The Spring Standings

There were many big stories: a repeat Ivy championship and trip to the NGAA quarter-finals for the women's lacrosse team; an Ivy Player of the Year award for tennis player Rebecca Dirksen '00; 11 more home runs for Dartmouth's all-time home run leader, junior Aaron Meyer '00; a national runner-up finish for Dartmouth's perennially strong women's sailing team. What else transpired on the fields and courts of springtime? Herewith a handy chart.

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SportCoachOverallIvyNoteworthy Baseball BobWhalen 17-24 9-11 Aaron Meyer '00 already HR and RBI leader. Softball Steffany Bender 18-27 2-10 School record for wins; Sarah Damon '02 first team All-Ivy. Men's Lacrosse Rick Sowell 5-8 2-4 Fourth-place finish in Ivies best since 1994. Women's Lacrosse Amy Patton 11-5 7-0 Fourth Ivy title in five years; NCAA quarterfinaiist. Men's Tennis Chuck Kinyon 13-8-1 3-4 Rob Simik '99 earns first team All-Ivy. Women's Tennis Chris Kerr 9-9 2-5 Rebecca Dirksen '00 goes 7-0 in Ivy play and is Ivy League Player of the Year. Men's Heavy Crew Scott Armstrong 4-4 NA Tenth at Eastern Sprints. Men's Light Crew DickGrossman 4-4 NA Varsity eight third at NCAA Championship. Women's Crew Chris Schmidt '90 5-6 NA Varsity eight finishes eleventh at NCAA Championship. Men's Track & Field Barry Harwick '77 NA NA Greg Johnston '99 earns All-America in decathlon (sixth at NCAAs). Women's Track & Field Sandra Ford-Centonze NA NA Fourth at Heptagonals; Anne Devlin'99 wins Heps 3,000 and 5,000. Men's Golf Bill Johnson NA NA Sixth at Ivy Championship; Lee Birchall '02 first team All-Ivy. Women's Golf Kevin Gibson NA NA Fourth at Ivy Championship. Sailing Pete Spaulding NA NA Women finish second at ICYRA Women's Nationals, sixth in Team Racing, and eighth in Dinghy. Five sailors earn All-America. Equestrian Sally Boillotat NA NA Reserve High Point Champion, Division One; Jennifer Renz '01 rides for victorious US team in the 1999 International Intercollegiate Nation's Cup. NA = under "Overall" represents the fact that official won-loss records are not kept in that sport; under "Ivy" represents the fact that the Ivy League does not keep standings in that sport.