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...National Women’s Hockey League before heading to St. Lawrence. She burst on to the collegiate scene with 36 points in her rookie campaign, and racked up 61 in a breakout 2005-2006 season where she was named the ECACHL Player of the Year. While not an Olympian yet, a call to the Canadian National Team would not be a stretch for Harbec, who is already a member of the country’s U-22 team. Despite these differences, Chu and Harbec have found common ground in the realm of hockey. Their battles on the ice have...
...have been. Both teams boast two top-10 Patty Kazmaier Award finalists—senior co-captain and sophomore Sarah Vaillancourt for the Crimson, 2006 winner Sara Bauer and Meaghan Mikkelson for Wisconsin. The Badgers are directed by Mark Johnson, who moonlights as the coach of Chu and fellow Olympian Caitlin Cahow on the U.S. National Team. Wisconsin, despite its loft ranking, is largely untested outside of its native WCHA, with only six non-conference games on its record...
...anyone is qualified to teach a class about athletics, it’s Baltzell. The visiting psychology professor from Boston University is also a former Olympian and National Rowing Champion. But when asked about her aim for the newly-offered class, she’s quick to point out the emphasis on the psych—not the sport...
...What Olympic athlete would you be most excited to meet in Beijing? I vote for Apollo Anton Ono, even though he’s technically a winter Olympian...
DIED. Willye White, 67, philanthropic track-and-field star, five-time U.S. Olympian and two-time silver medalist who dominated the long jump for nearly two decades; of pancreatic cancer; in Chicago. After winning second place for the long jump in 1956, White, a longtime mentor to inner-city youth, took home her second silver medal for the 4 x 100-m relay in 1964 and made her final Olympic appearance in Munich...