Athletes from the Ivy League

Athletes from the Ivy League January 20, 2012 What makes athletes from the Ivy League different from athletes from, say, the ACC, Big East, or SCC? Well, for one, Ivy League athletes dont earn scholarships. They also have to meet certain admissions criteria (see our post on the Ivy League Academic Index) and they tend to be student-athletes more so than athletes who happen to also go to school. One great example of such an athlete is Andrew Goldstein, a graduate of Dartmouth College, where he played goalie on the lacrosse team and earned two honorable mention All-American nods. Ivy League athletes like Andrew Goldstein are true examples of student-athletes with an emphasis on the student. Andrew Goldstein is regarded as the first male professional team sport athlete in North America to be openly gay during his playing career. Goldstein played for two seasons of Major League Lacrosse first with the Boston Cannons and then with the Long Island Lizards. Goldstein was openly gay at Dartmouth as this SportsCenter piece points out, a piece we at Ivy Coach happened to have a whole lot to do with. Since leaving lacrosse, Goldstein has become an outspoken advocate of not saying gay in a derogatory way in locker rooms. Hes also become a biology professor at UCLA and made a notable publication in the prestigious Science magazine by leading a team of researchers that found the possible cell of origin for prostate cancer. Wow. Now that is an Ivy League athlete for you! Want to read more? Check out this piece on ESPN about the Ivy League athlete or this one on the historic nature of Goldsteins example as an openly gay athlete.