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Though the Crimson was without its usual luxury of Olympic-level talent and was plagued by injuries all year, it still managed to earn home-ice advantage in the NCAA tournament after posting a 20-8-5 record (13-6-3 ECAC) with an undefeated nonconference slate...
...Jenny Brine ’09, and Sarah Wilson ’09—Harvard took solace in its star power at the other end of the ice, where senior goaltender Christina Kessler turned away other teams’ forwards at will. Kessler set the NCAA all-time career save percentage record in the 2009-10 campaign, becoming the Crimson’s all-time winningest netminder in what would be the final game of her career. When junior forward Liza Ryabkina returned from a dislocated knee in late November, all the pieces seemed to have fallen in place...
...combined margin of seven goals. But it was all heartbreak after the easy victories over the Tigers. Clarkson kept the Crimson out of the ECAC championship game with a 3-2 victory in the conference semifinals. Harvard’s season then ended in the first round of the NCAA tournament, as it dropped a 6-2 contest to upstart Cornell—which would make a run all the way to the NCAA championship game—at home...
...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...
...example, at the 2008 NCAA tournament, the then-sophomore O’Connor tore both his ACL and PCL. Despite being barely able to put on any weight on his injured leg, O’Connor—knowing he needed one more win to repeat his All-American status—went on to take down the defending national champion and display the type of determination that many enormously talented athletes lack...