Letter: A Great Coach and Teacher
To the Editor:
It is hard for me to understand how a coach who has won several Ivy League titles and who has proven herself to be one of the best could be let go after only four losing seasons, especially when those four years followed four Ivy League titles. That is way above the average and the expectation of any sport. Have we lost sight of why people choose to go to an Ivy League school when they could get full scholarships at another less academically prestigious Division 1 school?
Why are we here? We are here because students want to learn. It could be said that we learn from our losses. Whoever became a better person by winning all the time? Chris Wielgus was more than a coach; she was a teacher. And she was the best basketball coach, and maybe the best coach, except for me, of course, that Dartmouth ever had. She was a teacher and a coach, the ultimate for an Ivy League college.
I wish her the best. Perhaps Dartmouth Athletic Director Harry Sheehy did her a favor by letting her go. She may now get a life back.
Agnes Kurtz
Former Dartmouth Associate Athletic Director
Hanover
