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...just a matter of trying to get over the hump.” The toughest task for the newly-appointed Tillman was finding a way to get his offense and defense to thrive at the same time. With both sides of the ball consisting mostly of underclassmen, Harvard’s first new coach in almost 20 years brought in specialists to help his squad on ‘D’ and at the faceoff X. “I think the guys made great progress,” Tillman said. “We’d lost...
...Every time we were working hard, we were working for each other, and that’s something we tried to show the freshmen early,” junior captain Nicole Rhodes said. “This year, our team was extremely unified.”Indeed, while underclassmen provided much of the offensive firepower, veterans served as the bedrock of a solid defensive unit that allowed a league-best 2.18 goals per game. Sophomore Lizzy Nichols, an All-Ivy First Team pick, and Rhodes, an Honorable Mention selection, anchored the back line in front of the league?...
...also named Rookie of the Year, making her the first Harvard player to receive the honor since 1994. She was second on the Crimson in goals scored, notching 34 over the course of the season. The Crimson will lose seven seniors next year, but Halpern and her fellow underclassmen are prepared to take over the leadership roles left open on the team. Sophomore attacker Sara Flood and classmate Delia Pais have already stepped up on both ends of the field, and the freshman class is also stacked with strong players. In addition to Halpern, freshman Sam McMahon made her presence...
...goals, respectively.As the season progressed and injuries began to mount, the team relied upon its youth reserves to step in and provide some assistance. “It’s always important, especially since we’re graduating such a large senior class, that the [underclassmen] get more playing time,” Liao said.“Playing time is something that you can’t replicate anywhere in practice, no matter how hard you try to simulate game conditions,” Snyder said. “I think it’s great that...
...title we had when they were freshmen,” Weiss said. “Whether we were winning or losing, they went beyond the call of duty on and off the court.” Although Harvard is losing a solid senior class of competitors, the squad has underclassmen that have the ability to step up and fill the shoes. Sophomores Katherine Kocurek and Lily Durwood—who were recently named next season’s co-captains—have already cemented themselves as contributors to the team. In just her second season, libero Kocurek already holds...