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...around.”This year, Rathgeber claimed seven Ivy League event titles at the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League (EISL) Championships to help set up the over-300-point margin that separated Harvard and second place Princeton. During the meet, Rathgeber touched the wall first in the 200 IM, 400 IM, 200 breaststroke, 200 freestyle relay, 400 freestyle relay, 200 medley relay, and 400 medley relay, giving him 21 Ivy League titles in his career.But more impressive than the quantity of Rathgeber’s first-place finishes was the dominating fashion in which he attained them. Rathgeber swam five...
...which Harvard did not lose a single race. Leading the charge for the Crimson was an extremely talented Class of 2011. Freshman Kate Mills was one of just three Harvard athletes to qualify for NCAAs, capping a season in which she set a school record in the 200 IM (2:01.72) and earned three top-eight finishes at Ivies. Mills just missed All-American status in the 200 butterfly, placing 19th at NCAAs with a season-best time of 1:58.04. She was second in the Ivy League in the event. “It’s sometimes really...
...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 Committees and captain IM sports teams. It’s no surprise that one of my most frequent interviewees—Lindsay Hallion, the heart and soul of the Crimson basketball team—was running the show for Leverett House at the Senior Olympics. This winter, when the women’s hockey team soared...
...north side of Mount Auburn St., sparing myself long, cold walks in the winter down to the rest of the River Houses. Let’s be honest—I was pretty spoiled here.As my four years at Harvard come to a close and nostalgia sets in, Im forced to think about what I have enjoyed and what I would have done differently. Fortunately, the latter list remains small. Sportswriting, though, ranks highly on the enjoyable list.The Crimson Sports board provided me with an outlet to turn my sports passion into a piece of artwork—all with...
...member how he would respond to the claim that MSNBC officially supports Obama, Matthews responded with typical Hardball wit, “Well, it’s not official.” Matthews had a long history of involvement in politics before he launched his career as a commentator. Im 1974, he lost the Democratic Party’s nomination for a U.S. House seat in his native Pennsylvania, and served as four years as a speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter. Later, he spent a half decade as a top aide to Democratic Speaker of the House Thomas...