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Swimming in Green
Tris Wykes of the Valley News has a balanced and candid profile of the Dartmouth swim team program, coached by Jim Wilson. The piece’s use of statistics is refreshingly complete, and it reprises some of the themes that Dartblog has highlighted over the past months, to wit:
Wilson said he [had] sometimes wondered [while Kark Furstenberg was Dean of Admissions] whether staying at Dartmouth was worth the struggle to get prospects admitted. The coach said only two swimming recruits might be included in one year’s freshman class, while the next might include nine or 10. Karl Furstenberg, Dartmouth’s Dean of Admissions from 1990-2006, was viewed by some in the college’s athletic community as difficult to work with, especially after a 2004 controversy that revealed his disparaging views on the Big Green’s football program.
Ceplikas said admissions outcomes are “much more predictable now,” not just for swimming and diving, but for all of Dartmouth’s athletic programs.
Such unaccustomed candor. Much welcomed.
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