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...show people how we’ve grown from last year and how we’ve grown as a team,” sophomore Katie Rollins said earlier in the season. “We’ve worked really hard over the summer and preseason because we want to show that we are a different team and we have made changes.”When the Crimson went 2-11 in nonconference play, it seemed as if nothing had changed from last year. The experience that was supposedly gained seemed to have no effect on the Crimson.The women...
Riding an enormous wave of momentum from last season’s unforgettable triple-overtime victory over Yale in The Game, the Harvard football team stormed out of the gates on the shoulders of senior running back Clifton Dawson, living up to preseason expectations in finishing the first half of the season undefeated.The Crimson surprised many with a 5-0 start, weathering the storm that took the form of instability at the quarterback position in the season’s early going. It began before the start of the season, when junior signal-caller Liam O’Hagan...
When asked in a preseason interview who the Ivy League favorite was, Harvard head coach Jenny Allard did not hesitate in saying, “I couldn’t go out and pick a team and say for sure that they are going to be in the Ivy Championship, other than us. I think us.” Allard was right, of course. The Harvard softball team (31-15, 14-6 Ivy) began the year playing in tournaments across the country and found success right off the bat. Three weeks into its season, the Crimson won the Mercer Nisan...
...London team is also playing benefactor. Apart from hosting the Chinese Olympic football team in London in February, the club sponsors the Asian Football Confederation's Vision Asia project to develop grassroots leagues across China. Next summer, Chelsea will embark on its first-ever tour of China. Those preseason tours can be pure gold, giving sponsors the chance to exploit target markets. When Manchester United goes to Malaysia, Korea, Japan and China this summer, shirt sponsor AIG will be with the team every minute. That will go some way to repaying the $28 million a year the U.S. insurance behemoth...
...First-team All-Ivy second baseman. In her first year for Harvard, Murphy has made a huge impression, and currently leads the team in home runs and RBI (she has 33).One of two freshmen to have started every matchup this year for the Crimson, Murphy entered the fall preseason without having played a game for an entire year. Surgery kept her from softball for her whole senior season at the Westridge School in Pasadena, California, where she was a First-team All-Prep League selection for the previous three years in a row.But that year off did not prevent...