Word: skating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Right wing Ginny Simonds found the net with only 51 seconds remaining, giving the Crimson a slim one-goal lead. Simonds collected the misdirected clearing shot of Bowdoin netminder Suzanne Walker, which had hit the skate of a defender, and the Harvard junior beat Walker for the go-ahead goal...
...That's the best line I've seen in a while," Vermont Coach Mike Gilligan said. "We didn't have anyone who could skate with them...
...Boitano and Witt, moreover, skating together represents a pragmatic compromise between getting an audience and pursuing their true calling, solo performance. Says Witt: "We each have two solos per show. But we also do partner skating, which is totally different." The moves in pair skating are much closer to dance and emphasize carrying and tossing the female partner rather than individual jumps and spins. Thus the genre is at once less athletic than what Boitano and Witt are used to and far more athletic than what they can achieve together without years of practice. Witt, who is not pushing herself...
...other words, my prejudice is for a Harvard College with a certain range and mixture and diversity in its student body--a college with some snobs and some Scandinavian farm boys who skate beautifully and some bright Bronx premeds, with some students who care passionately if unwisely (but who knows) about editing The Crimson or beating Yale, or who have an ambition to run a business and make a million, or to get elected to public office, a college in which not all the students have looked on school just as preparation for college, college as preparation for graduate school...
...skate-and-shoot Engineers finished first inECAC team offense--averaging a whopping six goalsper contest...