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...accomplishments, according to Green, can be attributed to a new drive to succeed. “She’s really matured a lot in the last four months especially—she became more goal-oriented,” Green said. “I think after spring break she was setting more individual goals...getting the first point for the team, sweeping every doubles match.”After sustaining a wrist injury in the spring non-league schedule, Ko was forced to sit out the first two Ivy matches against Cornell and Columbia. When she returned...
With a depleted pitching staff and injuries to key players, Harvard faced an uphill battle in 2009, especially after a grueling spring break trip down south that pitted the Crimson against some of the top teams in the nation. After losing 16 of its first 18 games, including the first two of the Ivy League season to Columbia, Harvard easily could have resigned itself to a lost season. But Douglas’ leadership set an example that the rest of the squad could not ignore...
...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...