Ivy coaches pick five Greeners

Five Dartmouth athletes were selected for Ivy first team or Ivy Rookie of the Year honors at the end of the winter season.

Women's basketball standout Jayne Daigle put the crowning jewel in a 24-carat career with her unanimous selection as Ivy League Player of the Year and a spot on the all-Ivy first team. A four-time selection for the all-Ivy first team, Daigle is only the third player ever to earn that distinction, along with former Big Green greats Gail Koziara '82 and Ann Deacon '83. Daigle, whose selection to the first team has been unanimous the past three years, was the leading scorer in the Ivy League, with an average of 18.5 points per League game this year. She also led the conference in field goal percentage and free throw percentage and was third in rebounding. She closed out her collegiate career with title to or a share in 11 Ivy scoring and rebounding records in women's basketball - a League record itself. She holds the records for season points (259), career points (897), season scoring average (21.6), field goals in a game (16), field goals in a season (117), field goals in a career (372), field goal attempts in a season (227), field goal attempts in a career (749), field goal percentage in a career (49.7), and career rebounds (523), and she shares the record for points in a game with 34.

Also named to the women's basketball first team was Green freshman Liz Walter, the first freshman to gain all-Ivy first-team honors since Daigle accomplished the feat four years ago. In addition, Walter was the Ivy coaches' unanimous choice for Rookie of the Year. She is the fourth straight Big Greener to gain Rookie of the Year honors in women's basketball and Dartmouth's seventh Rookie of the Year in eight seasons. Walter finished her freshman campaign as the second in the League in scoring, rebounds, and field goal percentage.

And for the second year in a row, Dartmouth claimed the men's as well as the women's Ivy League Rookie of the Year. Freshman Jim Barton, a forward from Memphis, Tenn., copped the honor for Dartmouth's men's basketball team. He was the Green's leading scorer this year, with 13.6 points per game, and the. seventh-leading scorer in Ivy League play, with 14.7 points per game. In addition, he led the League in free-throw shooting, making 44 of 46 shots for a 95.7 percentage mark. Overall, his free-throw rate was 65 or 69 for a 94.2 percentage mark that led the season at the end of regular-season play. If he holds onto the national free-throw lead, he'll be only the second freshman ever to win the honor. (Barton and teammate Joe Kilroy, a senior, also gained honorable mention all-Ivy status.)

The women's squash team and men's track squad also laid claim to first-team all- Ivies at the close of the winter season. Dartmouth's top-ranked women's squash player, junior Chris Schutz of Scarsdale, N.Y., was one of ten players named all-Ivy in that sport, and junior Bob Kempainen, a distance-runner from Minnetonka, Minn., was also an all-Ivy first-team choice.