Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When he arrived at Harvard, Ben-Shachar's greatest passion was still his sport. In high school and the years that followed, "everything revolved around squash." Ben-Shachar attributes his pre-college academic success not to genuine intellectual passion, but to his sense that doing well in school "was the right thing to do." He studied hard, he says, because this "was a value I was brought up with...but my true passion was not in academics." During what Ben-Shachar describes as the "four best years of [his] life," he became enslaved to his intellectual curiosity...
Rainey began climbing her senior year in high school after a friend who climbed suggested she try it. By the time he quit soon after, she was already eagerly engrossed in learning more about the sport from other climbers...
...Rainey's path as a climber is not always uphill. She says she falls often and that the sport takes a lot of hard work and dedication...
...wasn't able to stay away from climbing. Continuing her commitment to the sport, she kept climbing at least twice a week while writing her senior thesis in history. She says climbing gives her something to look forward...
After taking the children she has worked with this year rock climbing, Rainey says she realized the sport builds self-esteem. "All their problems were forgotten," she says...