Word: captains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wearing tall shiny boots. No, these mysterious folk are not on their way to a Marquis de Sade costume party: they are members of the Harvard equestrian team. "I always get weird looks when I stride across the Yard in my riding outfit," complains the team's coordinating co-captain Sia Shin `99. "It's a good thing we leave the whips in the barn." Many of these weird looks may be due to the large percent of the student body who have never heard of Harvard's equestrian team, and to the only slightly smaller percent who cannot quite...
...equestrian team is Harvard's own co-ed riding team, coached by Alice McNeill at Verrill Farm in Concord, Massachusetts, which competes as part of the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association. According to Michael K. Haynie `00, the team's co-captain, the show team has done well this season. Haynie and Langdon Fielding `98 will both be attending the regional competition at Dartmouth in April, and nearly all the other riders have won ribbons...
Even the riders who do ride in shows find the team rewarding for other reasons as well. Some find it teaches them how to communicate better. Sia's co-captain Eric A. Reitman `99, explains the difficulty of getting the horses to know what you want them to do. He says that, "direct communication is, for the most part, impossible. We fall back on a vocabulary of reaction, we cajole, cater, condemn, threaten, punish, forgive, reward, take `face' and deal with egos and attitudes, just as one has to in a social situation with humans...
...Captain Mike Ferrucci was the star of the day, scoring nine points on a career high eight goals. He repeatedly scored against a Vermont defense which simply could not contain a Harvard attack which got goals from ten different players...
Senior tri-captain James Butera, junior tri-captain Dustin DeNunzio, junior tri-captain Ed Mosley, and sophomore Fran Volpe all traveled to Cleveland State for the 1998 National tournament March 20th...