New London — With a move to the Great Northeast Athletic Conference coming in the next year, Colby-Sawyer College announced plans to add two new varsity sports on Tuesday.

The addition of men’s volleyball and women’s rugby will bring the school’s athletic offerings up to 23 varsity sports. Volleyball will join with the majority of Colby-Sawyer’s other programs in the GNAC in 2018, while rugby — established as a club program in 1998 — is expected to maintain membership in the New England Rugby Football Union.

Both sports will begin competition in the 2018-19 academic year.

“After a thoughtful study, we determined that they are a perfect complement to our other 21 offerings,” said Bill Foti, the college’s co-athletic director, in a news release. “Men’s volleyball is a GNAC-sponsored sport, and women’s rugby is recognized as an emerging sport with the NCAA. With dedicated facilities for both sports, these additions should be very popular with potential recruits.”

Men’s volleyball plays a schedule running from mid-January to mid-April. Adding the Chargers will give the GNAC nine men’s volleyball programs.

Colby-Sawyer women’s rugby has a 75-48 record over the length of its club existence. The Chargers have won five conference titles, finished second five times and won five nonconference spring titles in sevens.

The school said it plans to begin nationwide searches for coaches soon.

Alpine Skiing

Peterson Second at Nationals

Carrabassett Valley, Maine — Dartmouth junior Foreste Peterson raced to a second-place finish in the womnen’s giant slalom on Monday during the final day of the U.S. Alpine Championships at Maine’s Sugarloaf Resort.

Peterson, a member of the Big Green’s fourth-place NCAA Championships squad from earlier this month, finished behind only 2010 U.S. Olympian Megan McJames in Monday’s race. A member of the U.S. national alpine program, McJames recorded a winning two-run time of 2:05.03, with Peterson finishing just .33 back in 2:05.36. Patricia Mangan, who attends Dartmouth but doesn’t compete for the Big Green, was third (2:06.85).

Skiers had to work through windy conditions and falling snow to negotiate the Sugarloaf course.

“It was some of the craziest conditions I think I’ve ever raced in,” Peterson noted after the race, “but I was so confident in the snow because it was so good first run, so I just knew that I could stand on it and push it.”

Peterson nearly made the podium in the women’s slalom on Sunday, placing fourth in 1:41.14.

Dartmouth junior Brian McLaughlin also had a near-miss for the men at nationals, taking fourth in the giant slalom on Tuesday in 2:19.70. Dartmouth connections bracketed McLaughlin, with spring-term student Kieffer Christianson narrowly claiming third (2:19.54) and barely beating out former Dartmouth NCAA slalom champion David Chodounsky (fifth, 2:19.72).

Dartmouth students A.J. Ginnis and Michael Ankeny were first and third, respectively, around runner-up Chodounsky in the men’s slalom on Sunday.

Men’s Basketball

Boudreaux All-District

Hanover — Dartmouth sophomore Evan Boudreaux added to his haul of postseason awards on Tuesday with inclusion on the National Association of Basketball Coaches all-district second team.

The 6-8 forward from Lake Forest, Ill., led the Ivy League in rebounding and was second in scoring, as he did during his freshman campaign. Boudreaux will enter his junior season just 50 points shy of 1,000 for his career, already the fourth-fastest to 900 points in program history.

Boudreaux made the team for NABC Distict 13, which encompasses athletes from the Ivy League and Patriot League. Princeton’s Steven Cook was the only Ivy player on the first team.