Word: stimpson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Courtney Stimpson's style is deceptive. More than a few unlucky opponents have found out the hard way in the past four years that Stimpson is a squash player to be reckoned with. After all, she is the captain of the Harvard women's squash team, a team that won its first national title this year, and Stimpson's season individual match record of 11-1 played no small part in this accomplishment...
...bulk of Stimpson's contribution to this championship team, however, has occurred away from the court Coaches Jack Barnaby and Prisoilla Pool both praise the 21-year-old senior for being a steadying influence on the team. "She has added a tremendous amount of stability to the team because of her maturity and her ability to take things so cooly." Pool says of Stimpson. This maturity and coolness under pressure has been instrumental in leading the racquetwomen...
...Courtney Stimpson, the road to the top has not been long, nor has it been particularly tortuous. As a ninth grader Stimpson began playing squash near her Lake Forest, III, home, and a year later she was on the varsity team at St. Paul's School in New Hampshire. By her senior year Stimpson was a second year captain and the team's number one player St. Paul's subsequently went on to win the prep school championships that year and the team traveled to England to compete in tournaments there...
...Stimpson's first two years at Harvard found her near the top of the varsity ladder and as a junior her victors over a Yale rival at number three late in the season played a key role in the team's runner up finish to Prince ton in the national rankings...
Second best to the experienced Princeton team was not satisfactory for Stimpson and the Harvard squash team though. With the opening of the 1981-82 season, the Crimson found itself with two new superstars--freshmen Mary Hulbert and Diana Stanley--who put the team in a position to challenge the perennially victorious Tigers. Since mid-October the racquetwomen's season has pointed toward the Howe Cup, the national tournament, where they anticipated upsetting Princeton for the first time...