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The Weekend Roundup p. 2-3 Dartmouth Football hires new wide-receiver coach, Dave Shula ’81 p. 6 Honorable Mention: Highs and Lows p. 6 Heavyweight rowing sees young additions to top boat p. 7 Senior Spring: Alvin Heumann ’18 plans to go professional p. 8
Griffith’s Got Stats: NCAA Championship Overview p. 4-5
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TRACK & FIELD Men’s track and field travelled this weekend with stops in Princeton, New Jersey for the Sam Howell Invitational and New Haven, Connecticut for Yale’s Mark Young Invitational. The team had several standout performers over the weekend including, Henry Raymond ’20, who won the 1500 meters on Friday with a time just under 3 minutes and 50 seconds. Patrick O’Brien ’21 had a good showing in Princeton as well, placing second in the 5000 meters with a time of 14:37.61. On Saturday in New Haven, the team had several members post impressive numbers, especially Ethan Ruh ’20 who won the shotput event with a 15.54-meter throw. Donovan Spearman ’21 also ran an impressive 11.11-second 100-meter dash, which was good enough to give him second place for the meet. Looking forward, the team will be hosting a meet next Friday featuring Hartford University, the
University of Massachusetts Lowell and the University of Vermont. Women’s track and field travelled to Princeton and New Haven this weekend for the Sam Howell and Mark Young invitational track meets. The team was able to post several different impressive results throughout the weekend, including Nicole Deblasio ’19s first-place finish in the 100 meters with a time of 12.19 seconds at the Mark Young Invitational. At Princeton, Lauren Sapone ’20, Georgia Fear ’20 and Claire Dougherty ’20 were able to take 1st, 3rd and 4th respectively in the 1500 meters, giving Dartmouth a dominant position in this event. Cha’Mia Rothwell ’20 was also able to deliver for the Big Green with a first place in the 100 meter hurdles, posting a time of 13.77 seconds. The team is home next week hosting a meet with Hartford University, the University of Massachusetts Lowell and the University of Vermont.
LW ROWING The Big Green lightweight team took on Princeton University, Temple University and the University of Delaware in New Jersey for its first action since November. It was a tough challenge given that Princeton is the number two team in the nation while Delaware is another top-10 team. The first varsity boat came in second at 6:33.9 behind Princeton at 6:19.7.
The second varsity boat took third behind Princeton and Delaware with a time of 6:39.0. The third varsity boat also came in third behind the two teams at 7:02.1. The Big Green did not participate in the fourth race. Next Saturday, the team will compete in the Biglin Bowl against Harvard and MIT and will race Mercyhurst College in Hanover the following day.
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The Dartmouth men’s lacrosse team fell to Yale University 17-7 on Saturday.
Dartmouth’s men’s lacrosse team lost to Yale University 17-7 at Scully-Fahey Field on Saturday, April 7th. Yale’s offensive spurts in the first and final quarters, in which they scored six and seven goals respectively, allowed them to secure the victory, improving their Ivy League record to 4-0. Conversely, Dartmouth is now 2-7 overall and 0-3 in the Ivies. Midfielder Jack Korzelius ’18 scored four goals and goalie Alex
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Burnley ’21 made eight saves. After a vicious start where Yale recorded four goals in a minute and 20 seconds, Dartmouth did not rebound from the offensive barrage until 13 minutes into the game with Prince’s first goal, making the score 6-1. The men’s lacrosse team’s next two games will be on the road. On Tuesday, they will have a non-conference season contest against the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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Dartmouth women’s golf came in ninth after three rounds at the Harvard Invitational at the Oaks Club in Osprey, Florida. Harvard University came out ahead of the 11 total teams playing while the University of Delaware finished as a close second. On day one, three Big Green golfers birdied their first hole and the two others made par. Isabelle Kane ’18 had the best 18hole score among the Big Green on Saturday with a 76. Jessica Kittelberger ’18 and Catharine Roddy ’19
finished strong on the first loop on Saturday as well. In the second round, Kane birdied two holes of the first nine but went three over in the back nine. Her efforts tied her for 27th out of 59 golfers on the first day. In the third and final round on Sunday, Kittelberger and Kristen Soh ’20 had multiple birdies and Roddy had one. Kittelberger’s four birdies left her one under par 71 in the round and tied for 19th place overall.The Big Green will play again next Saturday in Hartford.
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SOFTBALL Softball visited Princeton, New Jersey this weekend for a three game series with Princeton University. The series kicked off on Friday with a double header featuring Breanna Ethridge ’18 and Heather Turner ’21 as starting pitchers in the two games for the Big Green. Ethridge had a tough outing in her first game as the Tigers scored five runs and recorded seven hits in her 4.1 innings pitched. The Big Green offense was unable to respond to this surge and was
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held scoreless, resulting in a 6-0 loss. However, the Big Green avenged their earlier loss in the night game. putting up eight runs in a key 8-6 victory. On the rubber game on Saturday, the Big Green’s offense exploded for 12 total runs, six of them coming in the 4th inning. Taylor Ward ’19 came up big in the final game of the series with two home runs for a total of four runs batted in. The Big Green held Princeton to only a single run, securing the 12-1 victory.
EQUESTRIAN The Dartmouth equestrian team competed in the Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association Zone I Championship at the Mount Holyoke Equestrian Center on Saturday, April 7. Thirty-one teams competed with individual Zone qualifiers and five schools competed in the Zones Collegiate Cup, which qualified teams and riders for Nationals; individuals and teams in the Team Collegiate Cup needed to finish first or second to qualify for the finals held May 3 to 5. In the individual Zone qualifiers, Big Green riders Olivia Champ ’19 and Natalie Ferneau
’18 had stellar performances to qualify for nationals. In the Zones Collegiate Cup, the Big Green missed qualifying as a team by one point, finishing in third overall behind reserve champion Boston University and champion Mount Holyoke College. Other notable highlights in the teams competition include Mahalia Dalmage ’21 placing first in Novice Flat class, Sophia Kocher ’21 taking second in Walk-Trot-Canter and Megan Poth ’20 securing second in Intermediate Fences. The team will host the Ivy Championship Show on April 21.
SAILING O ve r t h e we e k e n d , t h e Dartmouth Sailing team had several events in Connecticut, with regattas at both Connecticut College for the New England Team Race Championship and Yale University for the Wick/Shrew. The team had a strong showing in team race scoring as they were able to place third out of 12 teams in the New England Team Race
Championship. Skipper Jack McGraw ’20 and his two teammates were able to battle the shifting winds throughout the afternoon and deliver a solid performance. The team had a tougher performance at Yale however, scoring 93 points in Division A and 84 in B to finish in 10th out of 18 total teams. The College of Charleston finished in first with 97 total points.
BASEBALL An overnight snow in Hanover made it impossible to play the intended game against College of the Holy Cross on April 4. With the snow melted by the weekend, Dartmouth played three games at home against Columbia University. The Big Green won the first game against the Lions with a final score of 5-4. The team scored all five runs in their first two innings, and held on to their lead despite a late scare from Columbia.
This was their 100th victory at Biondi Park. Dartmouth also won their second game of three with a final score of 10-4. They were unable to sweep the series , however, as Columbia came back to beat Dartmouth on the third and final game on Sunday 12-3. The Big Green will play again on Tuesday, April 10 at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell and will face Cornell University next weekend in New York.
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The women’s lacrosse team’s seven-game win streak was broken after falling to Penn 13-11.
Dartmouth’s women’s lacrosse team is now 3-1 in Ivy play after losing to the University of Pennsylvania in a close 13-11 match on April 7. The final score was very close, 13-11. The Big Green had been on a seven-game winning streak with a record of 7-1 overall. Dartmouth held a two-point lead at halftime and clung to an 11-10 lead with 7:37 remaining in the game. However,
Penn rallied to score three consecutive goals while holding the Big Green scoreless, thereby securing the victory. Dartmouth’s Campbell Brewer ’19 had a hat trick and Tori Chanenchuck ’20 scored four goals. On defense, Kiera Vrindten ’20 stopped 13 of Penn’s 26 shots on goal. The Big Green will play No. 2 Boston College on Wednesday, April 11 in Chestnut Hill.
W ROWING The women’s crew team hit the water at Lake Carnegie for the Ivy Round Robin, which included six of eight Ivy teams. At the end of the day, Yale University claimed the Yale Class of ’85 Cup while Princeton University won the Class of ’84 Plaque. In the Yale Class of ’85 Cup, the Big Green’s first varsity boat came in third at 7:05.4 in the Class of ‘85 Cup, falling to first place Yale at 6:52.7 and second place Penn at 7:02.1. Yale defeated Dartmouth’s second varsity with times of 6:58.3 and 7:13.8 respectively. The Bull Dogs also defeated
the Big Green in the third varsity, as Dartmouth finished in third at 7:44.4. The Varsity 4A finished in third at 8:39.3 and the Varsity 4B also finished in third at 8:25.6. In the Class of ‘84 Plaque, the first varsity took second place at 6:42.9 behind first place Princeton at 6:35.2. The second and third varsity also took second place at 7:03.4 and 7:33.8, respectively. The 4A took third at 8:01.4 and the 4B took second at 8:14.9. The team will be racing again on April 21 against Boston College and the University of Rhode Island in Boston.
HW ROWING The Big Green heavyweight crew team fell to Yale University in all four races of the Olympic Axe this past Saturday. The varsity eight was short of the Bulldogs at 5:28.6 as opposed to 5:26.1. The second varsity boat lost with a time of 5:39.3 to Yale’s 5:32.8.
The third varsity boat had a time of 5:45.8, short of Yale’s 5:37.0. Finally, the fourth varsity finished sandwiched in between Yale and its fifth varsity boat with a time of 5:47.9. The team will compete next weekend against Boston University at home.
M GOLF On the first day of the Irish Creek Intercollegiate, Dartmouth ranked 13th of 15 teams with a final score of 610 (+42). Playing at Kannapolis, North Carolina on Saturday and Sunday, Jason Liu ‘21 led the team during the first two rounds of play, carding a 75-73 – 148 (+6). At the end of the first day, he was tied for 35th out of 87 total players. Two other freshmen also had stellar days for the
Big Green. Sam Ohno ’21 had the best single round for Dartmouth, while James Turner ’21 recorded the most birdies with six total. On the second day and third and final round, Dartmouth finished at 60-over par to claim 14th overall in the tournament. The team will next play at the Ivy League Championship starting on Friday, April 20.
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Griffith’s Got Stats: NCAA Baske While the NCAA Tournament brought about many historical
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In a basketball season marked by parity and scandal, it was only fitting that the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship was won by a team which made one of the most dominant runs in recent history while led by a clean-cut coach, referring both to his lack of involvement in the most recent benefits scandal and to the fact that he’s always dressed to the nines with his suits. The Villanova University Wildcats, the 1-seed in the East Region, defeated the University of Michigan Wolverines, the 3-seed in the West Region, 79-62 last Monday. Before taking a look at the game itself, many people, including myself, took part in the time-honored tradition of making a bracket to predict which teams would make the championship game. Many people, including myself, ended up picking the wrong teams. The Final Four this year included 11-seed Loyola University Chicago, 3-seed Michigan, 1-seed University of Kansas and 1-seed Villanova. According to ESPN.com, the most common Final Four combination picked by those who made brackets were 2-seed Duke University, Villanova, 2-seed University of North Carolina and 1-seed University of Virginia. North Carolina was upset in the Round of 32 by 7-seed Texas A&M University, Duke lost to Kansas in the Elite Eight and Virginia, as most people know by now, was upset by 16-seed University of Maryland, Baltimore County in the Round of 64. I personally picked Villanova, Virginia
and Duke to make it, with 4-seed Gonzaga University as the fourth team. Shows how much I know. Among the brackets picked by basketball analysts, 3-seed Michigan State was a popular pick to win the region along with Duke and Kansas, dubbed the Region of Death by most pundits. Now to the game itself. The contest started off relatively close, but it looked like Michigan was going to pull away early. Six-foot-11-inch, 245-pound junior Moritz Wagner scored nine of the team’s first 11 points. With some key plays by six-foot-fourinch, 190-pound senior Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman, who would finish as the team’s leading scorer with 23 points and one rebound, Michigan found itself up 2114 with 11 minutes to go in the first half. This part of the game was marked by poor shooting from both teams, something that is uncharacteristic of Villanova. Villanova was a 40.1 percent three-point shooting team up until this game (11th in the nation), while Michigan was a 35.2 percent three-point shooting team (156th in the nation, right around the national average). With 7:57 to go in the first half, Villanova was one for nine from three (.111) while Michigan was two for eight (.250). Considering that Villanova’s percentage of points that come from three-point shots (40.2 percent) is so high, it looked for a moment like Villanova was going to have an off-night shooting, which would prove disastrous if the Wildcats couldn’t get hot.
Enter Donte DiVincenzo of Villanova. Donte’s Inferno, the Michael Jordan of Delaware, the Big Ragu (his teammates call him that, apparently; I won’t question it) — no matter what you call him, DiVincenzo had a night. DiVincenzo, a six-foot-fiveinch, 205-pound sophomore from Newark, Delaware, would finish the night with 31 points, shooting five for eight from two, five for seven from three and six for ten from the free throw line, while adding five rebounds, three assists and two blocks. One would look at this stat line and think, “Huh. That’s really good. I’d expect a Villanova starter to have a great game like that.” Only DiVincenzo came in off the bench. The Big Ragu is a reserve player. On a Villanova team which, before the postseason tournament started, had six players averaging at least 10 points per game, a testament to the team’s shooting prowess and the method by which they rotate players, DiVincenzo was mostly an afterthought. DiVincenzo would most often substitute in for Phil Booth, a junior who led Villanova in scoring when the Wildcats won the National Championship two years ago. Although he would come in off the bench, DiVincenzo gets more playing time than Booth on average (72.5 percent of the team’s minutes compared to 55.9 percent). When looking at the talent that Villanova has on its roster, no one would think of DiVincenzo as the player to put up that kind of dominating performance on college basketball’s biggest stage. Phil Booth led Villanova in scoring in
the 2016 championship game; Jalen Brunson won the Naismith Player of the Year Award and a few others; Mikal Bridges is going to the NBA; Omari Spellman was a five-star recruit. Nobody would think of some scrawny kid who played high school basketball in Delaware to be the hero Villanova needed. But he was. The only other players to score more than 30 points while shooting better than 66 percent on field goals in a Final Four game were Bill Walton (two NCAA championships at UCLA and two NBA titles with the Portland Trailblazers and Boston Celtics) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (six NBA titles with the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers and six-time NBA MVP). That’s some pretty good company. Let’s get back to the game. After Michigan held its 21-14 lead, DiVincenzo would offer up 12 points and one assist during a 23-7 run, which would give Villanova a nine-point lead at the half. DiVincenzo would remain on the bench for about 50 seconds in the beginning of the second half, then go on to score nine straight points to ruin any hopes for Michigan. DiVincenzo would open this run with an around-the-back dribble to make a layup and get fouled. After shooting his free throws, he ran all the way to the other end of the court to deliver a block on Michigan’s Charles Matthews, which left the ball wedged between the hoop and the backboard. Once the run ended, the score was 62-44 Villanova with 7:57 left, and the Wildcats had a 99.4 percent chance to win
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the game, per KenPom.com. The rest of the game lacked in excitement for better or worse, as Villanova made most of its points through free throws after Michigan began to play the foul game and closed ahead by 17. So what does this all mean? We can start by taking a look at how dominant Villanova’s run was throughout the tournament. Villanova’s average margin of victory in all of its tournament games was 17.7 points, and the Wildcats won all of their games by 12 points or more. This is even more impressive considering that Villanova had a relatively chalky run in its region, meaning the Wildcats played some of the best teams during each of their games. The teams that Villanova played, with the appropriate KenPom Adjusted Offensive and Defensive Efficiency rankings in parentheses, are as follows: Villanova (1-22 pre-tourney; 1-11 post-tourney) played 16-seed Radford University (212-127) in the Round of 64, 9-seed University of Alabama (106-20) in the Round of 32, 5-seed University of West Virginia (10-41) in the Sweet Sixteen, 3-seed Texas Tech University (50-4) in the Elite Eight and 1-seed University of Kansas (5-47) in the Final Four. Villanova also led every team it played through the second half of its games, except for West Virginia, where the Wildcats were down 60-54 with 11 minutes to go in the game but pulled ahead to win 90-78. Villanova also joins a selective group as one of only three other programs to win two NCAA titles in three years within the
past few decades, joining Duke in 1991 and 1992 (featuring players such as Christian Laettner and Grant Hill), the University of Florida in 2006 and 2007 (featuring players such as Joakim Noah and Al Horford) and the University of Kentucky in 1996 and 1998. Michigan, while not a bad team by any means (33-8), had a relatively easy road to the championship game. Michigan was the first team in Final Four history to make the Championship game without playing a top5 seed. Michigan played 14-seed University of Montana, 6-seed University of Houston (under-seeded in my opinion), 7-seed Texas A&M University, 9-seed Florida State University and 11-seed Loyola University Chicago. Michigan certainly earned its way to the championship game; however, Villanova was far and away the best team it played. Many people speak to Villanova as an offensive-minded team, but the Wildcats also play great defense. Villanova ended their tournament run allowing 94.0 points per 100 possessions, so its defense is no pushover. Michigan also shot 3-23 from the threepoint line, another testament to Villanova’s defense. Speaking for the Big Ten as a conference, it had a pretty weak showing in the postseason tournament this year compared to other power conferences. Apart from Michigan, the conference champion, only three other teams earned bids. 2-seed Purdue University lost in the Sweet Sixteen to 3-seed Texas
Tech after seven-foot-two-inch, 290-pound Isaac Haas exited with an elbow injury. Three-seed Michigan State University lost to 11-seed Syracuse University in the Round of 32, and 5-seed Ohio State University lost to 4-seed Gonzaga in the Round of 32. Half of the Big Ten’s teams exited in the first weekend of the tournament. To add to that, the Big Ten is now 0-7 in its last seven title game appearances (2018 Michigan, 2015 Wisconsin, 2013 Michigan, 2009 Michigan State, 2007 Ohio State, 2005 Illinois, 2002 Indiana). Its last championship game win was in 2000, when Michigan State beat Florida. So the players balled out, but how much of the victory can be attributed to Villanova’s coaching? It is important to recognize that Jay Wright, Villanova’s head basketball coach since 2001, used to be seen as one of college basketball’s biggest chokers in the postseason. From 2010 to 2015, excluding 2012 when his team did not make the tournament (Wright’s only losing season at Villanova), Wright’s Wildcats never made it past the Round of 32 in the NCAA Tournament. In 2010, 2014 and 2015, Wright’s team was upset by much lower seeds as well — 10-seed Saint Mary’s University in 2010; 7-seed and eventual national champion University of Connecticut in 2014; 8-seed North Carolina State University in 2015. Although the Wildcats won the national championship in 2016, the very next year, as a 1-seed, Villanova was upset yet again by 8-seed Wisconsin. Regardless of the upsets
in the past, the fact that Wright’s teams were able to earn a 1 or 2 seed in each of the past five tournaments, and also won the Big East Conference in each of those years, save 2016-17, is a testament to his consistency. I don’t think Villanova is going away anytime soon. Among the starting five for Villanova this season, along with DiVincenzo, the only two players that are likely leaving are Mikal Bridges and Jalen Brunson. This leaves Villanova’s starting five next year looking like DiVincenzo, Eric Paschall, Phil Booth, Omari Spellman and a five-star recruit in Jahvon Quinerly. That roster looks eerily similar to this year’s. When the 2006 National Champion Florida Gators returned their entire starting five for the next season, they won another national championship. Since Villanova is returning four of their starting five, upgrading a bench player who played more than a starter to a starting role and adding a five-star freshman, this dynasty could continue. Regardless of how well your bracket did, or your thoughts on the scandal making its rounds through the college basketball world, it’s important to sit back and reflect on what a year it has been for Philadelphia sports. Villanova winning the championship is icing on the cake for Philadelphia after the Eagles won their first Super Bowl in February. Who knows, maybe the 76ers will make it to the NBA finals this year after they’ve trusted the process for so long. It’s been a great season; see you guys next year.
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Honorable Mention with Ray Lu ’18
Honorable Mention: Highs and Lows To my one reader (hello mother): welcome to week three. In the long, bittersweet race to the end of senior spring, we will encounter many highs and lows. The last meal from Novack: undoubtedly a high. The final game of pong: a dubious low. Turning in your last final: a high. Accidentally clicking on this column: your unfortunate new low. This year, I made two NCAA Tournament brackets. Mo Bamba Mo Problems was supposed to lead me to glory — my look-of-eagles, Triple-Crown steed. Unfortunately, bold early round picks flamed out (the University of Missouri unfortunately did not make the Elite Eight) and my champion, the University of North Carolina Tar Heels, lost a nailbitingly close second round game to one of my all-time favorite teams, the University of Texas A&M Aggies. On ESPN’s Tournament Challenge platform, Mo Bamba Mo Problems finished in the 59th percentile. For experiment’s sake, I created another bracket for comparison. Absolute Chalk predicted zero upsets. If the tournament committee seeded a team higher, my bracket put them through. The championship game featured Villanova University winning it all over the University of Virginia, a prediction simultaneously prescient and historically erroneous. Tapping the buttons on my phone to create this bracket took approximately three minutes in the Acapulco International Airport over spring break. On the other hand, months of intense research in the lab, fieldwork on the ground and shootin’ in the gym concocted Mo Bamba Mo Problems. Absolute Chalk finished in the 96th percentile. The house always wins, folks. The NBA playoff race has eliminated all but 17 teams. Sixteen will move on. The only close battle remaining is between the Denver Nuggets and Minnesota Timberwolves, tied with records of 45-35 after Saturday’s games. Currently, the Timberwolves hold the tiebreaker over the Nuggets. Assuming a tied record holds going into the final game of the season, the two teams face off Wednesday in Minnesota for some mustwatch television with a playoff spot
potentially on the line. The winner would likely earn the honor of losing in four games to the Houston Rockets in a few weeks. I’m pulling for the Timberwolves and hopefully a first playoff experience for Karl AnthonyTowns and Andrew Wiggins. The Philadelphia 76ers have won 14 straight games, including a thrilling 132-130 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers last Friday. Ben Simmons dropped a triple-double on over .700 shooting from the field, topping a 44-point effort from Lebron James. In April, Simmons has stepped up his scoring average to nearly 20 points per game to go along with over 10 rebounds and 10 assists — a triple-double average. This team has been on fire in an Eastern Conference playoff slate that includes an injury-decimated Boston Celtics and three teams that barely have a winning record. With Friday’s win, the 76ers leapfrogged the Cavaliers and currently hold a one-game lead for the third seed. The team’s youth can still come back to haunt them in the playoffs, but as of right now they look unbeatable. #TrusttheProcess. The playoffs are less than a week away, and it feels like uncertainty has only gone up. There appear to be three legitimate title contenders: the Cavaliers, Rockets and Golden State Warriors (assuming they get healthy in the playoffs). The one-seed Toronto Raptors are a black hole in the postseason, so I can’t justify listing them. Sorry, Drake. The 76ers are too young, comprised of J.J. Redick and a bunch of kids my age, but #TTP so really, who knows? Honorable Mention of the Week Long, long ago, two legendary individuals started “Riding the Pine,” a column that was neither funny nor insightful but kept the world captivated. People are quick to forget — institutional memory at Dartmouth turns over rapidly. Soon, the Class of 2022 will step foot on campus, and old, weathered, tired folks like myself will get cycled out into the real world. The Class of 2022 will know nothing about $6.50 to-go sushi from the Hop, three different Thai restaurants in town, KAF on the weekends or happiness, broadly speaking. I never thought my time would come to stand on the shoulders of tradition and shake my fist, but here I am. Fret not, youth of tomorrow, for not all change is bad. Two years ago, the 76ers finished 10-72. Four years ago, the Los Angeles Rams were the St. Louis Rams and had a 6-10 record, quarterbacked by Austin Davis and Shaun Hill. Five years ago, the Houston Astros moved to the American League and racked up 111 losses. Things change quickly. To quote the great Mark Ruffalo, “Stick around. Don’t lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it.” Also, Shohei Ohtani. That is all.
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Dartmouth Football hires new widereceiver coach, Dave Shula ’81 By MAYA MOTEN
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Dartmouth football head coach Buddy Teevens ’79 officially announced the hiring of wide receiver coach Dave Shula ’81 two weeks ago, marking a drastic change in the football staff for the upcoming 2018-19 football season. Hailing from Lexington, Kentucky, Shula has had an extensive background in the National Football League, having spent one year as a player for the thenBaltimore Colts and nearly 15 years as a coach for the Miami Dolphins, Dallas Cowboys and Cincinnati Bengals. After graduating from Dartmouth in 1981, Shula was undrafted in the 1981 NFL draft, but signed on as a free agent for the Colts as the kickoff and punt returner, seeing action in all 16 regular season games. After just a one-season stint as a player, he began his coaching career as a wide receiver coach for the Miami Dolphins. His father, the legendary Don Shula, was the head coach of the team at the time. He stayed on the Dolphins’ coaching staff until 1989 before moving on to become offensive coordinator of the Cowboys. He was demoted after two seasons and moved on to become the wide receiver coach for the Bengals. After just one season in Cincinnati, but
with over a decade of experience as an with Shula, who was excited to be back assistant coach across the three teams, in Hanover and work with the group he was promoted to become head for the upcoming season. “[Coach Teevens] had Coach coach for the Bengals in 1992 at age 32. He remained head coach for four Shula introduce himself and [he] said and a half seasons, compiling an overall that he was excited to work with the team, be back in record of 19-52 Hanover and see before moving on “[Coach Teevens] had what he would be from the NFL. He able to do as far joins Dartmouth’s Coach Shula introduce as being a group football staff after himself and [he] said season,” a 22-year hiatus that he was excited to this defensive from coaching. lineman Jackson Wide receiver work with the team, Perry ’19 said. Hunter Hagdorn be back in Hanover Linebacker ’20 revealed that the team learned and see what he would Jack Traynor ’19 added that Shula about the new be able to do as far held separate hire early on in as being a group this one-on-one the spring. meetings with the “[We] found season.” wide receivers [out] about afterwards to Coach Shula the begin getting to day that we got - JACKSON PERRY ’19, know each one back,” Hagdorn DEFENSIVE LINEMAN individually. said. “It was a According to Monday, the first day back to workouts and school. Hagdorn, Shula took the time to Coach Teevens held off on telling reassure the receivers that he wants the team about the hiring until that to come into the program and not Monday because it was a last minute change the dynamic of the team and the culture that Dartmouth Football has deal about the logistics.” During the team meeting, the SEE SHULA PAGE 7 players had the opportunity to meet
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Heavyweight rowing sees young additions in top boat
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coach following coach Jerry Taylor’s departure at the end of last season to built, but rather help players. join the College of William and Mary The arrival of the assistant coach as a wide receivers coach. After serving shocked and excited the team. as the offensive quality control coach “I definitely think that the wide during his first year at Dartmouth, receivers were really excited to talk he was promoted to oversee the wide work with someone as [high]-status as receiver core for the next three years. Coach Shula,” Perry said. “The rest During each of his seasons, at least one of the team is kind of in shock and Big Green wide receiver garnered All we haven’t really gotten to experience Ivy-League honors. In the 2015-16 what he can do as a coach, so we’ll season, he contributed to Dartmouth find more about that this spring. But averaging over 30 points a game on the wide receivers seem to be really the team’s way to its first Ivy League excited so far.” title in 19 years. The hiring of the new coach is Although the team is disappointed not only exciting to see Taylor leave, for the receivers, “When we have a they also recognize but for other the opportunity for members of the coach for two years, a new approach to team as well, due sometimes it’s the game. to his extensive “I‘ve always been good to have new playing and a guy that looks c o a c h i n g perspectives, and I forward to new background in think that Coach Shula p e r s p e c t i ve s, ” the NFL. Hagdorn said. “We were will be able to provide “When you have really excited as that.” a coach for two he has a great years, sometimes reputation, it’s good to have great experience - HUNTER HAGDORN ’20 new perspectives, and we believe and I think that he will be a great Coach Shula will addition to our team and bring added be able to provide that.” success,” Traynor said. With his robust professional His connection to Dartmouth background, the team is hoping that allowed him to quickly bond with head he will be able to share his insight from coach Teevens. the professional level. “Coach Teevens is really excited to “For the entire team, [what we are have him at Dartmouth,” Hagdorn most excited for is] his experience at said. “Being an alum, they were both the next level, like what he can bring former players and on the team here from the professional level to the together at Dartmouth. They know college level,” Perry said. “Not only the culture and the program well and for this upcoming season, but also for Coach Teevens is excited to have him the NFL ... any snippets that he can back on board.” bring that would make our game that Shula arrives as the new assistant much better.”
By JUSTIN KRAMER
The Dartmouth Staff
The varsity eight for Dartmouth men’s heavyweight rowing has a new look this season with a trio of freshmen and a mix of three sophomores and a junior replacing their five departed rowers. The crew’s three freshmen, Caleb Edmundson ’21, Evan Dwinell ’21 and Paul Gralla ’21, form an atypically young roster as Austin Heye ’18, Noah Van Dyke ’18 and coxswain Jake Rauh ’18 are the only upperclassmen who have consistently filled varsity eight slots this season. “I think that [the freshmen have] outperformed our expectations in the fall, which was a really pleasant surprise,” head coach Wyatt Allen said. “That’s created some pressure for them, both within the team and amongst our league as well. I think they’re learning to deal with that pressure, and every week is going to be a test for them.” “The three are all showing incredible potential, which we are all excited about,” co-captain Heye said. “They seem to latch onto our culture, which has been great for both us and them.” Heye provided some additional background on the three freshmen and their progress this season, starting with Gralla, a highly coveted recruit from Germany. “He’s been a great addition,” Heye said. “It’s cool to see the German style of rowing integrated into our program.” D w i n e l l i s a p ro d u c t o f Tallahassee, Florida, where he competed in eight-rower boats. He took a year off polishing his skills in Sarasota before coming to Dartmouth, allowing him to build a strong technical foundation. “That one year I got through a single, and I got to work a lot on little technical things,” Dwinell said. “It helped bridge the gap between high school and college.” The third freshman, Edmundson, has been an impressive addition for the Big Green after coming from a lesserknown program in Greenwich, Connecticut. “We like to get those guys from lesser-known programs since they have a chip on their shoulders,” Heye said. “They’re a little hungrier, which [Edmundson] certainly is.” D w i n e l l , Edmunds on a nd Gralla have each had to make significant adjustments when making the transition to collegiate rowing. For Dwinell, the biggest contrast comes in the format of college races. The one-on-one NCAA
spring format is different from high school six-boat races. “If you got down in high school, you had four other boats to try and push off of, but in college, if you’re down on the one boat you’re competing against, you’re suddenly way behind,” Dwinell said. “It’s a lot more emotional, it’s a lot more mental and it’s a different ballgame for sure.” Coach Allen laid out his hopes for improvement among the freshman class. “[For] the class as a whole, there’s some pretty green guys in there, so there’s a lot of room for improvement technically,” Allen said. “Beyond that, just building confidence, learning to row their race. Their rhythm under pressure is going to be really important.” Heye added that each race is different and has a huge learning curve, so the freshmen are learning more after each race. D w i n e l l , E d mu n d s o n an d Gralla are part of an improved recruitment effort this season, as 13 freshmen have joined the fold across the four competing varsity boats. Allen believes the team’s ninth place finish last year in the Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championship Regatta and its positive trajectory have been key in the recruitment process. “Two or three years ago, we were selling a vision of what we could be, and now we have a little bit of traction towards what that vision was and what that vision still is,” Allen said. While the trio of varsity eight freshmen have maintained spots through the first two spring races, Allen remains open to changing the boats each week. “We will continue to [make changes] and that happens up and down the boat rankings, so our 1V will change, our 2V will change, our 3V will change, our 4V will change,” Allen said. “There’s a lot of internal competition for seats and these guys are battling it out week after week to make their way into that top boat.” The ongoing process of picking boats is a challenging task, and Dwinell, Edmundson and Gralla had to work hard through the team’s taxing evaluation to earn their varsity eight spots. Allen detailed the full process, including seat racing, in which combinations of rowers are mixed between two boats and the times are compared. “Guys start out in their initial seatings based on their body of work,” Allen said. “From there, we do a lot of seat racing, which is pretty common in our sport. Seat racing isn’t a perfect science; sometimes you get eight guys
together that really click and really move well, and you stick with that combination.” For Dwinell, finally getting outside after winter training on the ergometer has been a long-awaited development. “Logistically it’s not that big of a difference, but mentally it’s hard because you’re doing the same amount of minutes as you would if you were outside on the water, except for the fact that you’re inside looking at a screen instead of outside looking at trees,” Dwinell said. “You don’t have that relief of being outside on a boat; you’re stuck inside a room. We’re into the fun part, so it’s all worth it.” The team’s winter training has seemed to pay off early as they swept at the Alumni Cup to open their season. “We’re one race in, and we were really happy to get the win last week, but it really takes three or four weeks of racing to figure out exactly where you are in the field,” Allen said before the weekend. “I think our guys were happy to have a good team day last week on the Charles, but I think they’re still pretty hungry to go out and test themselves against the best.” Indeed, Dartmouth took on defending champions Yale University this past weekend in their second race of the season. Their varsity eight stroked admirably, finishing less than three seconds behind the Bulldogs. “Going into that race, we stressed that margin matters,” Heye said. “We weren’t necessarily going out looking for a win, but trying to get as close to their finish time as possible.” Despite the loss, Dwinell was encouraged by how close the team finished against one of the best teams in the nation. “We were all pretty shocked at how close we were,” Dwinell said. “Eventually, we broke them, even though they were about to break us, and we could do whatever we wanted at the end there. That was a really incredible feeling; I think that’s the first time I’ve felt that in a long time, definitely in college.” As the young Big Green varsity eight look toward their first home race versus Boston University and the rest of the season, they have their eyes set on qualifying for the Sprints finals and the IRA Championship Regatta. “It’s an ambitious goal, but I think it’s attainable for this group,” Allen said. “From the 1V down to the 4V, I think they have the ability if they maximize their potential and things go our way with racing [to] be a top-six group in the country.”
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Senior Spring: Alvin Heumann ’18 plans to go professional By CAITLYN MCGOVERN
The Dartmouth Staff
Four year s and countless matches later, Alvin Heumann ’18 has reached the end of his incredible career with Dartmouth squash. Having been named to the All-Ivy First Team for his final two seasons, to the College Squash Association All-American team and as the Harrow Squash Player of the Week, Heumann has dominated the courts and been a cornerstone member of the squash team. Between baseball, soccer and squash and his love for hiking, biking and running, sports and the outdoors were an integral part of Heumannʼs life growing up. Heumann played squash for the first time in fourth grade at a local gym in his hometown of Southport, Connecticut. He took his first lessons with Brett Martin, who was the former world No. 2, but then moved to Barcelona for two years with his family. After he developed elbow tendonitis in eighth grade, he retired from his career as a baseball pitcher and picked up his racquet once again. “I just couldnʼt pitch anymore, and Iʼd been going to the gym regularly to exercise and work out and never really taking advantage of the squash courts,” Heumann said. “I went down having played a few lessons a few years before and started playing and fell in love with the game.” A l v i n ’ s m o t h e r, L o u i s a Heumann, noted just how much Alvin Heumann loved the game. “[Alvin Heumann] could walk [to the squash courts] on his own after school to practice and observe other players,” Louisa Heumann said. “He grew to love the game.” While Alvin was also a skilled s o c c e r p l aye r a f t e r p l ay i n g frequently during his time in Barcelona, he suffered several head injuries while playing for Westminster Soccer and knew he would not continue playing in college. During his sophomore year of high school, Heumann realized that he wanted to continue playing squash in college after his first few years at Green Farms Academy. “Their squash program was really bad, and I was playing number one for the team and didnʼt have much competition,”
Heumann said. “I was realizing how much I loved to play the sport and simultaneously realizing that I wasnʼt going to get much better at Green Farms.” After talking with several friends and Westminster Schoolʼs head squash coach Peter Doucette, he decided to transfer for his junior year and play for the Martlets in Simsbury, Connecticut. From there, things took off. During his junior summer, Alvin attended a squash camp with Dartmouthʼs coaching staff. Heumann noted that while he had never been to Hanover, he really liked the area and the community. “I immediately developed a really good relationship with the head coach, Hansi Wiens,” Heumann said. “In squash, being the small community that it is, I already knew a few of the guys on the team, so I was comfortable joining their program.” His mother was supportive of him pursuing the sport at the next level. “College squash is highly competitive,” Louisa Heumann said. “There were bound to be excellent opportunities [for him] to compete against the best amateur players in the world.” In his final season with the Big Green, Heumann ended his career with a winning record, both as an individual and for the team overall. “This season was just full of the nail biters,” Heumann said. “I think we won every single 5-4 match this season with the exception of one. The best part about that was it never coming down to the same person in any of the matches; it was consistently someone else clinching the last match, proving to the rest of the team how gritty and resilient they were.” This past season, the team went 13-5 overall and 4-3 in their conference, ranking them fifth in the nation. Heumann himself finished 11-7 overall in the No. 1 spot for a 61.1 percent win percentage. He was one of two Dartmouth squash players to compete in the College Squash Association Individual Championships at the beginning of March, but lost in the second round against Harvard University’s David Ryan, who went on to be named the national champion. Despite this loss, Heumann was still optimistic looking back at the team’s performance. “Thereʼs nothing that feels
COURTESY OF ALVIN HEUMANN
Alvin Heumann ’18 was the only Big Green player this year to be named to both the All-Ivy First Team and the College Squash Association All-American team.
better than, you know, being part of something bigger than yourself, especially this past season,” Heumann said. “You know, having the success that we had as a team, sharing that with guys who you just love, that was just so special to me.” Over the course of four seasons, Heumannʼs record has steadily improved. In his freshman year, Heumann played in No. 1, 2 and 3 spots and was 2-7 in the No. 1 spot; sophomore year, he competed in the No. 1 and 2 positions and was 7-4 in No. 1; and junior year, he played exclusively in the No. 1 spot and went 9-8. “Coming in to Dartmouth, I think my squash game was heavily reliant on my speed and strength on the court, and I didnʼt focus much on technical game,” Heumann said. “I think I definitely recognized that and really worked toward improving that after my sophomore season. I started working a lot with Hansi before and after regular practices on my technique and my stroke. I think Iʼve definitely evolved over time to make my racquet skills a strength of mine.” H e u m a n n’s d e d i c at i o n t o the game has been noticed by his teammates, including Brian Giegerich ’18, who has been playing with him since freshman year. “[Heumann is] totally willing to go that extra mile and put in that extra effort, even when no one’s watching and no one knows about it,” Giegarich said. “[Heumann
will] often go in early and play with our coach or hit solo by himself.” Giegerich added that this extra work made Heumann a perfect fit for a team captain role. “He has done so much for the program, always putting in that extra work,” Giegerich said. “[Heumann]’s a great competitor and sets a good example for the younger guys. He [is] very good about making all the freshmen and underclassmen feel welcome on the team.” Wiens, who has held the head coaching position for nine years and was previously ranked as high as eighth in the world, played a key role in Heumannʼs development as a player while at Dartmouth. “I think Coach Wiens really taught me the importance of attention to detail and focus,” Heumann said. “My freshman and sophomore years [were] very much sort of athleticism-based [rather than] a more technicalfocus game, so I really respect and appreciate him for sort of honing and developing those skills in me.” After watching her son play for the Big Green, Heumann’s mother reflected on two of her proudest and most exciting moments from his squash career here in Hanover. “Two moments come to mind,” she said. “First, witnessing Alvin’s ability to contain his anger at losses or mistakes. Two, winning the tough, five game match at Nationals this year to clinch Dartmouth’s No. 5 ranking.” Outside of his busy squash
schedule, Heumann is the house manager at Psi Upsilon fraternity and writes for the Dartmouth Business Journal. Heumann is also a co-owner of Vox Sportswear with a handful of other Dartmouth seniors. “ [ Vo x S p o r t s w e a r ] w a s something I really enjoyed, and it taught me how to market a product and run a business from an organizational, marketing and finance perspective,” Heumann said. After Dartmouth, Heumann will be continuing his squash career professionally and spending his summer preparing to join the tour after. “Iʼve been working with [Wiens] a bit this spring, mostly on a technical level, and Iʼm planning on training a bit this summer with a Dartmouth squash alum and current professional player Chris Hansen,” Heumann said. “Iʼm also planning on attending the U.S. Squash Academy in Connecticut, where they’ve invited some professional college players too.” Until then, he will be enjoying his final two months in Hanover with his friends and taking advantage of the spring weather and opportunities he has not been able to before. “My friends and my teammates, and especially the guys on the team, have just been really supportive of me and everyone else on the team throughout our careers, so I really thank them for that,” he said.