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...Head football coach Tim Murphy estimates that the retention rate of recruited athletes over the past 15 years is about 70 percent. Even if this rate of attrition may be different in other sports, losing recruits once they are already on campus is an issue that resonates across the entire athletic department. Head softball coach Jenny Allard writes in an e-mail to The Crimson that students’ reasons for leaving vary: “Some students want the flexibility in their schedules to pursue other opportunities at Harvard.” Others are injured. Some, like Witt, cannot...
...Kathy Delaney-Smith, head coach of women’s basketball, refuses to characterize all athletes’ departures as “quitting...
...Instead, players and the coaching staff often reach this decision together. Sometimes a coach will actually encourage a player to drop the sport. Yet managing a team after losing a player remains a challenge. Recruiting plans must adjust, and remaining players are shifted around to fill gaps...
Looking back on last year’s disappointing 2-17 season, Harvard coach Traci Green set a clear goal for the women’s tennis team at the beginning of this season: become the Ivy League’s most improved team. The Crimson (12-8, 5-1 Ivy) has far exceeded expectations, and the squad is in a position to grab a share of the Ivy League title today if it defeats Dartmouth (8-13, 2-4) at the Beren Tennis Center. Although reconstructing a team each year can be difficult, the addition of five freshmen...
...Infield fly rule=unexpected and unwelcome unzipping of pants; bunt=kissing her hand and then attempting to move to lips; Kirby Puckett=her ex-boyfriend; third base=vague; hit by pitch=hit by bus while kissing date; first base coach=guy who helps you make out; Cal Ripken, Jr.=making out with same girl 2,632 consecutive times; called third strike=leave theater, get popcorn, return, date absent; inside the park home run=artificial insemination; suicide squeeze= “DO ME OR I’LL KILL MYSELF”; Registrar Barry S. Kane=inventor of the suicide squeeze...