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...Crimson struggled offensively, generating a .067 attack clip relative to Dartmouth’s .222. Junior Mikaelle Comrie, who managed eight kills, led the women’s squad with help from sophomore Anne Carroll Ingersoll, who recorded seven. Harvard also had six more team members contribute at least two kills over the three-set match...
Based on its performances this season, though, the Crimson will expect to dominate the struggling Bulldogs. Yale had an iffy start to the season and has won only twice, once over St. Francis College and once over Central Connecticut. The squad has lost the previous two games, and most recently was crushed by Sacred Heart...
...roster—featuring senior Harvard striker Andre Akpan—only had five players in college; the rest of the team consisted of professionals. The 2009 Youth World Cup is currently underway, and only 33 percent of the US roster is affiliated with a college squad. What’s caused this rapid shift away from college soccer as the primary feeder to our national teams...
...Harvard students, we’re fortunate enough to have a nationally-ranked squad boasting players with legitimate shots of turning professional. And as college sports fans more generally, we often find reasons to cheer for athletes in other sports like basketball and football specifically because of their previous collegiate attachments (i.e. cheering for North Carolina alums in the NBA and conversely hating any Duke grads...
...wake of the US’s international competitiveness, professional management companies such as Traffic Sports have begun to taken a keen interest in American youth. Tony Taylor, a member of the current US U20 roster competing in Egypt, cut his ties with Jacksonville University’s soccer squad to turn pro by signing with Traffic. The advent of third-party companies filling in the void of professional opportunities for American youth may help accelerate the decline of college soccer...