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From July to the beginning of August, she will travel with former Harvard women’s basketball player Laela Sturdy ’00 and her younger sister, Alexis, to Kimpala, Uganda on a goodwill trip with Right to Play, a Canadian-based NGO founded in 1994 by Norwegian speedskater Johann Olav Koss that uses Olympic athletes to provide humanitarian aid and promote sport in developing countries. Members of the organization include NHL great Wayne Gretzky, NBA star Dikembe Mutumbo, and of course Angela Ruggiero...
...Laela Sturdy and Ruggiero wrote the proposal for the trip, and Right to Play loved it. But Ruggiero explains there is still a few hurdles ahead before the trip can move forward...
Also making an appearance on Saturday was Laela Sturdy ’00, Harvard’s leading scorer during the first two post-Feaster years. After graduation, Sturdy—a Mitchell Scholar—attended Trinity College in Dublin where she earned a masters in multimedia systems, before working as a consultant for the World Bank in Kenya in recent months. Sturdy said that throughout the game, she had to fight the urge to throw on a jersey, jump on the court and get in the game...
Delaney-Smith has cause to think her team can win. The Crimson returns all but two players--All-Ivy first-team forward Laela Sturdy and sharp-shooting guard Courtney Egelhoff--and adds four new players, giving the tallest team in the Ivy League more quickness and depth from a squad (16-10, 9-5 Ivy) that tied for second in the conference last year...
...Embodying the tone of the season, the final note was a disappointing 94-76 loss to first-place Dartmouth in Hanover in March. Captain Laela Sturdy and fellow senior Courtney Egelhoff did their best to make their last game a sweet one, but Dartmouth senior guard Courtney Banghart was tenacious in her final home game and ensured that the Crimson seniors would not find a second win over their arch-rivals...