ranging from facilities improvements to the class that stepped into their shoes a possible second-round pick. The senior’s community engagement to support and is preparing to move on. The man who prospects will clarify through a series of encouragement from the administration. brought them to Cambridge has not. Just pre-draft workouts and camps he is ex- “It’s very meaningful,” the observer said, how far the next generation of Harvard pected to participate in this spring. “just to tell him that you’re glad he’s here.” basketball players goes depends in large The women’s basketball team finished There will always be offers, though, and part on what happens next. the season with four straight wins to even Harvard’s future basketball facilities re- its record at 14-14 overall and 7-7 in the main an open question. Several years ago, Tidbits Ivy League. The Crimson was led by Temi Harvard announced plans to build a new The Crimson has received a host of post- Fagbenle ’15, an All-Ivy Second Team se- basketball arena as part of its Allston de- season accolades: Moundou-Missi became lection; she averaged 14.4 points and 10.4 velopment, but it has yet to reveal a specif- the first Ivy League Defensive Player of rebounds per game. Erin McDonnell ’15, ic timeline for construction. Amaker said the Year in program history and was also who averaged 12.9 points per game and hit that the program has taken some “won- a Second Team All-Ivy selection (joined the game-winning three-pointer on senior derful growth steps” in terms of communi- by Chambers); Saunders was a unanimous night, and AnnMarie Healy ’16, who aver- ty support—but like any coach, he wants selection to the All-Ivy First Team. Mean- aged 13.4 points per game, were All-Ivy the program to get better across the board while, Amaker was selected as a finalist for honorable-mention designees. Head coach and, in particular, he would “most certain- the Hugh Durham and Ben Jobe Awards, Kathy Delaney-Smith lauded her team for ly like our facilities to improve.” Absent a which recognize the top mid-major and persevering through “adversity” (especial- new facility, or incremental improvements minority coaches in Division I, respectively. ly injuries to key players) and praised the to Lavietes Pavilion, which seats only 2,195 After leading the Crimson with 16.6 seniors, particularly co-captain Kaitlyn people and is the second-oldest Division I points per game, Saunders is being men- Dinkins, for their commitment. basketball arena in the country, it will be tioned as a top-level professional basket- vdavid l. tannenwald harder for the Crimson to attract and re- ball prospect. In a postseason news confer- tain top talent, across the board. ence, Amaker said he thinks the swingman David L. Tannenwald ’08 is a Cambridge-based The young men who autographed that is “definitely” an NBA-caliber player, and writer focused on the intersection of sports and white board in 2011 have graduated, and an ESPN analyst recently projected him as society.

boat lengths. Excepting the Intercollegiate new coach led the Harvard heavyweights A Feel for the Water Association national champion- for the first time in half a century. Char- Yale was determined. They were heart- ships, where the University of Washing- ley Butt, chief of the Crimson men’s light- ily sick of Harvard’s ownership of the annual ton earned its fourth consecutive title, weights since 1985, became Bolles-Parker Harvard-Yale crew race, where the Bulldogs’ Harvard went undefeated last spring. head coach for Harvard men’s heavyweight only win this century came in 2007. Indeed, As discouraging as such results must crew after Parker died in the summer of the late Harry Parker, arguably the great- have been for the Bulldogs, they were equal- 2013. His job was to fill the biggest shoes est rowing coach of all time, amassed a lop- ly heartening to the Crimson faithful, as a in college rowing—and he has, admirably. sided 44-7 record over Yale in the ancient boat race during his Harvard career, which Charley Butt began in 1963. The Elis took countermeasures. In 2010 they hired one of the nation’s premier crew coaches, Steve Gladstone, who, at 68, was extraordinarily well seasoned for a new hire. In 2012, Yale College abolished fresh- man crew (a program dating back to at least 1893; Harvard’s freshman program continues), allowing Gladstone to bring fresh recruits straight into his varsity eight. By last spring, the Elis were feeling their oats. Their undefeated varsity marched into the climactic regatta in May as the number-one seed. Alas, Yale finished a deflating sixth in the final. Har- vard won. Three weeks later, at New Lon- don, Harvard recorded its seventh straight sweep of Yale, annihilating a skilled, high- ly motivated Eli varsity by more than three

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“It’s wonderful that we could accomplish Furthermore, Butt owns an impressive for whether the work you are doing is what we have this year, just for all the ob- track record in international competition. producing hull speed,” Butt explains. “Ev- vious reasons,” he told The Globe after He coached single scullers Andrew Camp- erything is in rhythm and sync, and that the Yale race. “We moved on as we began, bell ’14 (to a gold medal in world compe- makes the hard work satisfying. There’s following the tenets that H. Parker estab- tition) and Michelle Guerette ’02 (to a no escaping the work, but it’s the quality lished, and it’s been a real pleasure.” silver medal at the 2008 Olympics). About of the work and the feeling of working to- Though Butt’s appointment was not Guerette’s win, Powers recalls, “Charley’s gether that make it enjoyable. You have to automatic, he was for many reasons the race plan in Beijing was brilliant, and ab- respect how a boat moves, and you cannot logical choice, having worked alongside solutely on the money. He knew all six go outside the lines of how a boat moves. Parker for a quarter-century and having women in that final, and told Michelle, Water doesn’t compress, but it does pile— built a record of success nearly as impres- ‘Row your race, and the field will come you’ll find a mound of water in front of an sive. In his 28 years at the helm, Butt’s back to you.’ And that’s exactly what hap- oar blade. You’re in a highly intense and lightweights logged 25 winning seasons, pened [late in the race, her opponents lost potentially chaotic situation, with no 15 Eastern Sprints titles, and nine national speed relative to her pace]. That kind of timeouts, so you want to stay smooth. And championships, monopolizing both the advice gives you confidence when the field you need a very strong sense of pace.” latter honors in 2012 and 2013. Decades in jumps out in front of you at the start.” Newell Boathouse mean that Butt “knows In 2004, Butt coached Henry Nuzum Butt began absorbing such knowledge the Harvard culture,” says John Powers ’70, ’99 and Aquil Abdullah, the first Ameri- from his father, Charles (“Charlie”) Butt the Boston Globe sportswriter whose chap- can men since 1984 to make an Olympic Sr., an MIT-trained engineer who is a leg- ter on lightweight rowing appears in the final in the double scull. “It was all due to end in the sport. Butt the Elder started a recently published Third H Book of Harvard Charley’s coaching,” Nuzum explains. “He crew at Washington & Lee High School in Athletics: 1963-2013. “He knows the kind of has an unbelievably keen technical eye. He northern Virginia in 1949 and coached this people you are dealing with, and what mo- notices seemingly small biomechanical el- public-school program to win the Princess tivates them. Like Harry, Charley has a gift ements that make a big difference in boat Elizabeth Cup at the for explaining to a rower, ‘You’re doing this, speed.” (In lightweight rowing, techni- in in 1964 and 1969, for example. “I which makes you do that.’ Harvard athletes cal superiority can be crucial, because the remember the excitement,” his son recalls. want to know why—they want ‘news that weight limit removes the option of win- “In those days, the cup stayed in your home, stays news,’ the eternal essentials of mov- ning with bigger athletes.) and I remember what it felt like—it even ing a boat.” “You need a feel for the water and a feel had a distinctive odor.” Top rowing coaches

A Brief Postseason Hockey Highlights— The men’s hockey squad, for the most part healthier this year than in past campaigns, finished 21-13-3. The Crimson swept Brown in two games in first-round ECAC tournament competition, and and Heartache then dramatically defeated Yale in the second round by taking the third game in double overtime, 3-2. Subsequent victories over National Runners-Up Quinnipiac and Colgate at Lake Placid earned the Crimson the The women’s hockey team—under Landry Family head coach championship, and its first NCAA tournament appearance since Katey Stone for the twentieth season—finished 27-6-3: a tre- 2006, with a three seed in the Midwest region. mendous year marked by the Beanpot championship, Ivy League But the postseason was a one-and-done affair: Harvard fell title (8-2), and the Eastern College Athletic Conference season to Nebraska-Omaha, 4-1, in its first-round Midwest Regional and tournament titles (the former, tied with Clarkson; the latter, contest at South Bend, Indiana. Fittingly, the Crimson’s goal a 7-3 win over Cornell). Having reached was scored by junior Jimmy Vesey, the the NCAA national championship game, ECAC Player of the Year, who entered the Crimson fell 4-1 to Minnesota in the the game with 31 goals, leading the na- Gophers’ home arena on March 22. tion. A finalist for the Hobey Baker Seniors Hillary Crowe, Sarah Edney, Award, conferred on the top NCAA Lyndsey Fry, Marissa Gedman, Michelle men’s ice hockey player (the decision tions

Picard, Josephine Pucci, and Samantha was scheduled for April 10, after this ca Reber depart with a 97-29-11 record. issue went to press), Vesey, drafted

But junior goalkeeper Emerance Masch- by the Nashville Predators, decided ommuni c

meyer returns, as do offensive power- to return for his senior year—a big leti h houses Mary Parker, Miye D’Oench (both boost for the Crimson in 2015-16. Se- t d a r juniors), Sydney Daniels (a sophomore), nior goaltender Steve Michalek set the a rv

and Lexie Laing (a freshman): four of the Harvard record for saves in a season, ha lbot/

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