Valedictorian Slash Wide Receiver

Oklahoma's Shawnee Sun has a story about Garrett Babb, a wide receiver and High School Heisman nominee from Shawnee, Okla., who is expected to play football at Dartmouth. The story says of the incoming freshman:

Valedictorian Garrett Babb, son of Stephen and Robin Babb, has a GPA of 4.21. Among Babb's numerous accomplishments, he was the student council president, a member of the National Honor Society, lettered in football, basketball, baseball and academics. He is a 2008 Oklahoma Academic Scholar.

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Babb received $222,536 in scholarships from various universities, including $45,864 from Dartmouth College, which he will attend in the fall, majoring in pre-medicine and biomedical engineering. Babbs plans to pursue a career in anesthesiology.

To see a video clip of Babb in action on the football field, click here.

The Daily Dartmouth has a year-end interview with Athletic Director Josie Harper after a year in which the Big Green could claim just one shared Ivy League title. The lede of the story:

Athletic director Josie Harper said this week that Dartmouth’s athletic teams are well positioned to have some of their most successful seasons ever in the 2008-2009 academic year.

The Daily Dartmouth follows up on former cross country runner Jarrod Shoemaker not only making the U.S. Olympic team in the triathlon, but also finding himself on a Wheaties box. Shoemaker tells the school newspaper:

“It’s still really funny. Honestly, when I got the first phone call about it, I thought it was going to be a joke. It’s something that you never think is actually going to happen. Until I saw it done and finished, and even then, I still couldn’t believe it. It’s very cool and very weird to see yourself on the Wheaties box.”

Shoemaker, by the way, comes from Sudbury, Mass., hometown of the mother of those two Hanover student-athletes ;-)

Next in a series:
A list of Dartmouth men's LACROSSE RECRUITS showing how the game is spreading across the country:

• Fergus Campbell, G, New Canaan (New Canaan, Conn.)
• John DeChiaro, A/M, Comsewogue (Port Jefferson Station, N.Y.)
• Colin Delaney, M, Darien (Darien, Conn.)
• Alex Del Balso, M, Cold Spring Harbor (Huntington, N.Y.)
• Kip Dooley, A, Blake School (Minneapolis)
• Michael Gordon, D, Regis Jesuit (Denver)
• Thomas Mattimore, M, St. Ignatius Prep (Tiburon, Calif.)
• Timothy Root, A, St. John's School (Houston)
• Ben Rossman, MF, Haverford School (Bala Cynwyd, Pa.)