Dartmouth has posted a story under the headline, Big Green Learn, Grow and Connect at Black Student-Athlete Summit; Eight Dartmouth student-athletes traveled to the summit in late May. (LINK)
Attending from the football team were junior linebacker Micah Green, sophomore defensive end Jabari Johnson and senior running back Joey Richmond.
Green will share the presidential leadership role in the Dartmouth Black Student-Athlete Alliance this year with Bomi Ogunlari of the women's volleyball team.
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As I continue researching for BGA Premium opponent previews I worked up a list of returning members of last year's All-Ivy League teams. (Because I haven't yet been able to ferret out what fifth-year seniors are returning at two of the Ivy League schools I've not included any fifth-years for this list. Those I know about are listed below the rankings.)
For fun, an arbitrary five points were assigned to each returning member of the first team, three for the second team and one for honorable mention. Using that metric, here is how the teams stack up with regard to returning All-Ivy talent:
QB Nolan Grooms
RB Joshua Pitsenberger
OL Kiran Amegadjie
DB Wande Owens
K Jack Bosman
Second Team
TE Jackson Hawes
DL Clay Patterson
LB Hamilton Moore
Honorable Mention
RB Tre Peterson
WR Mason Tipton
WR Ryan Lindley
OL Jonathan Mendoza
DL Alvin Gulley
PRINCETON (20 points)
First Team
LB Liam Johnson
DB Michael Ruttlen
Second Team
QB Blake Stenstrom
OL Jalen Travis
LB Ozzie Nicholas
Honorable Mention
RS AJ Barber
HARVARD (15 points)
First Team
TE Tyler Neville
DL Thor Griffith
Second Team
OL Jake Rizy
Honorable Mention
OL Austin Gentile
P Sebastien Tasko
COLUMBIA (15 points)
First Team
WR Bryson Candy
Second Team
RB Joe Giorgi
DL Justin Townsend
P William Hughes
Honorable Mention
DB Seth Parker
First Team
None
Second Team
K Jackson Kennedy
RS Davon Kiser
Honorable Mention
QB Jameson Wang
TE Matt Robbert
PENN (9 points)
First Team
RS Julian Stokes
Second Team
None
Honorable Mention
QB Aidan Sayin
DL Joey Slackman
LB Jack Fairman
DB Shiloh Means
DARTMOUTH (2 points)
First Team
None
Second Team
None
Honorable Mention
OL Nicholas Schwitzgebel
TE Jace Henry
BROWN (1 point)
First Team
None
Second Team
None
Honorable Mention
DB Isaiah Reed
Confirmed returning fifth-year members of the 2022 All-Ivy League team:
Brown
Not available
Columbia
WR JJ Jenkins - First team
Cornell
CB Paul Lewis - Second team
LB Jake Stebbins - Second team
Dartmouth
S Quinten Arello - Second team
Harvard
DL Nate Leskovec - Honorable mention
Penn
DB Jaden Key - Second team
LB Jonathan Melvin - Honorable mention
DB Kendren Smith - First team
DL Micah Morris - Honorable mention
Princeton
Not Available
Yale
LB Joseph Vaughn
Editor's Note: The lists of returnees does not includes players like Dartmouth quarterback Nick Howard and linebacker Marques White, among others, who were All-Ivy selections in 2021.
Corrections and additions welcomed.
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EXTRA POINT
Mrs. BGA and I went to see the new movie Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One last night and I did something I've never done before. After getting a little lost in the new Indiana Jones movie and having gotten quite lost in previous films in the MI series, I read not just the brief synopsis of the movie, but a lengthy play-by-play explaining the flick scene by scene.
Guess what? It worked. I was actually able to follow the story without getting very lost. And this is key: Whatever spoilers were in the detailed explanation of the film did not ruin it.
What almost did ruin it, however, was something else.
This was the first time we've been to a small multiplex in downtown St. Johnsbury, Vt.. After buying our tickets we entered the first theater down the hall and were surprised and disappointed that the film was already going. We thought we were about 10 minutes early.
Knowing the plot from what I read earlier, I soon realized we had to be at least midway through the film, so we slunk out of the theater and headed back toward the ticket window to find out the deal. Before we got there, however, I looked down the hall and noticed that MI was showing in another theater. We went into that one, grabbed our seats and had to stifle a laugh midway through the flick when we re-watched the five minutes we'd also seen one theater over.
