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...sophomore slump. In just his second season at the helm of the Harvard women’s soccer team, head coach Ray Leone guided the Crimson to a 10-3-5 record, which earned his squad its first Ivy League championship since 1999 and its first NCAA tournament appearance since 2004.The third Harvard coach in as many years when he took the job before the 2007 season, Leone has brought stability and a standard of excellence to the program. “It was nice to have consistency,” co-captain Nicole Rhodes said. “Coming...
...First Team. Ko, honored as the ITA East Senior Player of the Year, was also the lone representative from the Ivy League at the NCAA Women’s Tennis Singles Championships in late May. She is only the third player in Harvard history to be invited to this tournament three years in a row. At the championships, hosted by Texas A&M, Ko challenged No. 46 Nadia Abdala from Arizona State. After an epic three-and-a-half hour match, Ko ultimately met her demise, falling 6-2, 6-7, 6-4. “It was a good...
...importance to the team’s success this year is undeniable. It’s no coincidence that during the Crimson’s eight-game undefeated streak following its disappointing Ivy-opener loss to Penn, Hagner had 13 points. And in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament against Northeastern Nov. 14, she knocked in a goal, too.Hagner, Sheeleigh, and reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Year Melanie Baskind form a three-pronged offensive attack that is downright frightening for opposing defenses to handle.“I play with two of the best forwards in the league...
Barack Obama has never hidden his passion for sports, whether it be opining on the shortcomings of the college football Bowl Championship Series or defending his picks for the NCAA college basketball tournament. So perhaps it should have come as no surprise that in announcing his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, the President singled out the federal appeals court judge's landmark 1995 ruling that effectively ended the 232-day baseball strike. "Some say that Judge Sotomayor saved baseball," Obama said on Tuesday. That may be an exaggeration, of course, but there are many baseball observers...
...lack in Brodeur-like brilliance and Luongo-level dexterity I can make up for in sheer width and mass in goal. God willing, my child-bearing hips stretch pipe to pipe - because Sunday afternoon, the aging oldsters of Puck U (my team) will play the winning club from the tournament's teenage division. If the mallrats can beat us, we're going to donate $10,000 to Brantford Youth Athletics at game's end. (If they can't beat us, their citizenship and street cred as electric youth should be revoked...