Catching Up With a Familiar Face

Hi All,

As Coach Wielgus mentioned in her blog, we recently had a visit from Koren Schram ’09 while she was in the US for her holiday break. Personally, it was great to see Koren as we became close friends during the three years that we were in Hanover together. Koren is currently playing professional basketball for a team called Hamar just outside of Reykjavik, Iceland. Her team is doing well, second in the league, and Koren is a big reason why! Her quickness, fearlessness and deadly three-point shot have translated well into the professional, international game. Koren won three Ivy Championships in Hanover and was a first team All-Ivy selection as both a junior and senior. We're really proud of what she and Sydney Scott ’08, in her second season playing professionally in Denmark, have been able to accomplish on the court after Dartmouth.

Before last season, ESPN.com's Graham Hays wrote a great article about Koren and her plans to pursue a career in medicine after playing college basketball. He also wrote a nice piece on her after our NCAA Tournament game at Maryland last spring. He mentioned at the time that it would be interesting to someday follow-up and see where she ended up with med school, basketball, etc. Well that opportunity came sooner than he thought when Graham was at our Blue Sky Classic to write a feature on Dayton and saw Koren making her rounds at Leede. He double-checked with me to make sure it was really her and the two sat down for a chat that he turned into yet another great article.

Check out the story here.


It's been a busy week for the players as winter term classes started on Monday along with preparations for ACC foe Boston College on Thursday. BC will be our second-to-last non-conference game and final tune-up before Ivy play. The Eagles will obviously present a formidable challenge but we believe they are a great precursor to preparations for Harvard on Jan. 16. We take on the BC down in Chestnut Hill this Thursday night at 7 p.m. and don't play again until the 16th, when we host the Crimson.

- Dara