Women's hockey senior tri-captain Kate Buesser ended her career with the John Dooley Award for sportsmanship, enthusiasm, and devotion to hockey.
What’s more impressive than helping lead the Harvard men’s basketball program to a share of its first-ever Ivy League title?
Doing it with a broken foot—just ask sophomore forward Kyle Casey.
Casey, who missed the early portion of the 2010-11 season after breaking his foot in the preseason, in fact broke the same bone in his right foot again early in the Ivy League season.
With some seasons just coming to an end and others picking up speed, Crimson athletics are feeling the ups and downs of collegiate competition.
THE GOOD
Men's Fencing
The team won 14 straight matchups before ending its season by taking home four medals in the NCAA Northeast Region Championship and placing fourth in the NCAA Championships.
During the streak, Harvard took also home the Ivy League and Beanpot titles.
The Crimson won all five of its Ivy League Championship matchups, capping the tournament with a title-clinching victory against Yale on Feb. 13, downing the Bulldogs, 14-13.
A few weeks ago, the Harvard men’s basketball team missed its chance to be a part of March Madness.
But the team also missed out on the chance to call a 2011 Final Four coach among its alumni. According to Slate.com, Shaka Smart, the coach of Virginia Commonwealth University, turned down Harvard to play basketball at Kenyon College in Ohio.
Bobby Samuels
Spring, at long last, has arrived. Yes, the ground looks like the head of a man in desperate need of some Rogaine, but it’s a start. Likewise, in the world of Ivy League sports, we’ve finally closed the book on the winter season, as Yale unexpectedly fell in the second round of men’s hockey’s version of the Big Dance, and spring sports are now in full gear. We’ll explain it all in another edition of Around the Water Cooler.
After one of the greatest seasons in school history, the Yale men’s hockey team couldn’t find a way to keep up with the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) on Saturday night. The top seed coming into the NCAA Men’s Ice Hockey Championship, the Bulldogs narrowly escaped Air Force on Friday, winning 2-1 in overtime.
But the following night, Yale didn’t get quite as lucky.
