Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traditionally Eastern sport, on the other hand, the lacrosse squads saw plenty of tough competition...
Unlike the rest of us, Sean was never really in awe of Harvard. A graduate of Patrick Henry High School in San Diego, where he lettered in three sports, Doyle says. "I thought Harvard was in Connecticut." Recruited to play volleyball, a quintessentially Californian sport that has hardly taken hold in beachless Cambridge, he had never even seen Harvard until he arrived on September 9, 1981. He was, he recalls, "the ultimate California...
...adjustment was a tough one at first. "Everybody thought I should have blond hair and blue eyes--I have brown hair and brown eyes. But I surf--not very well. I play a beach sport. I take things that are not significant lightly." He was not the typical Harvard freshman, if there is such a thing. Three of his four roommates were devoted to academics, but school was never Doyle's biggest concern...
Between those seasons came volleyball, in which Doyle was finally able to put it all together. He'd been working out with Mielach after football ended, insisting all the while that he didn't want to return to his own sport...
Hockey was new to Landry, but soccer was old had Landry played the latter sport in high school, captaining her squad in her senior year...