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...much for a sophomore slump. In just his second season at the helm of the Harvard women’s soccer team, head coach Ray Leone guided the Crimson to a 10-3-5 record, which earned his squad its first Ivy League championship since 1999 and its first NCAA tournament appearance since 2004.The third Harvard coach in as many years when he took the job before the 2007 season, Leone has brought stability and a standard of excellence to the program. “It was nice to have consistency,” co-captain Nicole Rhodes said...
After a record-setting junior year in which she finished fourth at the NCAA Indoor Championships, garnered All-American honors, won both the Heps Indoor and Outdoor titles, and won the ECAC Championship, what could Harvard women’s track team captain and high jumper Becky Christensen do for an encore...
Christensen also made a strong fifth-place showing at the NCAA Indoor Championships, although her finish represented a slip by one spot after she took fourth as a junior. In a year that produced better overall jumps, Christensen saw her championship effort as a bittersweet result...
...Huilongguan Super League takes its inspiration from the Community Shield, an English trophy that matches England's best professional team against its best amateur team for charity. "We came up with a slogan for the championship last year - 'Return sportsmanship to football, and let the people's sport remain a people's sport.' " Wang is not alone in his conviction. In recent years, amateur football leagues have started to catch on in larger neighborhoods in Beijing. On May 17, as 12 teams in the Huilongguan Super League played their 9th round, at least four other community championships were being played...
...posted on the suburb's community website. "We thought we'd have a kick around, but over 70 people showed up," Wang chuckles. The weekend kick around soon turned into eleven-a-side, and by 2004, nine teams and about 180 players competed in Huilongguan Super League's first championship. (See pictures of street basketball in China...