Best of the Rest

GILLIAN APPS ’06
ICE HOCKEY
A  player with a renowned hockey family lineage, Apps won three Olympic gold medals with Canada’s national team and two golds and five silvers in the world championships. The rugged forward thrived on making life miserable for opposing defenders. As a College senior Apps led the team in goals (30) and shots (158). She also holds the school record for career penalty minutes (281). “The goals didn’t have to be pretty, and I took a lot of pride in playing in all areas of the ice,” Apps says. “I wasn’t afraid to get into the corners and do some of the dirty work.” A psychology major, Apps won the Class of 1976 Award for most outstanding female varsity athlete and was both the Ivy League’s and the ECAC Hockey League’s player of the year. In 2018, Apps married her American rival, Meghan Duggan. The two elite skaters had squared off at the 2010 and 2014 Olympic finals, both won by Canada. “After I retired,” Apps says, “to then watch Meghan play in the 2018 Olympics, where they were able to get the gold, was a really unique experience.”

ROBERT “RED” ROLFE ’31
BASEBALL
Following his illustrious time as an infielder on the Dartmouth baseball diamond, the Penacook, New Hampshire, native enjoyed a major league career right out of astorybook. The redhead, who grew up playing ball in sandlots and pastures, became an AllAmerican in 1930 and 1931. After a couple of seasons in the New York Yankees minor league system, Rolfe came up to the majors to play shortstop and third base in 1934. He never looked back. In 1939, Rolfe led the majors inruns (139) and hits (213) while batting .329. He led the league in triples (15) in 1936 and plate appearances in 1937 (741). He was leadoff batter for the American League in the 1937 All-Star game and was named to the AllStar team for the next three seasons. Rolfe batted .284 in postseason appearances, helping to power the Yankees to four consecutive World Series titles from 1936 to 1939. He won his fifth World Series in 1941, when the Yankees beat their crosstown rivals, the Brooklyn Dodgers, in five games.

ARIANA RAMSEY ’22
RUGBY

ARIANA RAMSEY

 Rugby is a contact sport—unless they can’t catch you. Former track athlete Ramsey took up rugby in high school on a whim and has left a lot of hopeful tacklers grasping air ever since. At Dartmouth, Ramsey plays wing and scrum half. “My job is to score, literally,” she says. “It’s about speed and footwork.” After scoring two tries her freshman year, Ramsey stood out as a sophomore, ending up first in tries (10) and second in points (50). Last year Ramsey made the U.S. rugby sevens Olympic team— the first Big Green player in program history to represent the United States at the Olympics. In Tokyo, the pace of the matches surprised her. “These girls were really, really fast. I had to stay focused,” Ramsey recalls. Despite increased intensity, the economics major scored a try in her very first Olympic match, a 17-7 victory over Japan. “It was surreal and something I will never forget.” Ramsey tore her ACL in the next match, which knocked her out of the Olympics and has kept her out of action since, but she plans to be back on the pitch by the end of the year. “I’m so, so ready.”

RILL RILEY '46
ICE HOCKEY
A winger with an aptitude for bagging goals in bunches—he had two five-goal games, a four-goal game, and 10 hat tricks during his College career—Riley logged staggering numbers on the ice. The all-time top goal-scorer in school history, Riley scored 118 goals in just 71 games between 1942 and 1948. (Riley served in the military following his freshman year before returning to Dartmouth.) He owns four other records that have stood for decades: most career assists (110), most career points (228), most points in a season (78), and most assists in a season (41). Riley was one of a trio of brothers who starred for Dartmouth in the 1940s. Bill and older brother Jack ’44 played together on the 1946-47 team. Bill played with younger sibling Joe ’49 on the 1947-48 and 1948-49 teams—both of which came up short in the NCAA championships. All three brothers are in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame.

LAUREN HOLLERAN '95
LACROSSE
Her friends and teammates called Holleran “The Bear.” The Dartmouth called her “perhaps the best women’s lacrosse player ever to grace the Hanover Plain.” No surprise: Holleran holds the College’s all-time record for goals in a single game (10), which she scored against Holy Cross in 1993. Named All-Time All-Ivy League three times, the 5-foot-4 attacker was also an All-American four years in a row. In 1995—when the lacrosse team clinched the Ivy League championship but fell to Princeton in the NCAA semis—Holleran won the Class of 1976 Award and Ivy League Women’s Player of the Year honors. The psychology major is second all-time in goals (199) and career points scored (243), and she’s third in assists (50).

RUDY LARUSSO ’59, TU’60
BASKETBALL

RUDY LARUSSO

Big and fast, 6-foot-7 LaRusso is regarded as “one of the five best players in Ivy League history,” according to Ivy Hoops Online. Nicknamed “Roughhouse Rudy” and known for his rebounding, tight defense, and overall toughness, the forward and center was a five-time All Star in the NBA who reached the finals with the Los Angeles Lakers four times. As Dartmouth’s starting center, the economics major helped capture three Ivy championships and holds records for total rebounds (1,239) and rebounds per game (15.4). A two-time All-American and All-Ivy Leaguer, LaRusso once grabbed 32 rebounds in a game against Columbia to tie an Ivy record. The Minneapolis Lakers drafted him in the second round in 1959, the season before they moved west to Los Angeles. He became the second Lakers rookie to snag at least 20 rebounds in a single game. After eight years with the Lakers, LaRusso played two seasons for the San Francisco Warriors, where he set his NBA career-best average of 21.8 points per game and careerbest free-throw average of .794 percent.

CHERIE PIPER ’06
ICE HOCKEY
Piper won three consecutive Olympic gold medals playing forward for Team Canada, her final one coming at the 2010 games in Vancouver, where the women took the gold on their home ice. Known for grittiness and a knack for managing the puck in heavy traffic, Piper scored 40 goals and 78 assists in her five years with the national team. Despite missing a dozen games as a sophomore while playing for Canada, she racked up 36 points that year, and the following year led the Big Green with 60. As a senior, the sociology major tore her ACL in a December game against Providence. “It was a such a loud pop, you felt like everyone in the arena heard it,” she says. After missing 11 games Piper played out the season wearing a brace and finished second on the team in assists. “Had it been in my freshman year I would have opted for surgery right away,” she says, “but obviously you’ve been there for four years, the team and the program mean a lot to you, so I just wanted to finish out the year.”

CHIHARU “CHICK” IGAYA ’57
ALPINE SKIING
Japan’s only alpine skier to win an Olympic medal, Igaya took the silver in the slalom at the 1956 Winter Games in Cortina, Italy. Three years earlier, during his Dartmouth admissions interview with President John Sloan Dickey ’29, Igaya politely replied “Yes, sir” when asked if he was familiar with the sport. Dickey had no idea the pro skier had represented his home country in the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway—or what lay ahead. In 1954 Igaya won the U.S. national slalom championship in Aspen, Colorado. During the next three years, in addition to his Olympic silver, he won six individual NCAA championship titles—still more than any collegiate skier. He won four more National Ski Association championship races between 1955 and 1960. In 1957, the geography major received the Dartmouth Cup, which The Dartmouth annually awarded “to the senior athlete who on and off the field reflects the greatest credit to the College.” Igaya made his third Olympics appearance in 1960, and in 1971 the U.S. Ski Association inducted him into its Hall of Fame.

BEN TRUE ’08
TRACK & FIELD, CROSS COUNTRY, NORDIC SKIING
True competed in three sports—cross country, Nordic skiing, and track—for four years and earned All-American honors in each. He helped the ski team to two NCAA championships, won the Ivy League men’s cross-country championship three times, and in 2007 became the first Dartmouth athlete to run a mile in under 4 minutes. The art history major also set the school record in the men’s 1,500-meter run (3:40.17). He turned pro in 2009 and turned in victories at the 2011 and 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships as well as the U.S. Track and Field 5K and 10K Road Running Championships in 2011. In 2016 True became the first American to win the Beach to Beacon 10K road race. In 2015 Outside asked if he might be “America’s Next Running Hero,” and The New York Times published an extensive feature on him prior to his 2021 New York City Marathon debut. True finished seventh (2:12:53)—prompting speculation that he still hasn’t reached his full potential.

COURTNEY BANGHART '00
BASKETBALL
The prolific long-range shooter amassed 273 three-pointers as a starting point guard, carrying her team to two Ivy League championships. She is the alltime leading three-point shooter in the Ivy League, along with Jeannie Cullen ’06, who tied her record in 2006. In 1999, Banghart earned the Ed Seitz Award as the nation’s top three-point specialist, after a season in which she nailed 97. The neuroscience major earned the Class of 1976 Award in 2000 and was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006. Not bad for someone Dartmouth originally recruited to play soccer. Head coach of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Tar Heels since 2019, Banghart previously led Princeton’s Tigers to their first NCAA tournament in 2007 and swept the Ivy League with a 14-0 record in 2010. During the next decade, Princeton won seven Ivy League championships and made it to eight NCAA tournaments. In 2015 Banghart won the Naismith College Coach of the Year Award after notching a 30-0 regular season record, the longest winning streak in all of Division I basketball.

MYLES LANE '28
ICE HOCKEY, FOOTBALL
This triple threat lettered in hockey, football, and baseball, and he went on to an exceptional professional career in hockey. He was the first American collegiate athlete to play in the NHL. In football, Lane played halfback on Dartmouth’s 1925 national championship team. He led Dartmouth in scoring for three years and led the nation in 1927. His career 48 touchdowns and total points (307) still stand as the school’s alltime records. On the ice, he was a prolific defenseman who captained Dartmouth’s 1927-28 squad. Lane, who signed with the New York Rangers after graduation and later played for the Boston Bruins, saw his name etched into the Stanley Cup after they won the NHL championship in 1929. He later coached football at Boston University and Harvard. Inducted into both the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame, Lane went on to a career in law. As U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, he prosecuted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. He later worked as an associate justice with the appellate division of the New York Supreme Court.

SANDY BRYAN WEATHERALL ’83
LACROSSE
“Sandy is one of the most exciting lacrosse players,” one of Weatherall’s coaches told DAM in 1982. “She is one of the top 12 lacrosse players in the U.S.” As the youngest-ever player on the roster, Weatherall had just helped the U.S. national team win the World Cup. A two-time All-American and team co-captain at Dartmouth, the history major earned the Class of 1976 Award in 1983. She notched 127 goals and 168 points during her College career, which places her in the all-time top 10 in both categories for women’s lacrosse. Weatherall competed in two more World Cups, including another championship win in 1989. She is credited with introducing the sport to the Czech Republic, where she conducted clinics and mentored athletes for several years. Weatherall was inducted into the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2006.

MUSTAFA ABUUR-RAHIM ’04, TH’06
TRACK & FIELD
A four-time All-American, Abdur-Rahim is Dartmouth’s all-time best decathlete. He set school records in the 100-meter and 55-meter hurdles, as well as the 60-meter dash, and he ranks among Dartmouth’s top five in nine individual events and two relays. In 2004 he broke an Ivy League decathlon record that had stood for 19 years. The engineering major competed in two Olympic trials, finishing sixth overall in 2004—highest that year for any collegiate decathlete. Accolades piled up for “Moose,” including Ivy League Player of the Year in 2003 and 2004, the Alfred E. Watson Trophy for the most outstanding male athlete in 2003, and the Kenneth Archibald Prize in 2004. In 2007, he placed first with 7,760 points in the Thorpe Cup decathlon, an annual team match that pits the United States against Germany. The following year he finished third at the same event with 8,175 points—performing in scorching temperatures that topped out at 114 degrees.

KATIE MCEACHERN '16
SOFTBALL
McEachern knocked it out of the park. Dubbed “the Big Bat in the Dartmouth lineup” by The Dartmouth, she was Ivy League Rookie of the Year as a freshman and Ivy League Player of the Year her junior and senior years. In the shortstop’s final season, she batted .442 with 53 hits, 33 RBIs, 16 multi-hit games, and a 15-game hitting streak, and she led the team in slugging (.833), on-base percentage (.547), runs scored (38), and home runs (12). McEachern earned NFCA Northeast All-Region first-team honors in 2016 from the National Fastpitch Coaches Association and was a second-team selection a year earlier. The anthropology major also earned the Kenneth Archibald Prize in recognition of her all-around athletic achievement and high standing in scholarship. After three seasons as an assistant softball coach at Fordham University, in 2021 McEachern joined her former Dartmouth coach, Shannon Doepking, on the softball coaching staff at Syracuse.

BOB MACLEOD '39
FOOTBALL, BASKETBALL
Fighter pilot, football star, and publishing executive, MacLeod was the ultimate teammate. On the gridiron, the seemingly indestructible MacLeod didn’t miss a snap in three seasons because of injury. He was “the greatest competitive athlete I’ve ever coached,” declared Dartmouth coach Earl “Red” Blaik—who later coached an Army team that went unbeaten for three years. Adversaries agreed. In addition to making 14 different All-America teams, MacLeod was named to the All-Opponent team of every foe Dartmouth faced in 1937 and 1938, when the rampaging halfback averaged nearly 6 yards a carry. MacLeod played one season for the Chicago Bears under the formidable George Halas and scored four touchdowns before joining the Marines to fight in the Pacific theater during World War II. After the war MacLeod worked with the Hearst Corp., where he directed advertising for more than a dozen popular magazines. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1977.

CHA’MIA ROTHWELL '20
TRACK & FIELD
A sprinter from Durham, North Carolina, Rothwell holds six Dartmouth records in women’s track and field. The psychology major also earned the Class of 1976 Award and the Kenneth Archibald Prize. Rothwell won nine Ivy League Heptagonal titles, scorching the 60-meter hurdles track to win the event every year she competed. Rothwell says her most memorable win at the Heps was the 60-meter hurdles as a sophomore. “I had set the record as a freshman but felt the need not just to repeat but better my record that year,” Rothwell says. And she did. “The atmosphere was amazing, and winning on our home turf at Dartmouth, I couldn’t have asked for a better outcome.” For a sprinter, pressure is a given. What matters for Rothwell—the College’s third-fastest all-time runner in the women’s 100-meter dash—is how you use it. “The big thing for me is repetition in practice, so I can let my body do what it’s going to do naturally. Then I try to feed off the environment and use it to my advantage.”

KYLE HENDRICKS ’12
Baseball
“The Professor” was an AllAmerican his freshman year. The Texas Rangers selected him in the eighth round of the 2011 MLB draft, and he made his major league debut in 2014 with the Chicago Cubs. Two years later he helped the club win its first World Series in 108 years in a sevengame tilt against the Cleveland Indians.

GRETCHEN (ULION) SILVERMAN ’94
Ice Hockey
An Olympic gold medalist and Dartmouth’s all-time leading scorer with 189 goals, Silverman was a two-time Ivy League Player of the Year and her team’s captain as a senior. She also still holds the school record for most goals in a game (eight) and in a season (49). In the 1998 Winter Olympics Silverman scored the first-ever goal in an Olympic women’s ice hockey gold medal game and was featured on a Wheaties box that year.

EARL THOMSON, Class of 1920
Track & Field
The Canadian won Olympic gold competing in the 110-meter hurdles at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, where he also qualified for long jump. He won the NCAA, AAU, and IC4A championship titles in 120-yard hurdles. Thomson was the first athlete to break 15 seconds in the high hurdles, setting a world record of 14.8 seconds in 1916.

SARAH DEVENS ’96
Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Lacrosse
Nicknamed “The Devil,” Devens captained all three varsity teams and led the lacrosse and ice hockey squads to Ivy League titles. She also was named All-American in lacrosse, twice first-team All-Ivy League in field hockey, second-team All-Ivy in ice hockey, and ECAC Rookie of the Year and Ivy League Rookie of the Year in ice hockey.

TED MURPHY ’94
Rowing
The two-time Olympian finished fifth at the 1996 Games in Atlanta for men’s coxed eight and then won silver for men’s pair at the 2000 Sydney, Australia, Olympics. He became an international champion, winning gold at the 1999 Pan American Games in the eight. A U.S. Rowing Hall of Famer, Murphy was also on Dartmouth’s national championship team in 1992 and an All-American in 1994. He competed in four World Rowing Championships.

KATHARINE OGDEN ’21
Nordic Skiing
As Ogden recalls, she started skiing and walking at almost the same time. The Nordic skiing standout demolished the field in her first 5K classic as a freshman at the 2018 NCAA Skiing Championships—winning by almost 47 seconds—and taking the 15K freestyle handily as well. Ogden was the first Big Green skier in 56 years to win two NCAA titles in the same year.

JACK SHEA ’34
Speed Skating

JACK SHEA

In 1932 Shea became the first American to win multiple gold medals at a single Winter Olympics, skating to victory in both the 500-meter and 1,500meter races in his hometown of Lake Placid, New York. The U.S. Speedskating Hall of Famer won the U.S. national overall title and the North American overall speed skating championship in the 1930s.

ANNIE KAKELA ’92
Rowing
Olympic rower Kakela, a freshman walk-on, was named in 1992 to the Collegiate Academic AllAmerican first team. From 1992 to 1996 she competed on the U.S. national team, which earned silver medals at the 1993 and 1994 world championships and gold in 1995. The team finished fourth overall in the women’s eight at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

MIKE REMLINGER ’88
Baseball
As a sophomore, the left-handed pitcher led the nation with a 1.59 ERA. The San Francisco Giants chose him in the first round of the 1987 amateur draft, which led to his 14-year career in Major League Baseball, playing with the Giants, the New York Mets, the Cincinnati Reds, the Atlanta Braves, the Chicago Cubs, and the Boston Red Sox. The All-American still holds Dartmouth’s records for career wins (22), career complete games (22), and strikeouts in a career (337) and season (132).

CHARLOTTE “CARLIE” GEER ’80
Rowing
Geer earned a silver medal in 1984 at the Los Angeles Olympics. She had qualified for the 1980 Moscow Olympics—with her sister, Judy Geer 75, Th’83, they were to be the first sisters to row together in a double scull for Team USA. They did not compete because of the U.S. boycott. As a member of the U.S. national team, Geer competed at three world championships.

MADISON HUGHES ’15
Rugby

MADISON HUGHES

A standout for Dartmouth’s rugby sevens, Hughes was on the alltournament team for the winning squad at the 2012 Collegiate Rugby Championship. Hughes is also the top all-time scorer for the U.S. men’s rugby sevens and captained the team at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens, and the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo.

KATIE WEATHERSTON ’06
Ice Hockey
A forward for Team Canada, Weatherston scored the gamewinning goal in the 2006 Winter Olympics semifinal win over Finland en route to taking the gold medal. At Dartmouth she was named to the All-Ivy and ECAC rookie teams. Weatherston is a member of the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame.

JIM BEATTIE ’76
Baseball
After earning All New England honors in 1974, Beattie went on to a nine-year major league career with the New York Yankees and Seattle Mariners, from 1978 to 1986. Pitching for the Yankees, Beattie won Game 1 of the 1978 American League Championship series against the Kansas City Royals and earned a complete game victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 5 of the World Series—the first Ivy Leaguer to pitch a completegame win in the Fall Classic. Beattie also holds the Dartmouth record for career shutouts (five).

TAYLOR NG ’17
Tennis

TAYLOR NG

Ng holds the school record for both singles and doubles matches won in women’s tennis. The 2016-17 winner of the Kenneth Archibald Prize for the best allaround athlete, Ng is now climbing the ranks of the World Tennis Association and made it to the quarterfinals of the International Tennis Foundation tournament in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in June.

BEN LOVEJOY ’06
Ice Hockey
The 6-foot-2 defenseman turned down a contract offer from the Montreal Canadiens to stay in school but went on to play for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Anaheim Ducks, New Jersey Devils, and Dallas Stars. In 2016 he and his Penguins teammates hoisted the Stanley Cup as NHL champions.

BRAD AUSMUS ’91
Baseball
The three-time Gold Glove winner played for the San Diego Padres, Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros, and Los Angeles Dodgers. While he was not selected until the 48th round of the 1987 draft, he played in the majors longer than any of the 1,150 players drafted ahead of him. When he wrapped up his 18-year playing career in 2010, the right-handed catcher ranked third in major league history with 12,839 putouts and seventh in games caught (1,938).

Written by Svati Kirsten Narula ’13, Chris Quirk, Julia Robifaille ’23, Nancy Schoeffler, and Sue Shock. An additional 50 athletes who round out our “Greatest 100" are listed on our website.