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...Black and White finished three seconds out of third place and nine seconds behind the Badgers. Radcliffe took a distant third in the second varsity eight, second in the third varsity four, and last in the novice eight.An intersession training trip to Florida set Radcliffe on track for a stellar spring that helped the crew adjust to the waves of change that swept through the program in the fall in which the team saw new coaches for both the freshman program and the Head of the Charles.“Our Florida training week was kind of a turning point...
...first place on Yale’s notoriously tricky course. Harvard won the tournament by three shots over Skidmore, and host Yale nestled into a disappointing seventh place. The victory was the first for Crimson coach Jim Burke and certainly the capstone of an otherwise less-than-stellar season. “I thought down the stretch we played tremendously well—even par on the last three holes, and it probably won us the tournament,” sophomore Greg Shuman said. “When you perform that well under pressure, it’s a thing...
...Bret Voith, who arguably had one of the most impressive rookie seasons of the year for any Harvard athlete, exploded onto the collegiate water polo scene with 41 goals, 21 assists, and 27 steals—gaudy numbers for a water polo player at any stage of his career.His stellar season reached its apex during the Crimson’s most memorable game of the season—the opening round of Eastern Championships against No. 20 Johns Hopkins. Having played the Blue Jays twice before and falling short each time, Harvard’s chances looked bleak. Both teams...
...performance next season and make good on co-captain Clayton’s next prediction, that “we’ll be competitive at a national level.” To come anywhere near that lofty goal, the Crimson will have to recapture the stellar chemistry it had this year and fill the gaps at the top of its lineup left by the graduation of Ashwin Kumar and co-captain Dan Nguyen, while making up for the experience and intensity lost with the graduation of Gareth Doran and Kieran Burke. The team will have to find...
...into Jody Weis' new job, the questions were enough to catch even a veteran police chief flat-footed. On the afternoon of April 20, Weis, the city's new police superintendent, stood before a bank of television cameras in a conference room at his department's headquarters. With a stellar 22-year FBI career behind him, the head of America's second-largest and very troubled police force faced a key test. In the previous 72 hours, nearly 40 people had been shot, five fatally. Weis wanted to clarify the record - and soothe a city on edge...