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...accomplishments in the tournament earned her first-team All-American and first-team All-Ivy League honors. Vloka ultimately fell to Ward, 15-4, in the final bout of her season. The rookie attributes much of her and the team’s success to chemistry. In a sport where individual accolades could easily override the unity of the team, the women’s squad was able to win many matches this year by members of the team winning key bouts at the right times. “I’m really happy I came into freshman year...
...sometimes, life can be a microcosm of sports, too. When a kid loses both parents, lives an adolescence defined by constant change, and uses his naivety to break down the barriers of segregation, we assign to him the most fundamental tenets of sport: winner, champion, victor...
...runs fast, jumps high, hits home runs and catches touchdowns. For them, it is sport as life...
...adults, he is something else: a uniter, someone who brings people together, someone who accepts people despite their flaws in order to accomplish a lofty goal in the face of long odds. For them, it is life as sport...
...Sometimes, though, it’s even simpler than that. Sport is life in our basic joy—even if such an emotion is a violation of our ethics as journalists. I will never forget the moment, nearly four years ago, that crystallized this reality...