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2009 NCAA ChAmpioNshipmediA Notes

2009 Dartmouth Women’s creW VarsitY eight cup races: 7-3, 2-3 iVY

Date opponent Finish record4/4 atNortheastern 1stof4 3-0 w/BostonCollege,URI4/11 atBostonUniv. 2ndof3 4-1(0-1Ivy) w/Yale*4/18 atSyracuse 2ndof3 5-2(0-2Ivy) w/Radcliffe*4/25 atPenn* 2ndof3 6-3(1-3Ivy) w/Princeton*5/2 atCornell* 1stof2 7-3(2-3Ivy)5/17 EAWRCSprints GrandFinal 5thof6*IvyOpponent

Dartmouth creW QuickFactslocation:..............................................................................Hanover,N.H.Founded:..............................................................................................1769enrollment:........................................................................................4,300affiliation:...................................................................... NCAADivisionIconference:.............................................................IvyLeague/EAWRCnickname:.................................................................................. BigGreencolors:.....................................................DartmouthGreenandWhitecollege president:...........................................................JamesWrightathletic Director:...............................................................JosieHarperhead coach:.......................................WendyLevash(Princeton’98)record at Dartmouth (Yrs):................................................. 32-15(4)assistant coaches:..................................RickGherst(Vermont’97)................................................................. KateDavison(Dartmouth’07)captain:........................................................................... KateHarney’09

ncaa appearances:..........................................................................Five...........................................1997&1998(Team),1999(V8),2007(V8)Best team Finish (Yr):........................................Eighth(1997,1998)Best V8 Finish (Yr):................................................................ 8th(2007)

sports info contact:................................................................. DaraElyphone:.................................................................................603-359-0905e-mail:............................................................dara.ely@dartmouth.eduWebsite: ................................................www.DartmouthSports.com

Big green at a glance TheDartmouthwomen’screwteamismakingitsfifthNCAAappearanceand just thirdteamappearance inprogramhistory.TheBigGreenisoneoffivesquadsfromthepowerfulEasternAs-sociationofWomen’sRowingColleges(EAWRC)toappearatthisyear’s Championships. Yale, Brown, Princeton and Racliffe (Har-vard)willalljoinDartmouthattheChampionships. Last time it raced, Dartmouth’s Varsity Eight took fifth in acloseGrandFinalattheEasternSprints,behindtheEAWRC’sotherqualifiers.BoththeSecondVarsityEightandVarsityFourtookfifthintheirrespectiveGrandFinals,pushingtheteamintotheNCAAChampionships. Thismarksthefirsttimesince1998(alsoqualifyingin1997)thatDartmouthhassentitsentireteamtotheNCAAChampion-ship,finishingeighthinthepriorshowings.Undertheoldformatthatawardedat-largebids toVarsityEightboats, theBigGreensentaboatin1999andbrokeaseven-yeardroughtwithaVarsityEightbidin2007. While the 1999 squad took 11th of 16, the 2007 Big Greencrewwasjust.42secondsawayfromwinningthePetiteFinal,stillfinishinganimpressiveeighthoverallof16. Since1997,eightoftheNCAAWomen’sRowingTeamCham-pionships have been won by EAWRC crews, with Brown takinghomeseven,including2008,2007andashareofthetitlein2006.AnEAWRCschoolhasfinishedsecond infiveof thecontestsaswell,includingtwoofthelastfour.

In just her fourth season as thehead coach of Dartmouth women’screw,WendyLevashhasalreadyledtheBigGreentotwoNCAAChampi-onshipappearances,withtheVarsityEight making the field in 2007 andthe entire team qualifying this year

forthefirsttimesince1998. Sincearrivingin2005,LevashhasguidedtheDartmouthVarsitytotwoGrandFinalsatEasternSprints, includingafifth-placefinishthisspring.The2007squadtookfifthatsprintsandearnedoneoffourat-largebidsawardedtostandoutVarsityEightboats.Thatboatsurpassedexpectationsbytakingsecondbyjust0.42secondsinthePetiteFinalforaneighthplaceoverallfinishoutof16boats. At Dartmouth, Levash has mentored several standout rowersincluding Anne Kennedy ’07 and Kate Davison ’07 who won goldmedals withTeam USA at the U-23World Championships in 2006.CurrentrowersKathrynTwyman’09andEmilyDreissigacker’11havebeeninvitedtoU-23NationalTeamtrainingcampsthissummerforCanadaandtheUnitedStates,respectively. TheEasternAssociationofWomen’sRowingColleges(EAWRC)NoviceCoachoftheYearin2002,LevashledherPrincetonUniversityfreshmancrewstoundefeatedseasonsandgoldmedalsattheEast-ernSprints in2002and2004.Her2003freshmencapturedasilvermedalattheSprints.

PriortoherstintwiththeTigers,Levashspentthreeyearsmold-ingtheCornellfirstnoviceeightintoachampionshipcrew.DuringherfinalseasoninIthacain2001,shewasnamedtheEAWRCNoviceCoach of theYear after leading her crew to an undefeated seasonandagoldmedalattheEasternSprints. Astandoutrowerinherownright,Levashcaptainedthe1998Princetoncrew.ShewonagoldmedalattheEasternSprintsin1995asamemberof thefirstnoviceeightandstruckgoldagainat theSprints in 1997 as a member of the first varsity eight. Levash alsocompetedinthefirsttwoNCAAchampionshipregattasin1997and1998. A1998magnacumlaudegraduateofPrincetonwithaB.A. inecologyandevolutionarybiology,LevashwontheLeslieK.JohnsonMemorialAwardforoutstandingseniorthesisworkin1998. She lives in Vermont with her husband, Topher Bordeau, theDartmouthmen’sheavyweightcrewheadcoach.

Now in his third season, GherstjoinedtheDartmouthstaffin2006afterspendingsixyearsastheheadmen’s coach at the University ofRhode Island. In 2004 Gherst ledRhode Islandtothebestseason inits45yearhistory,medalingatthe

New England Championships, ECAC Invitational, and taking theprogram’sfirstevertriptotheHenleyRoyalRegatta. A1997graduateoftheUniversityofVermontwithadegreeinpoliticalscience,Gherstbeganhiscoachingcareerathisalmama-terasthenovicewomen’scoachfrom1997-1998beforebecomingtheheadcoachfrom1998-2000. AformercoxswainatbothUVMandthePennsylvaniaAthleticClub,Gherstwonnumerousmedalsonthecollegiateandnationallevel and competed at the 1996 World Championships in Strath-clyde,Scotland. Formerlythevarsityassistant,Gherstisinhisfirstyearascoachofthefreshmenteam.Inadditiontohisresponsibilitiesasfreshmencoach, Gherst’s background in coxing allows him to work closelywiththeBigGreencoxswainsindevelopingallaspectsoftheirrolebothonandoffthewater.

dArtmouth CoAChiNg stAffWenDY leVash

head Coachfourth seasonprinceton ’98

rick gherstAssistant Coach

third seasonVermont ’97

KateDavison’07returnedtotheBig Green as the second assistantin2009.Herdutiesincludeassistingwithvarsityandnovicecrews,aswellasrecruiting. Davison returns to Hanover af-ter a four-year career with the Big

Greenwomen’screwteamfrom2003-07.WhileamemberoftheBigGreen,sheplacedeighth invarsityeightsattheNCAAChampion-ships and fifth at Eastern Sprints in her final season. Davison was a member of the U.S. Under-23 National Team in 2006 and won the gold medalinthewomen’seightattheWorldChampionshipsinBelgium.She graduated with a degree in psychology in 2007. Since her graduation, Davison has been a full-time kindergarten andpreschoolteacherattheBedfordYouthPerformingCompanyinBedford, N.H. She also taught dance classes at Bedford High School andinafterschoolprogramsatlocalelementaryandmiddleschools. LastspringshewasavolunteerassistantcoachfortheConcordHigh School women’s crew team and also biked from Concord, N.H., to Vancouver, B.C., as part of the Bike and Build program, which raises awarenessoftheneedforaffordablehousing.

kate DaVisonAssistant Coach

first seasondartmouth ’07

dArtmouth VArsit Y eight

alison terceksophomore • oNe

fieldston school • irvington, N.Y.

VarsitY eight lineup C: AvivaLILLIAN 8: EmilyDREISSIGACKER 7: KathrynTWYMAN 6: NellPASCALL 5: CourtneyCHAPEL 4: KatherineRODDY 3: MichelleBARNES 2: SarahALEXANDER 1: AlisonTERCEK

2009 VarsitY eight (7-3)april 4 charles river Dartmouth 7:38.7 1stof4 Northeastern 7:43.7 RhodeIsland 7:57.0 BostonCollege 7:57.6

april 11 charles river Yale 6:36.92 2ndof3 Dartmouth 6:41.85 BostonUniv. 6:46.04

april 18 onondaga lake Radcliffe 6:49.1 2ndof3 Dartmouth 6:55.4 Syracuse 7:09.5

april 25 schuylkill river Princeton 6:37.3 2ndof3 Dartmouth 6:43.1 Penn 6:54.3

may 2 cayuga inlet Dartmouth 6:54.7 1stof2 Cornell 7:04.4

may 17 eastern sprints cooper river granD Final Yale 6:21.95 5thof6 Radcliffe 6:22.86 Princeton 6:23.53 Brown 6:26.94 Dartmouth 6:27.55 Northeastern 6:40.85

aViVa lillianJuNior • CoXsWAiN

phillips exeter Academy • paris france

emilY Dreissigackersophomore • eight

people’s Academy • morrisville, Vt.

Notes: CRCA All-New England; Invited to 2009

US U-23 National Team camp

katherine roDDYsophomore • four

Webb school • Knoxville, tenn.

michelle BarnesseNior • three

mounds park Acad. • White Bear Lake, minn.

kathrYn tWYmanseNior • seVeN

st. francis Xavier • edmonton, Alta.

Notes: Canadian Rhodes Scholar; Academic All

District first team; U-23 Canadian team camp

nell pascallseNior • siXperth, Australia

Notes: CRCA All-New England

courtneY chapelsophomore • fiVe

Cincinnati Country day • Cincinnati, ohio

sarah aleXanDerJuNior • tWo

Laurel school • shaker heights, ohio

2009 2nd VarsitY eight (7-3)april 4 charles river Dartmouth 7:59.9 1st of 4 Northeastern 8:06.8 RhodeIsland 8:28.4 BostonCollege 9:32.3

april 11 charles river Yale 6:45.02 2nd of 3 Dartmouth 6:58.02 BostonUniv. 7:00.99

april 18 onondaga lake Radcliffe 7:07.1 2nd of 3 Dartmouth 7:11.4 Syracuse 7:09.5

april 25 schuylkill river Princeton 6:49.0 2nd of 3 Dartmouth 6:52.2 Penn 6:55.2

may 2 cayuga inlet Dartmouth 7:08.4 1st of 2 Cornell 7:16.4

may 17 eastern sprints cooper river granD Final Brown 6:34.20 5th of 6 Yale 6:39.74 Radcliffe 6:42.45 Princeton 6:46.95 Dartmouth 6:54.95 BostonUniv. 7:06.81

dArtmouth seCoNd VArsit Y eight

claire mcconnellseNior • siX

Blair Academy • Berwyn, pa.

2nd VarsitY eight lineup C: CathyYAO 8: LauraGARNDER 7: MollyDAVIS 6: ClareMcCONNELL 5: KateHARNEY 4: ErinDAUSON 3: CarlaWILLIAMS 2: SamanthaMONKMAN 1: KatieDUTKO

cathY YaoJuNior • CoXsWAiN

hotchkiss school • Litchfield, Conn.

laura garDnerJuNior • eight

Newton south • Newton, mass.

Notes: Alternate for at-large Varsity Eight boat

at 2007 NCAA Championships

mollY DaVisJuNior • seVeN

Jacksonville episcopal • Jacksonville, fla.

erin Dausonsophomore • four

North Alleghany • Wexford, pa.

Notes: Sister, Sharon, rows in the Varsity Four

katie DutkoseNior • oNe

st. Ann’s school • richmond hill, N.Y.

kate harneYseNior • fiVe

pittsford-mendon • pittsford, N.Y.

Notes: Team captain

carla WilliamsseNior • three

hotchkiss school • Litchfield, Conn.

samantha monkmanJuNior • tWo

Norfolk Collegiate • Norfolk, Va.

2009 VarsitY Four (4-5 overall)april 4 charles river Dartmouth 9:14.3 1st of 4 RhodeIsland 9:29.0 Northeastern 9:32.5 BostonCollege 10:32.5

april 11 charles river Yale 7:26/25 3rd of 3 BostonUniv. 7:51.37 Dartmouth 7:54.10

april 18 onondaga lake Syracuse 7:55.2 3rd of 3 Radcliffe 7:56.8 Dartmouth 8:13.9

april 25 schuylkill river Princeton 7:36.2 3rd of 3 Penn 7:42.0 Dartmouth 7:44.0

may 2 cayuga inlet DartmouthA 8:09.1 1st of 2 Cornell 8:22.1

may 17 eastern sprints cooper river granD Final Yale 7:27.32 5th of 6 Brown 7:31.31 Radcliffe 7:31.65 Princeton 7:37.56 Dartmouth 7:40.78 Navy 7:44.15

dArtmouth VArsit Y four & spAres

VarsitY Four lineup C: AnnaDOBBIN 4: JohannaHAUER 3: SharonDAUSON 2: KarenORRICK 1: MattieGOVAN

anna DoBBinsophomore • CoXsWAiN

Brighton • rochester, N.Y.

Johanna hauerseNior • four

Belmont • Belmont, mass.

mattie goVansophomore • oNe

red Cross united • sevenoaks, Kent, england

haYleY DaniellfreshmAN

phillips exeter • hopkinton, N.h.

Jamie chapmanfreshmAN

traverse City • traverse City, mich.

spAreskaren orricksophomore • tWo

Walt Whitman • Bethesda, md.

sharon DausonseNior • three

North Alleghany • Wexford, pa.

Notes: Sister, Erin, rows in the 2nd Varsity Eight

ncaa championship historYYear Finish Winner second location1997 8th Washington Princeton RanchoCordova, Calif.1998 8th Washington Brown Gainesville,Ga.1999 11th* Brown Virginia RanchoCordova, Calif.2007 8th* Brown Virginia OakRidge,Tenn.

*VarsityEightonly

dArtmouth Notesin class anD on the course Dartmouthsenior kathryn twyman (edmonton, alta.)hasbeengettingitdoneonthewaterandintheclassroomforfouryearsnow.Afterwalkingontotheteamasafreshman,TwymanhasbeenintheVarsityEightboatsincehersophomoreyear,includingthe2007NCAAboat. Twyman,achemistry/physicsdoublemajorwithabiologyminor,carriesastaggering3.94gradepointaverageandhasbeennamedaCanadianRhodesScholar.ShewillattendOxfordfrom2009-11toearnherPh.Dinphysicalchemistry. Recently,shewasnamedtoCoSIDA’sAcademicAll-DistrictFirstTeamandwillmoveontothenationalballotfortheat-largecat-egory.AlsoatDartmouthshewasnamedaChoateScholar(topfivepercentofherclass),PresidentialScholarandtwo-timeAcademicAll-Ivyhonoree.

national team talent TwomembersoftheDartmouthwomen’screwteamhavebeeninvitedtoSelectionCampsfortheU23NationalteamsintheUnitedStatesandCanada. Sophomoreemily Dreissigacker (morrisville, Vt.) wasinvitedtotheUnitedStatesselectioncampforthe2009Under-23NationalTeam.Thecamp,whichtakesplaceinearlyJune,willselectthewomen’s8+and4xboatsthatwillcompeteatthe2009FISAWorldU23ChampionshipsthisJuly23-26inRacice,CzechRepublic. Seniorkathryn twyman (edmonton, alta.) willalsobevyingforanationalteamspotwhensheattendstheCanadianUnder-23selectioncampinLondon,OntariofromJune1-14.Thecampwillselectwomenforthe1xand2xeventsattheU23WorldChampion-ships.

anD national team ties TworecentDartmouthgradshaverepresentedtheUnitedStatesontheinternationallevel,ascurrentassistantcoachkate Davison ’07 andclassmateanne kennedy ’07 wongoldmedalsattheU-23WorldChampionshipsin2006.In2007,KennedyearnedabronzemedalattheU-23Worlds.

all-neW englanD honors TheCollegiateRowingCoachesAssociation(CRCA)hasan-nouncedits2009all-regionteamsandDartmouth’sEmilyDreis-sigacker(Morrisville,Vt.)andNellPascall(Perth,Australia)areamongthehonorees. Student-athletesarenominatedbytheircoachesandchosenonthestrengthofteamregionalfinish,coachrecommendationandpersonalperformance. Dreissigacker,asophomore,earnedaspotontheAll-NewEnglandfirstteamafterasolidseasonthatbodeswellfortwomorespringsinHanover.Sherowedintheeight-seatfortheBigGreeninallofitsVarsityEightracesthisseason.Laterthisspring,Dreissigack-erwillheadtonationalteamtrainingcamptocompeteforachancetorepresenttheUnitedStatesattheU-23WorldChampionships. ForPascall,thehonorcapsasolidDartmouthcareer.TheseniorearnedsecondteamAll-NewEnglandhonorsafterrowinginthefive-seatfortheBigGreenthisspring.HereffortshelpedDartmouthfinishfifthattheEasternSprintsGrandFinalandearnabidtotheNCAAChampionships.

the Big green ... is a little green Ofthe25womensettomakethetripthisweekend,justtwohaveexperienceonthisstageincludingkathryn twyman (ed-monton, alta.), whowasinthebowforthe2007varsityandlaura gardner (newton, mass.),whowasanalternateasafreshman. Thegroupalsoincludeseightsophomoresandtwofreshmen,withfoursophomoresintheFirstVarsityEight.

2009 Dartmouth Women’s creW - ncaa 30-Woman rostername cl last school hometoWnSarahAlexander Jr. LaurelSchool ShakerHeights,OhioMichelleBarnes Sr. MoundsParkAcademy WhiteBearLake,Minn.CourtneyChapel So. CincinnatiCountryDay Cincinnati,OhioJamieChapman Fr. TraverseCity TraverseCity,Mich.HayleyDaniell Fr. PhillipsExeterAcademy Hopkinton,N.H.ErinDauson So. NorthAlleghany Wexford,Pa.SharonDauson Sr. NorthAlleghany Wexford,Pa.Martha(Molly)Davis Jr. JacksonvilleEpiscopal Jacksonville,Fla.AnnaDobbin So, Brighton Rochester,N.Y.ElizabethDoolittle Sr. BeaverCountryDaySchool Watertown,Pa.EmilyDreissigacker So. People’sAcademy Morrisville,Vt.KatieDutko Sr. St.Ann’sSchool RichmondHill,N.Y.LauraGardner Jr. NewtonSouth Newton,Mass.CarolineGodfrey Fr. TheCollegePreparatorySchool Lafayette,Calif.MattieGovan So. RedCrossUnited Sevenoaks,Kent,EnglandKateHarney Sr. Pittsford-Mendon Pittsford,N.Y.LouisaHarrison Fr. Noble&Greenough Dedham,Mass.JohannaHauer Sr. Belmont Belmont,Mass.HayleyJansson So. WichitaCollegiate Wichita,Kan.AvivaLillian Jr. PhillipsExeterAcademy Paris,FranceClaireMcConnell Sr. BlairAcademy Berwyn,Pa.SamanthaMonkman Jr. NorfolkCollegiate Norfolk,Va.KarenOrrick So. WaltWhitman Bethesda,Md.NellPascall Sr. Perth,AustraliaKatherineRoddy So. WebbSchool Knoxville,Tenn.EllieSandmeyer Fr. Aragon SanMateo,Calif.AlisonTercek So. FieldstonSchool Irvington,N.Y.KathrynTwyman Sr. St.FrancisXavier Edmonton,ABCarlaWilliams Sr. HotchkissSchool Litchfield,Conn.CathyYao Jr. Needham Needham,Mass.

members of Dart-mouth’s 30-woman roster hail from 15 different states and four additional countries including australia, canada, england and France.shaded states repre-sent the home-states of current Big green rowers.