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Picked in the preseason to finish in the middle of the Ancient Eight pack, the Harvard women’s tennis team rose above expectations in 2009, and captured the 18th Ivy League Championship in the program’s 35-year history. After a handful of preseason contests, the Crimson (13-8, 6-1 Ivy), ranked No. 66 in the nation by the ITA at the end of the season, battered Columbia, 6-1, and Cornell, 7-0, in the first Ivy weekend. “I think we are playing the best at this moment...
...face. We can do this,’” Hagner said. “I don’t think we lost after that point until Northeastern [in the NCAA tournament].” Finishing with a 10-3-5 record, 5-1-1 in the Ancient Eight, the Harvard women’s soccer team ended the year on top. The focus now is on maintaining that position next year. “The major thing is how do you handle success?” Leone said. “Now we are the marked...
...Harvard women’s golf team found itself in an unusual position entering the 2008-09 season. After earning its first-ever Ancient Eight crown in its 2007-08 campaign, the Crimson became the hunted instead of the hunters as it looked to defend its title this year. Not only did Harvard respond by topping the Ivy League ranks for the second- consecutive year, the Crimson did so in unprecedented fashion, winning all but one of its tournaments along the way. Harvard placed second in its lone defeat of the year to Princeton, but quickly avenged the lone blemish...
With the Ancient Eight crown on the line, the Crimson’s depth and cooperation came through. Led by its distance swimmers, four of whom placed in the top five in three events—including a 1-2-3 sweep of the 1000-yard freestyle—Harvard took the crown by a 249.5-point margin...
...center of that storm which beset Conte Forum was junior guard Jeremy Lin. Assigned to defend the highly-touted Rice, Lin stole the spotlight for a night. Scoring 27 points, dishing out eight assists to two turnovers and generating six steals, Lin clipped his fair share of feathers, while the All-American Rice contributed a mere 14 points...