Word: ncaas
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...From a practical fundraising standpoint, the answer may be yes—having a strong athletics program enhances development opportunities. Surprisingly, Harvard boasts the largest NCAA Division I athletics program in the country (larger than Stanford or any state school), and this is something in which many alumni take pride. The need for sports as a component of development is reinforced by historical memory from other colleges. In the forties, when Big Ten member University of Chicago dropped its football team and withdrew from the conference, donations to the college plunged. The school later reinstated its football team and became...
...reality is that in order to stay afloat in the hypercompetitive NCAA recruiting game, Harvard increasingly will be forced to severely compromise its academic standards. Worse still, it is unlikely that Harvard will ever be able to reduce its standards to a great enough extent that athletics will improve dramatically. In other words, athletics would marginally improve while significantly decreasing academic standards. In light of this, there is little reason for Harvard to go to great lengths to cultivate flourishing sports teams...
...selection committee released the names of the participants for the NCAA Championship in fencing yesterday, with 10 Harvard fencers making the list out of a possible 12. The tournament will be held March 13-16 in New Haven, Conn. Nine Crimson fencers qualified based on their performances at regionals last weekend, while sophomore Long Ouyang received an at-large bid, beating out seven of the other top foil fencers in the country. For the men the participants include: in foil, Ouyang and junior co-captain Kai Itameri-Kinter, in epee, senior Teddy Sherrill and sophomore Billy Stallings?...
...wall first with a time of 2:14.69. “Those are big shoes to fill for next year,” Morawski finished. It was a gutsy win on a day with quicker times than normal, a phenomenon that will likely keep Pangilinan out of the NCAA Championships. “The time she had to win the Ivies this year was faster than the time it took to be an All-American back in 2005,” Morawski said. “But she will not make it to the NCAAs, sadly. This year...
...about Amaker accidentally on purpose running into the parents of a recruit in a New Jersey supermarket.It was right there in Thamel’s opening line: “Harvard has never won an Ivy League title in men’s basketball and has not reached the NCAA tournament since 1946.” Read that again—it’s also one of the only statements in the piece that’s definitely true.The article, which graced the front page of the Times’ sports section on Sunday and has since sparked...