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...most important part of Christina Hagner’s 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...
...While the fall season has little bearing on rankings and championships, both Harvard crews carried the momentum of the strong finishes from the fall head races into the spring, plowing through their early competition...
...Harvard men set the bar high for next year, beating a top-10 opponent for the first time under head coach John Tillman. But a handful of one-goal losses denied the Crimson the chance to vie for the Ivy League title and kept them from postseason play...
...Georgia and California. Harvard was no less dominant against Ancient Eight competition. The team won its first five league meets by an average of 93 points before running into its first major competition in the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton tri-meet. The Crimson fell to Princeton, 170.5-148.5, in head-to-head competition. The sheer number of wins generated by the Tigers’ superstars made a dual meet victory difficult for Harvard to attain, but the Crimson was able to get even at the championship meet, where the scoring format tends to favor depth. At Ivies, Harvard beat runner...
...Harvard certainly hopes to take some positives out of a difficult year, which included heartbreaking overtime losses to then-No. 19 Brown at home in October and to MIT in the Northern Championships. Although the Crimson began the year 2-1 and looked to be adjusting well to head coach Erik Farrar’s new system, the squad struggled mightily with transition defense, prompting an eight-game losing streak. But rather than give into frustration, Harvard tightened its play and went 3-3 over its final six games, an encouraging sign for 2009. “Guys...