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...captains of the men’s Ultimate Frisbee team, said that part of the reason club sports rely so heavily on alumni is because of their niche nature. In addition to the nationally competitive club rugby team, club tennis, cycling, and skiing, there is a club equestrian team, a badminton team, and a jujutsu team...
...Varsity Club, the organization that fundraises for Varsity sports. For individuals (especially those on financial aid), personal costs are prohibitively expensive. Assumptions that the members of “ritzy” teams like skiing and horseback riding are sufficiently moneyed to afford participation are often false. According to equestrian dressage captain Olivia A. Benowitz ’09, many team members “come from parts of the country where it’s not as expensive to ride horses. Since the beginning of this year, we have lost about 75 percent of our team because of costs...
...These financial problems have far-reaching effects. Many teams that Harvard club sports compete against are recognized at the varsity level by other schools, which is the situation that the women’s equestrian club faces with many of its opponents, including three in the Ivy League. Club teams at Harvard are at a massive disadvantage when competing nationally against these varsity teams by having to make do with scant resources; some teams have even had to forfeit their spots in national competitions because of financial constraints...
Other noteworthy performances include Tsuyoshi Ihara, who portrays Olympic equestrian Baron Nishi. Ihara delivers one of the central principles of the film—“Do what is right because it is right,” translated from an American soldier’s letter from his mother—which resonates with soldiers on both sides of the battle...
...It’s a very intellectual sport,” she says. An intellectual sport, and an expensive one—members of the club must pay forty dollars per bi-weekly practice at Castleneck Farms in Essex. Unsurprisingly, what with the intellectual, economic, and equestrian prereqs, the club has remained small, with just five men and four women on each respective team. But even with such scant numbers, the team is optimistic. Most members headed to Texas over intersession for an intensive four-day training session with Katherine T. “Cissie” Jones...