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1909 — Commander Robert Peary, Class of 1877, and his party depart the USS Roosevelt to make the remainder of the journey to the North Pole by dogsled.

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Joan Benoit Samuelson ’79 Leads All-Time List (Chicago Tribune)

Joan Benoit '79 was a senior at the College when, wearing a Bowdoin singlet and a Red Sox cap, she crossed the finish line, winning the 1979 Boston Marathon in what was then a women's course-record of 2:35:15.

 

Running is on many minds and much in the news with yesterday’s U.S. Olympic Marathon trials in Houston.

“Picking the top U.S. women’s marathoner of all time is as easy as it was to pick the top man,” writes the Chicago Tribune‘s Olympic sports columnist Philip Hersh. “It’s Joan Benoit Samuelson, of course.”

 

Posted on January 15th, 2012 in Bowdoin, History, Maine, Sports | Leave a comment

Polar Bear Scoreboard

Men’s Ice Hockey — Senior co-captain Graham Sisson scored a power play goal for the visiting Bowdoin College men’s ice hockey team early in the third period to force an eventual 4-4 tie against Trinity College Saturday afternoon on Williams Rink in the Koeppel Community Sports Center.

Women’s Ice Hockey — Kayte Holtz ’13 scored the game-winning goal with 95 seconds remaining to give the Bowdoin College women’s ice hockey team a weekend of sweep of Wesleyan on Saturday, 3-2, at Sidney J. Watson Arena.

Men’s Basketball — The Bates College men’s basketball team hit 12 three-pointers en route to an 80-61 win over Bowdoin in a New England Small College Athletic Conference game Saturday afternoon at Alumni Gymnasium.

Women’s Basketball — The Bates College women’s basketball team avenged an early-season loss to Bowdoin in a 69-53 win over the Polar Bears at Alumni Gymnasium on Saturday afternoon.

Squash — Both the men’s and women’s squash teams fell 9-0 at Middlebury on Saturday.

Track & Field — The Bowdoin College men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams swept their opening meets of 2012 at Farley Field House on Saturday afternoon.

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Inspiring Story of Evicted Student (NBC Nightly News)

The story of Samantha Garvey, a high school student from Long Island and a semifinalist in the Intel Science Talent Search, has gained national attention because she and her family are also homeless. A recent article in Newsday confirms that Garvey has applied to attend Bowdoin, Yale, and Brown, among other top-flight schools.

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