Dartmouth begins search for next athletic director
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Dartmouth s Eleni Tebano (9) challenges Cornell s Valerie Audet for control of the puck at center ice early in the second period of their Ivy League game in Hanover, N.H., on January 27, 2017. Cornell won, 1-0. (Valley News - Geoff Hansen) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
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HANOVER After more than a decade at Dartmouth College, Harry Sheehy will retire from his role as the Big Green’s athletic director this month, leaving big shoes to fill and uncomfortable questions to answer.
Dartmouth athletic director retires in wake of Title IX debacle
Harry Sheehy (center), Dartmouth College’s new director of athletics and recreation, addresses the media on Aug. 3, 2010, at Floren Varsity House in Hanover. James M. Patterson / Valley News
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Published: 2/11/2021 4:51:17 PM
HANOVER Dartmouth College on Tuesday said that Harry Sheehy will retire from his post as athletic director this month after more than a decade on the job. The news comes in the wake of the college’s announcement that it would reinstate five varsity teams to comply with Title IX and avoid a class-action gender discrimination lawsuit.
Experts: Debacle over Dartmouth athletic cuts was avoidable
Dartmouth College s Hanover, N.H., campus is seen from the air on Saturday, Dec. 9, 2017. (Valley News - Charles Hatcher) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
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Modified: 2/5/2021 9:39:27 PM
HANOVER When Dartmouth College announced last week that it was reinstating five varsity sports it had dropped during July budget cuts, it explained the reversal by saying data used to make the decision “may not have been complete.”
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.”
Dartmouth notebook: College holds steady on coaches’ futures; athletes secure transfers
Dartmouth College receiver Drew Estrada (4) carries the football during a 59-24 win over Columbia on Oct. 25, 2019, in Hanover. Estrada, who will be a fifth-year senior with the Big Green this fall, is taking the coronavirus-induced ban on spring practices in stride.
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Dartmouth s Matt Baker (14) celebrates a goal in the first period against Colgate, in Hanover, N.H., on Saturday, Dec.1,2018.(Valley News - Rick Russell) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Harry Sheehy, Dartmouth College athletic director, watches the Big Green play football at Harvard on Nov. 2, 2019. Sheehy has had to oversee the cancelation of spring sports in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. (Tris Wykes - Valley News) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@v