Though most students have long since left Cambridge for home, one Harvard runner is beginning her summer vacation in a very different way.
A native of St. Paul, Minnesota, junior distance runner Claire Richardson is currently in Eugene, Ore., where she awaits the start of her 5,000-meter race in the finals of the NCAA national championships tomorrow.
On May 29, Richardson qualified for the national finals, placing 9th in the 5k at the NCAA regional championship meet. Her qualifying time of 16:31.83 is the third fastest in Harvard track and field history.
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Frank Herrmann ’06 began his major league career with the Cleveland Indians on June 4 with 1.1 hitless innings against the Chicago White Sox and one strikeout against former Indian Omar Vizquel. The right-handed reliever was called up by the Tribe just that morning from Triple-A Columbus and earned the hold in Chicago in the evening.
Herrmann is Harvard's first major league player since southpaw pitcher Jeff Musselman ’85 retired in 1990.
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On May 24th, Harvard football coach Tim Murphy embarked on the 2010 USO/Morale Entertainment Coaches’ Tour, along with Texas Tech’s Tommy Tuberville, Chip Kelley from the University of Oregon, West Point’s Rich Ellison, and Illinois’ Ron Zook.
The whirlwind tour—which took the five coaches to Germany and Southwest Asia to meet and encourage U.S. troops—concluded nine days later. Courtesy of USO’s Oname Thompson, read some of Murphy’s thoughts on the tour after the jump:
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If more people followed women’s heavyweight crew, co-captain Laura Huppert might have been recognized by ESPN before now. And if more people followed wrestling, co-captain J.P. O’Connor, whose national championship victory was broadcast on the network, would be a household name. As it so happens, neither is the case. But because the athletes matched their athletic achievements with academic prowess, both have recently been named to the ESPN the Magazine All-District First Team.
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For most seniors on the Harvard men’s volleyball team, the last game of their careers will be the Crimson’s disappointing 3-1 loss to NJIT this past April.
But co-captain Erik Kuld is hoping to write a different ending to his career next year when the 6’1” outside hitter teams up with Brady Weissbourd ’09 to play professionally in Europe.
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