Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ersek feels that the Crimson's preseason trip to Holland promoted team unity and helped build for a successful 1987-'88 campaign...
...trip brought the team together," Ersek says. "We did everything in a group and the returning players got game experience in the preseason, which prepared us for the competition of our Ivy League schedule. In addition, the trip to a foreign country gave Kate, Jane, and I added responsibility and provided us with a good test of our leadership...
...trip did wonders for the team," adds Grim. "Living together for two whole weeks brought the team together and promoted a real team attitude. The competition in Holland is such that we had to play as a team in order to be successful on that level of competition...
Felsen, who first played the sport in her fifth-grade gym class, also agrees with her fellow tri-captains about the importance of the team's trip to Holland. "The team unity ran a little deeper just because we were in a foreign country and so far away from home," she says. "Because of this, we grew together and became more of a unit...
Hence Clare's discomfiture over her latest trip home is suddenly dwarfed by tragedy: Theo, whose wife has left him with custody of their young son, goes off one Sunday afternoon to see his current girlfriend, a nurse who is trying to disentangle herself from their affair. Within hours, both are dead of gunshot wounds, apparently administered by Theo in a murder-suicide. This event throws the members of the Quick family, their friends and the close-knit society of Mountain City into paroxysms of confusion and self-reproach. What made Theo do it? Could he have been saved...