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...adjust to us as well,” says captain Nick Lenicheck. “The athletic and academic environment at Harvard, and the Ivy League in general, is a lot different than at a place like Duke or Stanford. Coming to Harvard, where athletics are not professionalized at all, had to be difficult. The atmosphere is totally different...
...Coach has told us that the will to win is the will to train,” Lenicheck says. “To win, you have to train harder and more intelligently than everyone else...
Then there is the matter of Kerr’s practices. Kerr calls them “competitive”; Lenicheck calls them “long and grueling.” They start out innocently enough, as Kerr and his staff are fond of cracking a couple jokes to loosen up the team. But by the end of the session, the players are usually divided into two teams for an intrasquad scrimmage. In a twist he gleaned from his old professional coach in England, Kerr always makes sure “there’s a reward...
...That may sound harsh, and I admit I’ve sworn at him under my breath many times, but it really instills a will to win, a hatred for losing,” Lenicheck says. “It makes playing games much easier...
...biggest difference this fall was the team unity,” Lenicheck says. “In the past, we had the talent but not the desire to play for each other. When things went poorly, people started pointing fingers and blaming each other. This year everyone got along. There was a collective responsibility—we won and lost as a team. We stuck together, even in the difficult times...