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...players in very, very good shape. Our problem, in quotation marks, is that we have two centerfielders. So when your problem is that you have two of something, that's a lot better problem than having none of something. Do we foresee a third world championship? No. That might be considered cocky. But we have a good team, and we should have a decent year...
...selection committee released the names of the participants for the NCAA Championship in fencing yesterday, with 10 Harvard fencers making the list out of a possible 12. The tournament will be held March 13-16 in New Haven, Conn. Nine Crimson fencers qualified based on their performances at regionals last weekend, while sophomore Long Ouyang received an at-large bid, beating out seven of the other top foil fencers in the country. For the men the participants include: in foil, Ouyang and junior co-captain Kai Itameri-Kinter, in epee, senior Teddy Sherrill and sophomore Billy Stallings?...
...Dartmouth’s buzzer-beater had rimmed out on Friday night? What if Maduka had made it back to Cambridge for the final minutes of Saturday’s game?But if Harvard sweeps Yale and Brown this weekend, the Crimson will clinch its third Ivy League championship in four years and second consecutive outright crown.If that happens, Maduka will at least have the luxury of not having to choose between March Madness and the long jump.My guess, though, is that she’ll wish she had the option.—Staff writer Aidan E. Tait...
Four years, four championships. That’s the collegiate line for Jackie Pangilinan, a senior on the Harvard women’s swimming team. Last Saturday, she notched her fourth Ivy League individual championship with a win in the 200-yard breaststroke. “It was definitely the most rewarding sports moment of my life,” Pangilinan said. “I had no expectations of winning the event going in. I couldn’t believe it.” The weekend victory added to Pangilinan’s three past individual championships...
...April hiring of Amaker, who has experience helming major-conference teams at Seton Hall and Michigan, seemed to signal a long-overdue move on the part of the administration to repair the historically pathetic program. This process has to include giving the coach the go-ahead to attract Ivy championship-caliber players to Cambridge.According to Thamel, several candidates who interviewed for the head coaching job along with Amaker confirmed that they were told that they would be allowed to compete with the other Ivy schools in recruiting. Normally reticent athletic director Bob Scalise was remarkably frank on this front...