
Cape Air Athletes of the Week - O'Connor & Rothwell
3/2/2020 3:06:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey, Women's Track & Field, Athletics
The women's track team ended the 2019-20 indoor season with a spectacular showing by senior Cha'Mia Rothwell. The Durham, North Carolina native claimed her fourth straight 60m hurdle title, becoming only the third woman in Ivy history to win the event four straight years. The men's hockey team wrapped up the regular season with games against Union and RPI. Sophomore Drew O'Connor had his first career hat trick Friday against Union.
Their efforts are rewarded by being named the Cape Air Athletes of the Week.
Each week, DartmouthSports.com will spotlight two outstanding student-athletes - one male, one female - as the Cape Air Athletes of the Week. Student-athletes may be chosen based upon their efforts both on and off the field of competition.
Cha'Mia Rothwell, Sr., Durham, N.C., Jumps/Hurdles, Women's Track and Field
Cha'Mia Rothwell came away from her final Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Championship with 12 points to her credit. After a fifth-place finish in the long jump on Saturday inside Cornell's Barton Hall, the senior would claim her fourth straight 60m hurdles title the following afternoon. Rothwell ran a season-best 8.31 in the final to take the crown and become just the third woman in Ivy history to win the event all four years of her career, joining Penn's Christelle Williams (1986-89) and Harvard's Autumne Franklin (2013-16).
Drew O'Connor, So., Chatham, N.J., F, Men's Hockey
Drew O'Connor can score goals. No other player in ECAC hockey had more than his 21 this season and he reached that figure with four in the final weekend of the regular season. The sophomore winger notched his first career hat trick Friday in a win over Union for his league-leading fifth multi-goal game of the season. He would add a shorthanded goal the following night against RPI to bring his total to 21, the most by a Dartmouth player in the regular season since 1996-97. He also becomes the first Dartmouth player in 40 years to lead ECAC hockey in goals in conference games as he scored 16 times against league foes this year. Nationally, O'Connor's goals rank third.





