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Other Division II schools Harvard competes against participate in a total of six meets over the winter, and only need three winning performances to make the championships. But Harvard's team can only ski at three of the six meets, due to the timing of Harvard's final exams. Then again, Harvard students, like men's cross-country captain Tim Allen '84, who started cross-country skiing at the age of four, Team to compete hard right out of the crib...
...ski team returned victorious this weekend from its third and final meet of the winter at Mad River Glenn, Vt with an overall record strong enough to carry it to the championships at Syracuse. The women's cross-country squad led the team's scoring, as it has all season, with an overall first-place finish, and men's cross-country captured second place in the "special" race behind a so-far undefeated team from Johnson State College in Vermont. Johnson State has been Harvard's only unbeatable rival in cross-country this season, says Allen...
...kind of recruitment drive, Albrecht points out, requires a full-time coach. The Harvard ski team has never had a permanent coach on campus--instead, the team captains hire two coaches each year, cross-country and downhill, who usually see the teams only when they travel north to train. "We used to be a Division I team, from the mid-'60s to 1980," says Albrecht. But, "to be consistently in Division I, we need a full-time coach," he adds...
...Harvard skiing is constrained where other schools, farther north, are not. Besides a lack of recruitment, and travel complexities, the ski team does not enjoy the funding that its rivals--Middlebury. Dartmouth, the University of Vermont--do. Out of this year's $18,000 budget, nearly one-third came from ski-team alumni--a sum which the team raised by sending out letters to former Harvard skiers...
Albert Lager '84, ranked in the top 20 in Canada, was the team's top cross-country skier last year, but left the ski team this year to devote himself to crew. "I liked going away every weekend, and I miss the skiing," he says...