HARVARD VARSITY CLUB NEWS & VIEWS of Harvard Athletics www.harvardvarsityclub.org Volume 56, Issue No. 4 February 4, 2014 Harvard has been represented adds that “she [Stone] doesn’t at every modern Olympic Games, have favorites when it comes to and this year bodes no different as Crimson athletes, Harvard players. We’re just another kid on the team and coaches, U.S. Delegates, news reporters (print and TV), the best part is that she’s coaching to win just the way she and a TV executive will all converge on Sochi for the 2014 does at Harvard.” Olympic Winter Games. Coach Stone hopes that her coaching philosophy of Perhaps the most recognizable among the group is Julie engaging and developing players both on and off the ice Chu ’06, who will don the red, white and blue uniform for will help bring home the gold. Is she caught up in the her fourth time. We caught up with Chu and her fellow excitement of what could be considered the pinnacle of Crimson teammates Lyndsey Fry ’15, Michelle Picard ’16, her incredible career? “You don’t have a whole lot of time and Josephine Pucci ’15 at the chilly Belmont Hill School to think about the wow factor of the position, you just got rink on January 23. Reflecting on how her emotions to get out there and do your job.” differ from her first Olympic experience, Chu noted, “I The team has been working hard since early September, think it’s one where I’m a little more controlled and calm holding two-hour practices five days a week at the Edge about things. I think of my first time, I was 19 years old, Sports Center in Bedford, MA, a facility owned by two- and everything was crazy, I really wanted to experience time Olympian (1984 & 1988) and Hobey Baker Award everything but was just a little bit overwhelmed.” winner Scott Fusco ’85-’86. Fusco was honored to have his Current Harvard student-athletes Fry, Picard and center chosen as the primary training facility for the USA Pucci expressed similar feelings on their maiden Olympic Women’s National Hockey Team and equally excited to voyage, but they share one important ingredient with be added to the team as a practice forward. Stone shared Chu; none are strangers to the coaching methods of with enthusiasm, “once he Katey Stone, the U.S. gets going, just watch, he’s National Women’s Ice great!” Hockey Head Coach and Jumping off the ice the Landry Family Head and behind the scenes we Coach of Harvard Women’s find Jim Bell ’89, Harvard Ice Hockey. Stone, the all- Football All-Ivy defensive time winningest women’s tackle entering his 10th hockey coach in NCAA Olympics with NBC Sports history, handed over her and his second as Executive Harvard post for a year to Jim Bell ’89 A.J. Mleczko ’97-’99 Angela Ruggiero ’02-’04 Producer. Bell, confident that interim head coach Maura Russia is ready for us shares, Crowell, who has aptly “Sochi, a summer resort guided the team (minus town, is an unusual place for a few key players) to a a Winter Games but having 17-3-3 record thus far. traveled there eight times in The Crimson Olympians advance of the Games, I can have been following the attest that the indoor venues team in Cambridge closely & the Caucasus Mountains and Pucci expressed her Scott Fusco ’85-’86 Caitlin Cahow ’06 John Powers ’70 are spectacular. As far as excitement with the team’s any vodka consumption is success, “I’m really proud how they’ve overcome concerned, all I can say is that it was always done in the adversity and are doing so well and having fun. I think spirit of international cooperation and brotherhood.” that’s something every Harvard team has stood for, and Joining the NBC Sports team traveling to Sochi is they’ve taken it to another level.” Harvard Hockey alumna, two-time Olympian, and 1999 When asked about coaching her current players in an Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award winner, A.J. Mleczko Olympic setting, Stone quickly replied, “it’s a blessing and ’97-’99. Mleczko returns for her third Olympic assignment a curse. In some ways I’m way harder on them than the as the women’s hockey game analyst having previously other players, so I’ve got to catch myself and make sure commentated in Vancouver (2010) and Torino (2006). that having played for me in the past isn’t a punishment, it Angela Ruggiero ’02-’04, a four-time Olympian and hopefully is a privilege.” Forward and Arizona native Fry current President of the Women’s Sports Foundation, has continued on page 2... continued from page 1... served on the U.S. Olympic Committee board of directors and Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns. Says Cahow, and has been an International Olympic Committee director “first and foremost, I am going to Sochi representing since February 2010. Among Ruggiero’s responsibilities Harvard University and Harvard Women’s Hockey. I am representing the U.S. in Sochi will be presenting medals at so proud to carry that tradition with me as an ambassador various awards ceremonies. Her experience should come to the world.” In her time in Sochi, Cahow hopes to spread in handy! the message of diversity and acceptance amid controversy John Powers ’70, Boston Globe reporter since 1973, 1983 that surrounds the 2014 Games. Pulitzer Prize winner, and co-author of the soon to be When the Olympic flame finally reaches Sochi’s released Third H Book of Harvard Athletics, will be covering Olympic Stadium, Harvard’s latest set of ambassadors his 20th Olympic Games for the Globe. John has covered will take the ice, cover the action, and make critical both summer and winter Games since Montreal in 1976. decisions behind the bench and in the booth, leaving an Rounding out Harvard’s team in Sochi, two-time imprint on the 2014 Olympic games, as has been the case Olympian Caitlin Cahow ’07 was appointed by President since 1896. Obama to be a U.S. Delegate for the closing ceremonies, where she will stand alongside the likes of Billy Jean King Harvard Athletics is fortunate to have the support and enthusiasm of our alumni and friends. As an COMPLIANCE alum, you have a responsibility to make sure that your enthusiasm does not cross the lines of fair CORNER play by inadvertently breaking an NCAA rule. Below please find some helpful information to give you a better understanding of NCAA and Ivy League permissible activities during away events. EVENTS & FUNCTIONS LODGING & TRANSPORTATION If a Friends Group or Harvard Club plans on hosting/ Unless you are providing lodging during an official team sponsoring any event or function, this is a reminder that: trip that has been pre-arranged with the coaching staff, a student-athlete cannot accept free or reduced cost room • Current student-athletes and their parents and other and/or board from any Harvard alum. This would preclude relatives may not receive special discounts, entrance a student-athlete from “house sitting” for you. It is also fees, free gifts or paraphernalia. impermissible to permit parents, family or friends of a • Parents and other relatives of current student-athletes student-athlete to stay in your home at any time, regardless may not receive benefits or meals. of circumstances. • Parents and family members of student-athletes may Transportation may not be provided to a student-athlete receive finger foods/appetizers but will need to be or the families or friends of a student-athlete. Examples of charged for anything more substantial. impermissible transportation include, but are not limited to, • If a parent is a member of a Friends Group (by joining, providing transportation to members of a student-athlete’s paying fees, etc.) and a Friends Group has a reception family to attend home or away competitions, allowing the where all members were invited, then the parents could use of your vehicle, or providing transportation home for a attend and will not need to pay for the meal. student-athlete during a vacation period. Current student-athletes may attend or participate in If you have any questions or concerns regarding any of the alumni events provided their attendance is related to their above information please contact the Harvard Compliance athletic participation. Student-athletes may occasionally Office. be asked to speak at alumni events. Permission should be Shanna Kornachuk, Assistant Director of Athletics requested from the Compliance Office prior to the event. 617-384-8241 [email protected] Student-athletes are not allowed to miss class to attend Dave Wilson, Assistant Director of Compliance these functions and cannot be provided money or gifts in 617-496-3865 [email protected] exchange for speaking at a function. Crimson Scoreboard Sports statistics and highlights as we go to press. Click on sport for more information or visit gocrimson.com Overall Percent Conference Percent Streak Home Away Neutral Basketball - M 17-3 .850 4-0 1.000 Won 3 8-0 5-3 4-0 Basketball - W 13-5 .722 3-1 .750 Lost 1 5-0 5-4 3-1 Fencing - M No. 5 Harvard men’s fencing posts 1-4 Mark at St. John’s Invitational. Fencing - W No. 2 Harvard women’s fencing team opens with a 2-3 showing at the St. John’s Invitational. Ice Hockey - M 6-12-3 .357 3-9-3 .300 Lost 1 4-6-1 2-4-2 0-2 Ice Hockey - W 17-3-3 .804 13-2-2 .824 Lost 1 10-1-2 7-1-1 0-1 Harvard rose to an eighth-place overall league finish at the UNH Carnival marking the first time the current Skiing - M/W class of seniors have finished higher than ninth in the EISA.