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When Rakoczy got to Harvard she joined the junior varsity soccer team before picking up The Crimson comp mid-semester...
...soccer my freshman fall, and when that was over I kind of realized that I didn’t know how to make friends and socialize outside of teams, so I was looking for a new activity,” Rakoczy says. “I just went into [The Crimson] looking for something to do with myself. I wasn’t looking for a 60- hour-per-week commitment or anything like that...
...Basically there’s what’s called Sport for Development, or Sports Work Programs, and they go into the communities and teach these kids to have soccer day. And in order to play soccer you have to get immunized for Hepatitis or something like that,” Ruggiero explains. “And they bring in Aids research—they bring in the U.N., the Red Cross—just kind of build communities for these kids—give them something because they really have nothing...
...development—working the mind and body. I just think it’s really important for kids,” she says. “For me it meant so much to have sports. For these kids who have nothing, we’re giving them a soccer ball, we’re giving them something to do every day. I thought it was something I definitely wanted to be a part...
After playing for the Harvard women’s soccer team, Johnston joined the hockey team later than most of the athletes. At the beginning of the year, head coach Katey Stone had said it would take some time for Johnston to find her role on the team following the soccer season. But the learning curve proved to be far more manageable than expected as Johnston ended up playing a lot on the Crimson’s first and second lines, leading all freshmen in scoring with 10 goals and 11 assists...