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With more young women playing organized basketball today--there are more than 472,000 high school and NCAA participants, up 21% over the past 15 years--and refining their ability, Parker represents a new wave of skilled female stars. "Candace will be the next player to change the sport," predicts Hall of Famer Nancy Lieberman. "In 10 to 15 years, there will be a lot of Candace Parkers. But right now there's only one, and she's going to set the bar high. Young girls will strive...
With a couple goals here and a couple more saves there, the Harvard women’s hockey team could be entering this season looking for its fourth consecutive national championship.As it stands, after three defeats in the NCAA finals, the Crimson will have a tough, uphill road ahead in its attempt to return to the title match.Luckily for Harvard, however, the entire national picture is wide open for the taking. With the best athletes across the country training and hoping to make the final national team cuts before the Olympics, most of the upper echelon of women?...
...depends on whether we win the gold medal or not,” Ruggiero says. “When we won in 1998, it revitalized the sport in the U.S. with the NCAA and everything. Then, after Canada won in 2002, the sport blossomed there...
...first began covering women’s hockey exactly two years ago—just months after Harvard had dropped its first NCAA national championship game in heartbreaking fashion.Even then there was talk of the coming Olympic year—if the Crimson was going to win a national championship, it would have to be in the next two years since by then Angela Ruggiero ’02-’04 and Nicole Corriero ’05 would have graduated, and Julie Chu, now a senior, would probably be taking the year off for her second Olympics...
...have each had to face each other. Dartmouth and Harvard are both just starting their seasons, but could easily challenge the top five teams later on in the season.A BRIEF RECAP OF LAST YEARDespite losing key players to the Olympics, most of the teams that made it to the NCAA tournament last year are the favorites to return. The order of these frontrunners has changed from last year; here is a short look at where four of the top eight teams finished their seasons in 2004-2005.The Saints upset Dartmouth and Duluth, but lost to the Crimson in the semifinals...