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First and foremost, Harvard swimming and diving is an Ivy League team.Traditionally, the Ivy League and ECAC championships fall on the same weekend, leaving the women’s swimming and diving team with a decision to make.“In the past we’ve had a big enough team to go for a dual championship,” co-captain Jackie Pangilinan said. “But, since we have such a small team this year we could only send five girls to ECAC’s. Our top priority is the Ivy Championships...
...goes on an adventure tour with the thought that he won't make it back alive. The whole point is to push the envelope and live to tell the tale. It's unclear what Markus Groh thought when he signed up for a late February dive that could put him face-to-face with killer sharks spanning 18 feet in length - without a cage to separate him from the man-eaters. He surely didn't expect to end up dead. But the 49-year-old attorney from Austria, died on Feb. 24 after being bitten in the leg while swimming...
There are other factors to consider. "It's the first fatality that we have reported involving a dive where the host is specifically bringing in the animal by chumming [feeding the sharks with chopped up fish]," says George Burgess, director of the International Shark Attack File at the University of Florida. "Putting people in the water with these large animals is a risk. It's not a matter of whether an attack like this was going to happen, it was when...
...Coincidental minors--after the whistle, Tyler Burton shoves Pelle into the Raiders net, gets called for cross-checking, Pelle gets unsportsmanlike conduct (for allegedly taking a dive...
...rock bottom for the Harvard men’s hockey team just three weeks ago. A 4-2 loss at Brown on Feb. 1 capped off a 2-9-2 dive that started after a 3-3 tie at Yale on Nov. 28. “Some of those ties felt like losses,” senior forward Paul Dufault said. “We were playing pretty well, but in the third period we just lost it.”Although the Crimson (11-11-3, 9-7-2 ECAC) had a 3-2 advantage with a minute remaining...