... his athletic prowess is well known to St. Mark’s High School football fans and those who followed his All-Ivy League college football career at Dartmouth College.The original story appeared in The Hill.
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From the BGA blog last spring:Dartmouth corner Chase Womack '13 is an accomplished athlete but he may not be the most accomplished performer in his own family.Womack's younger sister Joy is a ballerina who studies in Moscow. She will be dancing the lead solo role for Prokovief's Classical Symphony with the Bolshoi Ballet Academy March 25, 26 and 27 as part of the Protégés III program at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Joy's decision to move alone to Moscow at age 15 was included in a New York Times story last spring. Find her website here.
Although he started just four games and didn't get on the field in two others, Chase Womack tied for first in the Ivy League with .50 interceptions per game last fall (four in eight games). He finished with 27 tackles and five passes defended.
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After wide receiver Tanner Scott lost his petition for a fifth year of eligibility the senior made lemonade of lemons. He's currently in Barbados as a member of the Dartmouth rugby team and will begin work with Deutsche Bank after graduation.*
Did you read about about Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel asking for his suspension to be increased from two games to five? Said Tressel:“Like my players, I am very sorry for the mistakes I made. I request of the university that my sanctions now include five games so that the players and I can handle this adversity together.”Green Alert Take: I'm reminded of the high-ranking pol of the early 1980's who reported to the US Penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa., unannounced one day before he was scheduled to be jailed in hopes that he would end up in the facility's posh minimum security prison camp. It was a nice try, but the feds had him pencilled in elsewhere.
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If you can rip yourself away from the NCAA Basketball Tournament, tune in to CBS Sports Television at 7 tonight to catch the Dartmouth men's ice hockey team's ECAC semifinal against Cornell at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. It's a strange venue for the event, as noted in an Atlantic City Press story that shows just how much they know about the Ivy League's northernmost school right in the lede (italics added):Any time the Dartmouth University ice hockey players go to their home ice, the Thompson Arena, they see larger-than-life photos of Big Green players who have made it to the NHL.The paper even felt the need to offer this primer about college hockey for the locals:
Some of the main differences between college hockey and the NHL are that icing is called immediately after the puck crosses the goal line, and players are required to wear a cage or shield. There usually aren't fights either, but there are definitely hard hits.
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Speaking of the NCAA Tournament, it was a heartbreaker for Princeton and coach Sydney Johnson yesterday as a Kentucky basket with two seconds remaining sent the Tigers home. (link) Popular former Penn coach Fran Dunphy got the NCAA monkey off his back in even more dramatic style as his Temple Owls eliminated Penn State with one second remaining. (link).Green Alert Take: Games like Princeton-Kentucky make the first (sic) round of the NCAA Tournament one of the best sports days of the year. I covered Vermont's win over Syracuse a few years ago and there was nothing like it. That said, unless I have a personal rooting interest (like Penn State) a game pitting teams from "power conferences" against each other in the opening three rounds does nothing for me. Once the low seeds are eliminated I won't need the remote again until the "Elite Eight" games see teams square off for the Final Four.
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And finally, That Certain Hanover High Junior is having his wisdom teeth pulled this morning. It's a small thing, but at least he gets to watch all of the day's games while his classmates are studying chemistry and calculus ;-)
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Lucas Watch:Former Dartmouth baseball standout and onetime jayvee quarterback Ed Lucas '04 is trying to make the Atlanta Braves roster as a utility man. Though 15 games, he is 9-for-26, a .346 clip. He has struck out just two times and driven in five runs. His lone extra-base hit is a triple.
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