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Tag: Volleyball
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When your hobby becomes breaking World Records
Duo achieved sweet feat — “greatest distance catching a gummy candy in the mouth” — at Harvard Stadium when the lighting was just right.
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Serving up conviviality — and rocket spikes
For 40 years, the Rhino League has been played on the Harvard Bio Labs volleyball court.
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Blocking fear
When neuroscience concentrator Sope Adeleye ’20 suffered a severe concussion during volleyball practice her junior year, she knew better than most the risks she was facing.
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Crimson contenders
In the upcoming season, Harvard’s women’s volleyball and field hockey and men’s water polo teams will be the ones to watch.
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Where sand and sun meet science
The annual Rhino Cup volleyball league stokes the competitive fires of Harvard’s biological community, drawing researchers out of the lab and onto the sandy volleyball court in the courtyard of the Biological Laboratories.
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Dig this
Harvard senior volleyball player Christine Wu, set to become the team’s all-time leader in digs — or saving passes — hopes to make the pros before heading to medical school.
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It’s all about the numbers
Alexander Ahmed ’10 shows a passion for statistics both on the diamond and in the classroom.
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Women’s volleyball looks to keep pace in Ancient Eight
The Harvard women’s volleyball team, which split its recent games with a 3-0 sweep of Brown (Oct. 23) and a 3-0 loss to Yale (Oct. 24), is embarking on a four-game home stand.
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Strong effort by Crimson not enough
Mikaelle Comrie, Taylor Docter, and Anne Carroll Ingersoll each had 14 kills on Sept. 8 against UConn, but the Crimson still fell to the Huskies in five sets by a score of 3-2.
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Men’s volleyball fall to Rutgers-Newark, split Hay title
Despite downing the Scarlet Raiders at Malkin Athletic Center in five games a month before, the Crimson were unable to stop the powerful Rutgers-Newark attack (which hit a combined .337) in a three-game sweep of Harvard on Friday (April 17), snapping the Crimson’s five-game winning streak.
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Crimson volleyball survive NYU, Sacred Heart
Despite falling behind 0-2 at New York University (NYU) on Saturday (March 28) and 1-2 at Sacred Heart on Sunday (March 29), the Harvard men’s volleyball team still fought through, taking both matches in five games.
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Crimson continue to cruise, have won 6 of their last 8
The Harvard men’s volleyball team are now winners of six out of their last eight, sweeping East Stroudsburg on March 14, 3-0, followed by a 3-0 sweep of MIT on March 17. The Crimson downed East Stroudsburg in straight sets (bouncing back from a loss at Princeton the night before) for their first road win…
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Crimson volleyball takes four out of five in successful homestand
Despite starting the season with a 2-4 record, a recent five-game homestand in which the Harvard men’s volleyball team went 4-1 may have been exactly what the doctor ordered for the Crimson.
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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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Sports briefs
The Harvard men’s water polo team dismissed visiting Fordham University and Iona College, 10-5 and 12-9, respectively, on Saturday (Oct. 13) to improve to 9-8 overall and remain unbeaten at Blodgett Pool. Freshman running back Gino Gordon recorded a game-high 66 rushing yards to help the Crimson (3-2; 2-0 Ivy) to a 27-17 win against…