Sports

Women's Crew 2nd in Nationals

With a second place finish in the National Women's Collegiate Rowing Championships held June 4-5 at Lake Wingra in Madison, Wis., the Dartmouth women's crew team completed its 8-1 season in spectacular fashion. When it was all over and done, Dartmouth, Ivy League Champions and second place finisher at the Eastern Sprints, had lost only to two-time defending champion Washington.

The team's emergence as national contender, which came on the heels of a winless campaign the previous year and shocked some observers, was no surprise to Coach Chuck Nagle. "To me," he said, "it is something we've been working on, and I saw something {exceptional] developing last year." Dartmouth gave a clue that it was ready on Saturday, when it outraced its eastern nemesis, Boston University, as well as Stanford and Cornell, to win its qualifying heat. In the finals on Sunday, the Washington Huskies bigger, stronger, battle-tested moved in to a commanding lead they never relinquished.

The real fight was for second place. Dartmouth got off to a poor start (falling as far back as fifth in the early going), before reaching third place at the halfway mark. Four seats behind Wisconsin as the race wore down, the Big Green surged back, and caught the Badgers in the final three strokes. From 0-9 last year to No. 2 in the nation what can you say? Maybe the Women's Crew belongs in the "Give a Rouse " section instead of "Sports."

Dartmouth's New A.D.

Dartmouth College has a new Director of Athletics. President McLaughlin announced on June 6 that Edward "Ted' Leland of Evanston, Illinois, had been appointed to succeed Seaver Peters, Dartmouth's athletic director for the past 16 years. The 34-year-old Leland has been senior associate director of athletics and recreation at Northwestern University for the past two years. "In the spirit of the Ivy League tradition, I feel strongly that athletics and recreation play an important part in the overall education process, and I look forward with pleasure to contributing to that process at a nationally outstanding college like Dartmouth," Leland said. "I look forward also to building on the solid traditions of integrity and excellence that are characteristic of Dartmouth and that Seaver Peters has helped to mold and articulate so well."

Leland attended Chabot Junior College in Hay ward, Calif. He transferred to the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., where he won All-Pacific Coast Conference honors as a linebacker on the football team. He also lettered in track, wrestling, and rugby. He was appointed assistant football coach and instructor of physical education at the University of the Pacific following his graduation in 1970. Three years later he received a masters degree in sports psychology from his alma mater. He became an assistant football coach and physical education instructor at Stanford University in 1978 and later earned a Ph.D. in sports psychology from the school. Leland was appointed assistant athletic director at the University of Houston in 1979 and assumed the Northwest ern post in 1981. He has had extensive experience in personnel matters, depart mental coordination, budgetary planning and fiscal control, fundraising, facilities management, and intramural sports Northwestern and elsewhere.

That Winning Season

Mike Walsh knew something had gone wrong with the Dartmouth baseball program when he inherited the varsity baseball coaching job last spring. The Big Green team has an overall record of 43-177 between 1976 and 1981 and had posted an equally dismal mark in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League during that same span. "We weren't sure exactly what had gone wrong, except they weren't winning as much as they had before," said Walsh, who set three goals for the 1982 team. "We wanted the seniors to have good years, to go out with dignity, and we did that. We wanted to honestly evaluate the other players and allow them to perform, and we did that. Finally we wanted to show improvement within the League and the ECAC." The team's 1982 record of 8-23-1 was slightly better than the previous year's mark and the team's five EIBL victories in 18 outings was the most league wins in seven years.

But the start of the season during the annual Florida trip was not unlike the start of past seasons: the team lost its first four games. Then the Big Green did an aboutface, winning nine of its next 10 games and sweeping three straight EIBL doubleheaders against Princeton, Navy, and Columbia. After splitting doubleheaders with Army and Cornell in New York the first weekend in May, the upstart Dartmouth baseball team remained in the thick of the league race with an 8-4 record.

Walsh will lose nine seniors from this year's team through graduation. He's happy that they will go out winners, but he's already looking, ahead to next year's team and continued improvement for the Dartmouth baseball program. "Last year we implemented a program to identify talented players and we should have a good class of incoming freshmen," Walsh said. Coaches always tell a team they can do it. Now the big thing is for us to do it."

Women's Lacrosse in NCAA's

The surprising Dartmouth women's lacrosse team was selected as one of the top 12 teams in the country and played Princeton in the first round of the NCAA Championship. It was Dartmouth's first NCAA lacrosse championship appearance. "I didn't have a hint at the start of the season at this would happen," said coach Josie Harper. "I thought we'd have our surprises, but this surpasses my hopes by far."

Paced by the scoring of senior attack Sandy Bryan of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and junior Roseanne Byron of Englewood, New Jersey, the Big Green team compiled a 9-5 overall record before the 12-10 loss to Princeton's squad. Bryan scored 50 points on 37 goals and 13 assists. Byron had 29 goals and nine assists. The Green had a shot at the Ivy League championship, but was forced to settle for the runner-up spot after falling to champion Harvard, 22 to 8. In Ivy competition, the women had a 4-2 mark. The team's overall record marks the first time since 1976 that the squad has had a better than .500 season.

Slattery New S.I.D.

Just as this issue was going to press, it was announced that Kathy Slattery, acting Sports Information Director since the resignation of Art Petrosemolo, had been named the College's first and the Ivy League's second female S.I.D. Athletic Director Seaver Peters remarked, "No one in the profession is more qualified than Kathy, as our extensive [national] search has underlined. Ever since she joined our staff six years ago, she's handled her assignments outstandingly, and everyone here at DCAC is delighted with her selection."

An avid golfer and a fine all-around athlete, Slattery is a cum laude graduate of Syracuse University, where she doublemajored in journalism and anthropology. Beginning in the fall, she will become a regular contributor to the sports section of the MAGAZINE.

Dartmouth Seniors Honored

Of the twenty-seven graduating seniors honored for their efforts while performing on Big Green teams, Peter A. Lavery of Arlington, Mass., was the recipient of the Kenneth Archibald Athletic Prize while Sandra T. Bryan of Ipswich, Mass., earned the Class of 1976 Outstanding Woman Athlete Award. Lavery and Bryan jointly shared The Dartmouth Cup. Lavery is the only college athlete in the nation to play three Division One major sports. Lavery earned 11 varsity letters during his Dartmouth career. He was a kick returner and running back on the football team, a winger on the hockey team and a centerfielder on the baseball team. Lavery won a varsity letter during every term that he was at Dartmouth, with the exception of the fall term during his freshman year. Fresh- men are ineligible to play on the varsity football team. Lavery was also the recipi- ent of the Philip D. Mclnnis '36 hockey award and the Timothy Wright Ellis Me- morial Award. He batted .323 during the spring while playing for the varsity base- ball team with his brothers, junior Pat and freshman Jim.

Sandra Bryan, a first team All-America selection in women's lacrosse, had a record 13 assists during the spring season, breaking her own mark and giving her a record 41 for her career. Her 167 points set a career record and her 42 goals and 55 points this season were both second on the single-season lists. A co-captain of the team, Bryan was named to the All-Ivy first team for a second year in a row. She also earned the Agnes B. Kurtz Award as the lacrosse team's most valuable player.

Allison Barlow '86 (kneeling) and Roseanne Byron '84 in action against Princeton in the NCAATourney, which Dartmouth lost, 12-10. Looking on is #25 Ann Varney '86.