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...just a shock,” Crimson coach Ray Leone said after the game. “To end the game like that, it’s just, I just can’t believe it. To end the game like that and to be the champion in the same second that it ends…” No one would have predicted a miracle finish after the first two overtimes saw the Crimson outshoot Columbia, 9-3, but come away empty-handed. In the first overtime, a shot from Harvard’s freshman standout Melanie Baskind ricocheted...
...winner in the 2007 and 2008 California state championships and an Under-18 World Champion, Weiler brought his pole vaulting pedigree to Harvard and the Ivy League, where he has dominated the competition since the beginning of the indoor season...
...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...
Coming into the 2008-09 campaign as the defending Ivy League champion, the Harvard men’s tennis team (13-9, 5-2 Ivy) was confident about its potential, but the season was far from easy for the Crimson rackets. Harvard started off the year facing a number of top-30 teams—including No. 1 Georgia—in a series of diagnostic tests for the Crimson. Harvard struggled against the top-notch competition, although No. 69 Chris Clayton, the Crimson co-captain, provided one bright spot, beating No. 12 Nate Schnugg of Georgia. Harvard competed...
...year ago. If we are able to combine our consistent play from this year with some extraordinary rounds here and there, we should be able to improve our finishes in a national tournament.” Senior Emily Balmert, Harvard’s first individual Ivy League champion in program history in 2006 and the first women’s golfer and second Crimson golfer to earn All-Ivy four times, also recognized the steady improvement Harvard women’s golf has seen over its recent campaigns. “The team has gotten stronger every year over...