Tag: Athletics
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Golden state for Lin
Former Harvard star Jeremy Lin, an undrafted free agent guard, was signed by the Golden State Warriors yesterday…
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Jeremy Lin ’10 signs with Warriors
Former Crimson basketball co-captain Jeremy Lin ’10 has been signed as a point guard to the Golden State Warriors.
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Pumping up sports spirits
The road to Harvard wasn’t an easy one for Cheng Ho ’10, who at 13 came to America from Taiwan after losing his father to cancer while his mother struggled with mental illness. And then there was football to learn …
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Women’s tennis claims NCAA at-large bid
Classes are over, but the season isn’t for the Harvard women’s tennis team, which received an at-large bid from the NCAA Division I Tennis Subcommittee.
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Softball team falls to Cornell in Ivy League Championship final, 3-2
It was a fight to the finish for the Harvard softball team, but that wasn’t enough for the Crimson as the Cornell Big Red defeated Harvard on May 8, 3-2, to earn the 2010 Ivy League Championship.
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Bench pressing for a cure
On May 3, more than 250 Harvard athletes from 18 varsity teams took the Palmer-Dixon Gymnasium by storm for the second annual Bench Press for Breast Cancer Challenge, pumping iron and raising greenbacks for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
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A key player on the field and off
Softball co-captain Melissa Schellberg ’10 leaves her mark on the Harvard community.
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Bringing men’s lax back
Third-year head coach John Tillman helps Harvard lacrosse return to national prominence.
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The gym unlocker
Ed Kelley, who has worked at Harvard since 1959, is still going strong at age 78, opening the Malkin and Hemenway gyms most mornings, greeting all who arrive.
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The tale of the two-sport athlete
This season, soccer’s Melanie Baskind ’12 makes her return to lacrosse — and it couldn’t have come at a better time.
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Sisters in arms
Qualification for the NCAA Championships has become something of a ritual for recent members of the Harvard women’s fencing team, a far cry from the sports origins on campus dating back to 1888, but not far removed from the year the team officially came into being in 1974.
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Taking the title
In his last collegiate match, Crimson wrestler J.P. O’Connor capped off a dominant season and career at Harvard by taking the 157-pound national title at the NCAA Championships in Omaha, Neb., on March 20.
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Competing on a national stage
Harvard wrestlers Louis Caputo ’10, J.P. O’Connor ’10, and Steven Keith ’13 travel to Omaha, Neb., to compete at this year’s NCAA Wrestling Championships.
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Crimson fall hard
The Harvard women’s hockey team couldn’t hold back surging Cornell.
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Crimson sweep individual championships
Laura Gemmell ’13 and Colin West ’10 took home College Squash Association individual national championships (March 5-7), continuing Harvard’s dominance in the squash world this season.
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Princeton douses Crimson hopes
Women’s basketball team falls to first-place Princeton for first home loss in more than a year.
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Sixteen years later, she’s in first place
Harvard hockey coach Katey Stone became the college women’s all-time wins leader with a victory over Princeton.
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From bodysuits to bikinis
Library cataloger Marilyn Morgan is writing a book about American women and their bathing suits, and what that says about early 20th century cultural norms.
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Undefeated, and national champions
Perfection is never easy to achieve, but the No. 1-ranked Harvard women’s squash team surely made it look that way.
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Heart test debate heats up
Two studies published yesterday are expected to reignite an emotionally charged debate about whether young athletes should be screened with a heart test to reduce the small risk of sudden death from an undiagnosed heart problem.
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Winning and losing
Harvard men’s basketball falls to first-place Cornell, but triumphs against Columbia.
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Women’s squash wins 17 Ivy title
The No. 1-ranked Harvard women’s squash team clinched their 17th Ivy League title on Feb. 13 with a 7-2 victory over No. 5 Yale.
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It’s title No. 13
Harvard women’s hockey team wins its 13th Beanpot title, 1-0, over the Northeastern Huskies.
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Crimson unable to fight off Huskies
The Harvard Crimson men’s hockey team faced Northeastern in the Beanpot consolation game on Feb. 9, but couldn’t avoid the Huskies’ bite, losing 4-1.
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The Tennis Academy at Harvard provides tennis instruction for all ages
The Tennis Academy at Harvard (TAH), which offers summer instruction for children and adults, will start its third season on June 14 at the Soldiers Field Athletic Complex.
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Yes, Harvard sweats
Known as a bastion of academe, Harvard has more Division 1 sports programs than any other college — and thousands of students in club, intramural programs.
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No giving up
Despite battling three injuries in three years, senior Pat Magnarelli is here to stay.
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Beanpot bound
Harvard women skate to Beanpot finals with 5-0 hockey win over Boston College.
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Harvard upended by B.C.
Harvard struggled to generate any offense in its Beanpot semifinal match against Boston College, losing 6-0.
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Harvard Stadium
A history of Harvard Stadium and how it changed the face of American football.