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...season—to prepare for next weekend’s spring season kickoff at the Texas Southern Relays. But junior high jumper Becky Christensen is finding out the hard way that there’s no rest for the weary. Last Friday, the Texas native competed in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships and brought home a fourth-place finish and her first indoor All-American accolades after clearing a 1.83m bar, matching her career best jump. “She went in there as the last person on the list and came out fourth...
Competing against the nation’s best in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships at the University of Arkansas’s Randal Tyson Track Center seems like a pretty high bar. But, for Becky Christensen, clearing high bars comes easy. The junior high jumper tied her career best jump at 1.83 meter to claim the fourth spot and earn All-American status. “This weekend really shows that the hardest part [about indoor NCAAs] is getting in,” Christensen said. “Indoors doesn’t take as many people...
Harvard senior diver Samantha Papadakis qualified for the NCAA Championship with her performance at the NCAA Zone A Diving meet this weekend. Papadakis placed second in the 3-meter event and third in 1-meter competition. She trailed Kate Hynes of Drexel, who won both events, and was third to Rider’s Amanda Burke in 1-meter competition. Papadakis posted scores of 586.90 in 3-meter diving and 539.10 in 1-meter diving. She is one of five divers from Zone A to qualify for the championship meet, which will be held March 20-22 at Ohio State...
...hockey team tore through the best competition that its conference had to offer, the Crimson now takes its game to the national stage.No.1 Harvard faces off against the No. 8 Dartmouth Big Green tomorrow afternoon at the Bright Hockey Center in the first round of the NCAA championship. The Crimson met few obstacles in its path to the NCAA tournament, finishing the season 31-1-0 overall and 20-0-0 in ECAC play. Averaging over 3.56 goals per game and only .91 against, Harvard left nothing up for chance. With such impressive statistics, the Crimson has no reason...
...probably the three most widely competitive sports nationally. All the while, the Cardinal maintains an elite national reputation and lofty academic standards. It clearly can be done. Simply look to our hockey team, which has consistently been one of the nation’s top 15 programs, winning a NCAA title in 1989, making the Frozen Four multiple times, and qualifying for the NCAA tournament, a field of the countries top 16 teams, five of the last six years. It is a ludicrous and downright ignorant assertion that you can’t have elite teams without making wholesale academic...