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That may seem a bit presumptious for most coaches--considering the team does not start practicing until today--but if you were coming off an 11-1 season and had nine returning lettermen, you too might be tempted to be a bit smug about your chances...
...players will joing a group of lettermen led by Captain Lucy Wood, attacker Sarah Mleczko and goalie Ellen Seidler, who spent part of the summer trying out for the U.S. Olympic team...
...bullpen became apparent early, as Park took an astonishingly young ballclub down to Sanford, Florida to train in early April. Ten of Harvard's traveling ballplayers were freshmen, and the talented youths had forced Park to cut loose several members of the 1976 squad and carry only eight lettermen down to the sunshine...
...small but talented contingent of seniors, led by Kevin McCall, Billy Tennis, and Mike Belmont, graduated in June, but a bevy of lettermen returned this year, and there was always that sterling batch of rookies...
...what about all those guys that spring practice could help, the ballplayers that could improve with some personal coaching, that deserve a closer look? Coach Joe Restic would like to see the Ivy League adopt a limited spring format where upcoming sophomores and non-lettermen could voluntarily don the pads to show their stuff, to learn techniques not yet mastered, to benefit from individualized attention, to get a better shake. This is what spring practice once was and this is what spring practice should again...