Word: soccers
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...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...
According to Frisina and Richard G. Menchaca ’10, the Athletic Department did offer to provide some additional financial help if the soccer teams moved from junior varsity to club status, but students were still skeptical...
Jacob E. Segal ’09, a member of the varsity men’s Alpine Skiing team who attended a JV soccer meeting, said that the team is considering a switch to club status after the fall season in light of a meeting with an Athletic Department representative. He said poor scheduling—the team is slated to play just four games this season—and a lack of communication between players and coaches is also factoring into the team’s decision...
Menchaca said that he has resigned himself to a future without a JV soccer program...