Athletes of the Week Runners-up (Week of 4/15)

Pitcher Sam Dodge took home the Athlete of the Week Award, but The Back Page recognizes other athletes in Harvard sports who excelled over the course of the weekend's games.

Erica Veidis and Jarvis Harris, Track and Field

The two athletes were the stars of the weekend’s annual Harvard-Yale track and field meet. Veidis, a sophomore indoor All-American, won the 800 meters with a 2:05.92 mark that was the second-fastest time ever run at the event. She led a one-two-three Harvard finish in the event. On the men’s side, Harris broke the school record with his 110 hurdles victory, beating the previous one by .11 seconds with a time of 14.13 seconds.

First Varsity, Women’s Heavyweight and Men’s Heavyweight

The first varsity teams for both the men’s and women’s heavyweight crew teams put forth winning efforts over the weekend. The 11th-ranked women picked up their first win of the spring with a victory over the fifth-ranked Princeton Tigers and 17th-ranked Cornell Big Red on Saturday morning. The team won by nearly five seconds over Princeton and almost eight over the Big Red. The fourth-ranked men’s team won three of the five races against the Brown Bears on Saturday morning and took home the Stein Cup for the third straight year.

Murphy Vandervelde, Men’s Lacrosse

With his overtime goal against the 14th-ranked Penn Quakers, the sophomore from Wellesley, Massachusetts, sent the Harvard men’s lacrosse team to its first victory over a ranked opponent. Since scoring his first career goal on March 23rd, Vandervelde has eleven goals in five games, including consecutive hat tricks against Albany and Duke. With the win, the team attained a slim hold on the final playoff berth in the Ivy League.