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This number greatly overshadows that of most other Harvard sports, such as women’s basketball, which has only had one fifth-year athlete in 26 years, or baseball, which can also claim only a single extra-year athlete over the course of 13 years...
Many coaches have no recollection of their sports ever welcoming back a fifth-year senior—women’s volleyball, sailing, and men’s tennis, for example, have had no athletes return to use up their eligibility during the current coaches’ tenures...
Whether or not it is commonplace for a team to have super-seniors, athletes who have a year left in their eligibility and see graduation looming on the horizon have a tough decision to make. For fifth-year football wide receiver, Corey Mazza, his decision to return to the Crimson this past year was made after his, and his team’s, less than perfect finish during the 2006-2007 season...
Senior-season disappointment is not the only factor in the decision to play for an extra year. If it were, then the Harvard football team might not be returning any fifth-year seniors next fall. Instead, the Crimson roster will have four extra-year athletes in August...
...disappoint. Batting seventh, he had three knocks in four at bats and drove in junior Harry Douglas in the third to increase the Crimson’s lead to 3-0. Though Harvard lost the game 14-4, Zailskas impressed Walsh, who moved the sophomore up to fifth in the order against Princeton last weekend...