Time after time the ball sailed his way, and with an emphatic swing Erik Kuld proved that he was finally ready to take over. The Harvard men’s volleyball co-captain began the season with big shoes to fill, looking to spearhead an offense that graduated prolific outside hitter Brady Weissbourd ’09, and after a week of leading the Crimson to two victories—and leading the squad in kills—Kuld appears to have found his stride.

Every college athlete dreams of one thing: winning a national championship. Sophomore co-captain Caroline Vloka made that dream a reality this past Saturday at the fencing NCAA championships. Her national title in the sabre and first-team All-America honor were especially sweet because they were laced with 10-years worth of retribution.

The Athlete of the Week distinction is reserved for a Harvard competitor who excels in a given time frame, standing out among seven days’ worth of effort across all sports. But wrestling co-captain J.P. O’Connor has not limited his brilliance to periodic outbursts.

The talented yet inconsistent junior goalie Kyle Richter had the best two-game stretch of his season last weekend in the first round of the ECAC playoffs, recording 33 and 37 saves respectively on back-to-back nights as Harvard swept the Princeton Tigers.

Brandyn Curry had the biggest weekend of his Harvard career last Friday and Saturday night as he torched Ivy rivals Brown and Yale for a total of 36 points despite just playing 26.5 minutes per game.

In the last two regular-season games of her college career, Harvard women’s hockey senior Randi Griffin bid farewell in decorated fashion. Netting a total of four goals against St. Lawrence (15-12-7, 11-8-3 ECAC) and No. 6 Clarkson (20-9-5, 14-5-3), Griffin helped the No. 4 Crimson (18-6-5, 13-6-3) clinch pivotal home-ice advantage in the upcoming playoffs and inch closer to the dream of hoisting a national championship.

For the first time in eight years, a freshman has been named the men’s basketball Ivy League Player of the Week.

Some say that it is a long journey to the top. But it has come quickly for talented freshman squash player, Laura Gemmell.

When the Harvard women’s basketball team took on visiting Columbia last Friday night, junior forward Emma Markley made sure she was rejecting every shot that came her way.

With a 1-8-2 record heading into the last game of the decade, it looked like the Harvard men’s hockey team would need something or someone special to help turn its season around.