73 Dartmouth Alumni Are the Newest Wearers of the Green

Many institutions have a formal athletics hall of fame wall or trophy case, complete with game-worn relics, trophies, and classic photos of past victories. 

At Dartmouth, you’ll find trophies here and there, of course, but our real athletic hall of fame is a rostered group of distinguished alumni and coaches known as the Wearers of the Green. This esteemed group includes All-Americans, Olympians, major league players, and national champions. 

A new cohort of Wearers is inducted each year during Homecoming weekend, alternating annually between varsity athletes and club sports stars. Qualified alumni are eligible for induction five years after graduation (qualified coaches are eligible after leaving Dartmouth). More than 1,200 members have been inducted since the program’s founding in 1984.  

Seventy-three 2024 inductees took part in the Dartmouth Night parade and were recognized on the Green before the bonfire and at halftime during the Homecoming football game. A formal induction and reception took place in the newly named Lewinstein Athletic Center following the game. 

This year’s Wearers includes the honorary induction of Stephen R. Lewinstein ’63 in special recognition of his family’s longtime support of Dartmouth Athletics. Alumni Gymnasium was formally renamed the Lewinstein Athletic Center in a dedication ceremony held Homecoming Saturday morning. 

This year’s Wearers included Dartmouth’s entire 2018 National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA) team, which won the national championship that year. NIRA is the governing body of NCAA collegiate women’s rugby programs in the U.S. 

Winning Words 

Five of the newest Wearers of the Green shared their thoughts on their time as Dartmouth student-athletes and what it means to be inducted in this year’s cohort. 

Cole Sulser ’12 TH’13 

I feel very honored and proud to be recognized as a Wearer of the Green. It’s even more rewarding to be inducted with my little brother Beau, who I was lucky enough to play with during my final season at Dartmouth. Dartmouth holds an incredibly special place in our hearts, and to be inducted as Wearers of the Green together is something that makes me feel truly honored. 

My favorite sports memory playing for the Big Green has to be winning the Ivy League Championship in back-to-back seasons. Getting to be part of a team that brought Dartmouth baseball its first Ivy titles in over 20 years and getting to do it with some of my greatest friends was something special. 

Today: Cole is a pitcher with the Tampa Bay Rays. 

Beau Sulser ’16

Being inducted as a Wearer of the Green is such an honor. I am extremely grateful to be a part of such a group of amazing athletes. The fact that I am getting inducted while still playing professionally makes it even smore special for me. I cannot wait to get back on campus for the weekend! 

My favorite memory is when we traveled to University of Miami in 2017 and beat them two out of three games. That was our opening series of the year, and Miami was ranked seventh in the country, so going down and beating them twice was a lot of fun and a huge accomplishment for our team. Getting to throw game one on Friday night and throwing a shutout was the cherry on top of that weekend. 

Today: Beau pitched for the Toronto Blue Jays and finished the year playing for the AAA team of the Pittsburgh Pirates in Indianapolis. 

Camille Johnson ’19 

It's an honor to be inducted into the Wearers of the Green! When I walked on in 2015, we were in our first year as a varsity program. It was incredible to be part of the team’s evolution and to cap off our senior year with a national championship.  

Women's rugby is on the rise across the country, with tons of attention from the Olympics, and it's awesome to see Dartmouth continue to stand out as one of the premier women’s rugby programs in the nation. 

The semi-final game is one of my favorite memories. A huge snowstorm hit the day of the game and forced us to move to the lacrosse field. I remember waiting in the locker room, trying to keep the nerves in check. When we were finally able to kick off, it felt like we were playing together at a higher level and were able to control the game against one of our strongest opponents and come out on top.  

Being a part of an elite team taught me how to set goals and work with others to achieve them. I learned to focus my competitive drive and developed a higher level of strategic thinking. 

Today: I moved to Washington DC to play rugby for the Siren Scions and started my career working in project management for healthcare construction. I'm engaged to Allison Tong ’20 (a member of the 2018 NIRA championship team), and we are planning for our wedding in March 2025. I continue to play rugby and am involved in the DC rugby community.  

Without Dartmouth women’s rugby, I wouldn't have met my incredible teammates—now lifelong friends—I wouldn't have met my fiancée, I wouldn't have moved to DC to pursue more rugby, and I wouldn't be in my current profession. 

Danielle Ramsay ’19

Being inducted into the Wearers of the Green is such an unreal honor. After working towards it for four years, I thought the peak was winning the national championship as a senior. Getting to celebrate that moment again back in Hanover with the team is so special. 

Winning the NIRA national championship for me was surreal. I think especially for the seniors, it felt like we couldn't have asked for a better ending to our 15s career. 

The structure of the varsity program was really helpful; it ensures that you fit your academic work in when you have downtime as an athlete. Being an athlete actually helped me stay focused on my studies. 

Do I think being a Dartmouth student-athlete and team captain prepared me for life after graduation? One hundred percent. I taught for three years after college through Teach for America and preschool in Chicago, and because I was an athlete at a top institution, I knew how to build that same structure into my own work week and into my life. I was also getting my master's at the same time. And now in law school, I find that a lot of my peers who weren't athletes struggle with their time management. 

I am really happy to still be a part of the lives of my teammates and so grateful to Dartmouth Women's Rugby for allowing me to keep those relationships, even across the distances. 

Today: Danielle is in her third year at the University of Virginia School of Law. She will take the bar in July and has accepted a position as an associate at a large law firm in New York.  

Maya Perkins Battle ’20

“I came to Dartmouth in 2016, one year after rugby went from club sport to varsity, meaning the team was primarily walk-ons with no training in the sport.  

We lost to Harvard for the Ivy League championship, but coming back weeks later and beating them for the national championship was an incredible full circle moment—and it’s to Head Coach Katie Dowty's immense credit. It felt so rewarding, but it was also humbling.  

As collegiate athletes, we have a responsibility to help grow the sport at all levels. I was on the team for all four years and I'm still involved as president of the Friends of Women's Rugby Board. 

Being a student-athlete absolutely prepared me for my future. I am a fixed income trader and working in trading and portfolio management is the closest thing that you'll get to sports because you're working with a team, people who come from different backgrounds, experiences, strengths, and opportunities. I'm not playing against Harvard now, but I am playing against people in the marketplace. I'm trying to execute the best plays or trades and I need to be competitive and ultimately win.  

Today: Maya recently married a Dartmouth alum (who played football, not rugby) and works as a fixed income trader.