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...LOVE OF SPORT...
After extending her passion for hockey to her teammates, this summer Ruggiero will extend her love for sport to children at home and abroad...
...basketball player Laela Sturdy ’00 and her younger sister, Alexis, to Kimpala, Uganda on a goodwill trip with Right to Play, a Canadian-based NGO founded in 1994 by Norwegian speedskater Johann Olav Koss that uses Olympic athletes to provide humanitarian aid and promote sport in developing countries. Members of the organization include NHL great Wayne Gretzky, NBA star Dikembe Mutumbo, and of course Angela Ruggiero...
...Basically there’s what’s called Sport for Development, or Sports Work Programs, and they go into the communities and teach these kids to have soccer day. And in order to play soccer you have to get immunized for Hepatitis or something like that,” Ruggiero explains. “And they bring in Aids research—they bring in the U.N., the Red Cross—just kind of build communities for these kids—give them something because they really have nothing...
...while wrestling remains an individualist sport and Jantzen continues to downplay his impact, it has been his never-ending drive which has made Harvard wrestling the ultimate team sport, where the accomplishments of one can elevate all of his teammates to greater efforts...