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Volume 51 Issue No. 8 www.harvardvarsityclub.com June 18, 2009 2009 Senior Letterwinners’ Dinner Four All-Americans took home Harvard’s top senior athlete awards

Courtesy of Athletic Communications to the 2006 championship and three appearances in the NCAA Championship. Fucito graduates with 32 career goals Four All-Americans took and 24 assists and was drafted home Harvard's top senior by the Seattle Sounders in the athlete awards at the annual Major League Draft. Harvard Varsity Club Senior Pizzotti became the first Har- Letterwinners’ Dinner held June vard football player to be part of 3rd at the Bright Center. Fencer three Ivy League championship Emily Cross, ice hockey player teams, leading the Crimson to Sarah Vaillancourt, soccer consecutive titles as the starting player Michael Fucito and foot- quarterback during the past ball player Chris Pizzotti col- two. A finalist for the Walter lected awards for the top athlete Peyton Award as the nation’s in the senior class. It marks just top player, Pizzotti compiled a the third time that both major 20-2 record and ranks second awards— the Radcliffe Prize and all-time in pass completions, the Bingham Award— have been completion percentage, passing shared in the same season. touchdowns and passing yards. Fucito and Pizzotti were Pizzotti signed last month with presented with the William J. the New York Jets. Bingham Award as the top male Cross was a silver medalist at athletes, while Cross and Vail- the Beijing Games last sum- lancourt accepted the Radcliffe The 2009 Senior Award winners: Front row (l-r) Brian McCafferty, mer — marking the first time Prize as the top female athletes. Bill Jones, Michael Fucito and Sarah Vaillancourt. Back row (l-r) , the United States has medaled Eight awards were presented in Dom Pelligrini, Andrew Berry, Kylie Stone, Bill Jones, Nicole Rhodes, in the event. She is the most ac- front of a crowd of 650 student- Anna Kendrick and Emily Cross complished foil fencer in Ameri- athletes, coaches, parents and can history and led Harvard to supporters of Harvard Athletics. a national title in 2006 as part of a two-time All-America career. Fucito will graduate as one of the top soccer players in Har- Cross has the most decorated Harvard athlete during the vard history. He is a two-time All-American who led the Crimson Continued on page 6 Spring Sports Recaps Women’s Lightweight Crew (5-1) Men’s Heavyweight Crew (7-0, 6-1) • Radcliffe wrapped up a great turnaround season with a fourth- • The Harvard varsity eight sealed its 20th undefeated dual season place finish the IRA National Championships June 5-6 in Sacra- under Stone Family Head Coach for Harvard Men’s Crew Harry mento, Calif. The Black and White made up about four seconds Parker by defeating rival Yale by 20 seconds June Continued13 in the 144th on page 6 on third-place Stanford with a strong sprint in the final 500 me- installment of the nation’s oldest intercollegiate sporting event ters but finished 2.266 seconds out of the medals. It was the Black on the Thames River in New London, Conn. In a rare H-Y down- and White’s 11th top-four finish in the 13 years the IRA regatta stream race, the Crimson crossed the finish line in 21:25.6, while the has determined the women’s lightweight national champion. Bulldogs finished with a time of 21:45.1. • The Black and White varsity eight also placed fourth at EAWRC • The Crimson finished second in the Rowe Cup standings at Sprints May 17 in Camden, N.J. The second varsity eight earned a EARC Sprints May 10, placing all five of its boats in the grand silver medal. finals. The varsity eight finished second, while the freshman eight • The dual season ended May 2 with a win against neighboring and third varsity eight also claimed silver medals. The silver-win- MIT to capture the inaugural Linda Muri Cup, named for the ning varsity consisted of Chris Kingston (coxswain), Simon Gaw- Harvard men’s lightweight freshman coach. Linda Muri was a lik, Anthony Locke, David Wakulich, Henrik Rummel, Richard standout oarswoman for the Engineers and went on to earn a Anderson, James Bayley, Blake Pucsek and Noah Bruegmann graduate degree from Harvard. • Harvard crews advanced to the grand finals of the IRA National • Senior captain Rebekah Kharrazi, the seven seat and lone se- Championships in four of the five races they entered. The freshman nior in Radcliffe’s IRA entry, was a CRCA All-America selection. eight led the Crimson with a silver-medal finish, while the varsity Sophomore two seat Wynne Evans, a Romance languages and eight was one of three Harvard boats to place fifth. literature concentrator, was named a CRCA Scholar Athlete. • The penultimate dual race of the season looked to be one of the toughest, as Northeastern entered with a No. 7 ranking, just two spots behind the Crimson. Harvard, however, cruised to a 10.5- second win in the varsity eight to claim the Smith Cup and swept the other four races of the day. • Bruegmann, the varsity bowman and a junior chemistry and physics concentrator was named Academic All-Ivy. Baseball (13-28, 10-10 Ivy League) • The Crimson finished the year with a wild, 16-13 win against Northeastern May 28. Harvard rallied from a seven-run deficit and scored 10 times in the seventh inning, with senior Matt Rogers doubling twice in the frame. Fellow senior Tom Stack- Babich, who had two hits of his own, struck out the side in the ninth inning to close his career with a save. The lightweight women with Linda Muri • Stack-Babich made the All-Ivy League honorable mention following their win against MIT to capture list, along with senior Harry Douglas and sophomores Tyler the inaugural Linda Muri Cup. Albright and Dillon O’Neill. Sailing Women’s Heavyweight Crew (11-4) • The Crimson kicked off May by co-hosting the ICSA National • The Radcliffe varsity eight placed second in its grand final, Semifinals at Fan Pier , finishing seventh to earn a berth leading five medal-winning heavyweight varsity boats at the in the ICSA/Gill Coed Dinghy National Championship. Har- EAWRC Sprints May 17 in Camden, N.J. The varsity eight trailed vard placed second a week later at the New England Team Race Sprints champion Yale by less than a second. Crew members Championships, securing the team bids to all three parts of the seniors Laura Nicholson, Anna Kendrick, Esther Lofgren, Liz ICSA Spring National Championships May 25-June 3 in San Demers, Sarah Moore, juniors Laura Huppert, ContinuedChristine onBaugh page 6 Francisco. sophomore Olivia Coffey and freshman Jill Carlson (coxswain) • The women’s and coed squads both placed 10th in dingy rac- received second-team All-Ivy League honors. ing at the national championships, while Harvard placed 10th in • The strong Sprints performance helped the Black and White the ICSA/APS Team Racing National Championship. secure its 12th NCAA Championships berth in the 13-year his- • Senior skipper Megan Watson and sophomore crew Meghan tory of the event. Radcliffe placed 13th in the NCAA varsity eight Wareham were ICSA All-America honorees. Both were also competition and 14th as a team May 29-31 back in Camden. women’s All-New England selections, along with freshman Em- • Radcliffe finished the dual season in dominating fashion, win- ily Lambert, a second-team all-region skipper. On the coed side, ning all four varsity races and taking its third straight senior Jon Garrity and sophomore Alan Palmer were second- title May 2. The varsity win also kept the Allen-DeWolfe Trophy team All-New England skippers, and senior Lauren Brants was and Rowlands Cup in Weld Boathouse for another year. an all-region crew. • Lofgren and Huppert, both first-team All-New England selec- • Palmer and Brants were both Academic All-Ivy selections as tions, earned first- and second-team All-America honors, respec- well. tively. Kendrick and Coffey made the All-New England second team, and Kendrick was an Academic All-Ivy pick. Huppert, Men’s Tennis (13-9, 5-2 Ivy League) Kendrick and along with senior Phoebe Robinson and sopho- • Senior Chris Clayton was named Ivy Player of the Year and more Carolyn Talley were named CRCA Scholar Athletes. represented Harvard in the NCAA Championships. He fell • Liz O’Leary, head coach of the Radcliffe heavyweight crew, in the first round to No. 15 Blake Strode of Arkansas, 6-2, 6-2. was named the 2009 New England Regional Coach of the Year. Clayton also received the Farnsworth/ITA Senior Player of the She was named CRCA National Coach of the Year in 2003, after Year Award and the ITA/Arthur Ashe Award for Leadership and guiding the Black and White to the NCAA title. Sportsmanship for the Northeast region. Women’s Golf • Clayton and sophomore Alexei Chijoff-Evans were both unanimous selections to the All-Ivy League first team, while • Ivy champion Harvard placed 19th at the NCAA Central senior Sasha Ermakov earned honorable mention. Clayton and Regional. Senior Emily Balmert, Harvard’s only four-time All- Chijoff-Evans garnered second-team honors as a doubles pair. Ivy player, led the Crimson by tying for 57th individually with • Chijoff-Evans, an anthropology concentrator, made the Aca- rounds of 78, 79 and 80 for a total of 237. Freshman Christine demic All-Ivy squad and was named the ITA Player to Watch for Cho, the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, was four strokes back in the Northeast region. 75th place, with a score of 241. • Junior Claire Sheldon joined Balmert and Cho on the All-Ivy Women’s Tennis (13-8, 6-1 Ivy League) team. Balmert, a biology concentrator, was also an Academic All- Ivy selection. • Senior Beier Ko, the unanimous Ivy League Player of the Year, competed in the NCAA Championships, taking a set from Nadia Men’s & Women’s Outdoor Track Abdala of Arizona State, but falling, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-4, in the open- • Harvard placed fourth in the women’s competition and sixth ing round of the tournament. on the men’s side at the Heptagonal Championships May 9-10. • Ko was also named ITA Senior Player of the Year for the East The Crimson took home six individual titles, along with the ac- region and was a unanimous pick to the All-Ivy first team for companying first-team All-Ivy honors: seniorBecky Christensen singles and doubles, with sophomore Agnes Sibilski. Senior in the high jump, senior Shannon Flahive in the heptathlon, Laura Peterzan represented the league-champion Crimson on sophomore Claire Richardson in the 5,000 meters, sophomore the All-Ivy second team, while sophomore Samantha Rosenk- Jessica Fronk in the javelin, junior Justin Grinstead in the rans earned honorable mention as a singles player and alongside 400-meter hurdles and freshman Nico Weiler in the pole vault. freshman doubles partner Holly Cao. Sophomore Daniel Chenoweth placed second in the 5,000, while Richardson was the runner-up in the pole vault. Men’s Lacrosse (8-5, 3-3 Ivy League) • Weiler and Christensen advanced to the NCAA national meet • No. 18 Harvard finished the year with an 8-5 win against Dart- with top-three finishes at the NCAA East Regional May 29-30. mouth May 2, the team’s third straight win. NEILA Rookie of the Weiler, who earlier won the IC4A title, became the first Harvard Year freshman Jeff Cohen had three goals in the win, giving him athlete to win an event at regionals with a personal-best vault of 34 on the season, good for the ninth-highest total in program his- 5.36 meters. Christensen cleared 1.81 tory and the eighth-highest goals-per game average in the nation. meters to place third. • The Crimson’s total of eight wins was its highest since 2002, • On June 12th Christensen and and five players garnered All-Ivy honors. Senior defenderSam Weiler both earned All-America Slaughter and junior midfielderJason Duboe made the second honors at the NCAA Outdoor Track team with Cohen, sophomore attackerDean Gibbons and junior and Field Championships held in defender Billy Geist received honorable mention. Fayetteville, Arkansas. Christensen • Cohen, Duboe and Slaughter were first-team All-New England earned All-America status for the picks, while Gibbons, senior Max Motschwiller, junior Travis fourth time in her career and posted Burr and senior Eric Posner made the second team. her third top-five finish at the NCAA • Slaughter, an Academic All-Ivy honoree as an economics Championships. She was one of four concentrator, was also an NEILA Senior Scholar-Athlete. He was individuals to make 1.83 meters on named to the North team for the USILA All-Star Game, while their final try, resulting in a four-way Motschwiller made the East squad for the NEILA East-West All- tie for fifth. Weiler, competing in his Star Game. first NCAA Championships is a first- time All-American. He finished sixth Softball (27-17, 12-8 Ivy League) in the pole vault with a clearance of Becky 5.35 meters. Christensen ‘09 • Senior Hayley Bock homered, scored twice and threw out a runner in the final game of her career, but host Boston University Women’s Lacrosse (6-10, 2-5 Ivy League) hung on for a 3-2 win April 30. Fellow senior Bailey Vertovez • Freshman Katie Doherty scored with one second remaining to also reached base twice. lift the Crimson to a 9-8 win against Boston College in the April • Freshman pitcher Rachel Brown was named the Ivy League 30 season finale. JuniorSara Flood and senior Kaitlin Martin Rookie of the Year and earned a spot on the All-Ivy first team led Harvard with two goals and two assists each in the victory. alongside junior Jennifer Francis. Brown posted a 16-7 record It was the second straight win for a Harvard team coming off an and struck out a school-record 211 batters during the season. 11-7 victory at No. 20 Cornell. • Sophomore Emily Henderson was a second-team All-Ivy pick, • Sophomore Jess Halpern led the Ivy League with 46 goals and while Bock, junior Melissa Schellberg and sophomore Ellen 55 points and was named to the All-Ivy League first team, while Macadam earned honorable mention. Bock graduated as the freshman Tyler Petropulos earned All-Ivy honorable mention. Crimson’s all-time leader with 36 runners caught stealing. Halpern was also an All-Northeast Region selection. 2 Crimson Commentary by Michele McLaughlin nized varsity teams who have cumulative grade-point averages of Assistant Director of the Harvard Varsity Club at least 3.0. Five men and five women are honored from each of the eight Ivy League schools, based on the quality of their academ- ast month, the Harvard Student-Athlete Advisory Com- ic records and their athletic performance. mittee (SAAC) sponsored a fundraising event called Each of Harvard’s 10 selections was an All-Ivy or All-New Bench Press for Breast Cancer, helping to raise over England pick—or both—in 2009. They have combined for 26 All- L $6,000 for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation. Ivy and All-New England selections and four All-America honors All 41 teams were invited to participate in the bench press chal- in their careers. Eight have competed or will compete in their lenge, where three representatives from each team competed as sport’s national championship event this year. The 2009 selections: many repetitions as possible without stopping. The total number Noah Bruegmann ‘10, Heavyweight Crew, Chemistry & Physics of reps were combined and represented the overall score of the Alexei Chijoff-Evans ‘11, Tennis, Anthropology entire team. Women lifted the bar and men lifted half of their Jared Dourdeville ‘11, Lightweight Crew, Engineering Sciences body weight. Athletes were given pledge cards prior to the event Alan Palmer ‘11, Coed Sailing, Applied Mathematics to collect donations. These donations were either one-time contri- Sam Slaughter ‘09, Lacrosse, Economics butions or a dollar amount per repetition completed. Emily Balmert ‘09, Golf, Biology The day began with the athletes entering a pink-decorated Lauren Brants ‘09, Coed Sailing, History & Literature Palmer Dixon Gym to turn in the money they had previously Becky Christensen ‘09, Track and Field, Psychology collected. After an inspirational speech from women’s basketball Anna Kendrick ‘09, Heavyweight Crew, History & Literature coach Kathy Delaney-Smith, a breast cancer survivor, the compe- Claire Richardson ‘11, Track and Field, Neurobiology tition began. Freshman Caitlin Rowland from women’s basket- ***** ball took home the individual award helping her team to become The National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) an- the overall winner in the lifting competition. Softball took home nounced its annual Division I All-Academic Top 30 teams and the the award for the most money raised, tallying over $2,400. NWCA Individual All-Academic wrestling team for the 2008-09 ***** season and Harvard was one of the top teams in the nation. The The Harvard field hockey team traveled to the Franciscan Crimson finished second behind American with a team grade Hospital for Children in Brighton, MA at the end of April as part point average of 3.2585. It was the highest finish for the Crimson of the Crimson’s mission to give back to the community. The under Jay Weiss, the David G. Bunning Head Coach for Wrestling. field hockey team packed a comprehensive bag of arts and crafts For teams to be eligible for consideration, the team GPA is filled with face paint and bubbles to share with the children upon comprised of 12 student-athletes, including the 10 wrestlers that arrival. The team was split into three groups to spend time with were the entries in the NCAA tournament conference qualifier. If some of the many programs and services offered by the hospital. teams had less than 10 entries for their respective qualifier, they “Harvard field hockey hopes that our visit this spring will es- may fill those spots with wrestlers that competed in at least one tablish a long term relationship for future volunteer opportunities varsity dual during the season. at the Franciscan Hospital,” said 2009 co-captain Kristin Bannon. Junior co-captain and two-time All-American J.P. O’Connor “We particularly enjoyed doing arts and crafts with the children. was named to the Individual All-Academic wrestling team. This is It reminded us of how lucky we are to be student-athletes here at the second time O’Connor has been named to the team. O’Connor Harvard and the importance of giving back to the community.” made it to the round of 12 at the NCAA Championships after ***** finishing as the runner-up at 157 pounds at the EIWA Champion- Ten Harvard student-athletes are among those honored as ships. The human evolutionary biology concentrator is also a two- members of the spring 2009 Academic All-Ivy League team, an- time Academic All-Ivy League recipient. nounced Tuesday by the league office. ***** The honorees are starters or key reserves on officially recog- We are saddened to report the passing of football letterwinner Dr. Anthony Gianelly ‘57, an internationally recognized professor of orthodontics. Gianelly was Chair ad interim of the Department 2009 HRFWA Friend of the Year of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine. Born in Boston, Rick Frisbie ‘71 the younger of two brothers, Giannelly moved to Medford at the age of eight. He graduated from in 1957, where Rick Frisbie '71 has been selected as the recipient of the he was a leading fullback and linebacker on the team during the 2009 Friend of the Year Award. Sponsored by HRFWA, the 1954-56 seasons. He was also a member of Harvard’s varsity track Harvard Radcliffe Foundation for Women’s Athletics, the team as well as the rugby team. Friend of the Year Award was established in 2005 to honor Dr. Gianelly received a doctor of dental medicine (DMD) an individual from any Friends group whose hard work and degree from Harvard School of Dental Medicine in 1961 and a dedication has served his/her Friends group in an extraor- certificate of advanced graduate study in orthodontics from Har- dinary manner. Previous award recipients include Andy vard/Forsyth Dental Center in 1963. He earned a PhD in biology Freed '90, Friends of Water Polo (2005), Karen Weltchek '88, and biochemistry from Boston University in 1967 and a doctor of Friends of Rowing (2006), Nick Rhinelander '88, Friends of medicine (MD) degree from Boston University School of Medicine Skiing (2007) and Brian Hehir '75, Friends of Football and Jeff in 1974. Campbell '77, Friends of Track (co-recipients in 2008). He was a generous and uncritical man, and “he got along Rick has been an ardent supporter of the Athletic Depart- with everybody,” said college friend and football teammate Phil ment and the Friends of Harvard Lacrosse for many years. In Haughey ‘57. His family was extremely important to him and he May 2008 Rick endowed the men’s lacrosse head coach posi- was an understanding and devoted husband and father. tion establishing the Frisbie Family Head Coach for Harvard ***** Men’s Lacrosse. A record 1,733 high school students participated in the sixth Rick has been described as the “ultimate Friend”, gener- annual Lauren’s First and Goal Football Camp on Sunday, June 7 ously giving his time and resources to support the lacrosse at Lafayette’s Metzgar Fields Athletic Complex. The one-day clinic program. This year, he provided both financial support featured 275 college coaches who volunteered their time to teach and organizational leadership and served as the driving aspiring football players the in-and-outs of the game, including force behind this year’s successful fundraising drive. When Harvard’s Dave Borgonzi, Ron Crook and Joe Villapiano. compared to last year, the Friends of Lacrosse has more The donations from campers alone tallied $62,000 and the than doubled the amount raised from annual contributions day’s total of $185,000 is steadily on the rise with the help from and the number of donors increased by 29%. Under Rick’s outside contributions, including a $100,000 pledge from the Spe- guidance the next steps for Friends of Lacrosse include the cial Needs Trust in Clearwater, Fla. development of a Board and an enhanced fundraising strat- ***** egy. According to Friends of Lacrosse co-chairs chairs, “Rick Former Harvard forward Craig Adams ’99 became the first has been a catalyst for reinvigorating the Friends of alum to win two Stanley Cups helping the Pittsburgh Lacrosse through his hard work, gentle nudging, and relent- Penguins defeat the host Detroit Red Wings 2-1 to win the champi- less follow-up. His high standards for excellence inspire all of onship of the National Hockey League. Adams logged 11 minutes, us to raise our game and to do so eagerly.” 38 seconds of ice time and one shot on goal. Rick was nominated independently by all four co-chairs When Adams won the Cup as a member of the Carolina of the Friends of Lacrosse, and HRFWA is pleased to make Hurricanes in 2006, he became the second former Harvard player a donation in the amount of $500 in Rick’s name as the 2009 to win it and the first in 77 years. George Owen `28 also has his Friend of the Year. name on the Cup after helping the Boston Bruins win it in 1929. 3 Harvard Lightweights Complete Impressive Season

by Heather Palmer and maintained that ranking heading into the final week of the Assistant Director of Athletic Communications racing season. The Crimson swept Dartmouth and MIT in the first of back-to-back cup races on the . Harvard won back Four regatta wins, two cup victories, an 8-1 dual-racing the Biglin Bowl, after a one-year hiatus from Newell, with a 12 record, a silver medal at the conference championships and a second margin of victory. bronze at the national championships add up to a very successful Fifth-ranked Navy gave the Crimson a scare, but Harvard 2009 campaign for Harvard lightweight crew. And that is just the was able to hold off the charging Midshipmen in the final strokes accomplishments of the varsity eight! of the 2,000 meter race to preserve its undefeated record and bring As a team, Harvard reclaimed the Ralph T. Jope Cup as league back the Haines Cup. Harvard freshman eight also picked up a champion and medaled in all five races at the EARC Sprints. The win that morning to improve to 7-0 overall. Crimson swept four opponents and boasted winning records in all The final test of the dual racing season was against No. 1 five boats. Princeton and No. 3 Yale for the Goldthwait Cup. The Tigers Led by se- pulled away early and finished 5.2 seconds ahead of the Crimson nior captain Jeff to finish their dual racing season unbeaten. Harvard maintained Overington, its lead over the Bulldogs throughout the course and bettered their a three-year time by 5.5 seconds. member of the Fifteen days later, the Crimson closed the gap against Princ- varsity eight, eton in the varsity eight grand final at Sprints to earn a silver the Crimson’s medal. The second varsity eight and second freshman eight won top boat im- bronze, the third varsity eight took home gold and the freshman proved its dual eight won the silver. It marked the 20th time Harvard won the racing record Jope Cup and the third time in the last six years. The nine mem- by six wins bers of the varsity eight— Dexter Louie ‘10 (cox), Moritz Hafner from last season ‘09 (stroke), Overington (seven), Will Newell ‘12 (six), Andrew and won four Trott ‘12 (five),Jared Dourdeville ‘12 (four), Martin Eiermann more regattas, ‘10 (three), Stephen Barchick ‘09 (two) and Michael Silvestri ‘10 The lightweight Varsity Eight Heather Palmer Photo including two (bow) — received second-team All-Ivy League honors. cup races this After almost four weeks without a competition, the varsity spring. eight headed to Sacramento, Calif., for the 107th Intercollegiate With three members of the 2008 varsity eight returning and a Rowing Association (IRA) National Championships. Only seven slew of talented underclassmen fighting for spots in the top boat, boats qualified for the national championships, setting up a one- the fifth-ranked Crimson opened the season with something to race competition. The Crimson finished less than two seconds prove. Harvard did not make the grand final at Sprints the year behind archrival Yale for a third-place finish and its second medal before and did not want history to repeat itself. in as many tries at the IRAs. Princeton, who was the early leader, The Crimson varsity eight went 4-0 in two regattas on the first capped off an undefeated season with the win. The Tigers finished day of the racing season. The Harvard team swept Columbia and in 6:02.63, followed by the Bulldogs in 6:07.74 and Harvard in Georgetown and won two of five races against two-time defending 6:09.10. national champion Cornell and Penn on the road. It marked the 13th medal in 18 trips to the IRAs and third With wind gusts over 40 miles per hour on the Schuylkill medal in its last three appearances at the national championships. River, the conditions were not safe enough for dual racing. Instead Seniors Barchick, Hafner and Overington leave Harvard with the crews raced in a single-file, 2,000-meter time trial that was run several Sprints and IRA medals. Hafner won three silver medals up-river from the finish line to the start line. Harvard’s varsity and a bronze as a member of the varsity eight, while Overington eight finished the course in 6:22.2, nine seconds ahead of the has two silvers and a bronze medal in the varsity eight and an IRA fourth-ranked Big Red. Penn was third in 6:39. bronze in the varsity four without coxswain in 2008. Barchick won Later in the day, the Crimson drove to Princeton, N.J., to take silver in the pair last year to go along with his EARC silver and on the Lions and Hoyas on Lake Carnegie. Harvard’s varsity eight IRA bronze in the varsity eight. dominated against No. 6 Georgetown and No. 7 Columbia, earn- Six of the nine members of the varsity eight, eight of the nine ing a four-second win over the Hoyas and bettering the Lions’ time members of the second varsity eight and third varsity eight will by 25 seconds. all return for the Crimson next season, setting up what could be a The following week, Harvard moved into second in the nation record breaking year for the lightweigh oarsmen. 2009 Harvard-Yale Regatta

For the sixth time in nine years and the second time in two tries, the Harvard heavyweights swept rival Yale in the 144th edition of the Harvard-Yale Regatta June 13th on the Thames River. Above: the Varsity Eight oarsmen. Right above: The Stone Family Head Coach for Harvard Crew Harry Parker taking his annual dip in the Thames River courtesy of his oarsmen. Right below: The crew in action during the annual race.

4 2009 Hall of Fame Dinner Right: Hall of Fam- ers Billy Cleary ‘56 and Dick Clasby ‘54

Below: Varsity Club board member Paul Corcoran ‘54, Judy Anderson and Varsity Club Chairman Bob Anderson ‘61

2009 Harvard Varsity Club Hall of Fame Inductees, front row l-r: Jordanna Fraiberg LeVine ‘94, Francie Walton Karlen ‘94; Middle Row: David Boyum ‘85, Sean McCann ‘94, Adrian Ezra ‘94; Back Row: Michael Giardi ‘94, Tom Peterson ‘92.

Left: Former roommates Emily Buxton McCann ‘94 with Hall of Fame inductees Jordanna Fraiberg LeVine ‘94 and Francie Walton Karlen ‘94. Right: Spencer Boyum , Hall of Fame Inductee David Boyum ‘85, Sydney Boyum and Alexes Hazen. All Hall of Fame Photos by Gil Talbot Crimson Photo Gallery

Above: Mike Cronin ‘83, Legendary Football coach Mike Ditka, The Thomas Stephenson Family Head Coach for Harvard Football Tim Murphy, Friends of Football Chairman Brian Hehir ‘75 and Danny Jiggets ‘76 at the Friends of Football Chicago dinner held in May at Ditka’s Restaurant in downtown Chicago.

Right top: Dan Miree ‘02, Willie Alford ‘02 and Carl Morris ‘03 at the Friends of Football New York City Dinner held in May at the Harvard Club of New York City. Right bottom: Mike Clare, Matt Fratto, Jeff Reiman ‘04 and Mike Berg ‘07 at the Football New York City Dinner.

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tion to women's athletics. Rhodes was named a team captain each each captain team a named was Rhodes athletics. women's to tion

Andy Freed ‘90 Freed Andy

- contribu outstanding for Prize Paget G. Mary the with presented

Varsity Club Board member member Board Club Varsity

Nicole Rhodes Rhodes Nicole was was captain soccer women’s Three-time

Francis J. Toland award from from award Toland J. Francis

pionships, recording a pair of top 25 finishes as a junior. a as finishes 25 top of pair a recording pionships,

Left: Kylie Stone accepts the the accepts Stone Kylie Left:

- Cham NCAA the in competitor four-time a and selection League

123 of 133 career games despite serious knee injuries. injuries. knee serious despite games career 133 of 123 the John P. Reardon ’60 Men’s Award. Jones is a four-time All-Ivy All-Ivy four-time a is Jones Award. Men’s ’60 Reardon P. John the

McCafferty Bill Jones Bill of the men's ice hockey team. McCafferty played in in played McCafferty team. hockey ice men's the of was presented with with presented was standout swimming Men’s

Brian Brian adversity to make a contribution to his or her team, went to to went team, her or his to contribution a make to adversity the Year Award for his work with the men’s ice hockey program. hockey ice men’s the with work his for Award Year the

Dom Pellegrini Dom (either intercollegiate or intramural) who has overcome physical physical overcome has who intramural) or intercollegiate (either took home the Carroll F. Getchell Manager of of Manager Getchell F. Carroll the home took

The John P. Fadden Award, given to a senior student-athlete student-athlete senior a to given Award, Fadden P. John The named the Ivy League and ECAC Player of the Year. the of Player ECAC and League Ivy the named

for 150 children. 150 for she scored 106 career goals with 237 points while twice being being twice while points 237 with goals career 106 scored she

There, she directed an academic enrichment program at three sites sites three at program enrichment academic an directed she There, has been a member of Canada’s elite team since 2003. At Harvard Harvard At 2003. since team elite Canada’s of member a been has

director of the PBH’s Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program. Program. Enrichment Youth Cambridge PBH’s the of director a junior. She won a gold medal at the Torino Olympics in 2006 and and 2006 in Olympics Torino the at medal gold a won She junior. a

eight years ago. Stone, a captain and team MVP, was also a co- a also was MVP, team and captain a Stone, ago. years eight Memorial Award as the nation’s top player, winning the award as as award the winning player, top nation’s the as Award Memorial

the Crimson's longtime associate athletics director who retired retired who director athletics associate longtime Crimson's the Vaillancourt was a three-time finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Kazmaier Patty the for finalist three-time a was Vaillancourt

Francis J. Toland Community Service Award, which is named for for named is which Award, Service Community Toland J. Francis female scholar-athlete. female

Kylie Stone Kylie of the field hockey team was presented with the the with presented was team hockey field the of Foundation for Women's Athletics Prize, awarded to the top top the to awarded Prize, Athletics Women's for Foundation

23 National Team camp. Team National 23 evening as she was also bestowed the coveted Harvard-Radcliffe Harvard-Radcliffe coveted the bestowed also was she as evening

ling in crew and being invited to the US Rowing Women’s Under Under Women’s Rowing US the to invited being and crew in ling Senior Letterwinners’ Dinner, Continued from Page 1 Page from Continued Dinner, Letterwinners’ Senior