Basketball and Hockey Will Become the Main Focus in Action Across the River As the Winter Season Rolls Around
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The Harvard Crimson BASKETBALL / ICE HOCKEY PREVIEW 2016 WINTER IS COMING Basketball and hockey will become the main focus in action across the river as the winter season rolls around. INSIDE BOEHM’S COMPANY - Page 4 | MEET THE BOYS - Page 9 | NEW NETMINDERS - Page 11 | ON THE DOCKET - Page 15 2 The Harvard Crimson Basketball/Ice Hockey Preview / Nov. 3, 2016 ON THE COVERS 2016 PREVIEW front cover Designed by Caleb Y. Lee Photo by BASKETBALL/ICE HOCKEY Ryosuke Takashima back cover Photo by Matthew DeShaw spread Designed by Caleb Y. Lee STAFF FOR THIS ISSUE BASKETBALL/ICE HOCKEY EDITORS DESIGNERS CALEB Y. LEE ’17 NATHAN Y. LEE ’19 STELLA TU ’17 PHOTOGRAPHY EDITORS Y. KIT WU ’17 MEGAN ROSS ’18 SPREAD PRDICTING THE FIVE SPORTS CHAIRS The Crimson sports board predicts what JULIO FIERRO ’17 the starting five for the men’s basketball ARIEL SMOLIK-VALLES ’17 team will look like this season, including a statistic breakdown of the starters. EDITORS TABLE OF CONTENTS TROY BOCCELLI ’18 KURT T. BULLARD ’17 4 THE NEXT CHAPTER 11 NEW NETMINDERS STEPHEN J. GLEASON ’18 A McDonald’s All-American Brianna Laing and Molly Tissen- THERESA C. HEBERT ’17 and one of Harvard women’s baum, both senior goalies on FROM THE EDITORS JAKE T. MEAGHER ’17 basketball’s highest ranking the women’s hockey team, will Lavietes Pavilion and the Bright-Landry KATHERINE H. SCOTT ‘18 recruits, Jeannie Boehm will be be competing for time in the Hockey Center are beacons of light across the new center of the team. net this season. the Charles River late on Friday and Saturday PRESIDENT evenings throughout cold winters at Harvard. MARIEL A. KLEIN ’17 This year, all four teams will have their eyes set on the playoffs and ultimately national MANAGING EDITOR 6 CHANGE WITH CHAMBERS 13 KERFOOT’S STEPS championships; though they are all in different MEG P. BERNHARD ’17 After being sidelined last week After the graduation of key phases of transition in order to make those with a knee injury, senior members of the Class if 2016, goals a reality. From building from the bottom BUSINESS MANAGER Suyani Chambers returns to senior Alex Kerfoot will bear up with large freshman classes to relying on LEIA N. WEDLUND ’17 the men’s basketball team for much of the responsibility of veteran talent on the front lines, all four teams one more year. keeping the men’s hockey team have the potential to make a mark on the Ivy on pace to win. League and ECAC conferences this winter, it will just take some warming up. 7 FRESH FACES 15 HOCKEY SCHEDULES The men’s basketball team wel- Take a look at some of the key — JTM, SJG, TCH, MK, comes seven new freshmen this match ups slated this season SJ, TB, JF, ASV season, among some of them for both the men’s and wom- the highest ranked recruits to en’s ice hockey squads. ever commit to the program. Nov. 3, 2016 / Basketball/Ice Hockey Preview The Harvard Crimson 3 Harvard looks to improve on its projected third KDS’ place finish this year. FIONA LEWIS—CRIMSON Crew STAFF WRITER The League Isn’t Ready Though Penn is the clear favorite to run away with the Ivy League title, the Harvard women’s basketball team hopes to give the Quakers a run for their money. By MANAV KHANDELWAL mentioned graduates. Last year the three recruit in the country, is one of the purest squad, the team was voted to finish in AND STUART JOHNSON made up the primary backcourt rotation centers in the league. She will command fourth place—one spot below Harvard. CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS for coach Kathy Delaney-Smith, and they attention from defenders every second So the Big Red will definitely be a team to return with plenty of Ivy experience. she’s on the court. Replacing Healy’s pro- watch this season. It sounds like a broken record as each girl In their rookie campaign, the players duction from the paint will be difcult, All roads to the throne seem to go steps up to the arc. Swoosh, and then the were dynamic but plagued by turnovers; but this team might have the talent and through Philadelphia as Penn iscoming sound of 13 girls cheering. Swoosh, and with a year under their belts, finding con- depth to do it. of a visit to the NCAA Tournament last another round of raucous cheers. sistency is a question of when instead of “We’re looking to improve Destiny’s season, as well as being unanimously se- The Harvard women’s basketball team if. turnaround jumper, similar to AnnMa- lected to defend their title. may have lost its three best players to “Any coach will tell you that the difer- rie’s,” Delaney-Smith said. “Jeannie is The Crimson is aware of Penn’s poten- graduation, but this year’s squad is look- ence between freshmen and sophomores a power player with an incredible hook tial for this season but feels that it is ready ing to make history, not excuses. is apples and oranges,” Delaney-Smith shot. Maria from France is a big power, and prepared for the challenge. “Every year it seems as though we lose said, “Our sophomore class, just a year and the league isn’t ready. She’s young but “We think we’ll be in the race, defi- big seniors,” said captain Taylor Finley, older, a year wiser, can actually see the learns so quickly that she might be ready nitely,” Delaney-Smith said. “Because of “but we have some really strong fresh- post. They can make the correct deci- to do some damage for us this year. We’re Penn’s system and Penn’s height—their men, and with our upperclassmen being sion.” not looking to get [AnnMarie’s] numbers system and their height sets everyone able to gain some experience, I’m really Finley and Nunley will return to the from any one player this year.” back on their heels. Our job is to be able excited. People won’t have the ‘scouts out’ frontcourt along with a couple of new- If the team wishes to obtain the cov- to have a system where we sustain [good on us, which can be an advantage.” comers. Transfer Taylor Rooks, who eted Ivy League Championship that has shooting]. I know we can do it. It’s just Replacing graduated seniors AnnMa- came from Stanford after her freshman eluded Harvard since 2008., an import- a matter of the mental game and the re- rie Healy, Kit Metoyer, and Shilpa Tum- year but had to sit last season out due to ant component of the Crimson’s goal will lentless persistence in working hard and mala, the team’s three leaders in points eligibility rules, will convert to the four be success against their out-of-confer- not worrying about getting your shot scored and minutes played last season, spot after playing guard in her first col- ence opponents. Last year the Crimson blocked. We have the three-point ability will not be an easy task. But the addition legiate season. The 18th ranked recruit went 5-9 in non-conference play. and the inside threat to play anyone.” of three talented freshmen and a high- in the Class of 2014 has outside range and “Getting some good wins in the first Despite losing three key seniors, then, ly touted transfer should help this group agility that will help stretch bigger de- half of the season is important,” Finley Harvard is ready to return to battle—and of motivated, tight-knit girls make an im- fenders, something Delaney-Smith was said. “ We’ve kind of let that go in the past ready to do whatever it takes to be on top print on the Ivy League. Winning the An- able to do with Tummala in the second and waited until Ivy League season.” at the end of the season. cient Eight is on the minds of everyone as- half of her career. Victories over opponents like Maine, “We have a lot of good players on the sociated with the program. “[The transition] has been pretty Minnesota, and Temple could be sea- team,” Rooks said. “I’m willing to do “I think it’s safe to say that we’re ready seamless,” Rooks said. “The environment son-defining moments for the unproven whatever is necessary for me to do on the for a championship,” said captain and for- is very fun and competitive; that made the squad. At the Fordham Holiday Tourna- court. At the end of the day, I want to get ward Destiny Nunley. “We work hard ev- transition very smooth and easy, and I’m ment, Harvard will have the opportunity the championship and wear that ring.” eryday, which feels so good walking of very excited to play this year.” to enter Ivy League play on the rise—and the court in practice.” Joining them are freshmen forwards have the momentum to compete for the Staff writer Manav Khandelwal can be reached at Returning to the team are sophomore Maria Guramare and Jeannie Boehm. Ancient Eight crown. [email protected]. guards Nani Redford, Madeline Raster, Guramare, a French native, played with Princeton and Dartmouth have both and Sydney Skinner, the team’s leaders the U15 and U16 national teams of her given the Crimson trouble in recent histo- Staff writer Stuart Johnson can be reached at stu- in games started after the three afore- home country. Boehm, the 44th ranked ry, and despite Cornell’s freshman-heavy [email protected].