Word: hockey
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...ECAC. Four team titles. Records dropping left and right. Three All-Americans. Eight weeks atop the national polls. An appearance in the NCAA Frozen Four.Not bad for a team with a No. 6 preseason ranking.For the Harvard women’s hockey team, the secret to success was simple—team comes first.“We had talented players, there’s no doubt about that, but we’re not superstars,” tri-captain Caitlin Cahow said. “We depend on teamwork. We don’t win any games without...
...connection to our subjects that creates the discomfort we must deal with. When we step into the press box, we must shed our Harvard gear and adopt a stance of neutrality. It doesn’t matter if the volleyball team just clinched the Ivy League, if the hockey team just forced overtime in the Beanpot championship game, or if Clifton Dawson just broke the record for rushing yards in a career—you better keep your emotions in check. While this may not seem unique to college journalists—most sports reporters probably develop an affinity...
...this spring, I rowed for Eliot’s house crew (which one all four races by open water, by the way—but who’s bragging?) and sat right behind a girl who plays for the one-time No. 1 Harvard women’s hockey team. You’d be hard-pressed to find that environment at many other schools. Athletes at big universities often move off campus early, live in special dorms, and enjoy a strange celebrity status that transcends the chummy camaraderie (and equality) of undergraduate life. At Harvard, athletes run House...
Following the Crimson’s 4-2 loss to cellar-dwelling Brown in early February, the hopeful 6-3-2 start of the Harvard men’s hockey team had started to look like the play of a different team. Reeling from an 0-7-2 performance over the previous two months that threatened to turn the Crimson into an irrelevance, head coach Ted Donato ’91 was facing his first real crisis since coming to Harvard in 2004. Preparing to compete in Boston’s Beanpot tournament and face a string of ECAC opponents...
Sarah Vaillancourt’s name was announced, and the skaters of the Harvard women’s hockey team rose in unison as they watched their teammate walk to the podium in the banquet hall of the Radisson Hotel Duluth-Harborview in Duluth, Minn...