Over the past two years, Harvard’s top skiers, sophomore Rebecca Nadler, junior Alena Tofte, junior Catherine Sheils, and sophomore Chris Stock, have made several breakthrough performances to put the Crimson jacket in unfamiliar places, most recently on the top of the alpine podium last weekend.

When Nadler did cross that line it became official: She was the first Harvard alpine skier ever to win an EISA carnival event.

Ho and Lin are setting fantastic examples for young athletes everywhere, and it’s important that we remember both of them, the obstacles they have faced, and the way they have triumphed.

Nadler’s second-place finish led the women’s alpine team to a fourth-place finish in the event and was the highlight of a weekend in which the skiing team placed ninth overall at the Vermont Carnival.

Birk was just named the NFL's Walter Payton Man of the Year and will be honored at the Super Bowl before the start of the contest.

2011 was a big year in Harvard athletics. Women’s soccer captured its third Ivy League championship in four years. The ...

A year ago, Chris Stock was a promising freshman Nordic skier. On Friday, he fulfilled that promise, placing as one of the top skiers in the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association. The sophomore’s fourth-place finish in the men’s classic sprint event highlighted Harvard’s ninth-place finish this past weekend at the University of New Hampshire Carnival.

Athletes have long been making ill-advised comments to the media, but in earlier days, they seemed to be the victims. It was the reporters who clawed for sound bites; athletes were simply foolish enough to respond.

After two building years in which it developed its young talent, the Harvard ski team seemed poised to move up in the standings of the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association entering the 2012 season.

2011 was a big year in Harvard athletics. Women’s soccer captured its third Ivy League championship in four years. The ...