DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Hanover, NH

 

The Big Green baseball program participates at the Division I level and plays a nationally competitive schedule. Since 2010, Dartmouth has played seven programs who have participated in the College World Series in the last seven years (Virginia, LSU, TCU, Texas A&M, UCSB, Florida, and Miami) In 2017, the Big Green will look to win its ninth division title in the last 10 years and its twelfth since 2000, to go along with a third Ivy Championship since 2009. Dartmouth currently has 8 former players in professional baseball, ranging from the MLB level to the professional league in Australia. At the MLB level, RHP Kyle Hendricks was a mainstay in the rotation for the 2016 World Series Champion Chicago Cubs and was named NL Outstanding Pitcher of the Year as voted on by the players.  The Big Green also boast two General Managers in Major League Baseball, Sandy Alderson of the New York Mets, and Matt Klentak of the Philadelphia Phillies.

The Fresno State baseball team is a Division 1 program that plays in the Mountain West Conference. The program dominated the Western Athletic Conference winning conference championships in seven consecutive years from 2006-2012, including the 2008 team which won the Division 1 National Championship. They later joined the Mountain West Conference in 2013 and won the Mountain West Conference Championship in 2016. Since 2003 more than 60 players have been drafted to play professionally and 10 have debuted in the MLB since 2006. The program prides itself on hard work on the field as well as in the classroom with an average team GPA of over 3.00 during the past decade.

The Georgetown baseball team competes in the BIG EAST Conference while playing some of the top regional competition during non-conference play. The Hoyas are coming off of a successful 2015 season that saw them qualify for the BIG EAST Championships for the first time since 1986. Georgetown finished the season with 25 wins, which included a 1-0 victory over the then-No.12 University of Virginia which went on to win the College World Series. A program-record three Hoyas were selected in the 2015 MLB Draft, highlighted by junior catcher Nick Collins who was selected in the eighth round by the Oakland Athletics, becoming the third-highest draft pick in Georgetown history. Two more Hoyas were drafted in 2016. In all, Georgetown has had a total of 21 players selected in the MLB Draft, 12 of which have come since 2007.

Grinnell Pioneer baseball competes at the NCAA Division III level and enjoys its affiliation in the Midwest Conference where we’ve earned trips in eight consecutive seasons into the conference tournament, hosting the event three of those times.  Focusing on student-athletes with a strong work ethic, love for baseball, and a team-oriented approach, we challenge our players to find the best within themselves and each other on a daily basis.  With a head coach, Tim Hollibaugh, entering his 24th season at Grinnell and 20 All-Region performers in the last 8 years, Grinnell College Pioneer baseball is well established as one of the consistent forces in the Central region of Division III. ______________________________________________________________________________

Harvard’s campus creates a stunning backdrop for all that happens within the University.

 

Harvard is in its fourth year under head coach Bill Decker, with the team seeing an increase in victories each season. The Crimson finished second in the Ivy League Red Rolfe division in 2015.

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio. The college was founded as the Oberlin Collegiate Institute in 1833 by John Jay Shipherd and Philo Stewart. It is the oldest coeducational liberal arts college in the United States and the second oldest continuously operating coeducational institute of higher learning in the world. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music, part of the college, is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. The College of Arts & Sciences offers more than 50 majors, minors, and concentrations. Oberlin is a member of the Great Lakes Colleges Association and the Five Colleges of Ohio consortium.

Of Oberlin's nearly 3,000 students, nearly 2,400 are enrolled in the College of Arts & Sciences, a little over 400 in the Conservatory of Music, and the remaining 180 or so in both College and Conservatory under the five-year Double-Degree program. The College of Arts & Sciences offers over 50 majors, minors, and concentrations. Based on students graduating with a given major, its most popular majors over the last ten years have been (in order) English, Biology, History, Politics, and Environmental Studies. The College's science programs are considered strong, especially Biology, Chemistry and Physics. The college is home to the world's first undergraduate Neuroscience program. The Conservatory is located on the college campus. Conservatory admission is selective, with over 1400 applicants worldwide auditioning for 120 seats. There are 500 performances yearly, most free of charge, with concerts and recitals almost daily. The Conservatory was one of the recipients of the 2009 National Medal of Arts. The Allen Memorial Art Museum, with over 13,000 holdings, was the first college art museum west of the Alleghenies.

The school's varsity sports teams are the Yeomen and Yeowomen. The name Yeomen arose in the early 1900s (decade) as a result of blending the former team moniker with the school's official motto. Early on in the program, football players and other athletes were known simply as Oberlin Men or "O" Men. Eventually, as the athletic department became more cohesive, the Yeomen mascot was adopted, drawing on the phonetic sound of "O" Men and the schools official motto of "Learning and Labor". As women's sports became more prevalent, "Yeowomen" was adopted to describe the mascot representing women's athletics. In 2014, the school announced that the albino squirrel will be its official mascot, although teams will continue to be referred to as "yeomen" and "yeowomen"