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...it’s hard to argue with Allard’s take. Then again, it is also clear that softball’s migration eastward and the diffusion and diversification of talent—a trend that Allard embodied in her own playing career—helped the sport catch on and grow at places like Harvard...
...Allard’s playing career has symbolized the rise of softball’s national popularity and its gradual evolution as a sport, so too has her coaching career come to symbolize the fundamental premise of Ivy League athletics...
Though she has always had a lingering desire to try a sport other than hockey, McAuliffe can point to a specific day in March 2001—during her first year at Harvard—as the moment that started her spring sport odyssey...
...just missed it,” McAuliffe says. “I feel like sometimes when you focus so much on one sport, you lose an aspect of athleticism. You might improve in that one sport, but then, it’s good to do different kind of athletics...
That same spring, McAuliffe decided to take up another sport, joining the JV softball team...