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Catherine Ysrael, the two-year co-captain of the Harvard women's water polo team, recently received All-America honors at the Harvard-hosted women's water polo nationals. She was also Harvard's leading scorer and Most Valuable Player this year. A native of the Pacific island of Guam ("Guam is Good" reads her favorite sweatshirt), Ysrael was a member of the all-Guam swimming, softball and basketball teams, though she claims she is "really bad" at the latter two sports ("They were desperate for people," she explains, "that's why they picked me.") The English concentrator and Eliot...
...whole novelty of water polo was exciting, also. I'd never played water polo before I got here. Back home in Guam I swam competitively for eight years, but that was about the extent...
...thirds of my classmates from high school went to the University of Guam, and then most of the other ones went to the University of Hawaii. A lot of it is expense--it's so expensive to get off the island...
Part of the whole reason I've consciously tried to come to school so far away, and am going even farther away to England next year--experiencing all these different cultures and meeting lots of different people--is that I eventually want to return back to Guam. So this is my big chance now to get exposed to as much I can outside of Guam and the Pacific region before I return home...
...regular walking travel agent for Guam--I should be the Guam visitors' bureau. Guam is south of Japan--it's about 9000 miles from Cambridge. It has 110,000 people, loads of great beaches. See, you can just make out my house here on this poster...