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It’s the worst feeling for a senior athlete: skating off the ice after a tough, season-ending loss, knowing that your career is over and that you ended it without a victory.For at least two members of the Harvard men’s hockey team, however, there was a silver lining to that darkest of clouds.On the bus back to Cambridge, co-captains David MacDonald and Mike Taylor began discussing their hockey futures with coach Ted Donato ’91. Both had had outstanding seasons—Taylor was the leading scorer for the Crimson with...
Some sports look grueling - ice hockey, soccer, basketball, for example, with their yards of stops and starts, feints and runs. Others, like gymnastics, appear effortless and soaring. But in the first national study of gymnastics injuries, conducted by researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, 16 years of data show that there is nothing easy at all about gymnastics, and that injuries from the sport are as common as those in soccer, basketball and ice hockey - making gymnastics among the most dangerous sports for girls...
...spent my first season in the press box of the Bright Hockey Center, getting to know the ins and outs of covering the No. 16 Harvard men’s hockey team, the intensity that is a college hockey game did not surprise me. But underneath that commotion—of players hustling to the puck or going for the body check in the corner—every game seemed to have one of those moments (call it a turning point, for lack of a better word) that only becomes obvious with the knowledge of the final score. Maybe...
...student body.” He found that the stereotypes about rich undergraduates were largely untrue. Today, a note from Fitzsimmons will reach 27,000 high school seniors notifying them of Harvard’s admissions decision. The letter he received over 45 years ago set the former hockey goalie on a journey from Weymouth to Tibet and placed him on top of the country’s admissions world in between.27,000 LIFE STORIESFitzsimmons spends a substantial amount of time sitting behind his desk stacked high with neat piles of application materials, but his job often takes...
DULUTH, Minn.—A day after the Harvard women’s hockey team saw its season come to a disappointing end with a 4-1 loss to Wisconsin in the Frozen Four semifinal round, the Crimson was given some positive news to take back home with it.Junior forward Sarah Vaillancourt won the Patty Kazmaier Award, given annually to the best player in women’s college hockey.Vaillancourt led Harvard with 26 goals and 36 assists, was fifth in the nation with 1.82 points per game, and tied for second with 1.06 assists per game...