After leading Dartmouth to an improbable 4-3 defeat of top-ranked Columbia last week at the NCAA Region I Men's Tennis Tournament, Dan Coakley '94 picked up another honor for his war chest on Tuesday. In a tight vote, Coakley was named this year's Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Association Player of the Year.
As if rewriting the Dartmouth women's hockey record book was not enough, Gretchen Ulion '94 added a position on the United States women's ice hockey team to her ever growing shopping list of accomplishments. Ulion was named to the team by Hockey USA on March 16 and will participate with the squad in the World Championships to be held April 11-17 at Lake Placid, N.Y. Team USA will play three games in the pool-play competition, with the consolation and medal rounds coming afterward.
After a successful weekend on the road against league foes Brown University and Yale University, the Women's basketball team heads home to Leede Arena for crucial weekend engagements against Columbia University and Cornell University. Last weekend's success was highlighted by a hard-fought 59-55 defeat of two-time defending Ivy League champion Brown on Friday.
One has to wonder whether Maribel Sanchez '96 would be the runner that she is today if her parents had not decided to move to Hastings, N.Y. Fate would have it that a young and eager Sanchez would move next door to an avid runner of the same age.
After four games on the road, the men's hockey team returned to Hanover this weekend for back-to-back engagements against Union and Rensselaer. On Friday night, the Big Green (3-12-1, 2-8-1) suffered a heartbreaking 5-4 loss to Union.