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As the most successful women’s basketball coach in Ivy League history, Kathy Delaney-Smith has already received her fair share of attention, and the spring of 2007 was no different. In April, the Harvard coach was named an assistant coach of the Pan American Games team, a...
It was in that year when James E. Greenidge was hired as Harvard’s sports information director, making him the only high-ranking African-American in the athletic department at the time and the Ivy League’s first-ever black man to hold the position. But...
Nichols Family Director of Athletics Robert L. Scalise did his best to answer critics soon after, when he hired Tommy Amaker as the new head coach of Harvard men’s basketball in April. Still, he’s just one of 32 head coaches at Harvard?...
“I think our history has been pretty good with hiring a diverse coaching and athletic department,” Amaker says. “I’m the third African-American basketball coach at Harvard, and it’s hard to find that many places...
Ironically, part of the problem of promoting diversity is the longevity often associated with Crimson athletic positions. Hired in 1982, former track and field and cross country coach Frank J. Haggerty ’68 didn’t retire until last year. And legendary crew coach Harry Parker has...