A recent episode of the Compete Every Day podcast featuring Spencer Brown, Dartmouth's director of strength and conditioning, was introduced this way:
For Dartmouth Coach Spencer Brown, it comes down to owning your results. As both player and coach, you have the choice to put in whatever effort you can to build a strong framework for success. It doesn’t matter how tired you are, or if you’re facing a challenge in your life, so long as when you’re at practice or in a game, you try your best. In this week’s episode, Brown talks about leadership qualities, personal empowerment, and making competition fun, both in sports and in everyday life.
Being a coach is about more than just the short time you see your players every day, he says. It’s about instilling values in them and empowering them to make good choices on their own time from morning until night. If they can learn positive habits and decision-making skills in sports, they can carry those forward into their future relationships and pursuits. No detail is too small to ignore, he says. From warm-up to the end of practice, and even the moments they spend at home, every minute counts.
To listen to the podcast, CLICK HERE.
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Might have missed this earlier but former Dartmouth running back Caylin Parker Tweeted that he has received a graduate transfer "offer" from Albany of the Colonial Athletic Association. The 5-foot-11, 215-pound back from Belle Chasse, La., ran for 291 yards and three touchdowns as a junior and 299 yards and four TDs as a senior, when he also caught 10 balls for 113 yards and two touchdowns. (LINK)
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Victor Smith was listed as a linebacker in the 1986 Dartmouth football press guide but the biggest athletic splash in his family is being made by his daughter, Bianca '12, per this SI.com headline: Red Sox to Hire Bianca Smith, First Black Woman to Coach Pro Baseball. (LINK)
The Boston Globe has a story about Smith HERE. From that story:
“She was a great candidate coming in,” said Red Sox vice president of player development Ben Crockett, who helped spearhead the hire. “She’s had some really interesting experiences and has been passionate about growing her skill set and development herself.”
Robert Lewis Jr., founder of The Base, a Boston-based program with four national locations that provides inner-city youths with both athletic and educational instruction, certainly knows hiring Smith is a milestone.
“I think it’s huge,” Lewis said. “I’m not going to lie to you, a Black woman, I mean, there’s all this symbolism that goes along with it. We all know, the Red Sox being the last team to sign an African-American. The one great thing that I loved about it was, you know, having looked at her credentials, this isn’t just somebody that has experience at the college level, she’s going in competent and qualified.”
Smith walked onto the Dartmouth softball team and appeared in 17 games, primarily as a pinch runner. Find her Big Green bio HERE.
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The Akron Beacon Journal writes about Callie Brownson, the former Dartmouth quality control assistant/recruiting coordinator, coaching the Cleveland Browns' wide receivers today. (LINK)
(And no, the Browns don't have their individual initials on their masks ;-)
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EXTRA POINT
A picture posted on BGA Daily a few weeks back showed the first flower from the "Cascading Petunias" planted in our resurrected AeroGarden. For a much-needed taste of spring (at least in these quarters where we had eight inches of snow a couple of nights ago) here's how the flowers have multiplied since they were planted on Nov. 1:
