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...three doubles titles last season. In singles competition, a baby-faced 20-year-old named Peng Shuai last year reached China's highest-ever world ranking, 31, by trouncing top-10 players such as Kim Clijsters and Elena Dementieva. Peng even made the semi-finals in a warm-up tournament to last year's Australian Open, and Chinese fans hope she can match that effort when the year-opening grand slam kicks off in Melbourne next week...
...roster. Chief among them is Angela Ruggiero ’02-’04, to women’s hockey what Spielberg is to Hollywood—a spokesperson, a leader, and an expert practitioner. Standout Julie Chu is back for her second Olympic tournament and solid blue-liner Jamie Hagerman ’03 also made the cut. The most surprising inclusion, however, was of Maine native Caitlin Cahow, whose rapid rise up through the ranks of the national program will now culminate in representing her country against the world’s best on the biggest stage...
...Harvard men’s basketball team will play the first of 14 straight playoff games.The contest against Dartmouth (2-9) marks the beginning of conference play for the Crimson (8-5), which accounts for everything in the Ivy League, the only Division I conference without a postseason tournament. One misstep against an inferior team could very well punch an irreparable hole in the best hopes Harvard has had in years to beat out Penn for the Ivy League’s automatic NCAA tournament berth.Harvard enters the crucible coming off the last and toughest segment of its non-conference...
...participating teams in the Midlands Championship, hosted by Northwestern at the Welsh-Ryan Arena just before the holiday weekend. Junior tri-captain Bode Ogunwole, entering as the top-seeded heavyweight, was the only Crimson wrestler to advance into the semifinals on Friday, the second day of the tournament. He defeated Dave Herman of Indiana in a 5-3 decision Thursday and overcame Tyler Rhodes of Northern Iowa, 2-1, in a match that went to overtime. In the semifinal match Friday against fourth seed Matt Fields of Iowa, Ogunwole could not pull off a second consecutive close victory and fell...
...think we learn a little more every year.” The fellow will continue to work closely with students and undergraduate groups to implement ideas for new social events as well as to coordinate signature events such as the Harvard State Fair and the campus-wide dodgeball tournament, McLoughlin said. A University-wide session was held last Wednesday evening at Holyoke Center about the various fellowships. Descriptions of the fellowships were posted on the Harvard employment website on Friday. Applications are accepted until Jan. 27, followed by an interview and selection process that extends into March. The new fellows...