Word: wintered
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...Graves said. “The next couple of years are going to be very exciting for us and should manifest itself in much, much improved results.” After six years, Graves is stepping down from his position for personal reasons and will not return next winter. Graves was a large contributor to the squad’s recent success and rebuilding, and his absence will unquestionably be missed, but the program is positioned to progress. “I think this has been the best team depth that we’ve had since...
...last year’s squad—the Crimson built on its momentum by easily defeating Penn in its final regular season contest. The win gave Harvard a perfect 9-0 dual meet season and claimed the regular season title, which had gone to the Tigers the previous winter. The Crimson accomplished all of this despite spending the majority of its season swimming away from the friendly confines of Blodgett Pool. “Being undefeated in the dual meet season was a tremendous accomplishment, because most of our meets were away,” co-captain Sam Wollner...
...haven’t changed a beat of what I’ve said to the guys.” Unfortunately for Harvard, the enthusiasm did not generate much team success in the face of such unprecedented adversity. Yet the Crimson did boast numerous bright spots throughout the winter season. O’Connor, who began the year ranked fifth in the country at 149 lbs., dominated his sophomore campaign, going 13-0 in dual meets and rising to No. 2 in the national rankings. Although O’Connor suffered a torn ACL at the NCAA Championships and settled...
...athletes run House Committees and captain IM sports teams. It’s no surprise that one of my most frequent interviewees—Lindsay Hallion, the heart and soul of the Crimson basketball team—was running the show for Leverett House at the Senior Olympics. This winter, when the women’s hockey team soared to No. 1, Eliot’s housemaster, Lino Pertile, inspired a regular army of housemates to cheer on the team’s large Eliot contingent. We had towels made with a crimson “Domus?...
...This past winter, the marked rise of youth violence in Boston caught the attention of Harvard’s Black Students Association (BSA), who decided to take action following shootings in Dorchester and Roxbury. First via letter—and then by meeting with Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 himself—student leaders from the BSA facilitated the development of a comprehensive plan to curb youth violence in the state. Besides the potential tangible effect of lowering rates of youth violence, the most encouraging aspect of this dialogue was the students’ embracing a cause...