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Grumet-Morris’ run began at the start of March in Harvard’s first round ECAC tournament series against the Brown Bears. In a 4-1 Game One win, Grumet-Morris turned back a relatively routine 22 shots. But in Game Two’s marathon double overtime affair, he stopped 31 shots, matching Brown’s Yann Danis, who stood on his head for the full...
This year, the regatta, set for Saturday on the Thames River in New London, Conn., marks the 150th anniversary of intercollegiate athletics. Both crews prepare extensively for the marathon of a race, as the varsity boats compete on a four-mile course, instead of the standard 2,000 meters, while the junior varsity rows three miles and the freshman boat races for two miles...
...days later, the Crimson solemnly received its NCAA assignment. Its postseason results—a 1-0 quadruple-overtime, 137-minute marathon victory over Hartford and a 1-0 defeat at perennial eastern power UConn in round two—gave some solace to the dismal conclusion to the Ivy season...
...marathon run and my four years at Harvard have only reinforced my acceptance of my own limitations. But I’ll still keep doing what I can. And I’ll probably never cease being angry that I can’t do more...
...weeks before the 2001 Boston Marathon, my friend’s mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and my heart broke in that same way. Instead of punching walls, I found myself on the phone with people from the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge (DFMC), a group of about 400 people who run Boston every year and collect pledges for a research program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The combination of blind anger, frustration and college can-do-it-ism convinced me that I could finally do something about this disease that kept invading people’s lives...