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...racial discrimination of that sort in our lifetime. The suggestion that a white élite school system has kept potential black players off the national team is ludicrous. If you travel to any corner of this magnificent country, you are hard-pressed not to stumble across a bare-bones soccer field with crude poles as goals almost constantly occupied by an exuberant squad of soccer-crazed black youths. Why have the supposedly rugby-suppressed black South Africans not busied themselves with carving out rugby fields? The equipment required is the same, after all. Why are our soccer stadiums crammed...
...scoring games. “Our mentality is very different this year,” Merritt said. “We’ll go over the other team briefly before a game, but we focus more on what we need to do to be able to play good soccer and what it will take...
...decline in dedication among JV athletes, two reasons lead us to believe that more mercenary motivations are involved, at least in part. First, though there has certainly been a decline in participation in some JV sports, many are in fact thriving. The JV women’s soccer team, for example, almost always has more players than it can reasonably give playing time to—except in cases when players are pulled out of JV games to fill out Varsity practices. The JV women’s volleyball team and JV men’s soccer team have similarly...
...took over an hour for the rain to pass and the lighting to stop before the Harvard men’s soccer team could kick off its Ivy League opener against Cornell on Saturday. In contrast, it took less than eight minutes for the No. 8 Crimson (8-1-1, 1-0-0 Ivy) to score three second-half goals en route to a convincing 4-1 victory over the Big Red (5-4, 0-1-0 Ivy) in Ithaca, N.Y. “[The Ivy games are] what we live and die for,” senior co-captain...
...Saturday, her feed on co-captain Megan Merritt’s game-winning goal in a 1-0 victory at Cornell pushed her season scoring total to four points. Kartsonis is one of several freshmen leading the offensive charge for Harvard women’s soccer thus far this season. Two weeks ago, rookie forward Katherine Sheeleigh was named Ivy League Player of the Week following her hat trick in the Crimson’s 4-0 victory over Central Connecticut State on Sept. 21. —CRIMSON SPORTS STAFF