Dartmouth’s women’s ultimate Frisbee team, seeded 14th out of 16 teams, looked to sneak up on some teams and pull off a couple of upsets, but Princess Layout could not get past the group stages at the Ultimate Players’ Association Championships held in Columbus, Ohio. The young squad played well, but could not best some of the more experienced competition. More »
Men’s rugby at Dartmouth is just too played out. In an effort to step outside the box, my final column of the year will feature the more feminine of the two rugby teams. Women’s rugby had a strong season, winning all three games in their preseason trip to Scotland, though the squad returned to the U.S. to lose to the Beantown B-side in Boston. Don’t worry Dartmouth ladies, we breed them particularly tough in Eastern Massachusetts. After losing to Army (more on that later), Dartmouth finished third at the Ivy League tournament behind Brown and Yale, and second at the Division-I tournament at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, again behind Yale. However, they earned bragging rights with a 73-0 whitewash of University of New Hampshire, New Hampshire’s only other Division-I school, before ending the season with a 66-5 domination of Radcliffe, the Harvard women’s rugby team. More »
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