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Dylan Reese was named the 11th captain of Harvard hockey at the team’s annual end-of-season banquet at the Harvard Club Saturday. The junior from Pittsburgh is the fourth consecutive defenseman to earn the ‘C,’ and he takes the reins from 2005-2006 captain Peter Hafner. Hafner and junior forward Steve Mandes split the Ralph “Cooney” Weiland award for devotion and spirited play, while sophomores Paul Dufault and J.D. McCabe, a forward and a blueliner respectively, split the Donald Angier award for improvement. Defenseman Brian...
...amateur. You can win the gold medal for your country and the NCAA championship for your college and still be an amateur. But if you join your Olympic teammates on the Wheaties box, you instantly become a professional. That is why some 1998 U.S. women’s ice hockey Olympians were not in the Wheaties photo: appearing—even with no money changing hands—would have rendered them ineligible to compete again for Harvard...
...women’s teams have equal time on the practice fields and fencing and football receive proportionate funding, the fact remains that high profile male athletes fill a community niche that other student-athletes do not. Historically, men’s sports such as football, basketball, ice hockey, and lacrosse have occupied a more visible place on college campuses than other athletics. A school is more likely to receive wide acclaim for being national basketball champions than it would if its dance team were awarded the same honor. This tradition continues today. If we claim to want real equality...
...Princeton and Sarah A. Levin ’00, a majority of the statistics are broken down into three categories: male high profile athletes, male lower profile athletes, and female athletes. This distinction is interesting in and of itself, without the numbers attached to it. Football, basketball, and ice hockey are considered high profile men’s sports, while there do not seem to be any sports that are considered high profile for women. Clearly, if there is a need to separate the male sports into two distinct categories, there is a statistical disparity worth noting between...
...following year during the long off-season.Despite the regulations and the lack of scholarships that make the recruitment process more delicate and difficult for Harvard coaches, there is still a niche audience for the recruiting hot stove here at Harvard.Next year’s women’s hockey team offers the perfect example, and one that I personally know the most about. A quick look at the “Division I Recruits 2006-07” thread on the USCHO.com fan forum reveals that there have been over 200 posts about who will be heading to what school...