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...Dartmouth, a team that finished in the middle of the Ivy League pack. Injuries in the winter also did not bode well for the squad. Ko missed the first two Ivy League matches in singles, and Cao only started playing in dual matches over spring break.But after spring break, Harvard came together and started playing its best tennis of the year. By the end of the Ivy League season, the Crimson had reached its peak and completed the rejuvenation.“We’re a totally different team than we were in February,” Green said...
...sometimes, life can be a microcosm of sports, too. When a kid loses both parents, lives an adolescence defined by constant change, and uses his naivety to break down the barriers of segregation, we assign to him the most fundamental tenets of sport: winner, champion, victor...
...Sometimes they do matter more than that. Sometimes there’s greater meaning to be found in athletics. Sports can break social barriers and make broader statements, as Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, or Maniac Magee would be quick to tell...
...goals.Three wins followed—including a notable 3-1 victory over Providence—before the loss to a very strong Dartmouth squad on Nov. 1.Harvard got back on track with a nonconference win against Maine before crushing Columbia, 6-1, in a game that saw Akpan break the Crimson’s all-time records for both points and assists.In the final league match of the year, then-No. 26 Harvard faced off against then-No. 24 Penn, with the Ivy League title up for grabs. The Crimson dominated the game, outshooting the Quakers, 15-7, in regulation...
...rankings for the first time in six years, and things looked bleak heading into a Dec. 17 matchup with then-No. 3 Dartmouth.But spurred by sophomore Liza Ryabkina’s third-period goal, the Crimson beat the Big Green, 3-2, to head into winter break on a high note.That was the beginning of an impressive turnaround that put Harvard back on top of the ECAC.Starting with a Jan. 9 win over Brown, the Crimson went undefeated in its last 10 ECAC regular-season contests. Along with Harvard’s comeback came the resurgence of Vaillancourt...