing out and winning your first games, it establishes confidence throughout the team and establishes the expectation of how we’re going to perform. With the big win over UNH and another good win against Holy Cross, we’ve built that confidence, and we’ve set the tone for the kind of team we want to be this year.”
- JUSTIN CALL ’16 In their first away game of the season, the Big Green defeated Holy Cross, 35-10, which boosts the team to 2-0 overall. Saturday’s meeting also raises the Big Green to 38-37-4 in an all-time series record with Holy Cross. Down 0-7 in the first few minutes of the game, the Big Green responded quickly with two touchdowns to close out the first quarter. From there Dartmouth held a comfortable lead throughout the entire game, accumulating an impressive 208 yards on 44 carries. Miles Smith ’19 led the running game with 71 yards on eight carries - the first resulting in a 35-yard touchdown during the first quarter. Darius George ’17 also proved to be vital in the scoring game,
forcing a fumble that set up Dartmouth’s first touchdown, and then recovering another fumble in the end zone during the second quarter. The defense also proved a dominating force by holding Holy Cross to 285 yards while also collecting four turnovers. Folarin Orimolade ’17, a linebacker on the team, picked up the Johnny Turco Award as the MVP of the game as he lead the Big Green with eight tackles — two of which were sacks and two more for a loss. Dartmouth returns to Memorial Field Friday to host University of Pennsylvania (0-2 overall). The game marks the 2016 Ivy League opener for both teams.
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FIELD HOCKEY
- EVIE BIRD ’19 The field hockey team beat Sacred Heart University with a win of 3-0 last Sunday. The women played two very aggressive halves against the Pioneers and successfully hammered in three outstanding goals. Captain Morgan Philie ’18 began the second half with a skillful dribble to Sacred Heart’s goal and buried the ball in the back of the net. Evie Bird ’19 and Carmen Braceras ’20 also successfully maneuvered past the Sacred Heart defense to add two goals to the lead and end the match with an impressive victory. However, the women were unable to carry the momentum from that victory into Saturday’s match-up against No. 13 Princeton University, which they dropped by a score of 4-0. The Big Green is now 3-4 overall and 0-1 in Ivy League play. This upcoming weekend, the women will host Brown University in its second contest of conference play. The game Photo by ANNIE DUNCAN/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF is scheduled to start at 12 p.m. Princeton, a consistent Ivy powerhouse, knocked off the Big Green on Sept. 24.
rugby
“Something clicked in this game. We were getting the ball out wide, and their defense was very collapsed around the ball, so that let us work the width of our field.”
- ASHLEY ZEPEDA ’18, CO-CAPTAIN
This past Saturday and Sunday, the men’s golf team hosted the third annual Quechee Club Collegiate Challenge, its only home tournament of the fall. The men finished seventh overall at 23-over with a total of 599 points. After first round play, the Big Green stood in ninth place at 12-over par with a score of 300. Ian Kelsey ’18 led Dartmouth in individual play, tying for fifth place with a two-under 70. A second Dartmouth team also competed, finishing the day in 14th place with 317 points with Reed Russ ’19 leading the group with a three-over 73. After the second and final round of play, Dartmouth moved up two places, only 21 points behind the leader, Rhode Island. On Sunday, John Lazoe ’19 led the Big Green and finished in 13th place and 2-over par. This upcoming weekend, the menwill travel to New Haven, Connecticut to compete in the Macdonald Cup hosted by Yale University.
Photo by GAYNE KALUSTIAN/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF Men’s soccer has played all 7 games to a tie or a one-point win/loss.
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Following its win last weekend against Brown University, the Big Green defeated Columbia University, 110-0 this past Saturday at Brophy Field. The shutout victory puts Dartmouth up, 2-0, in conference play, while the Lions are now 0-2 overall and 0-2 in the Ivy League. The Big Green carried a 43-0 lead into the locker room at halftime, before tacking on 67 second-half points by the match’s end. The margin is impressive, considering last year, the Big Green defeated the Lions by a margin of 87 points. Two hours after playing Columbia, the rugby team participated in a development match against the University of New England. This weekend, the team will host Harvard University on Saturday at Brophy Field . The game will start at 2 p.m. and will serve as an opportunity for alumnae to return to Hanover and cheer on the Big Green in its biggest Ivy match of the season.
The men’s soccer team played a pair of games as they sought to build on a 1-1-3 record going into the week. The tean suffered a setback with a loss to Hartford by a score of 1-0 on Wednesday. The Big Green registered 10 shots on goal to Hartford’s five but were unable to get the ball past goalkeeper Jimmy Slayton. On Saturday, the team looked to recover from their midweek defeat in its game against the University of Vermont in Burlington. Jonathan Nierenberg ’18 opened the scoring in the 28th minute off a pass from co-captain Emmanuel Arteaga ’17, but Catamount forward Brooke Jenkins was able to answer midway through the second half. Neither team could find the back of the net in overtime, and the game ended in a 1-1 draw. During the course of the twenty-minute double overtime period, three yellow cards were issued — two for Vermont and one for Dartmouth. The Big Green’s record at the end of week two is 1-2-4 overall and will resume play in its Ivy Opener on Oct. 1 against Princeton University.
This weekend the tennis team took on many of its familiar rivals in the Ivy-Plus Invitational. The Big Green won five of its eight matches on day one. Eddie Grabill ’19 earned an impressive victory against Rohan Sikkha of Cornell University (6-3, 6-3), and fellow sophomore Joey Haig ’19 defeated Samuel Beren of Harvard University (6-4, 7-6). Charlie Broom ’20 began his collegiate career with a win over Harvard’s Matt Galush (6-3, 6-4). Broom continued his hot streak on day two, first knocking off Princeton University’s Payton Holden and then teaming up with Haig to take down a doubles duo from Penn State University. Max Schmidt ’17 paired up with David Horneffer ’20 while Max Fliegner ’18 played with Roko Glasnovic ’19. Both lost in the first round but made a quick comeback to win the second round matches against University of Tennessee and Penn State. Broom and Haig successfully defeated Penn State in the first round of doubles (8-4) but fell short against Princeton in the second rounds. Broom capped off the Big Green’s exceptional tournament by winning all four of his singles matches. The men will look to build upon their success next weekend when they play and host the Dartmouth Invitational from Oct. 7 to 9 in the Boss Tennis Center.
Men’s soccer
“Coming off of the field, it was way better than last year’s game. The score was better, and even if we did make mistakes, we made them hard, and we were really deliberate. We did have opportunities, but we just couldn’t finish on them yesterday. We cut to the ball hard, we worked together hard, it was a good team effort versus other games we’ve played.”
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Two Dartmouth students make waves in the ath
Phil Claudy ’18 races Ironman to raise money for OneOrlando By Emma Sklarin
This past Sunday was far from a lazy one for Phil Claudy ’18. While most students were sleeping in, Claudy was racing in the IRONMAN Chattanooga Triathlon in Tennessee. He had never competed in a triathlon before, but now he was racing in a distance at the very highest level of the sport. The Ironman Triathlon is a grueling mix of endurance sports — a 2.4-mile swim followed by a 112-mile bike ride and topped off with a marathon, or 26.2 miles of running. The race course in Chattanooga featured a slightly longer 116-mile bike ride. First competed in 1978, this day-long race is arguably the pinnacle of physical achievement. The invention of the Ironman was the result of a friendly rivalry between the fastest swimmers, bikers and runners from O‘ahu. They debated which sport’s athletes were the strongest, fastest competitors and came up with the obvious solution of a 140.6-mile race to find out who really was the best. The winner would be named the “iron man,” giving the race its name and starting a tradition of superhuman athleticism. This is not Claudy’s first adventure in endurance racing; he’s already run two marathons, one his freshman spring and the Philadelphia Marathon last fall. He was also on Dartmouth’s rowing team his freshman year. However, he had never swam or biked at the Ironman level of training before. “I actually didn’t know how to swim two months ago,” he laughed. Claudy said that the values and
themes that the race embodies inspired said, “and they served as inspirations funds on the day of my Ironman, which life at Dartmouth. him to sign up for an Ironman. for me when I was struggling to come is pretty cool,” he said. “So the day that Gabby Lowry ’18, one of his closest “It’s about perseverance and resil- to terms with my sexuality.” all of these people are going to see the friends at Dartmouth, said of the now ience and pushing yourself past your Claudy started a GoFundMe and support from this organization is the iron man, “Phil and I would be studying limits and past really what is thought began to spread the word through social day that I will be running an Ironman.” together, and he would say, ‘I’ll be back to be possible of the human in four hours. I’m going for a body,” he explained. “And run.’ And I would say, ‘You’re that had a lot of themes going to run for four hours?’ that connected with me It was crazy.” and my experience, not The reception from the only with coming to terms general public wasn’t much with my sexuality, but also different. in preparing for the mara“A lot of what I get is like, thon and falling in love with ‘Phil you’re crazy. Or Phil, running, and using that as why would you do that?” he a vehicle for self-acceptance chuckled as he looked down and moving forward from at his hands, lips spread in a depression.” grin. Claudy is trying to create But Claudy has also received change through his race, an overwhelming amount of raising money for OneOrsupport and positivity from lando, an organization that the Dartmouth community. collects funds to support His friends offered to go on victims of the Orlando runs and bike rides with him, shooting and their families to teach him how to swim or by covering hospital bills, just to be there after a hard alleviating funeral costs and workout to relax and have fun. helping Pulse, the club, to His friends also know that rebuild. On his GoFundMe his reasons for racing and all page, Claudy surpassed his of his hours of swimming, original goal of $2,500 by biking and running extend raising $3,200 by Sunday far beyond himself. afternoon. Claudy said that “Phil really wanted to make COURTESY OF PHIL CLAUDY the Orlando shooting af- Some weeks, Claudy would train for up to 30 hours for his Ironman. his race about the organizafected him deeply and that tion and not about him,” he wanted to do something Lowry said. “It was so importo support the LGBTQIA+ commu- media and articles. Then, in working The length and intensity of each of tant to him to spread awareness about nity in its aftermath. with OneOrlando, he realized a fated the three sections of the race calls for an the Orlando Shooting and support the “A lot of those individuals…lived coincidence. extremely high level of time and com- LBGTQ community.” very bravely and unapologetically,” he “They’re actually dispersing the mitment during training. Claudy wrote This is what drives Claudy to conhis own training schedule, compiling tinue to push himself past what he’s ever plans and workouts from the internet done before. Before the race, Claudy and doing most of his workouts on his felt ready. own, with a little help in the pool from “[I feel] mentally [and] physically the one of the swim team’s assistant prepared, I think,” he said. “I get a little coaches, Eliot Scymanski. nervous and sometimes second-guess “It was just me going out, swimming myself, but then I just have to remind pretty much every morning at 10 a.m. myself that I’ve been training for a while when the pool opened up, and later now. I’ve been training intensely.” that afternoon working out for two to His only worry? Not being allowed three hours, either biking or running or to listen to music to distract himself a combination of both,” Claudy said. during the run. On the weekends he did even lonClaudy will have a lot to think about ger workouts of five or six hours. Two during the race, though. weeks ago, he raced in a half-Ironman “Those individuals who inspired me as his longest workout to prepare for the and the victims of the shooting and the structure of the race. At the peak of his cause is often what I think about when training, there were many weeks when I’m running or I don’t want to get up his practices totaled 30 hours or more. for a workout. When I’m struggling to Claudy explains that sports have finish a really long workout, it’s somealways provided structure for him, thing that keeps me moving, knowing which made it possible for him to bal- that this exceeds my own experience ance so many hours of training with the and that this is more for furthering the already taxing nature of any student’s progress of the LGBT community and COURTESY OF PHIL CLAUDY academic, social and extracurricular not letting this experience set us back.” Though Claudy was an experienced runner, he had to learn how to properly swim before racing the Ironman.
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Dartmouth hosts Orienteering Championships By Kourtney Kawano
It’s not everyday that most of us find ourselves running through an unfamiliar forest in search of checkpoints. For most, the thought of having to navigate during a race without the use of a phone is a nightmare. Yet it’s precisely this combination of speedy decision-making skills, physical endurance and map interpretation abilities that is essential to orienteering, a navigation race that originated in Scandinavia in the late 19th century. This past week, orienteers from the United States and Canada traveled to Hanover for the 2016 North American Orienteering Championships, which began on Friday and concluded yesterday. The three-day event opened with a middle distance race at Storrs Pond and Oak Hill on Friday followed by a long distance race at Burnt Mountain on Saturday. On Sunday, athletes raced in the individual sprint race as well as the elite sprint relay at the College. In the female-21+ division, Alison Crocker ’06, a member of the U.S.A. National Orienteering team, placed fifth in the middle race with a time of 39 minutes, third in the long race with a time of 1:27:12 and second in the sprint race with a time of 17:16. Canada’s Emily Kemp placed first in all three individual events. Crocker said she was pleased with improving her finish from Friday to Sunday. “Second is a hard place to finish [in the sprint],” she said. “But I’m happy with that result.” In the men’s 21+ division, Crocker’s teammate Gregory Ahlswede placed first in the long race with a time of 1:41:43. Thierry Gueorgiou beat Ahlswede with a time of 1:25:31, but since Gueorgiou is not a member of the North American orienteering federation, he was ineligible for a medal. Ahlswede said it felt good to win, especially after training hard for a little over a year. The Burnt Mountain terrain, he and Crocker noted, was world-class. “It’s a good challenge and I haven’t been on many maps like that,” Ahlswede said. “You could hold a world championship race there.” The middle-distance race featured complex and technical terrain, and orienteers had the added challenge of having to look out for huge boulders and logs while running and navigating through the woods. As a winner in the M-21 elite category, Ahlswede automatically quali-
To prepare for the championships, fied for the 2017 World Orienteering Dartmouth. Championships in Tartu, Estonia. Crocker said she was delighted to Crocker said she trained individually The sport is organized so that com- return to Hanover and excited that but it’s always helpful to train with felpetitors begin the course at different some of her former professors and low orienteers. “There’s the physical side which is times so that no one follows alongside acquaintances from the Dartmouth just being in the best running shape another or tries to use another com- Outdoor Programs could see her petitor’s decisions to one’s advantage. compete during a different era in her you can with some agility and trail running training,” she said. “It’s also When Ahlswede began the long race, life. about half of the competitors already She was first introduced to orien- studying and being quick with makstarted. Gueorgiou, a French orien- teering in high school but did not ori- ing decisions.” Crocker said she was unable to get teer with more than 20 gold medals enteer at Dartmouth due to a shoulcredited to his name in the sport, der injury she sustained while rowing. enough orienteering practice so she caught up to Ahlswede, but he con- However, she was reexposed to the felt a bit rusty when making decisions tinued to follow his own routes and sport while studying at the University in the woods. “When you’re well-trained, it sort map contexts. of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Since “When someone else is in the for- completing a doctorate degree in as- of flows. You look at the map and it’s est with you, you have to use that energy and go with it,” Ahlswede said. Middle-distance courses are meant to test technical map reading at high speeds in challenging terrain. Orienteers are intended to complete the middle course in 60 percent of the time it takes to complete the long course, which is the traditional distance used for elite and international competitions. Sprint races usually occur in parks and college campuses in the U.S., but they can also occur in the center of developed cities, Crocker said. Because the sprint race is so fast-paced and dispersed throughout the campus, director of outdoor programs Brian Kunz said, it is the most spectator COURTESY OF DAVE YEE friendly. Throughout various loca- Alison Crocker ’06 took home the bronze medal after the long race at Burnt Mountain. tions on campus, volunteers set up boxes as checkpoints, where competitors must slide a mag- trophysics, Crocker has established simple to execute,” Crocker said. “To netic e-card that verifies they passed herself as a world class orienteer, be at the top of your game you need that specific location and sets up splits having qualified for the U.S. national to be orienteering two or three hours that show how fast each athlete made team and competing in the 2015 a week at least, finding the maps and it to each spot. World Orienteering Championships. going to the venue.” Ahlswede said he trained by doing As soon as each race begins, Ahlswede said he started orienteercompetitors are given a special topo- ing when he was 8 years old, after his a lot of running through the woods graphic map that identifies specific father saw an advertisement to par- and practicing on technical courses. He moved into a mountain hut and checkpoints that they must pass. The ticipate in a local newspaper. map also includes symbols that indiKunz said members of the U.S. trained there for two months before cate environmental features such as Orienteering Federation requested to traveling to Sweden to train for 20 land forms, rocks and boulders and have the championships at the Col- days. At the championships, the U.S. vegetation. By analyzing the map lege and he agreed not only because it and using a compass, orienteers must is a commemoration of Heiskanen’s and Canada aim to win the Björn choose the best path to take and start efforts but also because it is a chance Kjellström Trophy, which is given on running to finish in the fastest time. for students to see top-class navigators the last day of the meet to the team with the highest combined score for Hosting this year’s NAOC is spe- on campus. cial, Kunz said, because 75 years ago, Part of hosting the event was in- the sprint relay and the scores of the Piltti Heiskanen, a recreational skiing vesting time and money into develop- team’s top three male and female and physical education teacher at the ing updated maps of the three race performers in the individual events. College, organized the first North locations for the competitors, Kunz Teams receive 50 points for finishing first in the sprint relay and 30 points American Orienteering events at said.
for second place. Individuals also receive points in the middle, long and sprint events on a decreasing scale, with a maximum score of 25 for first place and 22 for second place. After the conclusion of this year’s sprint relay, members from Orienteering USA announced Canada won the trophy, Crocker said. Since the award was first presented in 1980, Canada has won more trophies than the U.S., but the U.S. has won the last three trophies since 2010. “Both teams have been doing well and trying to push ahead in the international scene,” Crocker said. In 2012, Orienteering USA created the Future Champions Cup, which is given to the top team in the junior division. Scoring is similar to that of the Björn Kjellström Trophy, with the exception of scoring differences in the individual events, which carry a maximum score of 15 points for first place, and separate classes based on age, ranging from 17 year olds to 20 year olds. In 2014, the U.S. won and in its inaugural year, the U.S. and Canada tied. U.S. Junior Orienteering Team coach Erin Schirm said the junior team did great overall and developed a sizeable lead before Sunday’s sprint relay. “They got a lot of experience over the last few years and that held through,” Schirm said. The U.S. junior team maintained its success from the individual events and won this year’s Future Champions cup, Crocker noted. Although orienteering is not nearly as popular in America as it is in Europe, Kunz said it is a great sport to learn because it is important to be able to navigate and make decisions on the fly. “It’s a life long sport,” Kunz said. “People love it and they keep doing it even when they’re 90 years old. They’re walking and trying to find the best way.” After this year’s NAOC, which marks the end of the North American orienteering season, Crocker will be taking a break. Ahlswede will be taking a two-week break before returning to Europe for international and Spanish league competitions, focusing on mountain running and preparing for the 2017 World Orienteering Championships.
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have when it comes to discussing social issues and whether they deserve it. Many opined after Kaepernick began his protest that his thoughts were irrelevant on the grounds that he is a back-up quarterback. A popular take on Kaepernick rapidly became that he is not good enough at playing quarterback for his thoughts on race in the U.S. to matter. His performance did not merit the same platform enjoyed by his peers who are more successful on the football field. The issue of platform is very relevant to Kaepernick’s movement’s relationship with America’s Jones, Kaepernick, Robinson, national pastime. As protests break out across variAli and Issues of Race in ous sports, the MLB has remained America’s Pastime protest free. No baseball player has Since Colin Kaepernick first opted to kneel, sit or protest in any knelt during the national anthem form during the Anthem. However, before a San Francisco 49er while no on-field protests have ocpreseason game on Aug. 14, his curred, Baltimore Orioles centerprotest has prompted a national fielder Adam Jones in an interview referendum on social injustice in with USA Today has tweaked the scope of the discussion Kaepernick the United States. started. Thirteen NFL play“We already have two ball is a“Basewhite ers, including teammate Eric strikes against us...so man’s sport,” said. He Reid and Seyou might as well not Jones pointed to the attle Seahawks cornerback Jer- kick yourself out of relatively low of Afriemy Lane, have the game. In football, number can-American joined him in protesting dur- you can’t kick them baseball players ing the anthem out. You need those as a key cause in why more through kneeling, raising a fist players. In baseball, players have not spoken up, sayor locking arms. they don’t need us.” ing “We already Kaeperhave two strikes n i c k ’s m ove against us...so m e n t i s n o t -ADAM JONES, you might as exclusive to well not kick the NFL. U.S. BALTIMORE ORIOLES yourself out of women’s soc- CENTERFIELDER the game. In cer star Megan football, you Rapinoe knelt can’t kick them during the anthem while playing for Team out. You need those players. In USA and may face discipline for baseball, they don’t need us.” Jones’ assertion holds a strong continuing to do so. College and high school football players have statistical basis. The NFL is also been seen and documented composed of 68 percent AfricanAmerican players; the MLB: 8 performing similar protests. While Kapernick’s intention percent. There are just two black was to start a conversation about managers in the MLB, one black race and police brutality, much of general manager and not a single the dialogue surrounding the 49er black MLB team owner. Jones, a star center fielder quarterback’s protest has been centered on the platform athletes playing in a city that has been
heavily involved in the national discussion of race, believes that African-American players in the MLB lack the same platform as their NFL or NBA peers because they are dispensable within the league. To him, outspoken AfricanAmerican players will not last long in a league where the majority of stars are white. To be sure, the MLB has many excellent AfricanAmerican players, but, as of the 2016 All-Star break, not one of the 10 bestselling jerseys in baseball was that of an African-American player. What is perhaps more concerning is that the league does not appear to be doing anything to correct clear inequalities within the sport. Whether most fans like it or not, American sports have long been tied to political protest. In 1968, at the Summer Olympics in 1968, the podium of the 200-meter became an iconic image of the Civil Rights Movement. Gold-medalist Tommie Smith and bronze-medalist John Carlos, both American, each raised a fist for the entire playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Smith later wrote in his autobiography that the gesture was not one of Black Power, as many believed at the time, but one of human rights. T h e l at e M u h a m m a d A l i famously refused to fight in the Vietnam War despite being drafted one year prior to Smith and Carlos’
protest, citing war’s incompatibly you might think. In his 1972 autobiography, Robinson wrote: “As with his Muslim faith. At the time, Ali was vilified, but I write this..., I cannot stand and his actions changed what it meant sing the anthem. I cannot salute to be a star athlete. His greatness the flag; I know that I am a black did not lie merely in his aptitude man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in the ring but in 1919, I know in his willingness to use his “I cannot stand and that I never had p l at fo r m t o sing the anthem. I it made.” In 2016, the advance a political stance cannot salute the flag; world Robinson in which he I know that I am a black d e s c r i b e d a p pears strikingly believed. By the time man in a white world. similar to the of his death In 1972, in 1947, at my league in which Jones plays. Jones l a s t s p r i n g, Ali’s protest birth in 1919, I know is a black man in and willing- that I never had it a white league, and it is time for ness to use Major League the platform made.” Baseball to speak of athletic out and to enstardom were courage all of its as big a part -JACKIE ROBINSON, NEW stars to express of his legacy YORK YANKEES SECOND themselves. as his domi- BASEMAN The fact that nance in the Jones feels that sport of boxbl a c k p l aye r s ’ ing. views are being Change in baseball, more so than in any suppressed should be enough for other major sport, is glacial. It is the league to take action to ensure a sport deeply rooted in tradition that this suppression ends immeand history. Baseball’s agreed upon diately. If the league does not take gold standard, the 1927 New York Yankees, played exactly 20 years action, it will only augment the before Jackie Robinson broke the growing void in popularity becolor barrier on April 15, 1947. tween baseball and other American Robinson, a baseball and civil major sports and prove even more rights icon, seems to have more devastating that perhaps Jones is in common with Kaepernick than right.
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Women’s doubles partners ranked No. 10, adjust during fall By ALEX LEIBOWITZ The Dartmouth
After reaching the NCAA tournament last year for the first time in Dartmouth history, Taylor Ng ’17 and Kristina Mathis ’18 enter this fall ranked 10th in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Division I Preseason Doubles rankings. This coomes after Ng and Mathis went 14-2 last season and qualified for the NCAA Doubles Championship this past May. When they were selected for the NCAA tournament, they were ranked 20th. Since Mathis is not on this fall, Ng will be playing doubles with some of the team’s four new freshmen: Catherine Cable ’20, Chuyang Guan ’20, Racquel Lyn ’20 and Allison McCann ’20. Guan, Lyn and McCann already made their mark this season, helping the Big Green at the Tribe Invitational from Sept. 16 to 18. Although it may be a challenge to figure out how to work well with another player in a short amount of time, Ng said she is optimistic because the beauty of doubles is that players are not locked in with the same person. “You can learn from other people as well,” Ng said. What is important for Ng and the rest of the team in this situation, she said, is to get experience playing and incorporating what she learned from the last few matches. “I think playing with each of them has helped us all identify what
our strengths are, the potential for new partnerships and also things we would like to work on individually,” Ng said. When Mathis and Ng first paired up two years ago, Ng finished the season with a 14-8 doubles record, and Mathis ended with a 13-6 record. Both ended the 2015 season ranked at No. 1. In the NCAA Doubles Tournament, they ended the season with a loss to Arizona State in the Round of 32. Women’s head tennis coach Bob Dallis said playing with Ng gives the freshman players an opportunity to play doubles with a really high level doubles player. “[They can] understand a lot of the concepts that we’ve been working on,” Dallis said. While none of the players know who Dallis will pair together, Ng and Mathis are looking forward to the winter and spring seasons. Mathis said she was a little sad about not competing this fall. “I definitely wish I could have played with her a little bit more, but like I said we have the winter and the spring season coming up which will be fun,” Mathis said. “And spring break will also be really good. So we still have some time to play together.” The players reminisced about what they learned from the other and what had made them so successful. Regarding the team’s ability to communicate well, Ng said a strength they share is being able to know where the other person is
for a while. You know how old people happen to always know where they were and what they were doing when a tragedy such as 9/11 or Hurricane Katrina happened? Today, as I waited in line for my coffee, I received a text message that read: “Jose Fernández :( .”
The Week of Tragedy (9/19 9/25) This week I wasn’t going to write my column. No, not because I hate all of my two readers. And no, not because I’m disgustingly sick (freshman plague, am I right guys?) but because nothing really happened that much in sports, until it did. It was one of those moments where the universe was about to mess you up badly just because you hadn’t had anything that awful happen to you
12:06 p.m. Sept. 22, Adrian Peterson has meniscus surgery — This is whack! I think that in some ways, it’s actually a bonus for the Minnesota Vikings to spread out their offense. They have the talent at the receiver position, and Sam Bradford has a very underrated arm. I’m just saying that guy can still fling it and there’s a lot of potential there. However, if the Vikings win anything without AP, did the Vikings really win anything at all? Imagine what it would be like if the Roman Republic was still taking over the world after the assassination of Julius Caesar or if George Washington’s crew crossed the Delaware without George Washington. There’s something really strange about a Super Bowl-winning Vikes with either a useless or disabled Peterson. It’s lame, but it’s not all over.
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Doubles partners Kristina Mathis ’18 and Taylor Ng ’17 are ranked 10th in the ITA Preseason following last season’s successful run.
on the court without needing to see her. In the past two years, Mathis said she has learned a lot from Ng. “She’s pushed me out of my comfort zone. She pushed me to try new things,” Mathis said. “I think we’ve been really successful together, our games really complimented each other.” Regardless of who Dallis pairs up this season, both players are focused on setting and accomplishing their goals and finding success again. Ng will take on the added
role of serving as co-captain with fellow senior Jacqueline Crawford ’17. If they were to be partnered together, Mathis said she will approach their games in a similar manner as before. “Every single match has been really important to us no matter who we play and no matter where we play,” Mathis said. “I think we just try one hundred and ten percent each match and try to keep a good attitude and try to be the best teammates we could be to each
other and to the whole team.” Ng echoed Mathis’ sentiments regarding the need to identify where she and Mathis can improve. “For me, it’s getting a bit more comfortable at the baseline, and for Kristina its getting a bit more comfortable at the net,” Ng said. “I think once we do that will really take our game to the next level.” This weekend, Ng and the rest of the team will travel to Los Angeles for the ITA All-America Championship, which will be held from Oct. 1 to Oct. 9.
Maybe Peterson can come back or maybe he won’t, but if I had to bet on anyone to do it, it would be Peterson. He’s come back from a torn ACL in 2011 as well as a sports hernia in 2013. He’ll come back from this surgery, too. In the meantime, get well soon, AP.
all-time favorite basketball-playing dinosaurs. Bosh is my dinosaur and if you didn’t know, he’s had an issue with blood clots (he’s getting old, I guess). The doctors really don’t want him to play, but I’m still rooting for him to come back. The dude gets buckets, yet the future is very unclear. Bosh may never play again. And you hate to see that.
dies in boating accident — 24-yearold superstar pitcher Jose Fernández of the Miami Marlins died this weekend in a freak and tragic boating accident. Fernández was with two other men when they crashed a 33-foot boat into a jetty. He died of trauma. The young pitcher leaves behind a legacy of unfulfilled potential since his debut in 2013. He won National League Rookie of the year and was a two-time all star. With only 76 career starts to his name, he carried a pristine 2.56 ERA. His hall-of-fame type level talent only occurs a few times in a generation. We lost someone who was not only a great guy — and about to be a first time father with his girlfriend — but also someone who was really, really good at his job. I’m not going to pretend like I know the guy because I don’t. I think as a young person there’s just something relatable when you see a young up-and-coming baseball player trying to change the game. Fernández was hope for the Marlins, for Major League Baseball and for young people everywhere. Today, we lost Jose Fernández, and the world lost a little bit of hope.
11:21 a.m. Sept. 23, Jacoby Brissett tears thumb ligament — Just when we thought Bill Belichick would save us, we took another L. This injury is less serious because Brissett really is just a third string quarterback on a Patriot’s team that has Tom Brady returning from suspension. I hope it doesn’t make me a bad person to hope that Brissett has to sit out next week so Belichick will have no choice but to start wide receiver Julian Edelman at quarterback. 8:49 p.m. Sept. 23, Chris Bosh fails physical — Talk about legendary players with serious health issues. Chris Bosh is a legend! I still don’t get people that judge him simply because he kind of looks like a dinosaur. Okay, well maybe he does look a lot like a dinosaur, but he’s one of my
11:20 a.m. Sept. 24, Chelsea loses to Arsenal, 3-0 — I’m a Chelsea supporter so this news obviously is way more upsetting to me than if you were, say an Arsenal fan. Still it’s never that cool when a great rivalry match is so ruthlessly one-sided. 1:00 p.m. Sept. 25, Way too many Tannehill jerseys at the Miami Dolphins’ game — Watching the Miami Dolphins game this weekend against the Cleveland Browns, I noticed there were way too many Ryan Tannehill jerseys. There’s no reason to have a Ryan Tannehill jersey. Even if he did lead the Dolphins to a 30-24 overtime win against the Browns.
4:45 p.m. Sept. 25, Jose Fernández
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
WITH QUINN COONEY ’19 This week, The Dartmouth sat How did it feel to be the top down with Quinn Cooney ’19, a collegiate runner in the Dartmember of the cross country and mouth Invitational? track and field teams. In his first collegiate cross country meet, QC: It feels good. It wasn’t that unexpected for Cooney led the team me. I was ready to a win at the Dartmouth Invitational “Our mindset this to make the jump with a first-place year has been up this year, and finish in the 8-kilo- that we want to I put in a lot of meter course, which ta ke o u r eye s work this sumoff of really big mer, so I was exhe ran in 25:16:01. After breaking his g o a l s b e c a u s e cited to do that, navicular bone in that can become and realize that high school, Cooney o v e r w h e l m i n g I accomplished redshirted his fresh- for us, so right the first step in man fall, and now now our mind set my goals. looks to lead the Big is “today is your Green in a successful most important How does comrun, and today’s peting for your fall campaign. run [is what] you first year as a sophomore H o w w a s yo u r focus on.” change how first collegiate you approach cross country exthe sport and perience? your role on the team? QC: It was a lot of fun. It was in a pretty controlled environment QC: I know what it takes to be at the Dartmouth relays. With at that next level. Last year we the course, it was something had some failures at the end, and that I was pretty familiar with, I’ve seen what caused that, and I and just being out there with my think that having that experience of seeing the team last year, and teammates was fun.
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what happened to them, and just learning from that and changing up our mindset has been very beneficial to us. What are your team goals for the rest of the season? QC: We want to do some big stuff at [Ivy League Championships]. Our mindset this year has been that we want to take our eyes off of really big goals because that can become overwhelming for us, so right now our mind set is “today is your most important run, and today’s run [is what] you focus on.” I think that’s really been working for us. What are some of your personal goals for the rest of the season? QC: I just want to be the best teammate I can be and help the team out as much as I can. I don’t really have any specific goals in terms of times or places right now. Whenever the team needs me I’ll be there. When did you realize cross country was something you wanted to pursue at the collegiate level? QC: Probably my junior year of high school was when I really set
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my mind to it. I played baseball all throughout high school, I never ran outdoor track, and I’d been trying to decide between which one I really wanted to pursue my junior year. Things were really clicking [that year], and that’s when I actually knew that I was going to try to run at the collegiate level. Why Dartmouth? QC: A big reason was just the running around here. The trails are so beautiful...and just the environment in general; the academic environment is really good. Cross country has a major mental control factor. What do you do to focus throughout competition?
QC: I don’t like core that much or like any type of weight training. My favorite thing is just going out for a distance run with my teammates. We have this thing called “the sound of music,” where you climb up to the woods and pop up on a dirt road overlooking like all of Norwich. When you get up there, that’s one of the best feelings.
“I just try to not think about the pain I’m in a lot of times. You know having teammates next to you in races and in workouts definitely helps a lot as well; that’s like the biggest thing that helps me get through it.”
QC: I just try to not think about the pain I’m in a lot of times. You know having teammates next to you in races and in workouts definitely helps a lot as well; that’s like the biggest thing that helps me get through it. What’s your favorite and least favorite thing about distance running?
What is it like to be in season all year (for cross country and track)?
QC: It’s a grind, but that’s all I really know, so you just get used to it. We don’t miss that much school for meets or anything, but it can definitely become a grind towards the end of the year. If you could describe your team culture in three words what would it be? QC: Fun, goal-motivated and grinders. This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.