From the story (LINK):
Toth owes the discovery of what has become his life’s passion — at least in part — to Big Green football coach Buddy Teevens. Having never paddled a single stroke before coming to Hanover as a freshman in 2006, Toth received encouragement from Teevens to take advantage of the Dartmouth Outing Club’s “first-year trip” for freshmen. He joined classmates and DOC staff for a white water expedition on New Hampshire’s Androscoggin River and soon after joined the college’s Ledyard Canoe Club, to which he remains an active member.
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Missed this the first time around but Athlon Sports had a story headlined, College Football's Top 12 Coaches on the Rise for 2014 (LINK) and the main photo and headshot accompanying the story were of Ball State head coach Pete Lembo. A member of the staff that helped Dartmouth go 10-0 in 1996, Lembo has had tremendous success at each of his stops as a head coach: Lehigh, Elon and Ball State. From the story:There’s no question Lembo is one of the rising stars in the coaching ranks and could be poised for a jump to a BCS program in the next few years.
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Dartmouth's run in the Collegiate Rugby Championships ended with a 21-12 loss yesterday to UCLA. Cal won the title with a 24-21 victory over Kutztown, which Dartmouth had tied, 14-14.
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A Penn Live story about college football hall of famed Shane Conlan sheds light on how recruiting has changed in the digital age. The story (LINK) includes this about coaches searching for talent before the Internet caught fire:By and large, you had to go to games and watch in person. And once you had that knowledge? It was yours. No smartphones. No Internet. Not even faxes. Info simply did not move. Opinions were not dispersed.Because college football coaches weren't often able to see kids in person on the football field, they sometimes checked them out in another sport. Conlan's only offer came from then-Penn State assistant Tom Bradley, who based much of his decision to recruit him on what he saw on the basketball court. Bradley:
"It's not about scoring points. You can watch athleticism, you can watch demeanor, you can see expressions, their aggressiveness, their competitiveness, how they accept coaching on the sideline, how they hustle. There's a million different things you can see better at a basketball game than you can at a football game.
"People would laugh and say, 'C'mon, basketball?' But I didn't miss on many kids if they were both good basketball players and good football players."
