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...despite his best efforts, third-year graduate student Erick A. Matsen is announced as the winner over a dramatic piano overture, having consumed 807.5 grams of apple pie in three minutes and 12 seconds. Matsen attributes his win to stellar mental preparation. “I actually was a runner-up last year but I hadn’t gone in believing in myself. This year, I just believed in myself,” Matsen says. However, he admits later that mental preparation is only one element of his carefully crafted battle plan. “For lunch...
From the start, her attitude was that despite the graduation of a number of key members of last year’s national runner-up team, Harvard had to believe that it would win. And she instilled that feeling in her teammates...
After suffering key losses to the defensive core of last year’s national runner-up team, Harvard has talked all year about the importance of incorporating the newer players into key role players on the defensive end this season...
...Open was a USTA-sanctioned event, featuring collegiate players as well as professionals. Competitors in the latter category would be entitled to a $600 prize for the singles title and a $400 prize for the runner-up, as well as a $200 prize for the doubles championship...
From live cows to the University Band and the runner-up to Miss Massachusetts 2004, the procession included an eclectic variety of students and entertainers...