The Richards Group Athletes of the Week - Heavyweight Varsity 8 & Hoffer

The Richards Group Athletes of the Week - Heavyweight Varsity 8 & Hoffer

5/4/2022 11:43:00 AM | Women's Track & Field, Athletics, Men's Heavyweight Rowing

Heavyweight Varsity Eight Boat Joins Cori Hoffer as Top Athetes for this Week

Winning is the theme for this week's athletes. In the case of this week's male athlete, the heavyweight varsity eight boat earns the award for winning two cups competing as one unit. On the women's side sophomore Cori Hoffer won two of the three races she competed in at UMass Amherst.

Their efforts are rewarded by being named The Richards Group 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.

Cori Hoffer, So., Huntington Beach, Calif., Sprints, Women's Track

Sophomore Cori Hoffer of the women's track and field team had quite the performance at UMass Amherst on Saturday. Hoffer was a member of the first-place 4x100m relay team, won the 200m dash, and placed fourth in the 100m dash. The relay team finished with the fourth best time in program history (46.34). Hoffer's times in the 100m (12.08) and the 200m (24.71) are both seventh all-time in program history in the event.

Varsity Heavyweight Eight Boat

Sammy Houdaigui (C), William Bender (S), Joseph Hajjar (7), Jacob Hudgins (6), Caleb Edmundson (5), Harrison Taylor (4), Miles Hudgins (3), James Isles (2), Henry Lowe (B)

Despite brisk winds and choppy water on Saturday the heavyweight varsity defeated Syracuse by a mere second to take home the Packard Cup. The fifth-ranked Big Green came out on top with a time of 5:40.0 with the Orange following at 5:41.0. In a switch of venue the race was contested eighteen miles north of Hanover on beautiful Lake Morey.

The following day was a beautiful, sunny, calm day and the crew again came out on top. This time they were competing for the Bill Cup which is contested between Dartmouth and Boston University. Despite being behind a couple of seats off the start the Big Green took the lead and moved away in the second thousand. Dartmouth finished in 5:46.4, ahead of Syracuse (5:51.6) with Boston University coming in third (5:54.5)