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Then in her senior year, she crushed her previous mark with an 18.90-meter throw...
...change of scenary didn’t end a seemingly cursed season for the Radcliffe second varsity. Just past the preliminary heat’s 100-meter mark, where a race cannot be stopped for technical difficulties, the second varsity boat’s scag and rudder fell off, making the boat impossible to steer. Despite being unable to finish the preliminary race, the second varsity still rebounded through the repechage and Petite Final to place 10th overall, but that finish was far below early-season expectations...
...year ago, the idea of Grant earning a ranking among the top 20 in the country in the hammer throw seemed farfetched. She had shown marked improvement during her junior year, achieving a 52.40-meter throw against Yale to move to second on the school’s performance list. But she’d need another seven-meter improvement to be a serious national competitor. In May of her senior campaign, in a relaxed meet at Princeton, she achieved that goal...
...never was able to top that performance. She did have a successful season by Ivy standards. She led Harvard to a one-two-three finish in the weight throw at the Indoor Heptagonal Championships and broke a meet record with an 18.69-meter performance. But she finished just 27th in the final national performance list—not high enough to make NCAAs...
...started her season with a respectable performance of 51.87 meters, which was nothing spectacular. But a week later, in Harvard’s only home meet of the year, Grant had a breakthrough performance—55.80 meters. Two weeks later, Grant exceeded that effort with a 56.82-meter performance against Ivy rival Yale...