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Junior co-captains Courtney Bergman and Susanna Lingman—arguably the team’s two best players—did not play any tennis this weekend at the tournament held in Blacksburg, VA. Both were forced to sit out due to similar chronic knee problems...
Lingman was slated to compete but withdrew from the field before her first match on Saturday due to serious pain in her knee. The junior had been bothered by the injury for roughly the past two weeks, and had even taken days off in hopes of improvement by the time of the tournament’s commencement...
...more and more complaints from soccer-and-ballet moms about their hectic, joyless lives, and she was having similar misgivings herself. With the backing of her boss, she convened a meeting of parents, clergy and community leaders. They shared their alarm over the growing numbers of elementary students wearing knee braces because of injured and overused limbs, the burnout among high school students who wanted no part of varsity athletics and the homework load that forced schoolkids of all ages to lug backpacks heavy with books. "We're creating a generation that's overscheduled by parents, overtested by teachers...
...although he entered his freshman year with great expectations, Old suffered a season-ending knee injury in a game against Stanford during the opening weekend of the season. In an eerie coincidence, an admissions officer had asked him what he would do if he suffered debilitating injury at Harvard. Old’s response was simple—“You are still at the best school in the world so you can’t be too disappointed...
...also passes such advice on to her roommates, though their styles appear completely incongruous at first glance—Dawson with her corduroy jacket, Salisbury with her jeans and t-shirt and Gollogly in long earrings, black cutout shirt, white pleated mini-skirt and knee-high black boots. But as they’re all around the same top size, weekend wardrobe sharing is normal. “We go to Lila when we don’t know what to do,” Cherry says...