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...best was quite good. Before her recent induction, Allard’s accomplishments hardly went unnoticed. In 1989, the year she transitioned to pitcher, Allard was singled out as the team’s Most Outstanding Player and Most Outstanding Pitcher. Allard was also selected as a Division I All-American and named the Big Ten Player of the Year. The list goes on, as the Irvine, Calif. native achieved Academic All-Big Ten honors and was nominated for the Honda Broderick Cup, a sports award for female collegiate athletes who demonstrate excellent athletic talent, leadership skills, academic distinction...
...endeavors into one relatively unknown to the community. “He was the first player to ever get recruited [from his high school’s lacrosse program],” Sue-Ellen Duboe says. “That was a huge deal. He was also the first All-American player in our school for 10 years, and he was the first player to make Team Illinois.”Realizing the potential behind what had been an unconventional backyard hobby, Duboe sought to continue pursuing his newfound passion into college—a prospect that would have been...
...Southern Relays. But junior high jumper Becky Christensen is finding out the hard way that there’s no rest for the weary. Last Friday, the Texas native competed in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships and brought home a fourth-place finish and her first indoor All-American accolades after clearing a 1.83m bar, matching her career best jump. “She went in there as the last person on the list and came out fourth,” said Harvard assistant coach and high jump coach Will Thomas...
...Field Championships at the University of Arkansas’s Randal Tyson Track Center seems like a pretty high bar. But, for Becky Christensen, clearing high bars comes easy. The junior high jumper tied her career best jump at 1.83 meter to claim the fourth spot and earn All-American status. “This weekend really shows that the hardest part [about indoor NCAAs] is getting in,” Christensen said. “Indoors doesn’t take as many people as outdoors, so the competition is a lot different...it?...
...doesn’t always mean losing. The Harvard fencing team finished sixth at the NCAA Championships for the second year in a row, capping a successful season for the squad. The year-end tournament was held this past weekend in Columbus, Ohio. Senior Teddy Sherrill was among four All-Americans for the Crimson and led the team with a fifth-place finish in epee. Entering the season without some key fencers, the Crimson nevertheless relied on veteran leaders and some youthful infusion to tie for the second-best finish in school history. Mathematically, the chances of recapturing the title...