[1][5][6] When Mike Walsh left Dartmouth in late 1989 to become the athletic director at Washington & Lee, the school hired Whalen to replace him.
Brian Nickerson was named Ivy Rookie of the Year in 1997, and Greg Gilmer won the Blair Bat in 1994 as the league's leading hitter (.476).
In 2001, the team shared the division title with Brown but defeated the Bears, 7–2, in a one-game playoff to advance to the championship series.
[10][11] In the late 2000s, Whalen oversaw extensive $5.2 million renovations to Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park, Dartmouth's home venue.
The renovations added an artificial turf surface, stadium seating, and a new electronic scoreboard, among other features.
The Big Green won the Ivy League Championship Series twice in this stretch, defeating Cornell in 2009 and Columbia in 2010, to advance to the NCAA tournament.
As the four seed at the 2009 Chapel Hill Regional, Dartmouth went 0–2, losing games to host North Carolina and third-seeded Kansas.
The highest selections, eighth-rounders Ed Lucas and Kyle Hendricks, went on to appear in Major League Baseball.
Conference tournament champion Below is a table of Whalen's records as a collegiate summer baseball head coach.