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Not that all Harvard sports teams are bad. There are many which are good--and a few which are legitimately great--but they tend to be the minor ones. The Crimson aggressively promotes the successes of Harvard men's and women's soccer, men's and women's squash, women...
And there are more, who went unrecognized by their respective selection committees but made substantial contributions: softball's Tasha Cupp blasted onto the Ivy League scene, quickly becoming one of the Ancient Eight's top pitchers; swimmer Brian Younger won the high-point award at the Eastern Sprints in his...
Might they have been thinking of when they were freshmen lacrosse players, facing Maryland in the NCCA Title game? Harvard held a two-goal lead with five minutes to go, but the Terrapins would tie to send the game into overtime and then win it all.
So was the loss to Dartmouth it? Will the women's lacrosse team finish .500 next year, and do even worse the year after that? Will there be players two or three years from now yearning for the days when Harvard could get to within six goals of Dartmouth?
Might they have been hoping that the younger generation will realize better than they did that it must carpe diem and that NCAA Tournaments are precious and rare? Might they also have been hoping that Gudeman, Duffy and all of next year's recruits will use this wisdom to their...