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...schizophrenic season for the Harvard women’s tennis team. The Crimson was its usual dominant self in the league portion of the schedule. Harvard punished the weaker sisters of the Ancient Eight, outscoring league opponents 44-5 to finish an undefeated 7-0 for the fourth straight season. The campaign helped the Crimson run its winning streak against Ivy opponents to 32 straight matches dating back to 2002. Senior Eva Wang and freshman Laura Peterzan, who both went 7-0 in league singles play, were named Ivy Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year, respectively, earning...
...league title and ended with the unyielding reality of the Ivy hoops hierarchy.With the league’s top two returning scorers and rebounders in captain Matt Stehle and junior center Brian Cusworth—Harvard’s twin frontcourt anchors—the Crimson was picked to finish second behind Penn in the league’s preseason poll. That ranking only fueled the high expectations, as Harvard was thought to be facing perhaps its best opportunity to unseat powerhouses Penn and Princeton and claim the school’s first Ivy title and first trip...
...games with the lead,” said captain Peter Hafner after the game. “We had a problem with that early in the season, and we’re really starting to figure out how to play with a lead.” Though the successful finish, coupled with the Crimson’s strong non-conference performance, had Harvard poised for its fifth consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament, a poor ECAC playoff run could have changed that.And for a time, it seemed as if the Crimson might blow its opportunity. Fifth-seeded St. Lawrence took...
...players, leading to disqualification. But the team quickly recovered. Freshman Michael Shore took to the course after Freshman Week and placed third in his second tournament, while classmates John Christensen and Josh Isner played well throughout the fall. Senior D.J. Hynes recovered splendidly from his knee injury, finishing eighth and 11th in a pair of the fall tournaments. The team practiced inside the Murr Center through the cold New England winter on a new golf simulator provided by the Friends of Harvard Golf, but it wasn’t until spring break that the team could return to the outdoors...
...goals,” Harvard coach Scott Anderson said. “One of our goals was to get better—to get better in our league, and we did do a little bit better.”But more important than Harvard’s fifth-place finish in the Ivy League were the intangibles that weren’t captured in the Crimson’s record.“I’m not sure if our record reflects those things,” Anderson said, “but the selection for the NCAA tournament...