Word: nicks
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...three players on the men’s team have less than a month to prepare for the Intercollegiate Regional Tournament at Cornell University—but they’ll first have to beat University of Kentucky in a few days to secure a spot. Nick, the men’s captain, is not prone to exuberant flourishes of emotion, but he whistles and growls, low and off-key, to a Johnny Cash track blaring from the car speakers. He is confident of a victory against Kentucky and hopeful—perhaps even sure—of success...
...Nick has taken the Harvard Polo Club quite far in just its first formal year of activity. “The Great Leap Forward,” Crocker calls this past season—presumably excepting the famine and millions of deaths that followed the Maoist version. After nearly a century of failing to gain a foothold at Harvard, the club has been able to practice with its own horses in its own practice facility this past season, generating the first official women’s team and a threefold increase in the number of players in just a year...
...Crocker and wife Katherine T. “Cissie” Jones, most of the players have been transformed from inexperienced riders to mallet-waving, galloping fiends. And with only three players per lineup on the field during an intercollegiate game, having even one player as experienced as Nick has made the national championships a genuine possibility this year for the young team. But for that very same reason, Nick’s success is a constant bleak reminder of how much the club will lose next season...
...Among the 30-plus intercollegiate programs across the country, Harvard polo ranks below top teams like Cornell, Texas A&M University, and University of Virginia. But Nick says Harvard is “leaps and bounds” above perennial rival Yale College, whose program has been around for about 45 years. Harvard has already defeated Yale twice, and one of the victories this past fall has remained the highlight of the season—but Snow hopes that will be topped in the coming weeks...
...sits with knees high and head looming close to the roof of the car. He replenishes an earthen gourd of mate—a caffeinated drink prepared with the dried leaves of a South American holly—with hot water from a thermos. Unlike Nick, who has a dark, leathery complexion, Scalise is of a lighter cast, his wispy blonde hair framing a bright-eyed face that jerks about when addressed. He passes the gourd to Pablo Botero ’09, and like some religious victual, the pungent beverage slowly makes its rounds among the three...