Completed Event: Women's Volleyball at Columbia on October 3, 2025 , Win , 3, to, 0
Final
Women's Volleyball
at Columbia
3
0
Athlete Awards
Joseph Carleo
- Award:
- Athletes of the Week
- Week:
- 8/9/2018
- Sport:
- Men's Heavyweight Rowing
- Bio:
- View Full Bio
Throughout the summer, DartmouthSports.com will be focusing on members of the Class of 2020 who are currently in their "Sophomore Summers."
This installment features Joey Carleo of the men's heavyweight rowing team. Joey opened this past season at the Eastern Sprints Regatta where he rowed in the first varsity boat that finished second in the Petite Final (6:05.61). He then rowed in the two seat of the second varsity boat that defeated Columbia, MIT and Holy Cross (6:15.6).
DartmouthSports: What have you been doing during your sophomore summer?
Joseph Carleo: I am taking an English class called Immigrant Women Writing in America, and two engineering courses: digital electronics and thermodynamics. My engineering courses both have labs, so I spend most of my time on that, and reading for my English class. Otherwise I train with my team (heavyweight rowing), and work on bikes with Dartmouth Bikes. Outside of organized what-not, I ride my mountain bike once or twice a week, work on my mountain or campus bike for about an hour a week, and play folk music, mostly from Ireland and the general Scandinavia area on my fiddle.
DS: What is your favorite place on campus?
JC: Either the Thayer Machine Shop, or the BEMA. I don't spend much time in either one, but I have big plans in each. In the machine shop, I hope to manufacture a stem (a piece of metal that grabs the handlebars) for my mountain bike. I love riding mountain bikes, but I don't love buying parts manufactured on the other side of the planet using metal from mines that destroy ecosystems. When I grow up, I want to make bike parts out of scrap metal. In the BEMA, I mess around on my bike and build skills. One day Ivo Erben bunny hopped onto the stage of the BEMA (on a bike), and I hope to figure out how to do that. Another day I watched Ralf Carestia jump off some enormous rock onto flat ground, which I also hope to do some day.
DS: What was it in the recruiting process that sold you on Dartmouth?
JC: The rowing coaches introduced me to engineering professor, Dartmouth grad, and Dartmouth rower Douglas Van Citters. I visited some tech schools in the beginning of my college search and disliked the rigid structure of their course plans. I wasn't sure I wanted to work as an engineer, but I knew I wanted to be able to make stuff—clocks, bicycles, a house, violins, stuff like that. Prof. Van Citters told me Dartmouth's engineering program allowed time for plenty of courses outside engineering (one per term), and that Dartmouth designed the program to allow students to follow interests rather than sticking to a career path set forth senior year of high school.
DS: What's the app you use most on your phone?
JC: My phone doesn't do apps. It's from 2012 or something. It calls, texts, and it used to take pictures too.
DS: What show do you binge watch?
JC: I don't watch TV. I didn't have cable at home, and I don't watch TV here on campus. Every time I see someone watching TV I remember people still do that, and wonder why it hasn't gotten old yet.
DS: You step outside tomorrow morning and find a lottery ticket that ends up winning $10 million (after taxes). What would you do with the money?
JC: First, I'd put an end to the stress associated with my tuition bill for the fall, and set aside enough money for the rest of college so my parents don't have to spend their life earnings to Dartmouth College, and so I don't end up in serious debt. Next, I would buy a few bikes. I won't explain in full, but I have a spreadsheet detailing every part on the bikes of my dreams. For the bike people out there, I already calculated the spoke lengths for my wheels. Otherwise, I decided a while back that if I magically had a whole bunch of money all of a sudden, I wouldn't change much about my life at this stage, except I would arrange to spend all my off terms making bike parts in the machine shop instead of getting internships. I'd bank the rest, and start saving to buy Monsanto and run it into the ground.
DS: What are your post-Dartmouth plans?
JC: In the interest of paying loans, I will need a pretty high paying job. In the interest of controlling the consequences of my actions, I want to live in a group of people that grows their own food, and manufactures the products they use as much as possible. Right out of school though, I decided I should work for a railroad company—maybe freight rail, maybe public transit, not sure. I realized Americans rely on cars so heavily because taking trains costs too much and takes too long, and don't go most places. I never imagined a communal, energy efficient alternative to riding a bicycle everywhere, until I learned a while back about Japan and Germany's rail systems. Unfortunately the rail industry didn't lobby as hard as the auto industry in the last 50 years, so most of the government subsidies and engineers went to the auto/highway industry, rather than to rail. I hear from my Engineer relatives the rail industry needs engineers, so I want to be one. Then after I pay my loans I'll dig a hole and live in it (for free geothermal heating and cooling of course), then start farming, hunting grouse, and making things out of scrap metal. And hopefully find some other people who want the same.
DS: What would be your best advice to your 15-year-old self?
JC: Learn to weld—I started learning to braze a few weeks ago, and I wish I was better at it. If I started a few years ago, I would be better at it now. Maybe then I could learn to cut and shape steel tubing, and weld a bike frame. Also, read Bell Hooks. I keep meaning to read some Bell Hooks after hearing so much about her writing on revolutionary parenting. If I read Bell Hooks as a fifteen-year-old I could re-read it now instead of reading it for the first time, and I probably wouldn't have to unlearn so much patriarchal, gender binary reinforcing, heteronormative gobbly-gook.
DS: If you could go anywhere in the world right now, where would you go and why?
JC: Probably the Co-op. I have been meaning to go there for about a week and keep not having time. I want to buy some vegetables from a nearby farm and make a stir fry with some of my rice and dried beans.
This installment features Joey Carleo of the men's heavyweight rowing team. Joey opened this past season at the Eastern Sprints Regatta where he rowed in the first varsity boat that finished second in the Petite Final (6:05.61). He then rowed in the two seat of the second varsity boat that defeated Columbia, MIT and Holy Cross (6:15.6).
DartmouthSports: What have you been doing during your sophomore summer?
Joseph Carleo: I am taking an English class called Immigrant Women Writing in America, and two engineering courses: digital electronics and thermodynamics. My engineering courses both have labs, so I spend most of my time on that, and reading for my English class. Otherwise I train with my team (heavyweight rowing), and work on bikes with Dartmouth Bikes. Outside of organized what-not, I ride my mountain bike once or twice a week, work on my mountain or campus bike for about an hour a week, and play folk music, mostly from Ireland and the general Scandinavia area on my fiddle.
DS: What is your favorite place on campus?
JC: Either the Thayer Machine Shop, or the BEMA. I don't spend much time in either one, but I have big plans in each. In the machine shop, I hope to manufacture a stem (a piece of metal that grabs the handlebars) for my mountain bike. I love riding mountain bikes, but I don't love buying parts manufactured on the other side of the planet using metal from mines that destroy ecosystems. When I grow up, I want to make bike parts out of scrap metal. In the BEMA, I mess around on my bike and build skills. One day Ivo Erben bunny hopped onto the stage of the BEMA (on a bike), and I hope to figure out how to do that. Another day I watched Ralf Carestia jump off some enormous rock onto flat ground, which I also hope to do some day.
DS: What was it in the recruiting process that sold you on Dartmouth?
JC: The rowing coaches introduced me to engineering professor, Dartmouth grad, and Dartmouth rower Douglas Van Citters. I visited some tech schools in the beginning of my college search and disliked the rigid structure of their course plans. I wasn't sure I wanted to work as an engineer, but I knew I wanted to be able to make stuff—clocks, bicycles, a house, violins, stuff like that. Prof. Van Citters told me Dartmouth's engineering program allowed time for plenty of courses outside engineering (one per term), and that Dartmouth designed the program to allow students to follow interests rather than sticking to a career path set forth senior year of high school.
DS: What's the app you use most on your phone?
JC: My phone doesn't do apps. It's from 2012 or something. It calls, texts, and it used to take pictures too.
DS: What show do you binge watch?
JC: I don't watch TV. I didn't have cable at home, and I don't watch TV here on campus. Every time I see someone watching TV I remember people still do that, and wonder why it hasn't gotten old yet.
DS: You step outside tomorrow morning and find a lottery ticket that ends up winning $10 million (after taxes). What would you do with the money?
JC: First, I'd put an end to the stress associated with my tuition bill for the fall, and set aside enough money for the rest of college so my parents don't have to spend their life earnings to Dartmouth College, and so I don't end up in serious debt. Next, I would buy a few bikes. I won't explain in full, but I have a spreadsheet detailing every part on the bikes of my dreams. For the bike people out there, I already calculated the spoke lengths for my wheels. Otherwise, I decided a while back that if I magically had a whole bunch of money all of a sudden, I wouldn't change much about my life at this stage, except I would arrange to spend all my off terms making bike parts in the machine shop instead of getting internships. I'd bank the rest, and start saving to buy Monsanto and run it into the ground.
DS: What are your post-Dartmouth plans?
JC: In the interest of paying loans, I will need a pretty high paying job. In the interest of controlling the consequences of my actions, I want to live in a group of people that grows their own food, and manufactures the products they use as much as possible. Right out of school though, I decided I should work for a railroad company—maybe freight rail, maybe public transit, not sure. I realized Americans rely on cars so heavily because taking trains costs too much and takes too long, and don't go most places. I never imagined a communal, energy efficient alternative to riding a bicycle everywhere, until I learned a while back about Japan and Germany's rail systems. Unfortunately the rail industry didn't lobby as hard as the auto industry in the last 50 years, so most of the government subsidies and engineers went to the auto/highway industry, rather than to rail. I hear from my Engineer relatives the rail industry needs engineers, so I want to be one. Then after I pay my loans I'll dig a hole and live in it (for free geothermal heating and cooling of course), then start farming, hunting grouse, and making things out of scrap metal. And hopefully find some other people who want the same.
DS: What would be your best advice to your 15-year-old self?
JC: Learn to weld—I started learning to braze a few weeks ago, and I wish I was better at it. If I started a few years ago, I would be better at it now. Maybe then I could learn to cut and shape steel tubing, and weld a bike frame. Also, read Bell Hooks. I keep meaning to read some Bell Hooks after hearing so much about her writing on revolutionary parenting. If I read Bell Hooks as a fifteen-year-old I could re-read it now instead of reading it for the first time, and I probably wouldn't have to unlearn so much patriarchal, gender binary reinforcing, heteronormative gobbly-gook.
DS: If you could go anywhere in the world right now, where would you go and why?
JC: Probably the Co-op. I have been meaning to go there for about a week and keep not having time. I want to buy some vegetables from a nearby farm and make a stir fry with some of my rice and dried beans.
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