Friday, March 29, 2024

Promotion Time

From a Dartmouth football release (LINK):

Sammy McCorkle announced two staff promotions on Thursday. Wendy Laurent is now associate head coach, along with his role as tight ends coach, while Joe Castellitto is taking on the role of special teams coordinator, to go along with his role as nickels coach.

"Wendy and Joe have proven to be great additions to our staff," said McCorkle. "These promotions are well deserved and I'm excited about their growing impact in our program."

Dartmouth football social media posted these photos announcing the promotions:



Laurent is a former offensive lineman at Penn State who spent two years as a grad assistant with the Nittany Lions. This will be his third season with the Big Green. Castellitto, who came to Dartmouth a year ago, spent three seasons on staff at UConn, first as a graduate assistant and then in quality control and analyst roles.

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Wendy Laurent, Joe Castellitto and the rest of the staff and players were hard at work Friday with "mat drills" winding down in anticipation of Tuesday's start of spring practice:

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When Dartmouth President Sian Beilock teased on social media that this year's commencement speaker was "a real ace," I couldn't help but think about the late Sports Information Director Kathy Slattery who every year would nominate someone who had more than a few aces in his career: Arnold Palmer.

Wrong sport.

Arnie never got the call, but it fair to say this year's speaker knows a thing or two about aces, for sure:

Green Alert Take: Great choice and to be completely transparent, Dartmouth had a pretty good "in" with Federer. His longtime agent is Tony Godsick '93, a former Dartmouth football player and father of Big Green senior lacrosse player Isabella Godsick. Federer also happens to know Isabella's mother, two-time Olympic gold medal tennis pro Mary Joe Fernandez.

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EXTRA POINT
Here's all that is left this morning of the 17 inches of snow we got less than a week ago:

That's the beauty of a big snowfall this time of year. It doesn't linger the way it usually does when it falls in early winter.

Back in 2019 I wrote in this space about finding a newspaper in a plastic bag sticking out of the last melting snow on May 1. The date on that paper was Nov. 16, meaning the snow had been around a whopping 167 days.

This stuff is almost gone in six.

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