Hanover — Chris Cobb and Courtney Sheary were named on Wednesday to fill out the staff of new Dartmouth College women’s hockey coach Laura Schuler.

Cobb, a Swanton, Vt., native comes to the Big Green from ECAC Hockey League rival Union College, where he managed the Skating Dutchmen’s forwards handled recruiting. His prior experience includes three seasons at Williams, where he helped the Ephs to a NESCAC title and an NCAA Division III tournament berth, and eight years as an assistant or head coach of the women’s hockey program at UMass, from which he graduated in 2007.

A UNH graduate, Sheary joins Dartmouth after five years in a variety of jobs at Cushing Academy, including girls hockey coach and assistant athletic director.

She played five college seasons for the Wildcats and comes from a hockey family: brother Conor teamed with former Big Green defenseman Ben Lovejoy on last winter’s Stanley Cup-winning Pittsburgh Penguins roster.

Softball Traina Joins Staff

Hanover — Dartmouth softball coach Shannon Doepking announced the addition of Jackie Traina to her staff as an assistant coach on Wednesday.

Traina won 106 games as a pitcher at Alabama, the third player in school history and the ninth in SEC annals to top the 100-win plateau. Her efforts in 2012 helped the Crimson Tide to its first NCAA title, in which Traina won the Women’s College World Series MVP award.

Football Green Third in Poll

Hanover — One year after winning a share of its first conference title in nearly two decades, the Dartmouth football team has been tabbed for a third-place Ivy League finish in the coming campaign in a vote of league media.

The poll, released Tuesday, has Harvard and Penn — the two schools that also shared in last season’s Ivy title — in the top two slots.

The Crimson recorded 126 points and seven first-place votes. Despite receiving nine first-place votes, the Quakers finished second in the poll with 119 points, followed by Dartmouth at 83 and Yale at 81.

The Big Green went 6-1 in the league last year and 9-1 overall for its best season since its 10-0 run in 1996. Dartmouth had the stingiest defense in FCS football at 10.1 points allowed per game, while the offense scored nearly three times as much over its 10-game campaign. Dartmouth had eight players on the all-Ivy first team.

Princeton (79), Brown (61, one first-place vote), Columbia (43) and Cornell (20) fill out the rest of the field.