Taking part in the NFL's Women's Careers in Football Forum in Indianapolis in advance of the Combine were head coach Buddy Teevens along with offensive quality control assistant Callie Brownson (right) and junior Tessa Grossman, an outfielder/pitcher on the Dartmouth softball team and a strength and conditioning intern.
Although the Dartmouth contingent didn't get a mention in the story above (LINK), Brownson is cited in a Charlotte Observer story (LINK) as well as in a Portland Press Herald story (LINK) about a college softball player in Maine who headed out for the forum.
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Dartmouth grad Rahn Fleming ’81, an undersized linebacker from St. Francis High School in Sunnyvale, Calif., is the new head football coach at Vermont's Champlain Valley Union High School. Find a story HERE.
Fleming is in his 13th year at the school, serving as strength and conditioning coach and heading up the junior varsity program. He previously served as Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Educator/Counselor at Dartmouth from 1987-91, working with athletes, freshmen, peer-counselors, fraternities and sororities among others.
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ESPN has a story about former Penn linebacker and current New York Jet Brandon Copeland serving as "co-professor" of a course at Penn titled, Inequity and Empowerment, Urban Financial Literacy.
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The Ivy League has announced the venues for its four-team men's and women's basketball tournaments through 2025 and the 2024 venue is Dartmouth's ±2,000-seat Leede Arena. Next year it will be at Harvard's 2,100- 1,635-seat Lavietes Pavilion. (LINK)
All credit to the Ivy League for finally starting a tournament in 2017 but as I've written here before I'm not a big fan of the four-team format, I'm less of a fan of having it at a "neutral court" (which isn't neutral at all if the host school happens to make the field) and I believe combining the men's and women's events is a Division III idea that even Division III thinks better of.
I've written this before but if you happen to be new to this electronic neighborhood, here's what I would have liked to see:
A six-team tournament that rewards and protects the teams that finish 1-2 with byes and home court, while at the same time giving teams 7-8 hope they can continue on if they rally at the season's end. With that format, the Dartmouth men's team would still be in the fight. The setup:
FIRST ROUND
• Teams 1 and 2 get byes
• Team 6 plays at Team 3 (rewarding the latter for a better record with a home game)
• Team 5 plays at Team 4 (rewarding the latter for a better record with a home game)
SECOND ROUND
• Lowest remaining team plays at Team 1 (which is rewarded with a bye and now a home game against the lowest seed still alive)
• Other remaining team plays at Team 2 (which is rewarded with a bye and now a home game)
CHAMPIONSHIP
• on home court of highest remaining team (which would guarantee a good crowd for TV)
This format protects the sanctity of what some used to call the "14-game tournament" and if the regular season champion couldn't advance with all of the protection earned by winning the regular season it didn't deserve to advance.
