Farm Team

Usually "farm team" means the minors, some smalltown baseball nine. But this is different. For the past few'years the magazine Successful Farming and the Dodge truck division have joined in sponsoring college and university All-American Farm Tearns in several sports. Candidates are student-athletes who come from farms or ranches, mainly from America's heartland. Honored as captain of this year's basketball farm five is Shaun Gee '00 from Palmer, Nebraska. Gee is Dartmouth's basketball captain, too. It's not his first honor. He was a first-team All-Ivy selection in 1997-98 after leading the league in scoring with an 18.4-point average. (His GPA is just under 3.0.) Gee is the first Dartmouth athlete ever to make an All-American Farm Team, and most of his teammates are from schools like North Dakota, Winona State, Abilene Christian. Gee pronounced with a hard G, not the way you tell your team to turn to the right is majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology, and plans a career in medicine. He earned a $500 scholarship along with the nomination.

The youngest of six children, he grew up on his family's 440-acre corn-soybean-alfalfa farm. An older brother suggested he apply to Dartmouth, and a video of one of his high school games clinched the deal after the College matched Princeton's financial package. Gee led this year's Green team to a 10-4 Ivy record and averaged a team-high 17.4 points per game.

Gee scoreshigh onand off thecourt.