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...definitely one of the most consistently good competitors on the team.” With a tough act to follow having won the high jump at the outdoor Heptagonals and competing at the NCAA Championships, Christensen did her sophomore campaign one better, winning the high jump in the Penn Relays and taking home first in both the indoor and outdoor Heps. “[Becky’s] a tremendous talent,” head coach Jason Saretsky said. “One of the key characteristics of how she competes, which also reflects who she is, is her calm...
...first meet of the season, Harvard kept the momentum all year long, defeating every opponent it faced. After a solid win over Princeton—the only dual loss for last year’s squad—the Crimson built on its momentum by easily defeating Penn in its final regular season contest. The win gave Harvard a perfect 9-0 dual meet season and claimed the regular season title, which had gone to the Tigers the previous winter. The Crimson accomplished all of this despite spending the majority of its season swimming away from the friendly confines...
This season has been one of learning and building for the Harvard lightweight crew team. The varsity eight won just two dual races this season—against Penn and MIT—and failed to make the Grand Final at Eastern Sprints for the first time in the history of the competition.“I think [Sprints] was a really disappointing finish to the season for all our boats, because it was a little bit worse than what we wanted to do,” junior coxswain Kevin He said...
...sort of stumbling out of the gates that there was no room for error...[The coaching staff] stressed that we needed to have a sense of urgency because of the parity in the Ivy League.”Yet it wasn’t until the penultimate game against Penn that things really came together. The mediocre team that relied heavily on defense and sunk to its opponents’ level—a single score separated Harvard and perennial bottom dweller Columbia at halftime of the Crimson’s 27-12 win—finally reached...
...fall, offering consistency from the upperclassmen and breakout performances from the first-timers.Junior Becky Christensen continued to dominate the high jump, winning both the indoor and outdoor Heptagonals by clearing 1.79 meters in each meet. Perhaps more impressive was Christensen’s outright win of the Penn Relays, the largest track and field competition in the United States, in which she cleared 1.83 meters on her first try.“Our upperclassmen did a great job making sure there was great leadership,” Saretsky said of Christensen and the other team veterans. “Having that...