Sunday, April 14, 2024

This And That

Dartmouth's office of "Strategic Content And Brand Management" has a look at how Big Green football practice has gone through the first half of spring HERE.

If you prefer video, here are secondary coach Aashon Larkins and quarterback coach/offensive coordinator Kevin Daft:

Editor's Note: I stopped by The Green House to watch practice yesterday and will have a story for you at some point this week. Stay tuned.

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A Valley News appreciation of the life of Priscilla Sears, a former Dartmouth professor of English, liberal studies and women's studies who died last year at age 90, begins with an anecdote featuring former Big Green football player Byron Boston '81, today the  chief executive officer of Dynex Capital. From the story:

While Boston found that many professors on the Ivy League campus could be condescending toward students from non-traditional backgrounds, Sears held all of her students to the same rigorous standards.

“She was bold enough to be very demanding.” Where other professors tended toward patronizing, “she didn’t treat me differently. She really came at me and made me look at myself. It was a complete mind-opening experience.”

Find the full story HERE. 

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While Dartmouth coach Sammy McCorkle wrapped up the first half of spring football practice Saturday morning, the highlight of the week for the McCorkle family was about 750 miles south where his oldest daughter Maddie scored a game- and career-high five goals while leading the Duke women's lacrosse team to a 14-11 win over Louisville on her senior day with the Blue Devils. McCorkle recorded a hat trick in the fourth quarter alone. Find the story HERE.

In addition to her achievements in lacrosse, McCorkle was a two-time, all-state basketball player and 1,000-point scorer at Hanover High School.

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EXTRA POINT
We leave on our month-long train trip across and around the country one week from tomorrow and it's starting to look as if I'm going to have to mow the lawn before we go. I can't tell you how glad I am that our lawn tractor has been repaired. What I can tell you is how glad That Certain Nittany Lion '16 will be that it's fixed because he'll be helping out with the lawn while we are gone. Which reminds me . . .

Last fall Mrs. BGA and I planted a bunch of daffodil bulbs and the hope is that they bloom before we leave. They are closing in on six inches in height now and it starting to look as if it will be a photo finish whether we actually see the flowers before we are "all aboard." It may fall on TCNL '16 to send along a few pictures of the daffodils before he mows them over ;-)

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