Word: tournament
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...family rich. Giving new zest to the phrase refreshing candor, he told the Today show's Matt Lauer last Friday that the original idea for the manufacture of Venus and Serena came to him when he happened to see a woman win "$30 or $40 thousand" in a tennis tournament, "and she played four days!" Not Thomas Edison, not Alexander Graham Bell, not Bill Gates could have been more enthusiastically inspired...
Katherine Hart heads up the junior contingent along with Angela Lutich, Sarah Mattson and Julie Yick. Hart was also this weekend's tournament MVP for her impressive 27 kills, 37 digs and 13 blocks. Denniston, an All-Ivy Honorable Mention selection last year, is the only returning starter, but classmate Kira Whelan has jumped up from the junior varsity...
...league matches are the key contests because they determine the tournament seedings at the end of the season. The winner of the Ivy League gains the coveted NCAA tournament berth...
Last year, Harvard was knocked out by Yale in the Ivy tournament, so the team is setting its sights again on the Ivy title...
...Every year the NCAA tournament is the goal, and we view each Ivy league game as a possible stepping stone towards the post-season," Schaeffer said...