Word: weeding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When she was only fifteen, Ruggiero attended a regional developmental camp run by the National team to weed out talented 15 to 18 year-old players for possible spots at the national level. Although Ruggiero was a year younger than the rest of the competition, she was selected to attend the national team training camp with 80 other teenagers...
Freshman forwards Joey Yenne and Beth Totman have provided the bulk of the scoring, contributing 16 and 14 points on the year, respectively. And freshman midfielders Bryce Weed and Orly Ripmaster have furthered the first-year contribution on the offensive...
Just over a minute after the substitution, Moore took control of the ball and sprinted upfield, where she dished off to Mattison. Mattison then advanced deep into the Big Red zone, sending a cross just past the outstretched arms of junior goalkeeper Meghan Cauzillo to freshman midfielder Bryce Weed, who calmly sent the ball into the back of the net to give Harvard a 2-0 lead...
...prone to touching strangers randomly and shouting insults like "Eat me Mister Dicky-weed!" becoming a detective is probably not the most obvious career move. Case in point: Lionel Essrog, a Brooklyn P.I. who can't shoot a gun but can spend the better part of a stakeout obsessing over the numerical integrity of his meal (six White Castle burgers at 6:45). He's got Tourette's syndrome and--by the end of the first chapter of Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn (Doubleday; 311 pages; $23.95)--a dead boss on his hands...
...Weed's goal served as somewhat of a wake-up call for Harvard, as the Crimson came out re-energized after the score. Harvard continued to be the more aggressive team, and it created several chances to score in the final minutes of regulation...