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...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?...
...assault to preserve the victory for her team.Kessler’s resilience manifested itself once again after Harvard dropped its first game of the season, 4-1, to New Hampshire—the team that the Crimson had previously replaced atop the national rankings—heading into winter break on Dec. 14. While the young netminder could have let the frustrating loss and the three-week respite between games spoil the rest of her season, Kessler had other plans.She emerged from the break in top form and played the best hockey of her career. Over her next...
...home, in Adams House and my office at the Crimson—will become simply a memory after walking down it nearly every day since sophomore year.Fortunately, I had the privilege of sticking mostly to the north side of Mount Auburn St., sparing myself long, cold walks in the winter down to the rest of the River Houses. Let’s be honest—I was pretty spoiled here.As my four years at Harvard come to a close and nostalgia sets in, Im forced to think about what I have enjoyed and what I would have done differently...