[[{“type”:“media”,“view_mode”:“media_large”,“fid”:null,“attributes”:{“class”:“media-image alignright size-full wp-image-2569”,“typeof”:“foaf:Image”,“style”:“”,“width”:“100”,“height”:“100”,“title”:“”,“alt”:“Valley News”}}]]The Dartmouth women’s soccer team had a 13-4-0 fall record, was hot off a seven-game winning streak, and suffered only one Ivy League loss all season, to the undefeated league champion Princeton. But these accomplishments were not enough for the Big Green to be selected to the 64-team field for the NCAA Division I soccer championship yesterday, reports the Valley News.

Dartmouth, which was the highest-placed program in the NCAA’s ratings percent index not to be chosen for the national championship tournament, still had a lot to be proud of after completely turning around a 2011 season in which the team went 4-12. “I hope, like I told them, that—not this quickly after, but eventually—they can reflect on the season and realize all that they’ve accomplished and enjoy what they’ve done,” second-year Head Coach Theresa Romagnolo told the Valley News.

Read the full story, published 11/6/12 in the Valley News.