Alan St. Louis’ dream is to sing the national anthem for the Boston Red Sox. To get there, he’s decided to take the long road – a road that recently stopped in Cambridge.
Last July, St. Louis embarked on a quest to set the world record for most national anthems sung in a 12-month period. For his 57th performance, the Nashua, N.H. native belted out the Star Spangled Banner at the beginning of Harvard women’s basketball’s matchup with Brown on Jan. 29.
St. Louis returned to the Soldiers Field complex this Friday and Saturday to open Harvard women's hockey's games against Princeton and Quinnipiac.
No one officially holds the record for most renditions, and St. Louis believes he may have already set it with 60 as of Jan. 31, but he plans to continue scheduling as many performances as feasibly possible. His Saturday performance at Bright Hockey Center was one of three St. Louis had on the day, but that’s nothing new. At the beginning of the journey back in July, St. Louis sang four to five times a day at American Legion baseball tournaments to jumpstart his campaign.
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2011 was a big year in Harvard athletics. Women’s soccer captured its third Ivy League championship in four years. The men’s basketball team took home a share of the Ancient Eight title and entered the nation’s Top 25, both firsts in program history. Football set a modern-era program record for points in a season, scoring 374 points en route to a 9-1 finish and a league crown. Four other teams—men’s fencing, men’s heavyweight and lightweight crew, and softball—also finished 2011 on top of the Ivy League standings.
There were a number of standout individual performances as well. Women’s fencer Alexandra Kiefer captured the NCAA Foil Individual title. Men’s basketball forward Keith Wright became just the second player in Harvard history to take home Ivy League Player of the Year honors. Women’s soccer and lacrosse captain Melanie Baskind was named to the First Team All-Ivy in two different sports and was selected as the Ivy League Player of the Year in soccer.
We at The Back Page have taken on the tall task of determining the best Harvard athlete of 2011. Here’s how it will go down: we’ve selected 16 standout Harvard athletes—eight male and eight female—and set up two single elimination brackets. Each round, Harvard’s finest will square off in head-to-head matchups. And based on their performances in 2011, we will determine who advances and who is eliminated until just one male and one female remain. Then, the two champs will square off to determine the top Harvard athlete of 2011.
After crowning the champion of the women’s bracket yesterday, it’s the moment we've all been waiting for: Andrew Campbell of the rowing team and Mel Baskind of the lacrosse and soccer teams meet in the overall final to determine The Back Page Athlete of 2011.
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2011 was a big year in Harvard athletics. Women’s soccer captured its third Ivy League championship in four years. The men’s basketball team took home a share of the Ancient Eight title and entered the nation’s Top 25, both firsts in program history. Football set a modern-era program record for points in a season, scoring 374 points en route to a 9-1 finish and a league crown. Four other teams—men’s fencing, men’s heavyweight and lightweight crew, and softball—also finished 2011 on top of the Ivy League standings.
There were a number of standout individual performances as well. Women’s fencer Alexandra Kiefer captured the NCAA Foil Individual title. Men’s basketball forward Keith Wright became just the second player in Harvard history to take home Ivy League Player of the Year honors. Women’s soccer and lacrosse captain Melanie Baskind was named to the First Team All-Ivy in two different sports and was selected as the Ivy League Player of the Year in soccer.
We at The Back Page have taken on the tall task of determining the best Harvard athlete of 2011. Here’s how it will go down: we’ve selected 16 standout Harvard athletes—eight male and eight female—and set up two single elimination brackets. Each round, Harvard’s finest will square off in head-to-head matchups. And based on their performances in 2011, we will determine who advances and who is eliminated until just one male and one female remain. Then, the two champs will square off to determine the top Harvard athlete of 2011.
Over the weekend, we revealed the winners of the women's quarterfinals, and we now turn to the seminfinals, where lacrosse’s Jennifer VanderMeulen takes on Melanie Baskind of the soccer and lacrosse teams. We round it out with skier Rebecca Nadler against fencer Alexandra Kiefer.
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They are some of the Crimson’s biggest sports fans, yet they don’t even attend Harvard. In fact, they go to one of the Crimson’s cross-town rivals. But the Harvard Hoochies—a group of self-proclaimed “BU biddies, hooching and husband hunting at Harvard Final Clubs” known for their presence on campus and on Twitter—stay on top of Crimson athletics.
We caught up with the Hoochies via email to hear their thoughts on all things Harvard sports. Check out their unedited responses below to find out what they have to say about Harvard’s female athletes, Crimson basketball, Harvard’s uniforms, and much more.
The Harvard Crimson: Which is your favorite Harvard sports team and why?
Harvard Hoochies: We don’t discriminate. If he’s a Harvard athlete, he’s sexual meat by default.
THC: Who is your favorite Harvard athlete and why?
HH: Here are a few by club:
The Delphic: J.T. Tomes - Harvard Baseball - Most genuine guy at Harvard
The Fly: Andrew Fulham - Squash Team - Straight out of a Vineyard Vines ad
The Fly: Max Campion - Golf Team - Also straight out of a Vineyard Vines ad
The Owl: Dan DiMaria - Harvard Lacrosse - Stereotypical bro who loves himself and has great hair. What more could you want?
The Owl: Ryan Cutter - Harvard Swimming - 1 word: Speedo
The Fox: Austin Taylor – Harvard Football - Complete gentleman, not to mention he’s active on Twitter
The Spee: Devin Saxon - Harvard Football - Why? Because he’s a man-god, that’s why
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2011 was a big year in Harvard athletics. Women’s soccer captured its third Ivy League championship in four years. The men’s basketball team took home a share of the Ancient Eight title and entered the nation’s Top 25, both firsts in program history. Football set a modern-era program record for points in a season, scoring 374 points en route to a 9-1 finish and a league crown. Four other teams—men’s fencing, men’s heavyweight and lightweight crew, and softball—also finished 2011 on top of the Ivy League standings.
There were a number of standout individual performances as well. Women’s fencer Alexandra Kiefer captured the NCAA Foil Individual title. Men’s basketball forward Keith Wright became just the second player in Harvard history to take home Ivy League Player of the Year honors. Women’s soccer and lacrosse captain Melanie Baskind was named to the First Team All-Ivy in two different sports and was selected as the Ivy League Player of the Year in soccer.
We at The Back Page have taken on the tall task of determining the best Harvard athlete of 2011. Here’s how it will go down: we’ve selected 16 standout Harvard athletes—eight male and eight female—and set up two single elimination brackets. Each round, Harvard’s finest will square off in head-to-head matchups. And based on their performances in 2011, we will determine who advances and who is eliminated until just one male and one female remain. Then, the two champs will square off to determine the top Harvard athlete of 2011.
After taking a look at half of the first-round matchups on the women's side, we now examine two more faceoffs between Harvard's top female athletes: squash's Laura Gemmell v. skiing's Rebecca Nadler and fencing's Alexandra Kiefer v. hockey's Josephine Pucci.
Check back soon to find out the rest winners on the women's side of the bracket.
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