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...heart was pounding,” junior forward Katie Rollins said. “I remember thinking, ‘It doesn’t get much better than this.’” It got better the following Friday, when the Crimson beat the last-place Bears to deliver coach Kathy Delaney-Smith’s 400th career victory and move one step closer to the outright title. But the next night at Yale, everything came crashing down. Harvard held a one-point halftime lead, but the Bulldogs stayed in it, using...
...games,” junior forward Sarah Vaillancourt said. “It’s easy sometimes to lose your composure, but we didn’t.”The Crimson took two games from Cornell in the opening round of the ECAC playoffs and then beat Clarkson 3-0 in the semifinals to set up a rematch with St. Lawrence—the team that knocked Harvard out of the ECAC Tournament in 2007—in the conference finals.It took an extra 3:33, but an overtime breakaway goal from Cahow gave the Crimson...
...swimming and diving team still managed to be a dominant force in the Ivy League. The Crimson finished the season with a 6-1 dual meet record, a second-place finish at Ivies, a No. 2 ranking among mid-major teams, and nine new school records. Harvard handily beat every team in the Ivy League except Princeton, who handed the team its first loss in the season’s final dual meet and then claimed victory again at the Ivy League Championships. The Crimson won all of its dual meets by an average of almost 70 points, including...
...just a 2-5 record against a very strong Ivy field. Harvard’s two conference wins came against Brown and Columbia. The first was a gritty win in which Harvard edged the Bears by a single goal, 14-13; the second victory came against Columbia, whom Harvard beat in an easier 12-8 decision. Sandwiched between those two wins was a five-game losing streak that took the Crimson out of league contention. Harvard’s defense never allowed fewer than 11 goals during the skid and surrendered 18 tallies at home to both Boston University...
...composed of six sophomores, two juniors, and just one senior. “If you compare [our team with] other teams in the league, we’re astonishingly young,” He said. “Our guys are strong, but you just can’t beat experience. If two people have the same erg score, but another person has raced more, then the one with more experience has the upper hand.”Unfortunately for Harvard, the youth and inexperience of the varsity squad cost the team precious dual race wins. In its first race...