The Dartmouth Sports Weekly 1/30/17

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Students participate in pickup basketball p. 8

Tearing Up the Playbook with Sam Stockton ’19 p. 6

The Weekend Roundup p. 2-3

Diving In

An exploration of competitive swimming strokes p. 4-5

By Mark Cui and Evan Morgan

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The weekend Roundup

Compiled by JONATHAN KATZMAN, ALEX LEIBOWITZ AND DANIELLE OKONTA

SQUASH No. 9 women’s squash narrowly avoided an upset on Sunday, squeaking past No. 13 Drexel University 5-4 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Big Green began the day with losses from Annie Blasberg ’20 and Becky Brownell ’18 but bounced back with wins by Janel Gaube ’18, Emma Roberts ’19 and Maddie Fraser ’17. Julia Potter ’20 and Zainab Molani ’18 challenged their Drexel opponents but each lost in four games, setting up a decisive match at the No. 1 position. After dropping the first game 8-11, Dartmouth’s Jacqueline Barnes ’17 claimed the next three

games to clinch the overall match for Dartmouth.

The Drexel Dragons also edged No. 9 men’s squash 6-3 on Sunday.

Matt Giegerich ’19 got the cleanest win of the day, a three-game victory finished off with a dominating 11-1 set. Glen Brickman ’17 and Jack Harvey ’18 got the other two victories — Harvey in four games and Brickman in a five-game thriller. Alvin Heumann ’18 also fought hard at the No. 1 position, going up 2-1 on Drexel’s Omar El Atmas. But his opponent got the better of him when the fourth match went to extra points, and Heumann could not recover in the fifth.

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BASKETBAll The Dartmouth men’s basketball team lost 6654 Friday night against Columbia University. Evan Boudreaux ’19 had a team-high 13 points and six rebounds. He was 2-for-4 on 3-point attempts.

Columbia’s Luke Petrasek led all scorers with 18 points on 7-for-14 shooting.

On Saturday night, Dartmouth lost to Cornell University 75-62 at home bringing its record to 3-14 and 0-4 in the Ivy League. Boudreaux led the Big Green with 23 points and 14 rebounds. Down 35-23 at the half, Dartmouth managed to mount a comeback, cutting Cornell’s lead to five points with 8:33 left to play, but eventually Cornell was able to retain control and come up with the win. Dartmouth plays Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania at home next weekend.

The women’s basketball team lost 91-88 to Columbia at Leede Arena on Friday night. The game set a record with four overtimes, which became the most in a single game in Ivy League history. Fanni Szabo ’17 and Isalys Quiñones ’19 led the Big Green: Szabo

scored 31 points and had 9 rebounds in 55 minutes of play, and Quiñones scored 23 points and had 11 rebounds in a game high 60 minutes of play. Quiñones tied the game at 57 in the second half with just over a minute left to go, but the Big Green could not capitalize on a steal to win the game. In the first two overtimes, Dartmouth played catchup, but behind the strong play of Szabo managed to leave both overtimes tied.

Dartmouth almost won the game in the third overtime, up 83-80, but Columbia’s Emily Surloff hit a buzzer beater to tie it. Eventually, Columbia was able to pull ahead in the final overtime.

On Saturday night, Dartmouth beat Cornell University at home 84-74. It was the team’s first win in the Ivy League. Its record is now 6-11 and 1-3 in Ivy play. Szabo had another strong performance with 23 points and 6 rebounds shooting 9 for 13 from the field. Andi Norman ’18 also played well, scoring 14 points and hitting four 3-pointers. The Big Green play the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University next weekend.

WOmen’s ICE HOCKEY

Skiing At Jackson, this weekend, the Big Green ski teams won their second straight carnival, beating out second-place finisher, the University of Vermont, by 58 points. The weekend’s venue was a preview of the NCAA Championships, which will be held in Jackson later this season.

The alpine team dominated Cannon Mountain on both days.

Foreste Peterson ’18 and Tanguy Nef ’20 each topped the podium in Friday’s giant slalom, with Nef posting the top times in each run on his way to victory.

Stephanie Currie ’20 followed Peterson in third for the women, and Brian McLaughlin ’18 took

second on the men’s side. The following day, McLaughlin won the slalom for the second week in a row, and Alexa Dlouhy ’19 finished second in the women’s event.

Over at the Jackson Touring Center, the Big Green also took podiums ­— Fabian Stocek ’17 with gold in the men’s 20-kilometer freestyle and Lydia Blanchet ’19 with a third-place finish in the 15-kilometer freestyle.

Strong team perfor mances in every event, including team wins in the men’s and women’s giant slalom and men’s slalom, propelled the team to a whopping 903 points.

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Photo by LAUREN KIM/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF The women’s ice hockey team fell 1-0 to Cornell University and 6-1 to Colgate University.

The women’s ice hockey team fell to No. 8 Cornell University 1-0 in a tight battle on Friday evening at Thompson Arena. The Big Green dropped to 5-16-0 overall and 3-12-0 in the ECAC amidst continued offensive struggles.

The only goal of the evening came 9:31 into the first period when Kaitlin Doering got the visitors on the board. Dartmouth goalie Robyn Chemago ’17 kept the door closed on Cornell for the remainder of the game, making 28 saves in the loss. Cornell’s Marlene Boissonnault stopped all 13 Dartmouth shots she saw, including a flurry down the stretch after Chemago was pulled for an extra skater. Special teams were kept off the ice for most of the evening, with each team getting only a single power play opportunity.

On Saturday afternoon against Colgate University, the Big Green was unable to rebound from a slow start and fell to the Raiders 6-1.

Chemago was one of the lone bright spots for the Big Green, making 36 saves, including an athletic breakaway stop late in the first that kept the home squad in the contest. Colgate’s Julia Vandyk made 30 saves to earn her 16th victory of the season.

Colgate jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first

period behind goals from Megan Sullivan and Livia Altmann. Annika Zalewski made it 3-0 for the visitors on a second period power play, but Dartmouth finally got on the board when Kennedy Ottenbreit ’17 knocked a backhander past Vandyk 9:24 into the final stanza. The visitors would proceed to score three more times in the contest, including two empty net goals after head coach Laura Schuler pulled Chemago for an extra skater in an attempt to close the gap.

Dartmouth managed 31 shots on net but could not capitalize on three power play tries. Colgate peppered Chemago with 42 shots and managed one goal on four man-advantages.

“Colgate is a really good team with a lot of offense,” Schuler said. “I am proud of our girls for not giving up and showing a lot of resiliency, but we need to find a way to put the puck in the net.”

Dartmouth had been held scoreless in three straight outings before notching a goal against Colgate. In 22 games this season, the Big Green has scored an ECAC-worst 1.18 goals per game.

Dartmouth (5-17-0, 3-13-0) is tied for 10th in the ECAC with Ivy League rival Brown University.

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MEN’s HOCKEY Men’s hockey dropped a 2-1 contest at Colgate University on Friday evening before bouncing back the next night with a 4-2 win against Cornell University.

After the weekend’s action, the Big Green have an 8-113 overall record and a 5-8-2 conference record to sit in eighth place in the ECAC standings.

Colgate came out strong on Friday, building a 2-0 lead on goals from Brett Corkey and Bobby McMann, but Dartmouth got one back on a Kevin Neiley ’18 tally 6:04 into the third period. Despite outshooting the home squad 9-5 in the final stanza, the Big Green was unable to sneak another one by Colgate goaltender Charlie Finn, who made 26 saves in the victory and became the Raiders’

all-time leader in saves (3,071) late in the third period.

Devin Buffalo ’18 got the starting nod for Dartmouth and registered 24 saves.

Dartmouth struggled on special teams, going 0-for-5 on the power play — just the second time in the preceding 11 games that the Big Green had been shut out on the man-advantage.

On Saturday evening at Cornell University, Dartmouth scored four unanswered goals to upset the No. 14 team in the nation. Alex Jasiek ’19 notched the tying and winning goals on the power play just 62 seconds apart in the third to extend the Big Green’s unbeaten streak at Lynah Rink to five games.

Cornell got goals from Matt Nuttle and Matt Buckles in the first before Cam Roth ’19 got one back for Dartmouth in the second stanza. Neither team would add to the scoresheet until 12:17 into the third when Jasiek got a piece of a Troy Crema ’17 pass in front of Cornell goaltender Mitch Gillam, who was unable to corral the bouncing puck. After Jasiek’s game winner, Crema added an empty-netter with 1:31 left to seal the victory.

Buffalo kept the Big Red off the scoresheet in the second and third periods and was credited with 34 saves in the win. Cornell’s Gillam made 26 saves in the loss.

Dartmouth went 3-6 on extra-man opportunities, while Cornell was 1-3 with the extra skater.

Photo by SAPHFIRE BROWN/THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF After falling to Colgate University 2-1 on Friday, the men’s hockey team rallied to defeat Cornell University 4-2 on Saturday, bringing its overall record to 8-11-3.

tennis Dartmouth men’s tennis had a busy weekend taking on both Binghamton University and the University of South Carolina. The Big Green beat Binghamton on Friday 7-0 without dropping a set. Ciro Riccardi ’18, in the number No. 1 singles spot, won 6-4, 6-3, beating Ludovico Cestarollo. In doubles, the No. 2 team of Max Schmidt ’17 and David Horneffer ’20 beat Frenk Kote and Tiago Lourenco 6-3.

Dartmouth lost 6-1 to South Carolina in Hanover on Saturday. The Big Green’s only point came from Horneffer, who beat Thomas Mayronne 6-1, 6-2. Riccardi and Charlie Broom ’20 took their opponents to three sets, but each fell 10-5 in super tiebreakers. Dartmouth is now 2-2, and will play away matches at the University of Minnesota and the University of Iowa next weekend.

The women’s tennis team played well against Boston College on Saturday with a 5-2 win. Tied 2-2, wins by Jacqueline Crawford ’17, Racquel Lyn ’20 and Allison McCann ’20 sealed the victory for the Big Green. Kristina Mathis ’18 beat Kylie Wilcox 6-2, 6-4, but her and partner Taylor Ng ’17’s doubles-match went unfinished.

The pair were down 6-5 when the match stopped.

On Sunday, the team beat Purdue University 4-3. Ng won in straight sets 6-4, 6-3 at the No. 1 spot, and Mathis won her match against Alex Sabe in a third set tiebreaker 6-0, 2-6, 7-6(3). Dartmouth is currently 3-0 on the season after its two wins this weekend.

Photo by LAUREN KIM/THE DARTMOUTH STAFF The men’s tennis team defeated Binghamton University 7-0 on Friday without dropping a set.

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Swimming and diving meets feature several individual and relay events. Athletes typically specialize in an eve

By Mark Cui an

Breaststroke gets most of its propulsive force from the legs, which perform a “whip kick” or “frog kick.” The arm stroke is a forward symmetrical sculling motion. Each arm stroke is followed by one kick.

“The strong kick is very important in breaststroke since there’s more drag. This is important in longer races because relying on your arms in long races will be very tiring.” -Delaney Hall ’19

“When you’re pulling water ahead behind you, that’s the part of the stroke that you’re pulling yourself forward. When you put your hands back to the original position, you’re pushing water the other way. That portion of the pull is the dead zone where you’re not moving forward.

That’s where you want to put in the kick to eliminate that period when you’re not moving forward.” -Delaney Hall ’19

According to Jessica Wang ’18, the 200-meter length of the backstroke, like any stroke, will have a different strategy than the 100-meters. The basic strategy of the 200 meters is to take the first 100 long and strong, build up the third 50 and sprint the last 50.

A swimmer doing the backstroke performs a flip turn at the wall, similar to the freestyle flip turn. To know where the wall is, she will have a stroke count from the flags. “I know that if I’ve done two strokes, I need to flip over on my stomach and do one freestyle stroke before I go into the wall, and then I do a flip and push off the wall.” -Jessica Wang ’18

“One thing that’s specific to breaststroke is the pullout. After the dive and off of each wall, you have the opportunity to push off with a streamline as with other strokes, but you can do a dolphin kick to get a little extra distance and you can do one pull and one kick, all of which is underwater. It can be a big advantage if you execute it well because you go faster underwater most of the time since you’re in a tight streamline.” -Delaney Hall ’19

The backstroke combines a flutter kick with a circular arm stroke. The swimmer does a six-beat kick, meaning the legs kick six times for every two arm strokes.

Underwater, the arm does a catching motion similar to the butterfly. The hand enters the water with the pinkie down and exits with the thumb up.

“If somebody’s a good backstroker, they tend to enter the water pretty aggressively. You rotate as you swim – if your right arm is in the water, you’re going to rotate so your left shoulder is up and your right shoulder is down [and vice versa]. People who are good at it tend to rotate quite a bit with their shoulders and hips.”

-Jessica Wang ’18

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ent or a stroke. This week, The Dartmouth breaks down the four main strokes used in competitive swimming.

nd Evan Morgan “A perfect turn is when you come out in a perfectly streamline position. The wall is one of the slower points, so as long as you spend the least time possible on the wall you’re good.” -Robert Purvis ’19

The butterfly consists of a simultaneous forward arm circle combined with two kicks per stroke. The first dolphin kick – an upand-down motion with both legs – occurs when the arms enter the water.

Underwater, the arms catch water by making a keyhole shape. The second kick occurs when the arms exit the water.

“[Butter]fly is a stroke where sometimes there are people who are really good and their stroke is really ugly. It’s kind of hard to tell sometimes by looking.”

-Jessica Wang ’18

A swimmer starts the freestyle in streamline, with both hands above the head clasped tightly together. He brings one hand down and pulls through in a windmill motion. Once the hands are 180 degrees apart, the next arm begins the stroke. The legs perform a flutter kick, and the swimmer breathes to the side, not to the front.

To breathe, the swimmer lifts his head above the water when his arms are underwater and just starting to pull down. Breathing is an individual choice, but many coaches recommend breathing every other stroke. There are exceptions – Michael Phelps breathes every stroke.

“You don’t want your hands to be too far apart, because that slows you down, and you don’t want them to be too close together either, because it’s bad for your shoulders. Make sure they go in shoulder width and straight.”

-Jessica Wang ’18

“Your legs are kind of like the motor at the back of a boat – they’re always working.” -Maddie Dunn ’17

“A really good freestyler will drive the stroke from their core as opposed to driving it from their shoulders. Obviously the deeper you go in the water, the more resistance there is, so the more you can pull. By rotating your shoulders, you increase how much you can pull, both outwards and downwards. As you’re rotating your shoulders, if you drive your rotation from your hips, and, in effect from your legs, that takes away some of the stress from your upper body, just to make your stroke a little bit faster.” -Maddie Dunn ’17

According to Maddie Dunn ’17, an experienced swimmer will enter the water with his hand at a slight angle.

His elbow will be “high” during the recovery to decrease the amount of energy needed to bring the hand across and will be bent underwater to increase efficiency.

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Tearing Up the Playbook Sam Stockton ‘19 Super Bowl Preview Edition When you take a look at upper-tier National Football League quarterbacks, one thing is immediately apparent: they all get paid a lot. Aaron Rodgers’ average annual salary is north of $22 million a year. Russell Wilson takes home just under that mark. Matt Ryan of the National Football Conference champion Atlanta Falcons makes over $20 million a year. I don’t bring this up to say someone like Rodgers is overpaid.

Rodgers is probably the best thrower the NFL has ever seen. He deserves every cent that someone will pay him.

The problem is that when you give one player that much money, it becomes extremely hard to build an elite team in other areas.

Take Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks as an example. From late in his rookie year through Super Bowl XLIX, Seattle was head and shoulders the best team in the NFL. Their defense was unparalleled, and their offense always found a way to make the plays needed to win close games. The reason this team was able to become such a force was that its roster was full of criminally underpaid, elite players.

Stars like Wilson, Richard Sherman, Kam Chancellor and Michael Bennett were all compensated like depth players yet performed at an elite level.

Now, Seattle has had to turn these veteran minimum and rookie deals into contracts that at least come close to paying their stars the salary they deserve, and the team has suffered.

Today’s Seattle Seahawks are still an excellent team with All-Pro caliber players all over the field, but they have lost the level of dominance they enjoyed during that two-and-a-halfyear window.

Wilson’s contract plays no small part in that drop-off as he is the most extreme example of this trend. In his second season, the Seahawks finished the regular season at an NFC-best 13-3, then won the Super Bowl in dominating fashion. Wilson made roughly half a million dollars. This year, the Seahawks went 10-5-1 and lost in the second round of the playoffs.

When you commit so much money to one player, it becomes dramatically more difficult to put a well-rounded team on the field.

Rodgers is another perfect example.

The Green Bay Packers are built on the premise that Rodgers is good enough to

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compensate for inadequacies elsewhere in the roster. Green Bay knows that, without Rodgers, it is a mediocre football team at best, but Rodgers is so good that he can make it an elite team.

Again, all of this is not to say that an elite quarterback does not deserve a high salary or that having an elite quarterback is not a near sure-fire way to have a great team. The point is that very often in the NFL, choosing to sign an elite quarterback to the kind of contract the market necessitates is extremely limiting for the rest of a team’s roster.

Now, consider the New England Patriots. They have the best quarterback ever to play the game AND he is making under $14 million dollars this season.

Obviously, $14 million dollars a year is nothing to scoff at, but on the scale of star quarterback contracts this is effectively peanuts. Tom Brady could easily sign for $30 million dollars elsewhere, but instead, he takes a hit so that Bill Belichick has the resources to put a deeper and more talented team around him. If Rodgers was suspended four games, I would be stunned to see them go 3-1 the way the Patriots did this season without Brady.

It is no coincidence that the Patriots, the team that has become synonymous with sustained excellence in professional football, have locked down tremendous, yet affordable, quarterback play. Until Rodgers is willing to do something like that, the Packers will never come close to that level of sustained success.

Going into Sunday night’s match, New England will have the same crippling advantage that it has every week: more money to spend on every position other than quarterback — and a better quarterback. Patriots 31, Falcons 17.

Musings of the Week: 1. This year’s Super Bowl game has the same feel that the Pittsburgh Steelers versus the Arizona Cardinals game did a few years ago. Like the Cardinals, the Falcons are a great team in a lot of ways, but it just feels like there is no way the Falcons, a team that has never won a Super Bowl, can beat NFL royalty like New England.

2. I hate that I’m even mentioning the Pro Bowl right now, but I’m going to anyway. The skills competition, or whatever it was called, was awesome.

I love that the pros played dodgeball. I loved watching the best hands contest and the drone catches. The reason it was so cool is that all of the big stars participated. Odell Beckham, Jr. in best hands. Ezekiel Elliott in dodgeball. I would watch the two NFL Pro Bowl rosters go to a Denny’s as long as the big names were there. It’s unfortunate that these kinds of competitions never last because big time players stop participating. Lebron James is not in the National Basketball Association’s Slam Dunk Contest. Alex Ovechkin stopped competing in the National Hockey League’s Breakaway Challenge, then the NHL stopped doing it altogether.

I’ll be interested to see how well the Pro Bowl holds up. My only criticism is that I’d like to see a fastest man competition.

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Dartmouth women’s ice hockey team experiences growing pains

By JONATHAN KATZMAN The Dartmouth Staff

With a highly decorated new coach to point the Big Green program in a new direction, the women’s hockey team entered the 2016-2017 season eager to shake off last year’s 6-19-3 season. This season has seen a repeat of last year’s struggles, likely the growing pains associated with a rebuilding program and a new coaching system. The Big Green currently sit second-to-last in the ECAC Hockey standings, only in front of Union College, who the Big Green defeated in a 2-1 nail biter on Jan. 13.

It would be unfair, however, to draw a simple conclusion from looking at the Big Green’s 5-17-0 overall record this season. Of the team’s 17 losses thus far, seven have come by a single goal, and another seven have come by more than two goals. One of the most noticeable aspects of the team’s play this season, however, has been an astonishing lack of offensive production. Though this season was expected to be one in which new offensive threats emerged to replace three of last year’s top four scorers in Laura Stacey ’16, Lindsey Allen ’16 and Ailish Forfar ’16, the

Big Green have been outscored 60-26 and are averaging just 1.18 goals per game.

One of the lone offensive bright spots this season has been the play of assistant-captain Kennedy Ottenbreit ’17, who led last year’s team with 11 goals and nine assists. The senior from Grayson, Saskatchewan once again leads the Big Green with 11 points (seven goals, four assists), seven of which have come against ECAC competition. According to Ottenbreit, Dartmouth’s offensive struggles this season have not been ignored by the coaching staff, which has recently implemented more of fensive work during practice. After a 6-1 loss to Colgate University on Saturday afternoon, Ottenbreit was adamant that the team can only continue to work hard.

“We have stuck to our system and there has been heavy emphasis on offense,” Ottenbreit said. “Our focus on practice has been entirely on offense and we just need to keep battling to try to put the puck in the net. We just need to keep battling and working hard, that’s all we can really do.”

This season’s offensive struggles have also brought a considerable amount of pressure and attention

to goaltender Robyn Chemago ’17, a returning three-year starter.

Chemago’s 0.926 save percentage currently places her in a tie for 13th nationally, and fourth amongst ECAC goaltenders. Night after night, Chemago has given Dartmouth a chance to win, and her solid play has consistently kept Dartmouth in games in which its skaters have been overmatched.

On Friday evening against Cornell University, in which Dartmouth was outshot 29-13, Chemago’s presence in the crease and rebound control kept the Big Green competitive in a contest that did not see the Dartmouth offense register many quality chances until Chemago was pulled for an extra skater late in the third. Saturday afternoon’s 6-1 loss to Colgate University could have also been more severe, had Chemago not turned aside a series of point-blank attempts. When asked about her play this season, Chemago was quick to note that ultimately, her success comes from ignoring the big picture.

“I try not to think about making big saves, but rather the little things I can do,” Chemago said.

“Ultimately, I try to just play with a lot of energy not get too high off of the big saves, and not too low when pucks go in.”

Despite a lackluster first season in Hanover, head coach Laura Schuler has been complimentary of her team’s effort and resiliency during the season. After the loss against Colgate, Schuler’s focus became how her team had improved throughout the year and what needs to be done in order for Dartmouth to return to the winner’s circle.

“I think there has been a big learning curve, but the girls have come a long way,” Schuler said.

“For us to be successful, we need to make better puck reads. We need to make better positional maneuvers around better puck reads.”

To expect much more from a team learning a new offensive system under a new staff would have been unwarranted pressure.

Fans should not have been so quick to proclaim Schuler as the savior of the program, one that has struggled the last few seasons.

What Schuler does bring to the table as Dartmouth’s head coach is the resume of an elite player and coach who can recruit the next generation of women’s hockey talent to Hanover. Schuler played her college hockey at Northeastern University and the University of Toronto, before joining the Canadian women’s national team.

Among the hardware she earned while playing for the national team were three International Ice Hockey Federation world championship gold medals and a silver medal at the 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan. Since her playing days ended, Schuler has served as the head coach at her alma mater and the University of Massachusetts Boston, as well as seven seasons as an assistant at the University of Minnesota Duluth, where her teams advanced to two Frozen Fours and captured the 2010 National Championship.

Her college coaching positions have also been complemented by coaching assignments within Hockey Canada, including head coach of the U18 national team and assistant coach for the women’s national team.

There is no doubt that Schuler has the ability to create a recruiting pipeline stretching from Hockey Canada to Hanover in the near future. Perhaps we will not see many more wins from the women’s team this season, but it appears that the program is in good hands and that current members of the team are buying into Schuler’s system. After all, I do not think there is anything on Schuler’s curriculum vitae that is not worth buying into.

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SWIMMING AND DIVING The women’s swimming and diving team fell to the University of Connecticut 181-114 in its penultimate dual meet of the season. UConn dominated the diving events, taking the top three spots in the 3-meter event and the top four positions on the 1-meter board. Allison Green ’19’s fourth place on the 3-meter board and fifth in the 1-meter event made her the Big Green’s top diver. In the 400-yard medley relay, Dartmouth’s A team finished over three seconds behind UConn in second (3:59.41).

AnnClaire MacArt ’18 and Maddie Dunn ’17 finished 1-2 in the 200-yard freestyle with times of 1:53.91 and 1:56.21.

Other top finishes came from Hayley Winter ’18, who was second in the 1000-yard freestyle (10:27.38), and Sam Norton ’20, who won the 100-yard breaststroke (1:05.72) and the 200-yard breaststroke (2:23.07). Dartmouth ended the day by taking the top two spots in the 200yard freestyle relay. The A relay team (Megan Crook ’19, Amy Sun ’17, Sophie Smith ’20 and Dunn) was

first (1:39.09) with the B team close behind (1:42.22).

The men also lost to the Huskies in a close meet, 161134. The Big Green started off with top finishes on the diving boards as AJ Krok ’19 won the 1m competition (292.12) and was second on the 3m board (295.43). In the 400-yard relay, Dartmouth’s A team was second (3:28.37) and the B team was third (3:33.05).

Some top individual finishes included Henry Senkfor ’18’s win in the 200-yard freestyle (1:42.34) and Tony Shen ’18’s second place finishes in the 100-yard backstroke (52.44) and 100-yard freestyle (46.87). Delaney Hall ’19 took second in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:08.47), and Will Belmont ’20 took second in the 50-yard freestyle (22.02). Patrick Kang ’17 finished first by one-tenth of a second in the 100-yd breastroke. Dartmouth also took first and second in the 200-yard free relay as the A team (Belmont, Hall, Tang-e Tan ’20 and Henry Patrick ’19) won in 1:29.53 and the B team touched more than a second after (1:30.99).

Track & Field The Dartmouth track and field team participated in the Terrier Classic at Boston University on Saturday. Two individual performances stood out.

Patrick Gregory ’18 ran the 1000-meter in 2:23.85, finishing seventh overall. His time was the third fastest in program history. Henry Raymond ’20 ran the mile in 4:02.49 placing ninth in the race.

Raymond’s race is the 12th fastest mile in Dartmouth history.

The women’s team also competed at the Terrier Classic this weekend. Helen Schlachtenhaufen ’17 ran a 4:42.72 in the mile, the fourth-fastest mile in Dartmouth history. In the 1000-meter Bridget Flynn ’18 finished third overall as the top college runner with a time of 2:48.77. Eliza Dekker ’19 finished right behind her in fourth with a time of 2:50.92.

Julia Valenti ’20 cleared 3.80 meters in the pole vault, tied for the third best mark in team history.

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Dartmouth’s swim teams took on the University of Connecticut this weekend.

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Students connect and develop skills through pickup basketball

By MAX ZHUANG

The Dartmouth Staff

The great state of California may be best known for recreational marijuana and the Golden State War rior s. However, I would argue that the California culture combined with the trendiness of our juggernaut super team has created ideal conditions for the best pickup basketball. Everyone is down to play. Third-graders want to be Stephen Curry. Girls swoon over Klay Thompson, dads are constantly throwing a fit over Draymond Green’s antics and — oh wait, did I forget to mention Kevin Durant?

Yet, the Dartmouth community itself has experienced its own eruption of basketball mania; to witness the social phenomenon, just head to the basketball courts any given afternoon and watch as the part-time ballers assemble to form half-court five on five games with teams subbing on and off the court.

Pickup basketball’s popularity on campus cannot be denied.

Interviewing different students on campus and their experience playing pickup, only one notion became truly apparent: ball is life.

“We’re very serious athletes, and I try to play everyday to stay in good shape.” Evan Ashley ’17, a basketball fanatic, said. “‘Ball’ is my favorite sport. I love it when I dribble up and down the court.”

Ashley explained that he plays pickup at least once a day, because the exercise keeps him in shape during the harsh winter months of excessive pong, sleeping-in and gorging himself with food at Chabad. Pickup basketball is easily worked into the cardio portion of his fitness routine.

As a senior, Ashley finds himself with too much time on his hands, and so he even organized his own intramural basketball team to play with his friends; this season Ashley’s team, Archie BC, has accumulated a 2-1 record, on pace for the playoffs in the Moosilauke

League. Although Ashley remains very invested in his intramural team, Ashley still says that pickup is “more fun,” since it gives him the opportunity to play with new players and meet new people.

“I remember one time at the gym, me and a friend were trying to play pickup, and so we get in this game with what looked like was a group of football players,” Ashley said. “They crushed us, but only after the game did I realize that I was playing against [former Big Green quarterback] Dalyn Williams ’16.”

Describing the crossover effect playing with athletes from different sports, Ashley believes that their dominance in pickup shows the combination of skill and athleticism required to ball. Ashley cited one instance when Williams dunked on an alley oop play that was, “so ridiculous,” it felt as though it had lasted for “like ten seconds.”

“The gym is packed almost every night with kids trying to ball,” said Jayson Chojar ’19, a

frequent pickup player. “There are kids that play in groups a couple times a week, and they play on teams from their freshmen house communities, floormates or [are] just buddies. The best part about it is that anybody who wants to play, can.”

Some people have to hit the courts with a friend, others, like Chojar, use their solidarity to an advantage.

Honing his social skills on the court through meeting new people and working together as a team, Chojar provided an explanation of the unspoken rules when playing in a pickup game with an unfamiliar group of people who seem to know each other, but don’t know you. Even though pickup is a good opportunity to meet others, there still remains standards and unwritten rules to abide by.

First and foremost, Chojar explained that you really don’t need to bring anyone else with you to the courts, because the entire experience of meeting others and building rapport can be developed

on the court. Next, Chojar believes that it’s crucial to make your shots and take good shots on the courts.

Otherwise, you risk alienation from your own team when they stop passing you the ball.

Lastly, Chojar thinks the key to jumping in and playing with random people is to “ease into things.” Chojar’s philosophy is to take things slowly, watch how others are playing the game and look to pass. When one is playing pickup as a complete team player, it makes that person not only more fun to play with but also the game is more fun for everyone else. “ I t ’s i m p o r t a n t t o bu i l d chemistry with your team as quickly as possible,” said Shareef Ibraheem ’18, a hardcore pickup player and former high school basketball star. “Even though pickup as a game is better when you are familiar with the players on your team and know how to play with them. Don’t ever forget to cook. Don’t ever stop breaking people’s ankles.”

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power play goals Alex Jasiek ’19 scored in the 4-2 win against Cornell University

minutes played by women’s basketball player Isalys Quiñones in 4OT loss against Columbia University

goals per game for the women’s hockey team this season

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Racquel Lyn ’20’s national singles ranking in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association

men’s basketball 3-point field goal percentage during the first half against Cornell University

number of sets lost by the men’s tennis team against Binghamton University