Ivy seniors get waiver to compete as graduates for another year
Dartmouth College junior Justin Sodokoff competed in an undated diving meet. Sodokoff was recently named an All-American by the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America.
Modified: 2/12/2021 8:50:32 AM
HANOVER Entering January, Jason Liu was starting to accept the tough reality that his time hitting the green for the Big Green was coming to a close.
A senior, he didn’t have a team on which to compete because Dartmouth’s program had been cut in July. Plus, the Ivy League didn’t allow grad students to play. He began to formalize plans to enroll in graduate school at the Thayer School of Engineering this spring.
Dartmouth athletes happy to have sports restored but critical of process
Harry Sheehy, Dartmouth s eighth-year athletic director, is shown during an Oct. 19, 2015, home football game at Memorial Field in Hanover, N.H. (Valley News - Tris Wykes) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Modified: 2/3/2021 10:45:22 PM
HANOVER Stas Van Genderen’s phone wouldn’t stop buzzing with notifications on Friday morning. Lying in his bed, sore from skiing the day before, he finally picked up an incoming phone call from his mom.
“My phone is just blowing up, million text messages,” recalled Van Genderen, a senior on the Dartmouth College swimming and diving team. “So my mom says, ‘We got the team back!’ And I just say, ‘Is this kind of sick joke?’ I was shocked.”