Despite last year’s Ivy League title for the men’s squad and the NCAA individual foil title for sophomore Alexandra Kiefer, another successful year was never a certainty for the nationally-contending Crimson fencing team. But with a second-place finish by the men’s squad in the Ivy League Championship, a sixth-place finish at the NCAA Championships, and individual silver medal for outgoing co-captain Valentin Staller in the saber, Harvard was nonetheless able to remain in the upper echelons of Ivy and national fencing.

The No. 4 lightweight first varsity eight finished third behind varsity eight winner Wisconsin and runner-up Stanford in Saturday's regatta. In Connecticut, Yale outdueled the Radcliffe heavyweights on the Housatonic.

For the day, the Black and White (7-3) completed a sweep against the weekend challengers with wins in all five of its race on the Charles River.

With the heavyweights visiting Princeton for an Ivy-filled regatta on Lake Carnegie and the lightweights defending home water on the Charles, both Black and White crews faced a series of familiar foes this past weekend.

Ryjik will be given a unique opportunity that few student-athletes are ever given in their athletic careers

The No. 13 Radcliffe heavyweight crew’s racing results on Saturday proved to be as mixed as the day’s weather. Though the Black and White 1V was unable to take down the defending national champions No. 7 Brown, the Radcliffe heavyweight crew took three of four races for the day.

Harvard will once again be graced by the presence of an esteemed member of the English premiership, this time by Liverpool Football Club.

Braving blustery and choppy conditions on the Charles River on Saturday morning, the No. 12 Radcliffe heavyweight crew out-rowed Boston-area rivals to take first place at the sixth annual Beanpot in the first race of the spring season.

The Harvard fencing team capped off its season with a sixth-place finish at the NCAA Championships over the weekend in Columbus, Ohio. Co-captain Valentin Staller was among six All-Americans for the Crimson and led the team with a second-place finish in the sabre.

Braving blustery and choppy conditions on the Charles River on Saturday morning, the No. 12 Radcliffe heavyweight crew out-rowed Boston-area rivals to take first place at the sixth annual Beanpot in the first race of the spring season.