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...wide open, and the Crimson could make a run at a top finish. Harvard plays three games this coming week with the hopes of righting its recent skid and making a playoff push. “Oftentimes, a win or a string of wins can be the morale booster, the cure-all,” McKiernan said. “We’re at a turning point right now.” “I know we’re going to pull this thing around—we won’t go down with a losing...
...meet,” Cocks said. “It’s always nice to win the relays, and any time you can get all eight guys to work hard and pull out a one-two finish it’s great. It was definitely a confidence booster.”Cromwell and Rathgeber each won two events for Harvard, and Cromwell set a pool record in the 200 backstroke. Degnan-Rojeski had four top-three finishes. “Jason has been doing incredible recently,” Cromwell said. “We’ve been...
...edged out Rutgers in the first event, the 200-yard medley relay, by .02 seconds with a team of sophomore Jackie Pangilinan and sophomores Lindsay Hart, Bridget O’Connor, and Amanda Slaight.“After we won the first relay that was a really big confidence booster,” Pangilnan said. “Being able to beat them [in] the first race, that gave us the motivation to think we can do this.”Harvard soon lost the lead by dropping the next three events. The Crimson took the second through fifth spots...
...Rathgeber placed fourth, the Crimson did not have the numbers to compete with the Cavaliers. Virginia ended up beating Harvard by only 11 points.“Virginia is a great team, so the fact that we were competitive with them for the whole meet is definitely a confidence booster,” sophomore Sam Wollner said. “The 200 breaststroke was key for them—four out of the top eight swimmers were from Virginia. Geoff swam a great race, but we didn’t have enough swimmers in the race. That race enabled them...
Nobody wants to drag the entire nursery through the airport, but experienced family travelers say it's better to overpack than do without. Two increasingly popular options: rent a crib, a booster seat and whatever else is needed via websites like babysaway.com or arrange for a company like JetSetBabies to ship diapers, baby food and formula to your destination...