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...goal less than five minutes into the contest. Just as in the past two games, Harvard surrendered the lead when Lucky Mkosana pulled the Big Green even at 55:26. But this time, the Crimson responded when co-captain Brian Grimm kicked a deep ball that was recovered by Akpan, who beat two Dartmouth defenders for the game-winning goal. Nyamekye later sealed the deal with a defensive save...
While the Crimson was never short on star power—co-captain forward Andre Akpan was first runner-up for the Hermann Trophy—its success hinged more on the leadership of the senior class as a whole and the team’s tight-knit atmosphere than it did on any one player...
...team’s five seniors, Akpan, defender Kwaku Nyamekye, and midfielders Mitchell, co-captain Brian Grimm, and Adam Rousmaniere, kept the team on track all year long. Having come to Cambridge on the heels of a 6-8-2 season, Harvard’s seniors never once failed to reach the NCAA tournament during their careers. When the team started to fall off track, with a 4-0 loss to then-No. 17 UConn and a 2-1 upset by unranked Princeton, it was the seniors who set the team straight...
After two seniors, Akpan and Nyamekye, led the Crimson to a season-changing victory over Dartmouth, the team’s younger three classes took Harvard the rest of the way to a league title, with Rogers, classmate Richard Smith, and junior Alex Chi scoring key goals in the Crimson’s final two conference games...
...many ways, 2009-10 was the year of the dominant Harvard male athlete. Jeremy Lin captained the men’s basketball team to its best season ever and was a finalist for the John R. Wooden Award. Andre Akpan led men’s soccer to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament and was runner-up for the Hermann Trophy. And Colin West won a squash national title...