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Field hockey riding high with four-game streak
Crimson field hockey stayed on an upswing, crushing the St. Louis Billikens (4-8) on Monday (Oct. 13) by a score of 6-0. Harvard (6-5; 1-1) jumped out of the gate early, scoring their first goal less than four minutes into the game.
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Sports in brief
Women’s soccer grabs first Ivy win behind freshman’s play The Crimson held nothing back on Saturday (Oct. 4), as Harvard defeated Yale 3-1 at Ohiri Field.
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Spend an ‘Evening with Champions’ Oct. 10-11
Top world skaters will skate for a cause this weekend (Oct. 10-11) when they gather at Bright Hockey Center for the Jimmy Fund’s annual “An Evening with Champions.” Hosted by 1992 Olympic silver medalist Paul Wylie ’90, the event has raised more than $2.4 million for the Jimmy Fund, which supports adult and pediatric cancer…
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There was not enough rain to keep the women’s golf team from winning its third tournament in three appearances this season at the Fall Intercollegiate at Yale University (Sept. 27-28). Competing against elite teams from the Northeast, the Crimson placed first out of 19. Crimson top performer, junior Claire Sheldon, finished tied for fourth, shooting…
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Soccer proves to be rust-proof
Coming off a six-day break from soccer, the Harvard men’s foot club handed regional rival University of New Hampshire (UNH) a 3-1 defeat this past Tuesday afternoon (Sept. 23) to wreck the Wildcats’ unbeaten run. With the win, the Crimson squad picks up its third victory out of five outings in the early going of…
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Harvard announces Scott Mead ’77 Family Head Coach for Men’s Tennis
As an undergraduate, Scott Mead ’77 was a talented and versatile athlete for the Crimson, a letter-winner in both squash and lacrosse. He was also a gifted tennis player, but because tennis season overlapped with that of lacrosse, he chose to compete in the tennis tournament circuit during the summer.
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Going for consecutive Ivy’s
It was the Crimson’s 37-6 blowout of the Yale Bulldogs last year that put an end to Yale’s perfect season and earned Harvard (8-2) its 12th Ivy League Championship, with a 7-0 conference record. And when Harvard takes the home field tomorrow (Sept. 19) in the season opener against Holy Cross, it will be with…
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The deep end: A place to feel free
The notion of “the right attitude” is so played out in the world of sports — in pep talks and SportCenter sound bites, for instance — that one might question whether it carries any weight. In the case of Harvard swimmer Elizabeth Kolbe ’08, who is one of America’s premier Paralympic athletes, the answer is…
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Frisbie family endows head coach for men’s lacrosse
Richard D. Frisbie ’71, J.D. ’74, a former All-Ivy Harvard lacrosse midfielder who captained the Crimson his senior year, is leading his team once again with the announcement of the Frisbie Family Endowed Coach for Men’s Lacrosse. The news comes only weeks after the announcement of the first two women’s head coaching endowments in Harvard…
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Big Green lacrosse spoils men’s season finale
The Harvard men’s lacrosse team dropped its season finale to a visiting Dartmouth squad, 12-6, this past Saturday (May 3) to close out its 2008 campaign two games below .500 (6-8; 1-5 Ivy).
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Softball: Two and out versus Princeton in Ivy championship
The Princeton softball team picked up two-straight wins against the visiting Crimson this past Saturday (May 3) to capture the Ivy League’s best-of-three championship series and the subsequent NCAA bid.
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Sports briefs
CRIMSON SAILING EARNS BERTH TO COED NATIONALS; ROOKIE GRAPPLER PINS FILA CHAMP; CRIMSON COLOR CWPA TEAM
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Harvard fencer Emily Cross to represent U.S. in Beijing
The United States Fencing Association (USFA) announced this week that rising senior Emily Cross has been selected to the U.S. team for the upcoming 2008 Olympics in China.
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Crimson tune up for Tigers
Even with the Ivy League North Division championship all wrapped up, the Harvard softball team (which clinched the title on April 20) has hardly been taking it easy. Before kicking off a pair of nonbinding doubleheaders at home and away against Dartmouth on Saturday and Sunday (April 26-27), the Ancient Eight-leading Crimson took on another…
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Women’s golf whizzes by Lions, Tigers to land Ivy title; Men’s lacrosse finale approaching; Ski team honors past and future; Stone selected to mentor U.S. at Four Nations Cup
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GOLFERS PLACE SECOND AT ROAR-EE; SOFTBALL SWINGS WEEKEND SWEEP; BROWN POURS IT ON VS. WATER POLO
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Racquet men blast Quakers, Tigers
In the middle of last Friday’s (April 11) men’s tennis doubles match versus visiting Penn, the electronic scoreboard keeping track of court three stopped working. As the action went on undisrupted, the (temporarily nonfunctioning) scoreboard was hardly missed, or necessary.
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Sports in brief
Shore shot: Junior golfer shines at Yale Open; Heavyweight men take first, third at California Regatta; Ancient Eight honors freshman attacker as Rookie of the Week
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Big Red bedevil lacrosse
It was a big day for the Harvard men’s lacrosse team this past Saturday (April 5). The Crimson club, after all, was in the enviable position of playing the first-ever lacrosse game at Foxborough’s Gillette Stadium (along with league rival Cornell). There, in the enormous 68,000-seat venue, Harvard and Cornell attracted 2,705 lacrosse fans —…
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Capturing the Kazmaier
Just one day after dropping a 4-1 heartbreaker to the University of Wisconsin in NCAA semifinal action (March 20), the Harvard women’s hockey team, still reeling from their fifth defeat in as many Frozen Four appearances, was thrust into a festive mood. And though the source of that joy — junior Sarah Vaillancourt’s selection as…
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Sports in brief
SAILING TAKES FOURTH AT CENTRAL SERIES ONE TRIO OF HAT TRICKS OUT-TRICK QUINNIPIAC CRIMSON FENCERS CLINCH SIXTH PLACE AT CHAMPS
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Crimson Frozen Four-bound
With the Harvard women’s hockey team protecting a 5-1 advantage in the closing minutes of its NCAA regional showdown versus Dartmouth on Saturday afternoon (March 15), a small contingent of Crimson fans suddenly filled Bright Hockey Center with a battle cry. “Min-ah-so-ta” they sang, followed by a rhythmic succession of hand claps (two slow, three…
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Pool school to open April 5
Each spring, Harvard Swim School provides swimming and diving lessons for children and adults. Held at Blodgett Pool, the Saturday morning lessons will commence April 5 and run through May 10.
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Weekend split skews Ivy pursuit
That wild rivalry between the Harvard and Yale football teams seemed to briefly spill over to women’s hoops this past Saturday (March 9) in New Haven, Conn. Unfortunately, up against the passionate play of the host Bulldogs, the Harvard Crimson were the ones to get soaked.
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SOPHOMORE O’CONNOR PINS DOWN WRESTLER OF THE YEAR AWARD; FREE LAX TIX; CRIMSON SAILING COASTS, LAGS, TO OPEN SPRING SEASON; COOL HEADS KEEP HOOPS ON TOP OF IVY HEAP
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Big Red scare!
Skating in the comfy confines of Cambridge’s Bright Hockey Center this past Friday (Feb. 29), the No. 1 ranked Harvard women’s hockey team (currently 28-1-0) found itself in some pretty strange territory: down a goal in the third period. For a team on a 16-game victory streak, the Crimson’s struggle against a below .500 Cornell…
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New York, New York, New York
A steadfast New York University men’s volleyball team withstood a 2-1 deficit to serve up a 3-2 victory over Harvard this past Friday (Feb. 22), handing the Crimson its only five-game setback of the season thus far. With the loss, Harvard also suffered its first three-match skid of the 2008 campaign, while falling to 4-5…
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Runners, throwers, jumpers take second, third at HYP meet, Men’s squash takes fourth at CSA National Team Championships, Operation playoffs: Mission getting accomplished for Crimson hockey
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Victor Cha looks at Olympic politics
Victor Cha, director of Asian affairs on the National Security Council from 2004 to 2007 and a former Olin National Security Fellow at Harvard, returned to campus last week (Feb. 14) to talk about the surprisingly forceful “soft power” of sport in the realm of international relations and diplomacy.
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Crimson still gritty in pink
Perhaps to the shock of the Union and Rensselaer women’s hockey teams, the color of the Crimson’s jerseys this past weekend (Feb. 8-9) failed to soften the club’s ferocious play. Donned in specifically designed pink jerseys for the Pink at the Rink campaign, the No. 1 nationally ranked Harvard squad shut out the visiting squads,…