The Harvard softball team’s wild three-day NCAA tournament run came to an end Sunday at the hands of 16th-seeded Washington.
Behind two standout performances from Rachel Brown, the Harvard softball won both of its contests on Saturday and set up a rematch with No. 18 Washington.
Led by its pair of aces, the Harvard softball team earned its second straight conference title by sweeping Penn.
Freshman runner Ashley Collinsworth has learned about the challenges of being a college athlete from her father, Cris.
When Harvard topped the higher-seeded No. 50 Maryland Terrapins and No. 23 Texas Tech Red Raiders to advance to the NCAA Regional Final, it cemented the team as one of the best in Ivy softball history.
After an impressive accumulation of talent, the Crimson seemed poised to realize the high expectations from the previous season, when they occupied a spot in the Top 25.
For the third time in four years, the whistle signaling the end of the Harvard women’s soccer team’s regular season also meant that it was time to hoist up some hardware.
Harvard is all about the numbers. Number one school in the country with 6,400 undergrads, 3,500 courses, three million volumes in Widener, 12 undergraduate houses, and 41 Division I sports teams. One basketball NCAA tournament run, two Winklevii, three women’s soccer Ivy League championships in the past four years, and a handful of 2012 Olympians.
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