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...very end of the night, find the old, gaudy patriotic spirit stirring within me, burbling about with all the cheap Heineken I had guzzled at an American bar’s Fourth of July extravaganza. I was disconcerted at first with all the loud, brutish American men in their polo shirts that could barely contain their oversized muscles, and the unelegant, embarrassingly drunk and skankily dressed American girls who squealed in a language I definitely could not understand. But as I got drunk, I came around to it all, and by the time the national anthem started playing...
With senior co-captain Michael Garcia providing leadership, the Harvard men’s water polo team turned in a successful year. The Crimson finished 9-8-1 in the regular season, besting last year’s win-loss record, and reached the Eastern Championships for the third straight season.“I think overall we continued our success of the past two years,” Garcia said.With coach Erik Farrar at the helm in his third year at Harvard, the men posted respectable finishes in both the Northern and Eastern Championships, placing third and seventh, respectively...
...class of 2010 had needed a season to adjust to collegiate water polo, everyone would have understood. If freshman goalie Ariel Delgado had missed more shots than she saved, if driver Kathryn Bilder had not led the team in goals scored, and if they had not boasted 77 steals as a class, everyone would have understood. But Delgado did have 92 saves to go with a .514 save percentage, Bilder did score a team-high 24 goals, and the class did rob opponents of the ball at an impressive rate. The only thing left to understand is that the rookie...
Junior co-captain Vivian Liao was named the Most Valuable Player at the women’s water polo end-of-season banquet. Liao scored 18 goals while adding 16 steals and four assists in an injury-shortened season. Liao broke her hand against Cal Tech and missed the season’s final twelve games. Fellow junior and co-captain Lauren Snyder earned a Coach’s Award from head coach Erik Farrar after a season where she scored 22 goals to go with 46 steals and ten blocks. Freshman Ariel Delgado picked up Rookie of the Year...
...Crimson staffers have kept making news. Also on April 27, the paper quoted a Crimson news editor in a news article about a Chinese etiquette event she attended. The April 30 paper reported that a Crimson editor, who is also a goalie on the women’s water polo team, was “overpowered” by the Hartwick College team in a game that ended glumly, 16-1, Hartwick. A sports article the same day quoted an editorial editor, who is also a coxswain on the men’s lightweight crew team. (The paper...