Quite the contrary. In early March, the Dartmouth Ski Team won the 2007 NCAA Men's and Women's Skiing Championships, the first NCAA team title for Dartmouth in any sport since 1976. Also this past winter, women's hockey advanced to the NCAA tournament, and men's hockey again went to the ECACHL tournament. Women's basketball continued its success with a first-ever trip to the postseason Women's National Invitational Tournament.
To answer the question a little further, we'll let the numbers from the 2005-06 season speak for themselves. Specifically:
- Three Ivy League titles, in women's basketball, men's cross country and men's soccer
- The ECACHL men's hockey title
- Eleven national championship appearances, including a national title game appearance by women's lacrosse
- Fourteen of 34 sports nationally ranked
- Skier Karl Johnson '06 won the NCAA men's slalom championship - the fifth consecutive year a Dartmouth man has won the slalom title
- Hockey player Mike Ouellette '06 was named the Ivy League Player of the Year
- Bob Gaudet '81 was named ECACHL Coach of the Year
- Eleven first-team All America selections
- Thirty-two first-team All Ivy selections
- Ten District 1 Academic All America selections
In addition, skier Alison Crocker '06 won a Rhodes Scholarship and is now studying astrophysics at Oxford, and runner Melanie Schorr '06 won an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.
For a full listing of results and highlights from Dartmouth’s 2005-06 season, visit the Dartmouth Athletics web site.
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