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Senior Perspective: Gabrielle Fernandopulle

By Gabrielle Fernandopulle
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As of June 1, it’s been 562 days since we last competed. But I’ve felt the strength and lessons of my team more so in the last 562 days off the field than I could have imagined. Harvard Women’s Rugby, more than anything else at Harvard, taught me how to learn, how to be a teammate, and how to be brave.

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Baseball

Senior Perspective: Matt Thomas

By Matt Thomas
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It’s a strange thing to have the last 75 games of your collegiate career cancelled. In fact, during my four years, I only played in one-third as many. The Harvard Baseball Team has been such a core part of my identity in college, so I struggled to find direction and purpose when it was taken away. What did it mean to be a Harvard baseball player if we didn’t play any games?

Commencement 2021

Year in Sports 2021

Sports Features

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Football

'Love First': How RuQuan Brown Bounces Back and Makes a Difference

By Griffin Wong
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Why Shutting Up and Dribbling Isn’t an Option

By Amir Mamdani
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Men's Basketball

One Final Test: Pre-Tournament Reflections on the Men's Basketball Season

By Henry Zhu
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Men's Basketball

Mamdani's Musings: Harvard Basketball Finally Returns Home

By Amir Mamdani
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Harvard Men's Basketball Announces Captains for 2019-2020 Season

Athlete of the Week: Lewis Zerter-Gossage...

Athlete of the Week: Hunter Ladnier...

Women's Basketball

Post Player: Former Women’s Basketball Captain Jacqueline Alemany Covers Congress for The Washington Post

It has been 10 years since Alemany captained the Harvard women’s basketball team, but the habits she built while playing still serve her in her current job. Only now, instead of running down power forwards at Lavietes Pavilion, she is running down power brokers in the U.S. Capitol and reporting on Congress for The Washington Post.

Men's Ice Hockey

Moy Siblings Make a Transatlantic Leap

“It was definitely hectic. But in my heart, I knew I was going the whole time.”

Sports Features

Beginnings and Endings: Parting Shot

Through countless columns, I’ve simply written down exactly what I’ve thought. When I think about my Sports Board tenure, all I can think — despite its tragic ending — is that we had a whole lot of fun.

Women's Rugby

Harvard Women’s Rugby Standouts One Step Closer to Representing the United States on Rugby’s Biggest Stage

“Harvard kind of snuck up on everyone. I believe that all of us are really dedicated to improving ourselves for the betterment of the team and finding ways to learn and improve on and off the field to help the team, which were definitely values that were instilled at Harvard.”

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Athlete of the Week: Lewis Zerter-Gossage...

Athlete of the Week: Hunter Ladnier...

Women's Squash

Life on the Tour: Amanda Sobhy ’15, Haley Mendez ’15, and Sabrina Sobhy ’19 Reflect on Time at Harvard, Pro Squash Careers

By Eliot Min
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Of the top 50 female athletes in professional squash, three are former Crimson stars. Amanda Sobhy ’15, Haley Mendez ’15, and Sabrina Sobhy ’19, ranked fifth, 42nd, and 20th respectively, all played as members of Harvard’s elite squash team before pursuing full-time careers on the Professional Squash Association World Tour.

Sports Features

Student-Athletes Deferred Enrollment at Markedly Higher Rates than College Students at Large in 2020-21, Crimson Analysis Finds

The aggregate finding of this study is that, out of the entire population of Crimson student-athletes, approximately 40 percent opted to take time off from classes during each of the fall 2020 and spring 2021 semesters. This rate is roughly twice that of College undergraduates at large (student-athletes and non-athletes alike) who opted for time off from classes in 2020-2021.

Women's Soccer

Margaret Purce ’17: Prolific Goal Setter, Scorer, and Achiever

By A.J. Dilts
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“I joked with her after she was in the White House, 'Hey, 30 years' time, Midge, get yourself ready because you may be back there. With Midge Purce, you legitimately may have gone to school with the next president."

Football

Around the Ivies: One Last Time

Maybe it’s just the graduation goggles, but I realized that I don’t need football to do one of my favorite things as a Crimson reporter: write my Around the Ivies column. Although it may be harder to berate the Brown football program — don’t worry, I still will — the Ancient Eight is still alive even without sports. So without further ado, let’s take one last trip Around the Ivies.

Women's Soccer

Midfielder Lara Schenk Finds Ways to Train Among the Best Despite Pandemic

By Zing Gee
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One year ago, as Harvard students were forced to vacate campus, junior midfielder Lara Schenk (#18) of the women’s soccer team moved back home to Hannover, Germany. A Tuesday, March 10, 2020, email had announced that students would be required to vacate the campus by that Sunday, and the NCAA and all major sports would soon follow suit with shutdowns of their own.

Men's Basketball

Committed: How Harvard Basketball Has Recruited in a Pandemic

By Lev Cohen and A.J. Dilts
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“I think it's been hard for us in terms of the Ivy League schools, our basketball product hasn't been available for them to see,” Eskildsen said. “But ... if anything, I think people recognize how quick the Ivy League was to cancel the tournament back last year. And I think seeing that for putting the players and their health and safety first and foremost is a positive.”

Women's Swimming

Tri-Captain of Women’s Swim and Dive Team, Cassandra Pasadyn, Activates Advanced Standing

Amidst the Ivy League’s decision to cancel fall, winter, and spring contests, Cassandra Pasadyn of the Crimson Women’s Swim and Dive team made the difficult decision to activate her advanced standing — an academic process that allows for early graduation — and forego her eighth semester at Harvard.

Women's Ice Hockey

A Player’s Coach: Dom Petrie Stays Connected to the Game and Mentors the Next Generation of Girls

By Griffin Wong
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When she moved to Southern California at the age of ten, there were only one or two girls’ hockey teams in the region. Instead, she played — and starred — for boys’ teams throughout her hockey career, often alongside her older brother.