Copley a Superhero

Missed this last fall but former Dartmouth football captain Preston Copley '07 (Dartmouth bio) was one of a group of Dartmouth alums in a play entitled Neptune put on in the New York City area by the Superhero Clubhouse, "a society of theatre artists conjured for creation of myth, cultivation of play and collective conversations engaged with the natural world."

Find Copley's SuperHeroClubhouse trading card here. The online program for Neptune can be found here. Copley, who won a storytelling contest as a high schooler, appeared in the film 8 Ivy League Football and America.

It looks as if former quarterback Ed Lucas '04 will start the year with Triple-A Omaha this season. Lucas, who gave up football to concentrate on baseball while at Dartmouth, was chosen by the Royals in the eighth round of the 2004 draft after being selected the Ivy League Player of the Year. Find his Royals bio here.

Former Dartmouth basketball player Eugene Heyward '81 and wife Laura '79 got some face time yesterday on ESPN when their 20-year-old son Jason slammed a three-run homer in his first major league at bat with the hometown Atlanta Braves. Heyward also had an RBI single. Check out the Atlanta Journal Constitution blog.

Dartmouth football will face two teams with new coaches next fall. For a glimpse at how one of them has looked in the early days of spring practice, click on this Princeton link.

If the Boston Globe has it right, Cornell may join Dartmouth as early as today in having to look for a new men's basketball coach. From the Globe:

Boston College should know its men’s basketball coach as soon as today, with Cornell coach Steve Donahue the likely front-runner. According to sources familiar with the situation, Donahue has started looking for assistants.

Speaking of basketball coaches, longtime Dartmouth assistant Sharon Dawley appears set to move on from Vermont and take over the reins at the University of Massachusetts. The Burlington Free Press has a story about Dawley, who spent 10 years on the staff at Dartmouth before compiling a 128-86 record in seven years at UVM. This year she guided the Catamounts to their first NCAA Tournament victory, a 64-55 win over Wisconsin. UVM was 27-7 this season.

And finally, a couple of thoughts as the college selection process begins to wind down for that certain Hanover High School senior. First, it is kind of funny that high school kids work so hard to sell themselves to colleges in the fall and once the acceptances go out everything flip-flops and it is the colleges that get down to the business of trying to sell themselves to accepted students. Rare is the day that our PO Box doesn't have a letter or invitation from one of the schools that has sent out an acceptance.

Also, I would have thought being recruited by college coaches would make choosing a school easier. But I've come to like most of the coaches who have recruited that certain runner and was reminded about just how hard it is going to be to say no to all but one of them when she got a call last night from a coach asking which way she is leaning. Tough.