Word: goal
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...offseason didn’t take place in a training facility or on a soccer field. It was all inside her head. But boy, did it show on the field. One of two players to start all 18 games for the Crimson, Hagner led the team with seven goals, good for fifth in the Ivy League, and was third on the team with 15 points.“She was absolutely amazing,” Harvard coach Ray Leone said. “It happens to every player at different times, and fortunately for us, it happened to her going...
...Lizzy Nichols lined up for her penalty kick. As she put cleat to ball, the crowd began to shout. When the shot ripped the upper nineties, it roared. When the swarm of students sprinted onto the field, it became pure bedlam, and deservedly so. Nichols’ penalty-kick goal with nine seconds left in double overtime not only won the game, 2-1, for the Crimson, but more importantly, it secured an Ivy title. Were it not for that goal, a tie would have resulted, handing Princeton the championship and leaving Harvard on the outside looking...
Regardless of Lin’s new title, the ultimate goal will be the same...
...definitely put pretty high expectations on myself,” the freshman said. “The coaches put high expectations on me too. I always considered myself a goal-scorer—it’s what I did a lot of when I played in high school. So I knew when the coaches gave me my opportunity to get in there, I was going to score goals...
...adults, he is something else: a uniter, someone who brings people together, someone who accepts people despite their flaws in order to accomplish a lofty goal in the face of long odds. For them, it is life as sport...