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...annoyance and enthusiasm from student athletes. Though teams are not being required to make the transition to club status, many have felt pressure to do so. Nadia O. Gaber ’09-’10, a member of Women’s JV Soccer, says that she “got the picture that across the board they are trying to cut the JV program.” The Athletic Department were not available for comment. Jacob E. Segal ’09, a member of Men’s JV-gone-Club Soccer team, witnessed the team?...
...broomsticks, golden goal hoops, Quaffles, Bludgers, and a Snitch (in lay terms, balls). But without bewitched broomsticks and bewinged Snitches, the game has a few differences. Muggle (non-magic) players keep their feet on the ground, holding a broom between their legs, and play in confined areas such as soccer fields. A live person runs on and off the field to play the role of the Snitch, the evasive flying ball whose capture ends the game. Though Harvard lacks a Quidditch team, it isn’t without enthusiasm for the sport. Veteran Quidditch player Christopher J. Carothers...
Some sports look grueling - ice hockey, soccer, basketball, for example, with their yards of stops and starts, feints and runs. Others, like gymnastics, appear effortless and soaring. But in the first national study of gymnastics injuries, conducted by researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, 16 years of data show that there is nothing easy at all about gymnastics, and that injuries from the sport are as common as those in soccer, basketball and ice hockey - making gymnastics among the most dangerous sports for girls...
...since I wrote the season preview in February, if not before then. But let’s just say my expectations were far from met as I found myself in the press box of the stadium that hosts one of the top teams in both professional football and soccer...
...play a very simple, one or two touch game. I’m not a very fancy player; I just try to keep it simple and keep the ball moving.”So explains the Harvard women’s soccer team’s Lizzy Nichols, in her usual uncomplicated manner, when asked to describe her style of play. Yet her inclusion in the sports pages, it would appear, bucks a general trend.As aesthetically attractive as soccer is as a spectacle, one of the reasons for its enduring appeal is its simplicity. Yet despite this, players encapsulating this...