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...performance of her career, holding Brown and Yale to a single goal over the course of 130 minutes, as the Crimson tied the Bears and the Bulldogs. Now, Martin and Harvard are in similar straits. Martin is charged with minding net for the sixth-ranked Crimson with only junior walk-on Kristin Toretta on the bench as insurance. Freshman Christina Kessler was supposed to enter the program and challenge Martin for the starting job vacated by graduate Ali Boe ’06. But the Canadian rookie injured her knee during a local tournament in early August, tearing...
...Stone said. “She’s doing great. Again, not easy games to play in, and she’s keeping her focus and doing everything she’s asked to do.” The contest also featured the varsity debut of junior walk-on Kristin Toretta, currently number two on the depth chart, who spelled Martin for the third period and made two stops in her 20 minutes of shutout work. “Great to have Kristin Toretta in the net,” Stone said, “And be tested...
...Harvard’s lightweight team, and a black coxswain with the heavyweights.Fellow Wilson graduate Aquil Abdullah, the first African-American oarsman to qualify for the Olympics in 2004, is an inspiration to Benkreira and the face of the changes coming to the sport. Abdullah was initially a walk-on at George Washington, where he earned a scholarship after just one semester on the water. He has become one of the most recognizable athletes in a sport known for its anonymity.“As the demographics of Harvard change, the demographics of its sports teams will change...
Harvard crew offers a unique opportunity for incoming freshmen with no rowing experience: Newell Boathouse is home to 23 heavyweight and lightweight varsity national championships, and Harvard coaches know the value of walk-ons to the success of the varsity and freshmen programs.Only five to 10 recruits help round out the heavyweight and lightweight freshman rosters each season, giving the Crimson just one boat comprised of recruited athletes. As many as three freshman eights compete in racing season—each team needs a minimum of 30 oarsmen and several coxswains—and both the heavyweight and lightweight programs...
...everywhere compete on level playing fields - even though the media almost daily instructs us that this is pure fantasy. That's why the doping scandals so outrage us and the reports of rapacious behavior by athletes so dismay us. We have a primitive need for tales about the walk-on who makes the team, the aging jock who summons the idealistic spirit of boyhood and wins our hearts. To the degree that Invincible evokes that old-time religion, to the degree that its hero's rewards are limited, it seems to me that, on the eve of a new football...