DartmouthSports.com Athletes of the Week - Adelekun & Gellert

Spring in the Northeast is very unpredictable. Temperatures in the 50's one day, eight to twelve inches of snow the next. What is predictable is Dartmouth athletes competing at the highest level. Junior Dame Adelekun lead the men's basketball team to a weekend sweep of Ivy rivals, Cornell and Columbia, by not missing a single shot he took in the two games. Anchorage native Molly Gellert earned her first collegiate victory with a win in the women's 15K Freestyle at the Middlebury Carnival for the ski team.

Their efforts are rewarded by being named the DartmouthSports.com Athletes of the week.

Each week, DartmouthSports.com will spotlight two outstanding student-athletes - one male, one female - as Athletes of the Week. Student-athletes may be chosen based upon their efforts both on and off the field of competition.

Dame Adelekun, Jr., Gastonia, N.C., F, Men's Basketball

Junior Dame Adelekun proved to be a force in the post over the weekend as the power forward did not miss any of his 12 field goal attempts to help Dartmouth sweep the two games at Leede Arena. First, he dropped 7-of-7 through the iron while scoring a career-high 19 points while snaring eight rebounds to lead the Big Green to a 71-59 triumph over Cornell. The next night, the native of Gastonia, North Carolina, was a modest 5-for-5 to tally 10 points while hauling in six boards in just 18 minutes as Dartmouth rolled to its largest conference victory in 25 years, besting Columbia by a 79-50 score. Adelekun is the Ancient Eight's most accurate shooter in Ivy play, knocking down 67.2 percent of his shots from the floor.

Molly Gellert, Sr., Anchorage, Alaska, Nordic Skiing

Senior Molly Gellert is peaking at the right time of the year, winning the women's 15K Freestyle at the Middlebury Carnival on Saturday. The Alaska native was running fifth in the mass start race at the checkpoint a third of the way through the race. Upon the completion of the second loop, she was running neck and neck with a Bowdoin skier at the front of a pack of eight that were separated by fewer than five seconds. But Gellert's endurance was the deciding factor as she pulled away from the pack and won by more than 14 seconds ahead with her time of 46:20.6. It was her first collegiate victory and third podium of her career.

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