Big Green Recognize Five Players at End-of-Year Banquet

HANOVER, N.H. – Dartmouth men's tennis head coach Chris Drake announced the 2018-19 team awards at the Big Green's annual end-of-the-year banquet. Five players were recognized for their performances throughout the season.

Freshman Sid Chari received the Occum Bowl, which is awarded to the player who made the greatest improvement during the year and demonstrated increasing maturity in attitude toward the game. Since the start of the second half of the season in January, Chari had an impressive 14-7 record in singles, moving up from court six all the way to the No. 4 position and ending the year on a three-match winning streak.

The Grit Grind Toughness Award went to sophomore Dan Martin for exemplifying the team's values of toughness, resilience, composure and confidence. An All-Ivy first-team selection for singles, Martin switched between playing at the No. 2 and 3 positions, going 5-5 on court two and 5-2 on court three. He moved up to the top spot for the final two matches of the season, defeating a player from Harvard and going unfinished in a three setter in the NCAA First Round against Michigan.

Junior Charlie Broom won the Clarence J. Davies Award, which is given to the player who displayed the qualities of sportsmanship, integrity and team spirit that reflect most favorably on themselves and Dartmouth. He also shared the Hard Hat Commitment Award (given to the player that most exemplifies the team's values of self-motivation, preparation, being team oriented, having a positive attitude and having strength of character) with freshman Pierce Widdecombe and sophomore Peter Conklin.

An All-Ivy first-team selection for both singles and doubles for the second year in a row, Broom went 9-10 in singles since January, playing at the No. 1 position for the majority of the season. He was nationally ranked in both singles and doubles for almost the entirety of the year. In doubles, he and Horneffer became the first Big Green doubles team to qualify for the NCAA Tournament since 1976.

Widdecombe played consistently at the No. 3 doubles position mostly alongside Martin. He ended his first season in Hanover by going 4-4, wrapping up the year on a high note by defeating players from Brown with Conklin as his partner.

As a sophomore, Conklin went 10-10 in dual matches, playing mostly at the No. 4 and 5 singles positions. He had a six-match winning streak that spanned from Feb. 17 through March 22. In doubles, he and Casey Ross played almost every match together, going 9-8 on court two.

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