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...term “rookie” doesn’t quite fit with what Lily Lorentzen did this year. The 10-1 record in dual matches? Nope. The double honor of All-American and Ivy League Player of the Year? Nah. The individual national championship and the season-ending No. 1 ranking that goes along with it? Definitely not. In fact, about the only thing that tips you off that Lorentzen is a freshman is the ’09 on the Harvard squash team roster—that and the Ivy League Rookie of the Year award...
...Rathgeber continued onto the NCAA Championships in Atlanta. Cromwell continued his run of outstanding performances with a fourth-place finish in the 200-yard backstroke, breaking his personal best and the league record with a time of 1:41.83. He also received his fifth individual and seventh overall All-American nod. “Dave just swam lights out,” Rathgeber said. “It was nice to see an Ivy swimmer up there with national champions and Olympians.” Harvard finished the season 22nd in the season’s final College Swim Coaches...
...recognizable face away from the rink. During her time in Cambridge, Ruggiero helped pilot the Crimson to a national title in her freshman season, earned the Patty Kazmaier Award as the top player in the country after her senior campaign in 2004, and was named an All-American all four years. In her 127 games in a Harvard uniform, she led the team to a stunning 109-13-5 record. On the international stage, she is a three-time Olympian, earning a gold medal as the youngest member of the U.S. squad in 1998, silver in Salt Lake City...
...some patience from the audience, which is used to hearing politicians give smooth, market-tested replies to the tough questions. But the patience is rewarded. Webb has taken a spiritual journey over the past decade, launched by the research he did for Born Fighting, his nonfiction paean to his all-American ethnic group, the Scots Irish. "When I started studying Andrew Jackson, I realized that I was really a Jacksonian populist Democrat," Webb tells the crowd. "Jackson believed that you don't measure the health of a society at the apex but at the base. I believe that...
...whole family was fantastically fit; the house had six treadmills side by side in the workout room and an indoor pool complete with lane dividers that helped son Darwin qualify for the Olympic trials and made Laura an All-American. The parents never missed a swim meet. There were daily family runs 365 days a year, meaning, before presents could be opened on Christmas morning...