Names in the News

Dartmouth-bound Cam Colwell of Xaverian High School in Massachusetts is one of two players featured in a Medfield Press story about the Shrine Football Classic held at Gillette Stadium. Colwell is a 6-foot-4, 275-pound offensive lineman. He helped the South All-Stars to a 13-6 victory and told the paper:

“It was pretty great to meet a lot of the kids I played against and read about. Playing at Gillette is always a fun time it almost feels like you’re playing with the professionals.”

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A couple of pretty fair high school football players will be in the Dartmouth Class of 2014, although neither is slated to play football.

From New Jersey is Princeton High quarterback Mike Olentine, who plans to play laacrosse at Dartmouth, but only after lining up at QB one last time in New Jersey's Sunshine Classic all-star game. Find a story in the Town Topics. Olentine threw for 1,270 yards and seven touchdowns last year to help the Little Tigers go 7-3.

From Rollings Hills Prep out in California comes running back CJ Hughes, who captained his school's football and track teams, was named to the All-CIF team and was chosen for the Eight-Man All-Star game. There's a story in the Palos Verdes Peninsula News and video of him here.

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Jake Novak rates returning wide receivers in his Roar Lions Roar blog and lists them this way:

1. Chris Lorditch, Harvard
2. Trey Peacock, Princeton
3. Michael Reilly, Dartmouth

Jakes gives honorable-mention status to Timmy McManus. It's a measure of Dartmouth's returning depth at wide receiver that two others are noted before Tanner Scott, the one who made the honorable-mention All-Ivy team last fall. And don't forget Niles Murphy, who many would say has the potential to be the most dangerous deep threat in the Ivy League. He missed his entire junior season but is expected to return as a fifth-year senior.

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Villanova football and baseball standout Matt Szczur signed with the Chicago Cubs but will return to the defending national champion Wildcats in the fall. Find a story here. Good thing he's not an Ivy Leaguer because the Ancient Eight rules (read: Antediluvian Eight rules) wouldn't allow him to be pro in one sport and play in another.

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With the completion of the College World Series the Learfield Directors' Cup standings are in. It's easy to debate the way the standings are structured, but they are the best we have at ranking college athletic programs.

Big surprise, Stanford won the overall title for the 16th year in a row and Princeton was the top Ivy League program for the 16th time in 17 years. (Nor is it a surprise that Williams won the DIII rankings for the 12th year in a row.)

Here's how the Ivy League schools ranked:

32. Princeton
52. Cornell
64. Harvard
76. Yale
81. Penn
91. Brown
128. Dartmouth
151. Columbia

A total of 278 schools were ranked. For an explanation of the ranking system, click here.

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Today's Daily Dartmouth has a story about Big Green golf coach Rich Parker's appearance last week in the Champions Tour event and his earning a spot in the U.S. Senior Open later this month.

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And finally, That Certain Hanover High Grad called last night from the overnight camp where she is spending the summer as a counselor and said she was mulling over her choice of a DOC trip. She thinks she is going to put in for the most arduous of the hiking trips. Given that she hiked to the bottom of Grand Canyon with a smile on her face two years in a row that's probably not a huge surprise. Gotta admit though, listening to her talk about the subject was the answer to the question: Is this real life?