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Volume 50, Issue No. 8 www.varsityclub.harvard.edu March 28, 2008 Women’s Hockey Reaches Frozen Four, Sets Several Milestones In Season To Remember

by Tim Williamson Jon Chase photo Assistant Director of Athletic Communications

Heading into the 2008 postseason, Harvard sat atop the national rankings as the No. 1 seed and was playing some of its best hockey of the year, establishing the team as one of the best in program history. After its 5-1 defeat over Dartmouth in the NCAA quarterfi- nals, Harvard not only reached its fifth Frozen Four in eight years, but it also won its 21st consecutive game, adding to an NCAA Division I women’s hockey record that the team established a week earlier. In the national semifinals in Duluth, MN, Harvard, the No. 1 seed, faced a familiar opponent in Wisconsin, the winner of the Sarah Wilson ‘09 battles for the puck vs. Wisconsin. last two NCAA championships. The Crimson and Badgers met a year earlier in the 2007 tournament in Madison, WI, playing the longest women’s game in NCAA tournament history. Wisconsin fewest goals allowed in a season (34) and team winning percent- got the better of Harvard, winning 1-0 in four overtimes. age (.941). In the 2008 version, Harvard grabbed an early 1-0 lead on After becoming the second team in ECAC women’s history a power play score by Jenny Brine 4:42 into the action, as Kati to complete a perfect conference regular season (22-0-0), Harvard Vaughn and senior captain earned assists on the earned the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament and hosted goal. The Crimson retained its advantage heading into the second Cornell for a best-of-three series at Bright Hockey Center. In game period, but the tide turned early in the next stanza. one on Feb. 29, Harvard tallied the first goal in the first period on Wisconsin rattled off three straight tallies in 6:38 of play, a goal by junior , but the Big Red scored two including two scores on delayed-penalty situations, as the Badgers unanswered goals and led 2-1 entering the final 20 minutes. exploded to take a 3-1 lead. The Crimson earned three power-play In the third, Brine scored not one, but two power-play goals chances in the final 34 minutes, but it was not to be, as the Badgers at 1:00 and 12:00 to propel the Crimson to a 1-0 lead in the series. picked up a 4-1 victory and advanced to the national final. Harvard’s offense poured it on in game two, as Vaillancourt “Certainly my hat is off to Wisconsin,” said Harvard head netted a short-handed goal 1:09 into the contest to set an early coach . “They played a tremendous hockey game. We tone. Cahow tallied another goal at 5:42, this time of the power- felt like we carried a lot of play in the first period but then they play variety, to give the Crimson a 2-0 lead. capitalized early in the second and turned the tide of the game.” Cornell scored the only goal of the second period and both While Harvard (32-2-0, 22-0-0 ECAC, 10-0-0 Ivy League) did teams traded tallies in the first 1:07 of the third period, as the Big not advance as far in the Frozen Four as it had hoped, 2007-08 Red cut Harvard’s advantage to 3-2. Vaillancourt answered the certainly was a season to be proud of on several fronts, as the call down the stretch, earning an empty-net goal with 39 seconds Crimson established some impressive NCAA marks, including continued on page 5 Winter Sports Updates Men’s Hockey (17-13-4 Overall, 12-7-3 ECACHL, 7-2-1 Ivy League) • After a trying losing streak in the middle of the season, the men’s team regained its form and played some of its best hockey at the end of the season, earning a three-seed and a first-round bye in the ECAC Tournament. • After a 3-3 tie against Colgate and an impressive 3-1 win in Ithaca, NY, over Cornell to close out the regular season, the Crimson welcomed Quinnipiac to Bright Hockey Center for the conference quarterfinals. Senior Dave Watters scored three goals and added two assists in an 11-0 win in game one, and Steve Rolecek added two scores in the rout. After a 7-4 loss in game two, senior captain Mike Taylor notched two goals and an assist to propel the Crimson to the semis with a 3-1 win in the rubber match. • Sophomore goalie Kyle Richter had a big night against Cornell in the round of four, stopping 31 shots for a 3-1 win, marking the third win over the Big Red this season. Senior Jon Pelle netted two power-play goals to spark the offense. A Pelle goal at the start of the third period was not enough to get the Crimson going in the ECAC championship game a night later, as the Princeton Tigers took the league crown with a 4-1 win. • Richter was named First Team All-ECAC and was the recipient of the Ken Dryden Award as the top goaltender in the ECAC, finishing with a league-best 1.82 goals against average and a .935 save percentage. • Taylor (12-23-35) ended the season as the nation’s No. 35 scorer with 1.03 points per game, and was tied for 23rd in assists with 0.68 per contest. • Sophomore defenseman Alex Biega (3 goals, 17 assists, +11 plus/ Kyle Richter ‘10 minus rating) was named to the All-ECAC third team. Steve Babineau photo WINTER Women’s Basketball (18-11, 11-3 Ivy) Men’s & Women’s Fencing • After knocking off first-place Cornell, 51-48, on March 1, the • Both the men and the women had a busy March, competing Crimson claimed a share of the Ivy League title the following in the NCAA regionals as well as the NCAA Championships. weekend with a 68-47 win at Brown. A loss to Yale in the regular- • Billy Stallings earned a gold medal in the men’s epee at the season finale dropped the Crimson into a three-way tie for first, regional competition, and teammate Edward Sherrill took however, and Dartmouth proved to be too much in a 68-62 loss home the bronze. Competing as a team the following weekend in an Ivy League playoff game. at the NCAA Championships, Harvard finished sixth of 27 • Juniors Katie Rollins and Emily Tay and senior Lindsay teams, totaling 101 points. Sherrill won 14 bouts for a fifth-place Hallion all earned All-Ivy League honors. Tay, a first-team pick, finish. Stallings finished 16th with 10 wins. Co-captain Kai finished 10th in the league in dspics.com Itameri-Kinter placed 19th in the foil competition. scoring with 10.6 points per game • Maria Larsson brought home the lone medal at regionals for and second in the league and 37th in the women’s side, winning the silver in the epee competition. the nation with 4.9 assists per game. Anna Podolsky notched a fifth-place finish in foil. The women Hallion finished eighth in the league matched the men’s result of sixth place at the NCAA team in scoring (11.0 ppg) and was third in competition, with Alexa Weingarden leading the way with an free throw percentage (.800). eighth-place finish in sabre. The result earned Weingarden Rollins paced the Harvard offense second-team All-America status while Alexandra Sneider with an average of 11.4 points, good earned honorable mention for her 12th-place finish in sabre. for seventh in the league. • Head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith Men’s & Women’s Squash recorded her 400th career win with the victory over Brown on March 7. • Sophomore Colin West earned All-Ivy League status as the Emily Tay ‘09 Crimson’s top player this season. West had a strong showing in the CSA Individuals, eventually falling to the No. 5 seed. Men’s Basketball (8-22, 3-11 Ivy) • Freshman June Tiong was named Ivy League Rookie of the Year, thanks to her strong play in the No. 1 position and her • Harvard closed the season with four straight losses, including run to the national semifinals at the Individual Championships. a road loss to conference champion Cornell on March 1. Classmate Alisha Mashruwala also earned all-league recogni- • Sophomore guard Jeremy Lin capped a breakout season with tion and advanced to the quarterfinals of the national tourna- an all-conference nod, earning second team status in the Ivy ment. The duo also earned CSA All-America recognition. League. Lin was among the league leaders in points (12.6 points • Sophomore Johanna Snyder captured the Holleran Cup, per game), shooting percentage (.448), assists (107), and assist- downing Margaret Kent of Princeton in the finals of the turnover ratio (+1.30). women’s “B” bracket at the CSA Individual Championships. • Junior forward Evan Harris stepped up his game down the stretch, finishing third on the team in points per game (10.7) and Men’s Swimming (9-0, 8-0 Eisl) leading the team in rebounds (167). Junior guard Drew Housman finished with an average of 10.6 points per game, and • After wrapping up a perfect dual-meet season, Harvard junior guard Andrew Pusar was named team captain for the continued its run with victories at the ECAC and EISL 2008-09 season. championship meets. The Eastern title was the 20th in the storied history of the Crimson program. • Senior Geoff Rathgeber was presented with the Philip Men’s & Women’s Indoor Track Moriarty Award, given to the EISL Championships’ outstanding swimmer, and the Harold Ulen Award for career high points. • The Crimson began the month at the 61st Ivy League Rathgeber won three events at EISLs, including the 200-yard Heptagonal Indoor Championships, with the women finishing breaststroke, the 200 IM and the 400 IM, propelling Harvard to fourth and the men placing eighth. Junior Becky Christensen a 366.5-point victory over won her first indoor Heptagonal high jump title with a mark of Danielle Hobeika photo second-place Princeton. 1.79 meters while classmate Shannon Flahive finished second in • The Crimson boasted a the pentathlon with a season-best 3,479 points. The men’s 4x400 plethora of all-conference relay team of Justin Grinstead, Derek Jones, Brian Hill and Nils selections: Rathgeber, Bill Wernerfelt finished in third place with a time of 3:22.82. Jones, Pat Quinn, Sam • Both the men and the women had strong showings at the Wollner, David Guern- ECAC (women) and IC4 (men) meets, the weekend of March 8-9. sey, Eric Lynch, Jordan Jamie Olson took second in the 1,000 meters with a personal best Diekema, Justin David- of 2:49.65, leading the women’s team to a 10th-place finish out of son, Mason Brunnick and 46 teams. The men finished 27th in the field of 46, and received a Will Heyburn. Rathge- boost from Alex Lewis, who set a school record with 5,112 points ber (200 IM, 400 IM, 200 in the heptathlon, finishing sixth in the event. Breast), Lynch (1650 and 500 free) and Jones (100 Wrestling (2-10, 1-4 Ivy) and 200 fly) all qualified for the NCAA Champion- • Despite a trying, injury-plagued dual-match season, Harvard Geoff Rathgeber ‘08 was well represented at the EIWA and NCAA Championships. ships March 27-29. • Freshman Corey Jantzen and sophomore J.P. O’Connor Women’s Swimming (6-1, 6-1 Ivy) booked trips to the NCAA Championships after strong showings at the EIWAs. O’Connor finished second at 149 pounds while • After clinching a second-place result at the Ivy League Jantzen sealed a third-place finish at 141 pounds. Junior Thomas Championships, the women’s swimming and diving team sent Picarsic, in his first EIWA competition, finished sixth at 133 three competitors to the NCAA Championships. pounds. • Senior Samantha Papadakis, Co-Diver of the Meet at Ivies, Danielle Hobeika photo • O’Connor was one of nine All-Ivy athletes on a Harvard team that set earned All- seven school records at the meet. Katy Hinkle led the America status J.P. O’Connor ‘10 Crimson with three first-team All-Ivy honors. She won the 50- with a sixth- yard freestyle and was joined on the victorious 200 and 400 free place finish relay teams by Ali Slack, Laura Murray and Amanda Slaight. at NCAAs, Hinkle helped Harvard set school records in each of those becoming events and added another record in the 100 free. just the third • Papadakis posted a pair of top-three finishes at the NCAA two-time All- Zone A Diving Championships, earning her a third straight trip America selec- to NCAAs. Papadakis took second in the three-meter event and tion in Harvard third in the one-meter to earn a spot alongside teammates history. Jantzen Alexandra Clarke and Kate Mills at the NCAA Championships. went 0-2 in his • Mills swam a season-best 1:58.04 in the 200-yard butterfly for first NCAA the 19th-best time at NCAAs. Clarke placed 21st in the 1,650 free tournament. in 16:25.19 and finished 68th in the 500 free in 4:52.35. Papadakis notched 17th and 28th place finishes in the three (286.50) and one (244.65) meter diving events, respectively. 2 SPRING Baseball (1-9, 0-0 Ivy) Women’s Water Polo (7-7) • The Crimson has had a tough start to the season, squaring off • Road matches have been the one constant in an up and down against ranked opponents in five of 10 games. season for the women’s water polo team, as Harvard played its • Junior right fielder Tom Stack-Babich leads the team in most first and only home match so far on March 13 against Brown. offensive categories, including a .436 batting average, 17 hits and • Harvard’s last win, 14-13, came against St. Francis March 9 to two home runs. Senior captain and center fielder Matt Vancehas end a long weekend in Oneonta, NY. Vivian Liao scored a key collected 12 hits in his 34 at-bats so far and continues to help the goal late in the game and Nicola Perlman notched the game- team with his speed, swiping four bases in five attempts. winner with under a minute to play. The Crimson was 3-2 on • Senior right-handed pitcher Shawn Haviland has racked up the weekend, also posting wins against Siena at Utica. more than 14 innings pitched, leading the team with 11 • The Crimson looks to move its record above .500 with a mid- strikeouts while freshman Ben Sestanovich holds a team-best week road trip to California, where it takes on Concordia, Cal 4.35 earned run average. dspics.com Redlands and Cal Baptist March 26-27. • Harvard’s first win came by a 4-1 score March 16 against Lafayette. Sailing Six-foot-eight senior righty Brad Unger, fresh off his stint as captain • Harvard started its spring season with a second-place finish in of the basketball team, allowed one the Sharpe Trophy competition, compiling a 12-8 record on the run on seven hits in seven innings to weekend. Kyle Kovacs, Jon Garrity, Megan Watson and Drew win his first start of the year. Robb held skipper duties for Harvard. • Coach Joe Walsh’s club plays eight • On March 15-16, the Crimson finished fourth in the games in six days in California over Central Series One, led by Ali Beyer and Alex Bick. Watson spring break before opening its Ivy and Meghan Wareham scored 80 points at the St. Mary’s event League season at Cornell and in a fifth-place finish, and seniors Kovacs and Elyse Dolbec Princeton March 29-30. combined for 152 points in a ninth-place finish in the Truxtun Tom Stack-Babich ‘09 Umsted event. • Led by a C-division win by Robb and Michelle Konstadt, Softball (4-10, 0-0 Ivy) Harvard placed fourth out of 18 teams in the Boston Dinghy • Though it took a while for the softball team to get going Club Challenge Cup March 22-23. against a tough schedule on the season’s first two weekends, wins in four of its last six games have the Crimson back on the right track. Men’s Tennis (7-4, 0-0 Ivy) • Harvard picked up its first win of the season in Miami, FL, • Harvard started the month with tough back-to-back losses to against Florida International, 2-0, on the strength of a Shelly No. 56 East Tennessee State and No. 8 Michigan, but has since Madick pitching performance. Last year’s Ivy League Pitcher of collected three straight wins, including a 4-3 win over No. 60 the Year twirled a four-hit shutout, and Jennifer Francis Clemson in South Carolina. provided all the offense with a first inning, two-RBI single • Senior Ashwin Kumar continues to be the stronghold of the against the Golden Panthers. singles lineup, compiling a 10-1 mark. Junior Chris Clayton has • At the Mercer Easter Classic, the Crimson found its game, been ranked as high as No. 64 in the nation, and the freshman rattling off three solid wins and advancing to the championship trio of Aba Omodele-Lucien, Alexei Chijoff-Evans and Will game. Caitlin Bowers hit a pair of home runs to lead a 20-hit Guzick have chipped in wins in both singles and doubles play. attack for the Crimson in a 17-2 win against Arkansas Pine Bluff • The Crimson opens Ivy play April 11 at home against Penn. to open the tournament. Harvard followed by holding off Birmingham-Southern for a 7-6 win. • Hayley Bock singled home Ellen Macadam for the winning run in the first game of the twinbill against host Mercer. In the Women’s Tennis (0-9, 0-0 Ivy) championship, Dana Roberts pitched four shutout innings to • Seven ranked opponents have made it a tough season thus far start the game that remained scoreless through seven innings. A for the women’s team, but the Crimson has only been shut out two-run eighth inning was too much for the Crimson, as once and took a point against No. 1 Northwestern. Harvard settled for second in the tournament. • Crimson No. 1 recorded the biggest victory of the • The Crimson’s Ivy League schedule gets going March 29 at Beier Ko season for Harvard, knocking off the nation’s No. 4 player, Cornell and March 30 at Princeton. Georgia Rose of Northwestern, 6-3, 6-3, in a 6-1 loss March 9. • As a team, Harvard is 5-4 at the No. 1 singles position with Laura Peterzan earning a win to complement Ko’s 4-4 record. Men’s Lacrosse (4-2, 0-1 Ivy) Ko and Samantha Rosekrans are the Crimson’s top doubles • After a slim 6-5 loss to Siena to start the season, Harvard rattled team, boasting a 3-1 record at No. 2. off four straight wins, including a dominant 12-3 win over No. 16 • Harvard hosts Cornell April 4 to open Ivy League play. Fairfield at Jordan Field, on the way to a No. 19 national ranking. • Jason Duboe (13 goals) and Travis Burr (10 goals) lead the Women’s Lacrosse (6-1, 1-0 Ivy) team in goals while Max Motchwiller and Jesse Fehr are second and third in points with 12 and 11, • Having scored at least 13 goals in six of seven games so far respectively. dspics.com this season, the Crimson is off to an impressive start. • Penn held off the Crimson, • Junior Kaitlin Martin (23-11-34) leads the Crimson in both 12-10, in Harvard’s Ivy opener goals and assists, her best game coming in a 20-11 win over March 22 in Philadelphia. Massachusetts where she recorded five goals and three helpers. • Duboe currently stands third • Jess Halpern (17-7-24) and Sara Flood (13-11-24) rank second in the conference in goals while on the team in scoring. Halpern and Flood joined Martin in goalie Joe Pike leads the league in scoring three goals each in a 13-10 win over Quinnipiac on goals against average (4.29) and is March 16. Natalie Curtis’ 14 goals on the season, including two second with a .644 save percent- game-winners and a four-goal performance in a 16-10 comeback age. win over Albany, rank third on the team. • The Crimson visits No. 2 Duke • Goalie Kathryn Tylander dspics.com (March 25) and Denver (March 29) is 3-0 on the season with a before hosting traditional Ivy 10.06 goals against average, powers Cornell (April 5) and while Katherine Martino Princeton (April 12). Jason Duboe ‘10 has seen action in all seven games this season. Men’s Golf • Harvard won its first three games of the season • Harvard began its season in Myrtle Beach, SC, at the Fairfield and has won its most recent Invitational with a second-place finish in the 12-team competi- three, including its Ivy tion. Both Michael Shore (77) and Greg Shuman (79) broke 80 League opener March 22 on the par 72 course to lead the Crimson. against Brown, 14-13. The • After spending time in Florida, the Crimson returns to the Crimson is back in Ivy ac- Northeast and competes April 5 in the Yale Spring Opener. tion March 29 at rival Yale. Kaitlin Martin ‘09 3 No. 16 Harvard Over No. 1 Stanford Still Resonates 10 Years Later

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Whether it’s in a bar, a job interview, or just walking down the street, the reaction is similar for members of the 1998 Harvard women’s basketball team. Just the mention of being a former Crimson basketball player inevitably leads to this question: “Were you on THAT team?” As many fans filling out their tournament brackets this week know, a No. 16 seed just doesn’t have much of a chance at beating a No. 1. That matchup has happened 148 times in either the men’s or women’s tournament, and the 1998 Harvard team remains the only one to pull that most improbable feat, beating Stanford 71-67 at Maples Pavilion in a game that still resonates for members of both teams 10 years later. “It’s almost comical how often it comes up given that it was 10 years ago,” said Suzie Miller [Harvard ‘99], who hit the shot that put the Crimson up for good with less than 2 minutes left in the game. “I interviewed at Stanford for a job in emergency medicine a few years ago. Out of nowhere, in one of my interviews some- Jill Zitnik ‘01 (left) and Suzie Miller ‘99 (right) embrace as Harvard one said, ’Do you really think we’ll accept you after what you did celebrates its upset of Stanford in the first round of the 1998 NCAA to Stanford in 1998?’ I thought this is crazy. This is emergency women’s basketball tournament. It remains the only time in either men’s medicine. Of course he was joking and they accepted me.” or women’s NCAA tournament history that a 16 seed defeated a 1 seed. The ribbing continued whenever Miller wore a Harvard women’s basketball T-shirt during pickup games during her time in the second half of the regular season finale at Oregon State. at Stanford. Teammate Alison Seanor [Harvard ‘98] says the game Because the extent of the injury wasn’t immediately known, the comes up whenever she mentions she played at Harvard, even in Cardinal still got a No. 1 seed. a New York City bar. Five minutes into Stanford’s next practice, Folkl, the team’s Seanor and Miller both joke that some of their teammates leading scorer and rebounder, went down with another ACL tear. from earlier years are prone to fibbing and saying they too were “There was absolute silence in the gym except the sobbing,” on that famous team. VanDerveer said. “At that point, the players on the team didn’t The memories from that game are still vivid for the want to play. A lot of players with careers were afraid that would players, from the chants on the bench, the flashcards coach Kathy happen to them.” Delaney-Smith showed to call out plays because the gym was so The Cardinal fell behind quickly and trailed by 10 points early loud, to the feeling they had looking up at the final score as they in the second half. But they rallied and took a 65-62 lead with less celebrated. than 3 minutes remaining. That’s not quite the case on the other side. Feaster, who finished with 35 points and 13 rebounds, hit a “I don’t even remember it,” Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer layup to cut it to one. Miller followed with an off-balance 15-footer said. “I never watched it. I never thought about it. I really kind of that she describes as a “chuck” and a 3-pointer from her least blanked it out. Quite a defense mechanism.” favorite spot on the floor that iced the game. The difference between the teams was much smaller than “That’s my worst shot,” Miller said. “I hated that shot from usual for a No. 1 and a 16 seed. Stanford lost two key players to the corner pocket. I guess it was just meant to be that night.” injuries leading up to the game, while Harvard came in with a Seanor watched a tape of the game for the first time last year 22-4 record, two years of tournament experience and the nation’s and was shocked to find out how close it actually was. leading scorer in Allison Feaster [Harvard ‘98]. “I was kind of nervous watching it even though I knew the The Crimson were expecting a better seed that year, and used outcome,” she said. “On the court I never doubted we were going the slight as motivation. to win it. I know that sounds really cocky. Now I think back and “I’m sure we garnered some determination from the lack of say, ’Wow, we were really confident.’” respect,” said Delaney-Smith, who still has mementos from the The sting from the loss can’t escape former Stanford guard game all over her office. “No one thought Harvard would beat Milena Flores, who has spent the past few years as an assistant Stanford. No one thinks Harvard would beat anyone. That’s not an coach in the Ivy League at Yale and now Princeton. unusual thing.” Like many of her teammates that day, Flores struggled from The Cardinal have not been a No. 1 seed since then and the field, making only one of six shots. The Cardinal shot just 33 haven’t been back to the Final Four either, losing two other percent as a team that game. tournament games on their home floor, including last year to “I always think about it whenever we go to their home gym Florida State. because it has a display case honoring the game. It’s kind of hard Stanford had no such drought going into the Harvard game. to ignore it,” she said. “With as many games as there are, the odds The Cardinal had been to six Final Fours and won two national are it would happen again. I wish it would. Not for that No. 1 seed championships the previous eight seasons, losing by one point in but for me in a selfish way.” overtime in the semifinals to Old Dominion in 1997. For the Harvard players the feeling is different. While they are But instead of coming into the Harvard game with confidence, willing to make room for another team when necessary, they are they were feeling the hurt from season-ending knee injuries to still savoring their place in history. stars Vanessa Nygaard and Kristin Folkl the previous week. “Obviously we’re in a very special club of which we’re the “The hard thing was just the injuries,” VanDerveer said. “The only member,” Seanor said. “Sometimes that’s not such a good game itself to me wasn’t a really sad thing. The sad thing thing being in a club in which no one else is a member. But this is happened during the week when we had two kids go down from pretty special. I’d be happy for a team to do it but there is a little ACL injuries. It was absolutely depressing.” bit of something deep down that’s special about being the only Nygaard crumpled to the floor with a non-contact injury one.”

SAVE THE DATE ... HALL OF FAME CLASS OF 2008 Elizabeth Berkery Drury ‘93 (Lacrosse) 2008 Hall of Fame Dinner Ted Drury ‘93 (Hockey) Friday, May 9, 2008 Sarah Leary ‘92 (Lacrosse) Harvard Club of Boston (374 Comm. Ave.) Erin Maher Salvador ‘93 (Basketball) 6 PM reception, 7 PM dinner Mike Smith ‘81 (Soccer) Invitations out soon to all Varsity Club members Larry Terrell ‘70 (Squash)

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by Paul McNeeley Led by eight individual honorees, the Harvard field hockey Assistant Director of the Harvard Varsity Club team has been named a recipient of the 2007 National Field Hockey Coaches Association Division I National Academic Team Award. his spring, alumni can vote for a new group of Harvard The Crimson was one of 33 teams in the nation to earn the Overseers and elected directors for the Harvard Alumni award, which is presented to those schools whose team grade- T Association (HAA) board. point average during the 2007 fall semester was 3.0 or higher on a Ballots should arrive in the mail by April 15 and must be 4.0 scale. received back in Cambridge by noon on May 30 to be counted. Seniors Devon Shapiro and Tamara Sobek-Rosnick, juniors Results of the election will be announced at the HAA’s annual Abbie Harpstead, Francine Polet and Kylie Stone, sophomore meeting on June 5, on the afternoon of Commencement day. All Annie Calvert and freshmen Pilar Curtis and Grier Tumas were holders of Harvard degrees, except Corporation members and all named to the 2007 ZAG/NFHCA Division I National Academic officers of instruction and government, are entitled to vote for Squad. Overseer candidates. The election for HAA directors is open to all Harpstead, Polet, Shapiro, Sobek-Rosnick and Stone are alumni. repeat members of the squad. The honor recognizes those colle- There are four Varsity Club members among the candidates. giate student-athletes who have achieved a minimum cumulative Running for Harvard Overseer: grade-point average of 3.30 through the first semester of the 2007- -Paul Finnegan ‘75 (skiing), Co-CEO, Madison Dearborn Partners, 08 academic year. Inc. in Chicago, IL. Shapiro and Polet were previously named Academic All-Ivy. -Michael Holland ‘66 (football), Chairman, Holland & Company ***** LLC in New York, NY. Over 150 children from AccesSportAmerica’s City Streets pro- Running for HAA Elected Director: gram, in partnership with the Boston Public Schools, participated -Rodney Hardy ‘60 (swimming), Vice President / Owner, Sienna in a Soccer Clinic with Kristine Lilly, World Cup and Olympic Corporation in Minneapolis, MN. Soccer Gold Medalist, at Harvard Stadium on March 6. -Elizabeth Reilly ‘91 (softball and soccer), Attorney, WilmerHale The event was staffed by AccesSportAmerica Instructors and LLP in Boston, MA; Varsity Club Advisory Committee member. members of the Harvard women’s soccer team, including head ***** coach Ray Leone, as well as coaches and players from the Stars of We are saddened to report the passing of Robert Saltonstall Massachusetts Soccer Club. ‘33, who served as captain of the Harvard men’s hockey team AccesSportAmerica, a national, non-profit organization for the 1932-33 season, on March 10. Saltonstall was a three-year founded by Ross Lilley in 1995, is dedicated to the discovery and Major H letterwinner in both hockey and crew. achievement of higher function and fitness for children and adults ***** of all disabilities through high-challenge sports.

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left in the game to clinch Harvard’s quarterfinal series victory. Stone, who has built Brett Groehler photo/UMD With Harvard’s win in round one, the ECAC playoffs had to Harvard into a national go through Bright Hockey Center as the Crimson hosted the best power, earned the 300th of the conference March 8-9. Harvard faced No. 9 Clarkson in its victory of her storied semifinal, while No. 8 Dartmouth faced No. 6 St. Lawrence. career, all coming Before any hockey was to be played, Harvard hosted the behind the Crimson annual ECAC banquet. The Crimson took home several of the bench. Stone is the conference’s elite awards including Player of the Year (Sarah third-winningest coach Vaillancourt), Goaltender of the Year () and in Division I women’s Coach of the Year (Katey Stone). Vaillancourt and Kessler were hockey history. joined on the All-ECAC First Team by Cahow. A week prior, Cahow and Vail- Vaillancourt was tabbed Ivy League Player of the Year and was lancourt were tabbed named unanimously along with Cahow as All-Ivy First Team First Team All-Ameri- performers. Kessler also earned a spot on the All-Ivy First Team. cans, while Kessler was On a team filled with game-changers, it was the goaltender’s named to the second turn to shine in the spotlight in the ECAC semifinals, as team. Vaillancourt led Kessler turned aside 13 Clarkson shots for a 3-0 shutout. It marked the Crimson in scoring Kessler’s 12th perfect game of the season, extending her NCAA with 26 goals, 36 assists Division I record which she had set Feb. 16 at Quinnipiac. While and 62 points and was Kessler led the way in goal, Katharine Chute, Brine and Liza fifth in the country with Ryabkina tallied goals as the team moved on to the ECAC final. 1.82 points per contest. In the championship game, Ryabkina got the Crimson on Cahow (15-22-37) was the scoreboard with a power-play goal at 6:38 of the second, but tied for second in the Sarah Vaillancourt ‘09, the 2008 Kazmaier St. Lawrence responded, tying the game six minutes later. In the country with Brine with Award winner, had 26 goals and 36 assists. third, the teams again traded goals, forcing overtime, the first and 12 power-play tallies only time all season Harvard played an extra session of hockey. and was second among defenders with 1.09 points per game. In the extra frame, the Crimson thought it had scored three Kessler finished first in save percentage (679 of 713, .952) and minutes in when a puck deflected into the net, but the referees winning percentage (30-2-0, .938) and was second in goals-against ruled that it was touched by a high stick. Harvard’s captain, average (1.06). however, did not relent, as Cahow picked up the puck in the Even though the team fell in the national semifinals, ending Crimson zone and skated the length of the ice. The defenseman its NCAA record 21-game winning streak (Jan. 4 – March 15), made a move and found the back of the net at 3:33, emptying the Harvard did not go home empty-handed from the Frozen Four, Harvard bench for the second time in as many minutes, as the as a Crimson player won the highest individual honor in women’s Crimson clinched its fifth ECAC tournament title. hockey. It was the fourth championship Harvard earned during the Vaillancourt, a 2006 gold-medalist with Team , was season, as the Crimson had already captured the Beanpot, Ivy selected as the 11th winner of the Patty Kazmaier Memorial League and ECAC regular season titles, and now moved forward Award. The junior is the fifth award winner from Harvard, joining into the NCAA tournament as the No. 1 overall seed. A.J. Mleczko ’97-99 (1999), ’02-03 (2001 and In the NCAA quarterfinals at the Bright Center on March 15, 2003), ’02-04 (2004) and ’06-07 (2007). the Crimson hosted Dartmouth, the No. 8 seed. Harvard opened “I would not be here if it was not for my team, my parents up a three-goal lead with tallies by Brine, Kate Buesser and and my coaches,” said Vaillancourt. “Our team was a family all Vaillancourt before Dartmouth got on the board late in the second year and we’re one in victory and one in defeat.” period. In the third, Vaillancourt and Brine tallied their second Next year’s Frozen Four will take place a little closer to home goals of the game, lifting the Crimson to a 5-1 win and a berth in – at BU’s Agganis Arena. The Crimson, which returns 87.5 percent the Frozen Four. The Crimson wrapped up an 18-0-0 record at of its offense and all three goaltenders next season, will look to home and finished 26-0-0 against ECAC Hockey opponents, a new build upon its record-setting 2007-08 campaign and get closer to conference record. its ultimate goal of capturing the NCAA championship. The Crimson set another milestone with the win as Katey 5 HARVARD VARSITY CLUB, INC. Murr Center FIRST CLASS 65 North Harvard Street U.S. POSTAGE Boston, MA 02163-1012 PAID (617) 495-3535 BOSTON, MA Fax: (617) 496-8296 PERMIT NO. 53825

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