Crimson Teams Announce Incoming Athletes

With college decisions long since cemented, many of Harvard’s teams finally closed the book this week on recruiting for the class of 2014. In the past three days, three squads announced their latest additions to next season’s rosters, with men’s squash, men’s tennis, and women’s hoops all announcing their forthcoming stock of rookies.

Gocrimson.com has full details on the new members of all three teams, but some highlights include:

MEN’S SQUASH

-Men’s squash nearly doubles its team size, supplementing the nine returning players with seven new freshmen.

-Two rookies, Marc Atiyeh and Nigel Koh, join rising senior Richard Hill as the only non-North American players on the roster. Atiyeh hails from Lebanon, while Koh shares a Singaporean background with Hill.

MEN’S TENNIS

-Adding to the team’s youth movement, three freshmen (and one junior transfer) join a roster of 10 returning members, five of whom are rising sophomores.

-Rookies Brendan Seaver and John Thornton both have fathers who played on the men’s tennis team at Harvard. Seaver’s father, Alexander, played under current Crimson head coach Dave Fish ’72

-Junior transfer Jonathan Pearlman joins Harvard after two seasons with Brown, including a second-team All-Ivy League singles campaign in 2009.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

-Without graduating a single player, the women’s basketball team welcomes three McDonald’s All-American nominees and one Canadian Junior National Team member.

-The highly-touted group includes two athletes ranked in the top 60 by ESPN HoopGurlz at their respective positions: power forward Marissa Brock (No. 53) and point guard Christine Clark (No. 57).

-Incoming freshman Missy Mullins, who hails from Ontario, is currently preparing for the FIBA Americas U18 Championships as a member of the Canadian team. The tournament will take place in Colorado Springs, Colo. from June 23-June 27.