The Dartmouth Sports 4/4

4.4.16

Women’s and men’s golf poised to win big this spring

THE NUMBERS GAME: VIKRAM BODAS ’18 p. 7

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The Roundup

THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS WEEKLY

MONDAY, APRIL 4, 2016

Compiled by James Handal and Evan Morgan

Women’s Track and Field Big Green women’s track and field showed well at Tufts University’s Snowflake Invitational on Saturday, placing second out of the 15 teams competing.

Dartmouth was in good form on the track, with multiple first and second place finishes. Jennifer Cunningham ’17 took first in the 800-meter run, and Kayla Gilding ’19 placed second in the 400. The Big Green dominated the 1500, with Grace Thompson ’19 and Meghan Grela ’17 taking the first two spots and two other Dartmouth runners placing in the top 10. Dartmouth’s Abby Feeney ’17 and Maria Garman ’19 finished up the day on the track by finishing first and third in the 100-meter hurdles.

Dartmouth also dominated on the field, scoring points in seven of the eight events. The Big Green had a steady presence in the top five of the throwing events. Melissa Dunham ’17 and Amelia Ali ’19 claimed second and fifth in the shot put as well as third and fifth in the discus, respectively. Dunham also finished fourth in the hammer throw.

Big Green throwers Olivia Wiener ’19 and Mary Sieredzinski ’17 also placed third and fourth respectively in the javelin. In the jumps, Jazz Van Loon ’18 took fourth in the triple jump, Gilding won the long jump and Kaitlin McCallum ’16 and Stephanie Brown ’16 finished first and second in the pole vault. All told, the Big Green finished the meet with 181 points, trailing the host school by 29.

Men’s Track and Field Men’s track and field delivered an all-around solid performance on Saturday, taking first in the Snowflake Invitational at Tufts University. No men won individual victories on the track, although Guy Green ’17 and Jules Hislop ’17 came close, finishing second respectively in the 200-meter dash and 400-meter hurdles. Elsewhere, Simpson Tanner ’19 and Trevor Colby ’19 finished third and fourth in the 400, and Phil Gomez ’17 took fourth in the 800. Benjamin Ose ’19 and Daniel Katz ’16 claimed fourth and fifth in the 110 hurdles.

Strong performances on the field carried the Big Green to its overall victory. Tim Brennan ’17 finished first in the hammer throw with a throw of 57.83 meters — a whopping 13 meters ahead of his closest competition. Max Cosculluela ’17 rose to victory in the pole vault with a vault of 5.13 meters, besting second place by 0.43 meters.

Lucas Ribeiro ’19 added two more triumphs on the field, with first-place throws in the shot put and the discus.

Rounding out the Big Green’s impressive field performances, Alex Frye ’17 and Adam Couitt ’18 finished 2-3 in the high jump. The men’s 140.5 points were more than enough to earn first place overall, as they led runner-up Worcester State University by 38.5.

Women’s Tennis Women’s tennis opened its Ivy League slate this weekend, splitting a pair of games against Columbia University and Cornell University.

Following its spring break road trip, the women’s tennis team slipped three spots in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings.

The now No. 49 women faced No. 37 Columbia — the highest ranked team in the Ivy League — at home on Friday. Wins in the No. 2 and No. 3 matches secured the doubles point for the Lions. Top Big Green duo Taylor Ng ’17 and Kristina Mathis ’18 — ranked No. 15 in the country — had an edge on their Columbia opponents, but the match was stopped prematurely. Katherine Yau ’16 tallied a singles win for the Big Green, but No. 26 singles player Kanika Vaidya and the rest of the Lions took the remaining five matches for a 6-1 victory.

Unranked Cornell visited Hanover on Saturday and was dispatched 6-1 by the Big Green. This time, Dartmouth picked up the doubles point with victories from Ng and Mathis as well as Yau and Julia Schroeder ’18. Allison Chuang ’19 was defeated in straight sets but that proved to be the lone Cornell point of the day. Two of the remaining singles matches went to Dartmouth in straight sets, and the Big Green won the others in three sets, prevailing 6-1.

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The women’s tennis faced the Ivy League’s highest ranked team, Columbia University, this weekend at home.

Men’s Tennis The men’s tennis team began Ivy League play away this weekend at No. 28 Columbia University, the top team in the Ancient Eight, with a 4-2 loss before traveling to Ithaca, New York and defeating No. 56 Cornell University 4-2. Ranked as high as No. 34 this season by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, the Big Green men entered Ivy League play at No. 40.

Dartmouth got an impressive start to the Columbia match. The Lions won the first doubles match, but Max Schmidt ’17 and Roko Glasnovic ’19 picked up a win at the No. 3 spot.

Brendan Tannenbaum ’16 and George Wall ’17 downed Columbia’s No. 15 ranked doubles pair by a score of 7-6, giving the doubles point to the Big Green. In singles play, Tannenbaum and singles No. 81 ranked Dovydas Sakinis ’16 were defeated in straight sets, giving Columbia a 2-1 lead. One singles victory from Max Fliegner ’18 evened the score, but Columbia won two more matches to seal the 4-2 victory.

Against Cornell, Tannenbaum and Wall dropped their doubles match, but the duos of Schmidt and Glasnovic and Sakinis and Fliegner won to secure the doubles point. Wall, Fliegner, Schmidt and Glasnovic all won singles matches as well to give Dartmouth the win.

team fell at is first Ivy League home game versus Cornell University 19-4 at Scully-Fahey Field. Cornell shared the Ivy League title in both 2014 and 2015 after winning it outright in 2013. Dartmouth falls to 1-8 and 0-2 in Ivy League play while the Big Red improves to 4-4 and 1-2 in Ivy League play.

Cornell opened the scoring early in the first period with two goals, but the Big Green responded with Richie Loftus ’18 and Evan Key ’18 to knot the score at 2-2. The Big Red scored three more to close the first period up 5-2.

The second period was utter domination by the Big Red scoring seven goals

to lead 12-2. Cornell outshot the Big Green 19-5 in the second period. Jack Korzelius ’18 scored a goal at the end of the period, but the Big Red knotted another to lead 13-3.

The third period and fourth periods were tighter, but the Big Red scored six more goals while the Big Green scored a single goal in the third before ultimately falling 19-4 at home. Cornell outshot Dartmouth, 51-21. All of the Big Green goalies saw time in net.

Women’s Lacrosse Big Green women’s lacrosse fell to Harvard University on Saturday in its third Ivy League game 17-9 at

Men’s Rowing The No. 10 Dartmouth heavyweight crew team swept all three races to take first place in Saturday’s Alumni Cup. In chilly, rainy conditions on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Massachusetts, the men rowed against No. 13 Columbia University, Holy Cross University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Big Green’s third and fourth varsity eight both edged Holy Cross in the first race of the day. The second varsity eight turned in a time of 6:06.16 to finish with a one-length victory over Columbia. Finally, the varsity eight rowed a 6:08.6 to beat second-place Columbia by just over nine seconds.

Men’s Lacrosse The Dartmouth men’s lacrosse

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Men’s lacrosse faced Ivy powerhouse Cornell University this past weekend.

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Harvard Stadium. The Big Green fall to 5-4 overall and 1-2 in Ivy League play while the Crimson are now 6-3 and 2-1 in Ivy League play.

Harvard started out the first period stronger than the Big Green in scoring and shooting. The Big Green found themselves trailing 8-3 and were outshot 16 to 11. Julia Glynn led the Crimson with five goals and an assist in just the first period. Harvard dominated the second period, securing a 17-9 win.

The Crimson outshot the Big Green 37-21. Harvard’s Glynn finished with six goals and four assists. Jaclyn Leto ’16 led Dartmouth with three goals along with Campbell Brewer ’19 and Taryn Deck ’17 each tallying two goals.

Freshman netminder Charlotte Wahle ’19 recorded six saves in the loss.

Baseball The Dartmouth men’s baseball team fell in two games, 2-1 and 9-8, against the Tigers at Princeton University in the first action of the Ivy League conference games. The Big Green drop to 5-16 and 0-2 in Ivy play while the Tigers improve to 9-10 and 2-0 in Ivy play.

The first game was tight with pitching by Duncan Robinson ’16 on target.

Princeton got a run in the fourth, which was followed by a Rob Emery ’19 triple in the fifth that knocked in a run to knot the score at 1-1. Princeton then scored the game winner in the seventh to win 2-1.

During the second game, tied at 6-6 in the 10th inning, Michael Ketchmark ’17 and Thomas Roulis ’15 helped score two runs to make it 8-6. The Tigers, however, scored three runs to win the game 9-8 after a long fought comeback from Dartmouth. Dustin Shirley ’18 had five hits in the second game and had two runs batted in.

Dartmouth’s contests versus Cor-

in the third varsity eight finishing in 8:05.3.

In the varsity four, Dartmouth placed second behind Brown but ahead of Radcliffe with a time of 8:18.7.

In the varsity four B, the Big Green finished fourth at 8:40.2. On Sunday, the women participated in the Doc Hosea Invite which included Syracuse University, University of Minnesota, the United States Naval Academy and Northeastern University. Dartmouth placed third in the first varsity eight race and fifth in the second varsity eight race. The Big Green placed third in both the first and second varsity four races.

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Late inning losses plagued the Big Green this weekend against the Princeton Tigers.

nell were rescheduled due to weather.

Softball The Dartmouth women’s softball team opened up Ivy League play this weekend in a series with Princeton University and Cornell University.

Dartmouth beat Princeton 12-9 on Friday and 5-4 on Sunday and beat Cornell 12-4 and 16-3 in five innings for the Saturday doubleheader.

The Big Green improved to 15-9 and 4-0 in Ivy League play. Dartmouth finished its California non-conference games with a 2-0 win versus the University of California, Davis last Sunday, March 27.

Dartmouth’s win at Princeton 12-9 on Friday went to 10 innings as the score was tied at 9-9. Morgan Martinelli ’19

hit a home run, Maddie Damore ’17 doubled and Kathy Dzienkowski ’16 hit a double to bag three runs to lead 12-9 going to bottom of the tenth.

Dartmouth closed out the game winning 12-9.

At Cornell, the softball team was dominant with two wins 12-4 and 16-3 after the offensive firepower came through. Both games were ended in the fifth due to the run rule with Dartmouth hammering the Big Red. The first game was led by the Big Green’s offense with Karen Chaw ’17 and Martinelli combining for four hits and six RBIs. In the second game, Chaw and Damore each had four runs batted to lead the Big Green. Martinelli led the Big Green with three hits. Breanna

Ethridge ’18 threw a complete game in the second, abbreviated game versus Cornell.

Katie McEachern ’16 currently has a 13 game hit streak.

Women’s Rowing Dartmouth women’s rowing competed for the first time this spring season against No. 17 Harvard University and No. 1 Brown University at the Charles River on Saturday before racing in the Doc Hosea Invite on Sunday.

The women’s rowing team placed third in the second and first varsity eight races, finishing behind HarvardRadcliffe and Brown in both races.

Dartmouth finished 7:23.7 in the first varsity eight and 7:26.2 in the second varsity eight. Dartmouth placed fourth

Women’s Rugby On Saturday, the women’s rugby team competed in their first sevens tournament of the season at Quinnipiac University, winning two of its five games. The tournament was the Varsity Rugby Conference, the inaugural Varsity Sevens Series tournament.

The Big Green ruggers opened the day with a 29-5 loss to Norwich University. Tatjana Toeldte ’16 scored the lone Dartmouth try. The Big Green next faced eventual winner Quinnipiac.

The match was close through the first half, as Danielle Ramsay ’19’s try made the score 5-5 at halftime. However, Quinnipiac scored 20 unanswered points in the second half, and Dartmouth fell 25-5. Following the loss, the Big Green bounced back against West Chester University of Pennsylvania, racing out to a 15-0 lead and scoring once more in the second half for a 22-7 win. The women romped again when they took the pitch against Norwich’s B team, as Kerry Conlin ’16 scored four tries en route to a 38-0 triumph.

These wins took Dartmouth to the plate final, where the day was capped off with a 26-0 defeat by United States Military Academy.

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Spring sports get into full swing in the first days of April

NUMBERS

Women’s lacrosse suffered a tough defeat at the hands of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts this past weekend.

The team, is one game over .500 overall but now is 1-2 in Ivy play.

Only Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania have cracked the top-20 rankings in women’s lacrosse.

140.5 Points for men’s track and field in victory at Tufts

3 Tiebreaker doubles wins for men’s tennis

3 Goals for Jaclyn Leto ’16 against Harvard

28 Combined runs for softball in doubleheader at Cornell

3 First place finishes for the heavyweight rowing team, a clean sweep of all the day’s races

Despite not being able to finish the match due to back-to-back Dartmouth losses, the No. 15 doubles team of Taylor Ng ’17 and Kristina Mathis ’18 were poised to win their match against Columbia’s No. 1 team, leading 5-4 at the point of stoppage.

Despite taking two losses and opening Ivy play 0-2, the Big Green did not go quietly. Losing the doubleheaders by just 2-1 and 9-8 (10 innings), Dartmouth put up a fight against host Princeton University. The games on Sunday in Ithaca, New York against Cornell University, were postponed due to rain.

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Martin de Bustamante ’08 Th ’09 sees success in business

COURTESY OF MONICA MARTIN DE BUSTAMANTE

Monica Martin de Bustamante ’08 was successful athletically and academically in her time at Dartmouth, playing on the rugby and soccer teams.

By ASHLEY DUPUIS The Dartmouth Staff

Since leaving the Dartmouth fold, Monica Martin de Bustamante ’08 Th’09 has been forging ahead on her own terms. Her career has taken place on a global stage, focusing on global pharmaceutical pricing and market access issues for biopharmaceutical and pharmaceutical products.

Martin de Bustamante, however, has always operated within a global community. She lived in Madrid, Spain until she was 14, before relocating to Los Altos Hills, California. At Dartmouth, Martin de Bustamante majored in engineering sciences and Romance languages before completing her fifth year in engineering at the Thayer School of Engineering, all while finding a place on both the soccer field and the rugby pitch as an undergraduate and graduate student.

Just two years out of Thayer, she founded her own biopharmaceutical consulting firm, CBPartners, where she now serves as a managing director. While her engineering degree has clearly aided her entrepreneurial efforts, Martin de Bustamante’s fluency in Spanish and Italian has allowed her to conduct thousands of interviews in the native languages of the emerging and mature markets she examines.

Friends say that they are not surprised by her rapid success, citing her work ethic and interpersonal skills as some key factors.

“I mean if you were to look at somebody in her age group, and skill set I would be surprised

if that were the baseline, but for Monica absolutely not,” said Sasha Acher ’06, a friend of Martin de Bustamante’s from her time at Thayer. “She just draws opportunity and people into her world and just makes things happen, so it’s not surprising at all that she is completely successful this early. Because of her willingness to live on the edge and just go for something, it doesn’t surprise me where she is now.”

Annie Greengard ’08, a close friend of Martin de Bustamante, echoed this sentiment, pointing to Martin de Bustamante’s dynamism as a component of her success.

“I think that she is a natural leader, first and foremost, and I saw that in variety of settings,” Greengard said. “She is also very charismatic and energetic, and that is very galvanizing.”

Martin de Bustamante’s choice of academic path has clearly played a role in her career. For Martin de Bustamante, though, the confluence of academics and athletics is what she believes set her on her current path. Over the course of her undergraduate education, Martin de Bustamante was a forward on the women’s soccer team while also coupling the demands of a rigorous academic workload.

“Engineering is very challenging, it’s a lot of work, and somehow Monica was able to do athletics and engineering at the same time,” Acher, also a former student athlete, said. “I think that she certainly thrived very well and can multitask.

She performs well under pressure, and I think that she developed that

in various capacities in athletics.”

As challenging as the demands of athletics and academics may have been, these strains were paired with a new challenge during Martin de Bustamante’s junior spring when she tore her anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus.

Her dedication easily translated into facing new challenges, and by her senior year, Martin de Bustamante had fought her way back to the field, serving as the team’s co-captain with close friend and former roommate Annie Hendricks ’08.

“Monica is a phenomenal leader,” Hendricks said. “Our senior year she was fighting through a knee injury for the bulk of the season, and her resilience and her commitment to the team still showed through all that, even though she wasn’t able to play for the bulk of the year. It was just a testament to her character.”

When it looked as if Martin de Bustamante’s Dartmouth athletic career would end again with graduation, she merely redirected herself. While finishing her engineering degree, Martin de Bustamante joined the Dartmouth Women’s Rugby Club, a club team that has since become one of Dartmouth’s varsity programs. She continued to shine on the rugby pitch, helping the team reach nationals.

Unfortunately, injury struck again when Martin de Bustamante tore her ACL for the second time, as well as her medial collateral ligament in a match-up against women’s rugby powerhouse Pennsylvania State University in the team’s first game at nationals.

However, to Martin de Bustamante, the sum of her athletic experience was greater than losses or injuries. What mattered far more was the skills she learned as a student-athlete, both on and off the field.

“No, I don’t think I would be where I’m at [if not for athletics],” Martin de Bustamante said. “I know it sounds odd, but there’s sense of toughness that you gain from sports. There’s a relentless mentality that you grow. There’s always a drive to do better.”

This relentless mentality allowed Martin de Bustamante to balance the competing demands of a collegiate student-athlete, and taught her to strike a balance in founding and running a business in her career today.

Martin de Bustamante recounted long days that required early morning and afternoon practices, coupled with late nights at Thayer. In addition to a demanding academic and sports life, she also maintained a social space outside of athletics, as a member of Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority, that allowed her to meet people from around campus. “[Although with being a student athlete], you have to figure out when everything is going to get done,” Martin de Bustamante said. “Commitment is required, especially with the rigor of Dartmouth.”

In addition to drive and time management, Martin de Bustamante also notes the role working in a team environment has had on her career. “[In athletics], it really doesn’t

matter what you’re doing on the field unless your teammates are doing the same thing as well,” Martin de Bustamante said, citing the need for a group to be cohesive.

“That also carries over to what I do now, and builds upon the critical thinking aspect of engineering.”

Hendricks made a similar observation in the role athletics plays in building teamwork, and how her former teammate has applied this to her career.

“Playing at Dartmouth for four years, and throughout life every year you’re playing with new people, you learn to work with different individuals and how to lead and inspire them in different ways.

And Monica’s ability to relate and work with so many people has been a big reason for her success,” Hendricks said. “And she’s just a hard worker as an individual and a teammate and I think that’s also led to her success after school.”

When describing Martin de Bustamante, friends and family are quick to highlight her intelligence, loyalty, kindness and dedication to her work. They also cite her personality as a crucial component to her own success.

“She has this unique ability to be very, very genuine,” Acher said. “She retains her sense of self in lots of different environments, and I think that serves her really well with running her own business. She’s also one of the most adaptable people I’ve ever met.

She can thrive in any environment and is willing to live with a sense of spontaneity and adventure. I think her social intelligence benefits her greatly.”

Just as athletics have played a major role in Martin de Bustamante’s life, her Dartmouth have roots also played their part. Her grandfather, John W. Ballard ’55, cousins John R. Ballard ’07 and Kelsey Kittelsen ’17 and wife Michelle Dunn ’09 all have ties to the Big Green. Dunn was also a student-athlete at Dartmouth, playing rugby with Martin de Bustamante.

It is these lessons and connections that continue to influence Martin de Bustamante’s life off of the field. Her drive and passion have already served to inspire others, including cousin Kittelsen, an engineering major and recent addition to the women’s rugby team, who described Martin de Bustamante as passionate and energetic.

“Initially I wasn’t planning on following her path at Dartmouth, but after long conversations with her and living through my own experiences at Dartmouth, I decided to follow a similar path,” Kittelsen said. “She really has had a positive impact on my life.”

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It may seem strange for a kid from D.C. to grow up a fan of the Chicago Cubs. In the summer before I started first grade while visiting my grandparents in Chicago, my grandfather took my brother and me to Wrigley Field.

In the top of the fourth inning, Luis Gonzalez, of 2001 World Series fame, drove a foul ball down the right field line that glanced off my forehead.

My frantic grandfather rushed me to a first-aid facility, while my loving brother scampered after the ball that he ultimately failed to recover. After I was evaluated, I returned to my seat and received a standing ovation that began within my section and eventually spread to the entire stadium.

The Washington Nationals would not come to the nation’s capital for another two years, and the closest team to me, the Baltimore Orioles, was a perennial cellar-dweller. From that moment on, I was smitten with the lovable losers from the North Side.

That October, my Cubbies would have one of their best seasons in years only to fall in the National League Championship Series best remembered for some guy named Bartman.

Now, for the first time in a long time, the Cubs are faced with a new challenge: championship expectations.

For most of my life, being a Cubs fan has been about patiently rooting for a team that was never expected to do much and never did. I’d return to the Friendly Confines to catch a game in the Cubs’ beautiful home field when I could, and by the end of the game, the score was seldom important; the Cubs usually lost, and I never minded.

No matter what happened, my Cubs could never disappoint me.

Now, the Cubs are the odds-on favorite to take home this year’s Fall Classic. That’s right, the same Cubs who’s last title came when the city of Chicago did not have a single traffic signal and whose last World Series appearance came just a month after the end of the Second World War. The last Cubs team to go all the way boasted the famed double-play combination of Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers and Frank Chance, along with Hall-of-Fame pitcher Mordecai Brown, though the North Siders’ opening day starter was none other than the esteemed Orval Overall. For the second year in a row, the season ended with the Cubs knocking off the Detroit Tigers to take home the title.

After 108 long years, the Cubs finally appear poised to reclaim that

crown. This team is made up of young stars and veterans with World Series experience. With Anthony Rizzo and Kris Bryant on the corners and at the heart of the line-up, the Cubs are set for years to come. Their ace, Jake Arrieta, is the closest any pitcher has come to Bob Gibson since, well, Bob Gibson. Arrieta boasts, in the opinion of most observers, the best “stuff” in Major League Baseball — his signature cutter is as devastating as any pitch you can find. Behind him in the rotation are Jon Lester and newcomer John Lackey, who have both cut their teeth as postseason performers before they arrived in the Windy City. Besides Lackey, the Cubs made two huge acquisitions in the offseason: Jason Heyward and Ben Zobrist, both of whom should help the Cubs’ defensive woes and provide stability wherever they are inserted in the lineup. Between kooky manager Joe Maddon, who recently defined the team’s dress code by saying, “If you think you look hot, you wear it,” and 39-year-old “Grandpa” David Ross, a back-up catcher who announced in the offseason that 2016 would be his last ride, this year’s Cubs are as lovable as ever. But this year, they are not losers — they are World Series favorites, and as a Cubs fan, I’ve never been more concerned.

You don’t have to look far to discern that baseball is a cruel sport to preseason favorites and teams that “won the off-season.” Just ask last year’s Nationals, who missed the playoffs after being a near-consensus pick to win it all.

Unlike last year, a mere postseason berth will not be enough for the Cubs.

For this year’s vaunted Cubs, the season has a distinct “World Series or bust” feel to it. And though they are favorites, this is not a Cubs team without flaws. As a whole, the 2015 Cubs struck out far too often, a flaw that the New York Mets were able to expose in its NLCS sweep last season.

Beyond the formidable trio of Arrieta, Lester and Lackey, the rotation has question marks.

It seems impossible for Arrieta to replicate his dominant Cy Young season. Last season’s breakout star Kyle Schwarber, a likely candidate to become the biggest proponent of the NL adopting the designated hitter, brings plenty of offensive firepower but has proven to be a liability in the field and lacks a true position.

When I consider these flaws, I can’t help but think that the Cubbies will overcome them. Tonight, with Arrieta on the mound, the Cubs will take on the Angels and their 2016 campaign will begin. At some point in the season, many will question their ability to reverse the Curse of the Billy Goat.

Like any team, they will deal with injuries and slumps. Come the trade deadline, they will make acquisitions to prepare the team for a postseason run.

A postseason run that I finally think will end in a champagne-spraying celebration, and that expectation of winning is exactly why I am terrified.

MONDAY, APRIL 4, 2016

The Lakers without Kobe Bryant

By DANIEL LEE

The Dartmouth Staff

Growing up in Los Angeles, I always believed that Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers were two inseparable terms in the world of basketball. It seemed almost as though Bryant would never leave the Lakers and that someday in the distant future the next generation of avid basketball fans would be able to walk through the glass doors of Staples Center with their friends and family to witness Bryant’s unstoppable fadeaway shot.

Bryant is a man touted for his work ethic, competitiveness in the game and passion to become the best that has ever stepped on the court — characteristics that have rewarded him with an unforgettable 81 point game, third place on the all-time scoring list and 18 NBA All-Star games. Financially, he has earned over $300 million dollars from his contracts with the Lakers, holds the 10th place spot on Forbes’s list of highest paid athletes and has helped the Lakers franchise become close to a $3 billion dollar team.

After countless years of watching Bryant dominate game after game, season after season, we were all victims of his greatness, attributing unattainable immortality to a mortal man. However, just like a hero in the Trojan War, Bryant met his match when he tore his Achilles

tendon in the middle of the 2012-2013 season, a devastating injury that brought sense back into the world and signaled that even the most successful careers are nothing but ephemeral.

The severity of the injury was realized during a heartbreaking locker room interview that same night, where reporters and fans were able to see the vulnerability in Bryant through his teary eyes and raspy voice, something that hadn’t been seen since the press conference in the summer of 2003 when he admitted to adultery.

Despite his efforts to prove every sports critic, player and coach that doubted his ability to return as the same player that we all admired, Bryant failed to compete in the manner fans all hoped he would. A fractured knee in the 2013-2014 season gave even the most faithful Laker fans the slightest doubt of a memorable return to the game.

It is clear that Father Time has taken a toll on his body, and the imminent retirement announcement came on Nov. 29, shocking the sports world and sending everyone scrambling to say their goodbyes. After every workout, practice, agonizing injury and aching walk back to the locker room that he has endured playing professional basketball for 20 years, it’s hard to blame him for a loss of passion in the game.

Despite the fact that fans are flocking to witness Kobe for a final time, his

retirement is still undoubtedly shrouded by a potentially record breaking season by the Golden State Warriors, poor team chemistry thanks to Nick Young’s infidelity and D’Angelo Russell’s inability to maintain discretion over private matters and consecutive disappointing seasons.

However, Bryant’s faithful career to the Lakers will certainly gain traction in the following days. People will give his career the same respect and admiration that the world paid towards other superstar athletes that spent their entire career with one team, such as Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera.

To quote Dr. Seuss, “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened,” — we will undoubtedly look back at the last two decades to cherish these memories. But that celebration will end in concern regarding the gloomy future that lies ahead. The long road of rebuilding a team around Russell, second-year player Julius Randle and other draft picks will be a daunting task, and there is no guarantee that the Lakers will establish themselves as a championship team within the next decade. Nonetheless, when Lakers fans look up at the nine retired Lakers jerseys on the ceiling of Staples Center, we’ll eagerly wait for the next great player to bring the franchise back to its feet and lead us to the Promised Land filled with champagne, trophies and banners.

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Each week The Numbers Game will break-down one Dartmouth sports statistic.

0.62: Stefan Cleveland ’16’s goals-against average in 2015 Co-captain of the Dartmouth men’s soccer team Cleveland had a magical 2015 campaign. For the second consecutive year, he helped propel the Big Green to an Ivy League Championship. Individually, Cleveland won the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year honor and was later named to the First Team All-Ivy squad for the second time in his career.

T he Dayton, Ohio native started 14 games for the Big Green and recorded an impressive 9-4-1 record in those contests. He made 58 saves over the course of the season and recorded a .866 save percentage, while also recording nine shutouts on the year.

Even more telling of Cleveland’s utter dominance in net was

his 0.62 goals-against average in his 2015 campaign, improving this figure from 0.97 in 2014 . As far as goalies are concerned, this statistic is the best way to judge their impact. After all, a goalie’s main objective is to simply allow as few goals as possible over the course of a contest.

For people who may be unfamiliar with the statistic, it is obtained by dividing the total number of goals a goalie has allowed for the season by the number of games played. In Cleveland’s case he played in 14 games last year and gave up nine total goals. Ostensibly, several other factors independent of goalie performance can affect a goalie’s goals-against average including defensive performance, pace of play and the team’s overall philosophy. However, at the end of the day, its simplicity makes it the best statistic for comparing goalies from team to team.

If we compare Cleveland’s goals-against average to other Ivy League goalies over the course of this past season, Dartmouth’s netminder stands heads and shoulders above his contemporaries. The second leading Ivy League goalkeeper in this category who saw at least 500 minutes of play was Columbia’s Kyle Jackson, posting a 0.86 goals-against average. Every other regular Ivy League keeper gave up on average more than one goal per game. Essentially, Cleveland allowed .21 fewer goals per game than the next closest Ivy League keeper and nearly .40 fewer goals than the all other Ivy goalies

that played for significant stretches throughout the 2015 season.

Although Cleveland’s edge may appear marginal, soccer’s relatively low scores mean incremental differences as far as this statistic have a tremendous impact on the game. In terms of the whole country, Cleveland’s senior season ranked seventh out of all Division 1 goalies as far of goals-against average.

Let’s now look at some of the best professional goalies in the world’s goals-against average to better frame Cleveland’s number.

In the current 2015-2016 season, Joe Hart of Manchester City has amassed a 0.96 goals-against average while Arsenal’s Petr Cech has given up on average exactly one goal per game. Even in terms of two of the most decorated and respected keepers in the world from the Premiere League, Cleveland’s 0.64 mark from this past year still remains extremely impressive.

With Cleveland graduating this year, the Big Green will be hardpressed to replace arguably its best player. The team will need solid goalie play if it hopes to threepeat as Ivy League Champions.

Head coach Chad Riley, who will be entering his fourth season in Hanover, has already announced that the team is bringing in keeper Henry Stusnick ’20 as part of the program’s new recruiting class.

Stusnick joins a roster that already includes goalies James Hickok ’17 and Max Lurie ’19 as the trio will try to fill the large shoes left by Cleveland next season.

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The team is looking to fill Stefan Cleveland ’16’s absence in the coming year.

COURTESY OF STEFAN CLEVELAND

In his final season, Cleveland averaged just over half a goal against per game, giving the Big Green the ammunition to take the Ivy League title for the second year in a row.

THE DARTMOUTH SPORTS WEEKLY

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SPORTS

MONDAY, APRIL 4, 2016

TUESDAY MONDAY LINEUP LINEUP

MEN’S LACROSSE No athletic AT VERMONT events 3 PM scheduled

Golf teams seek promising spring season with young talent

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The spring season looks promising for the women’s program that saw high finishers in the fall.

By MAXWELL KANEFIELD The Dartmouth Staff

The Dartmouth men’s and women’s golf teams are entering into the full swing of their spring seasons, hoping to build on their strong fall seasons and continue on the path to respect and relevance in the world of Division 1 golf.

The fall season was one of strongest in recent memory for the Dartmouth men’s golf team.

They won its home tournament, the second annual Quechee Club Collegiate Challenge , unseating Ivy League golf powerhouse Harvard University and defeating a field of Ivy League and solid northern competition.

The team then built on that win in the Connecticut Cup, where they fired the lowest known single day round in Dartmouth golf history, combining for a five-under-283.

They went on to finish second in the tournament losing out only to Texas Christian University, who finished 10th at the 2015 NCAA Golf Championship.

“There really were not a lot of failures in the fall — we had a great fall season, probably the best one that we have had in my 11 years,” men’s golf head coach Rich Parker said . “We beat a lot of good teams and got a lot of good practice.”

In the winter off-season, the team honed in on its short game and putting as they remained confined to mostly indoor practice.

“Our coach has really empha-

sized short game around the green.

Pitching, chipping putting. Its one of coach’s biggest focus points during practice,” John Lazor ’19 said. “He wants to limit stupid mistakes and focus on little things that you might not think about in the moment.”

The team will need to make good use of confidence from the fall and training in the winter because they will face one of the most rigorous travel schedules in Dartmouth golf history. They spent their spring break training and practicing in Vero Beach, Florida, and have upcoming tournaments scheduled in West Palm Beach and Kannapolis, North Carolina . “[There’s] a lot of traveling this spring, it is different than what we’ve ever done,” Parker said. “We’re getting on airplanes a couple times this spring.”

Parker added that last year the team went to Lafayette, Princeton University and then Yale University. This year the team is flying down to Florida to West Palm Beach, before traveling to Charlotte and then Yale.

Parker recognized the strain increased travel might put on the team, but he is certain that access to courses in better climate and conditions will benefit the team, who would otherwise be playing at courses still experiencing the effects of winter. In addition, Parker believes the tough competition further south will help build confidence for the team before they

head to the Ivy League Championships.

“We think its worth it to get into some good weather and get to play some good warm-weather golf,” Parker said. “We’d be playing some tournaments in New England where it’s freezing cold if we weren’t making these trips down South, so it looks like a great decision. We’re going to get to practice a lot more than we ever would in any other spring time.”

The team is led by two young stars, Lazor and Ian Kelsey ’18 .

Both helped carry the team to a successful fall and are expected to lead the team again in the spring season.

Parker pointed to Kelsey and Lazor as the team’s “two best players.”

“Its not easy to come right in here out of high school, jump right on the team and then win tournaments or be the low man for your team,” Parker said.

Just as young talent bolsters the men’s side of Dartmouth golf, the Dartmouth women’s golf program continues the long road to relevance and success in the Ivy League with the help of a young core that has head coach Alex Kirk excited about the program’s future.

“With all these freshmen and sophomores, it’s a new energy and a new caliber of play,” Kirk said.

In many ways, the success of the women’s program in the fall mirrored the men’s. Both young teams captured their home tournaments,

with the women winning its home tournament for the first time since the 2011 tournament.

“I think the team is in transition,” Kirk said. “I mean we have a young team, mostly freshmen and sophomores who are starting and really making an impact. We’re creating a new culture and a new chapter from where we’ve been.”

A big part of the team’s new energy is the addition of Julia Calbi ’19. The freshman hit the ground running in the fall when she placed second at her first collegiate tournament . The highly touted freshman who ranked 30th nationally among her class of high school graduates turned down 12 scholarship offers, including one from perennial powerhouse Stanford University, to join the Big Green. Kirk highlighted the unique opportunity Dartmouth golf can offer top recruits considering top collegiate golf programs.

“I think it’s about building the opportunity here,” Kirk said. “I tell recruits all the time if you would like to come build [our program] and put it on the map, that can be

a better feeling than going somewhere that’s already established.”

Just as the men’s team begins a tough traveling stretch in search of top competition, the women’s team is also preparing for a rigorous season that will pit them against better opponents. The team will play tournaments near Baltimore, at Bowling Green State University, and in Portsmouth, Rhode Island , which they hope will lend credibility to its program.

“Golf is almost like a strength of schedule type sport where the rankings are based on who you are playing and who you beat,” Kirk said. “As a coach you’re networking to get into better tournaments, find better competition, and get to better weather. Those are all things we are working hard to integrate into our program.”

As the season heads into full swing, both coaches hope their investments in travel for better conditions and strong competition will pay dividends in the tournaments and ultimately help win each the men and the women an Ivy League Championship.

COURTESY OF JOHN LAZOR

John Lazor ’19 is one of the freshmen making a huge impact on the men’s golf team.