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...women’s alpine team put up some impressive finishes in regionals as well. Rookie Catherine Sheils, currently ranked in the top 10 among junior skiers, won the second run of the slalom event to take eighth place in the slalom overall—a finish Mitchell estimated to be the best by a Harvard alpine skier in the past 25-30 years...
When junior Cara Sprague left nearly all of New England in her wake with her sixth-place finish in the classic event of the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association Championships in February, she did more than post one of the strongest finishes in the history of Harvard skiing and lead her women’s Nordic team to a second-place finish...
...just kind of fell into place at the right moment,” Sprague said...
Sprague’s finish wasn’t Harvard’s lone standout performance of the day. Kennedy and Tofte backed her up with 14th- and 19th-place finishes of their own, and the women’s Nordic team beat every team in the region, save powerhouse Dartmouth, in the classic event...
...center of what was one of the team’s best-ever finishes, Sprague had done more than complete a comeback. She had emerged better than she was prior to her injury, moving up 16 places from her finish at regionals the previous year to stake her place as one of the top skiers in the EISA—an accomplishment that is especially impressive given that the Crimson is already disadvantaged by its lack of snow relative to most of its competitors...