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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...
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...
...across the conference—racket sports such as tennis and squash currently have no African-Americans on their rosters. And, perhaps predictably, the Crimson’s totals suggest that for all sports whose surface of competition is any kind of water—meaning ice hockey, water polo, swimming and diving, sailing, skiing, and crew—less than 3 percent of those student-athletes are black...
...well as in the Yard, is closely followed in height by 6’8” heavyweight crew senior Andrew Boston and 6’8” junior basketball center turned baseball pitcher Brad Unger. Throw in the 6’2” junior water polo co-captain Lauren Snyder and 6’1 lacrosse freshman Kate Beers, and the result is five of the tallest athletes Harvard has to offer.While these individuals may be stared at by students and tourists alike, their size has greatly helped them achieve their goal of participating in collegiate-level...