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...don’t have to go overseas to find some really good players.”“And certainly everybody wants to come to Harvard. That’s a big plus for us,” he adds, using as an example world champion foilist Emily Cross, “who turned down a full scholarship” to Stanford to come and fence for the Crimson.“That’s huge, the fact that somebody’s willing to bypass a full scholarship to a very good school like Stanford...
...League packed with the talent of perennial title contender Princeton, consistently threatening Dartmouth, and two-time conference champion Cornell, the Harvard men’s lacrosse team began the 2006 season just hoping to compete in what has become one of college lacrosse’s toughest leagues. Five road wins, two triple-overtime marathons, and a surprising Selection Sunday announcement later, the Crimson ended its season in a place that it hadn’t seen in a decade—the NCAA tournament.A 6-7 season saw Harvard split its six conference games. The Crimson?...
...schedule with ease. After intersession, however, Harvard faced a murderer’s row of Trinity, Penn, Princeton, and Yale, plus the Howe Cup on its home courts at the end of February. The team was confident in its ability to take down the two-time defending champion Bulldogs. But it was third-ranked Trinity that tripped up the Crimson’s undefeated stretch. On Feb. 4, Trinity surprised visiting Harvard with a 6-3 defeat in Hartford. The loss was concerning not only because it shook up the rankings, but because both Lorentzen and Grigg fell to their...
...kills per game. The senior finished 10th in the EIVA in kills per game despite being slowed during much of the season by a nagging shoulder injury. McKiernan posted some of his best numbers in Harvard's biggest games. In Harvard's March 18 victory over eventual Hay Division champion East Stroudsburg, the middle hitter registered 25 kills on .657 hitting and added six blocks in a 3-1 win. Down the stretch, McKiernan's teammates looked to the co-captain with the match on the line. And more often than not, he delivered. "You know if you set Seamus...
...accurate according to DOL regulations. They disagreed with the complaint’s accusation of their supposedly lackluster job proposals as well, claiming that they had made valid offers that had been rejected by the candidates because of better opportunities. According to then-executive dean of the KSG Hale Champion, one woman they recruited chose to take “a major position in the federal government.”Nevertheless, KSG students past and present reacted to the accusations swiftly, with the first response coming merely hours after the WEAL complaint in a letter of support signed by over...