JOHN HARVARD'S JOURNAL In 20 seasons as head All-Ivies: Linebacker and captain Josh coach of football, Tim Murphy has seen Boyd, tight end Cam Brate, and defensive 15 Crimson teams end Zach Hodges were unanimous selec- defeat Yale. tions for the all-Ivy first team. Brate was also a unanimous first-team choice in season’s opener at 2012. Also named to the first team were the University of San offensive lineman Nick Easton, defensive Diego. He also threw tackle Nnamdi Obukwelu, and defensive four touchdown backs Norman Hayes and Brian Owusu.… passes against Princ- Hodges, who led the league in quarterback eton. Hempel sat out sacks (6.5) and ranked second in tackles three games with a for loss (11.5), won the Crocker Award as knee injury, but in the team’s most valuable player and was the seven he started, short-listed for the Ivy League’s Defensive he accounted for Player of the Year trophy, to be awarded 20 touchdowns (15 in December.…Six Harvard players were passing, five on foot). named to the all-Ivy second team, and two Versatility: Senior received honorable mentions. and combined for a total of 99 points—the Ricky Zorn was the Captain-elect: Norman Hayes, of Tuck- most scored in any Harvard game since team’s top receiver, with 50 catches for er, Georgia, and Eliot House, will captain 1891, when the Crimson crushed Wesley- the season. A former quarterback, Zorn the 2014 Crimson team. Hayes was cred- an, 124-0. got the ball on a reverse in the Dartmouth ited with 56 tackles, three forced fumbles, Penn’s comeback: Had the Quakers’ game and threw a 32-yard scoring pass to and two interceptions in the season just 30-point rally produced one more touch- senior receiver Andrew Berg. past. down, it would have been historic. The Banged up: Injuries sidelined six of- Sustainability: Harvard’s seven-game biggest comeback on record came in 2006, fensive starters, four defensive starters, winning streak eclipses what had been the when Michigan State rallied for 35 consec- and all-Ivy placekicker David Mothander longest streak in the H-Y series, a string utive points in what ended as a 41-38 loss to for part or all of the season.…Mothander of six shutouts posted by Yale from 1902 Northwestern. missed four midseason games after strain- to 1907. How long will the current streak Well-armed: Junior Conner Hempel ing a leg muscle in practice. He completed last? “Statistically, this is unsustainable,” won the quarterbacking assignment in a stellar career with 27 field goals and 158 said coach Murphy at his postgame news September and made an auspicious debut, points-after for a total of 239 points, a new conference. “Yale is coming back.” Time throwing four touchdown passes in the Harvard kicking record. will tell. v“cleat” To Russia, with Gloves schools, where she had built a network Katey Stone coaches the Olympics-bound U.S. icewomen. during prior coaching stints at Tabor, Northfield Mount Hermon, and Exeter, as The harvard pipeline to the Winter “the pinnacle” of her career. well as during her own stellar lacrosse and Olympics this February goes straight Since 1994, the nerve center of Harvard’s hockey career at the University of New through Bedford, Massachusetts. That’s women’s hockey program has been a win- Hampshire. From the start, she looked for where the U.S. women’s national hockey dowless cubby of an office tucked under more than talent. “Within the Harvard team set up its training facility: 25 athletes, the stands at the Bright-Landry Hockey [admissions] standards, which have in- including five who have played at Harvard, Center. When Stone arrived as the sport’s creased every single year I’ve been [here],’’ took up residence there in September to fourth coach, she renovated an old corner she says, “I went after character: kids who train at Edge Sports Center in preparation locker room, bringing in a comfortable were willing to work their tails off, with for the Sochi Games. The Harvard candi- couch and chair covered in crimson-and- no guarantee of what that actually meant, dates are Julie Chu ’06, Michelle Picard ’15, white check, and scattering table lamps to be a part of something that was spe- Josephine Pucci ’13 , Kate Buesser ’11, and around to give the room a homey feel. “Her cial. With a locker room filled with great Lyndsey Fry ’14; the mentor in charge of office was just awesome,’’ says Union Col- character and energy—to me, the sky’s the shaping these athletes into the 21 players lege coach Claudia Asano Barcomb ’99, limit.’’ of the Olympic squad (to be announced a former Harvard captain and assistant In Stone’s first season, the nascent January 1) is Landry Family head coach for coach, “because it’s on the way to the lock- Crimson surprised Northeastern, the era’s women’s ice hockey Katey Stone. Though er room and it was always warm and wel- dominant team, by winning the Beanpot. she has been in charge at Harvard for 19 coming. The door was always open.’’ There followed three lean, learning years. years and has won more games than any Stone was a coaching staff of one when Then came 1998-99, a magical 33-1 run to other coach in the history of Division I she began her Harvard career. She recruit- a national championship, and Harvard women’s hockey, she calls this moment ed players first at the hockey-rich prep hasn’t had a losing season since. Soon 36 January - February 2014 Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 enough, word-of-mouth be- came Stone’s top recruiter. Her remarkable 402-171-35 record includes nine NCAA tournament appearances with three consecutive trips to the championship game (2003, 2004, 2005), six ECAC regu- lar-season titles, five ECAC tournament championships, nine Ivy League titles, and 10 Beanpots. She has coached nine Olympians, six Kazmaier Award winners, and 21 All- Americans. (Taking over be- hind the bench at Harvard this year, while Stone is on leave, is interim head coach Maura Crowell, assistant coach for the Crimson for the last three years.) The 47-year-old Stone is the first woman to coach the women’s Olympic team. “It was an easy decision,’’ reports Rea- gan Carey, director of women’s hockey for USA Hockey. Stone, she says, Harvard women’s basketball coach and continue to be successful at Harvard was chosen not because she is a woman, Kathy Delaney-Smith, a friend and ten- is because she really pushes and gets the but strictly on the basis of her accomplish- nis partner, respects the composure Stone most out of her players and really cares ments: “She’s right for the job.’’ maintains while competing so intensely. not only about the on-ice portion, but also “Katey is one of those athletes who can about how she develops us as people off Stone was born into a family of coaches; play any sport,’’ she says. “Golf is really her the ice.’’ her father was the longtime football and first love, but she’s a great tennis player. The United States won the inaugu- baseball coach and athletic director at Taft When we compete, it might bother her ral women’s hockey Olympic gold medal School in Watertown, Connecticut, and her a bit if I win because I’m almost 20 years in 1998, but Canada has claimed the last three older siblings are all coaches, too. The older, but she keeps it very balanced and three. For the Americans, leaving Sochi Stones lived on campus, an endless playing very in perspective.’’ with anything but gold will be a colossal field for Katey, who ran from one sport to “She’s a demanding coach, and I say letdown. Yet Stone says, “I firmly under- the next as fast as she could. “She was just that in the best way,’’ says three-time stand we could do everything right and a fireball,’’ says her older sister. Olympian Julie Chu. “She sets really high win, and we could do everything right and “She’s strong; she has confidence in standards and expectations for the play- maybe not. But that’s the chance you have what needs to be done as head coach,’’ says ers and makes sure that every day, we’re to take.’’ Carey. “And she’s competitive, whether trying to live up to those standards. The Her cozy office at Harvard is gone now, it’s on the ice getting the team together reason our teams have been so successful swept away in building renovations, but or off the ice in a friendly game of Stone will be back. “We have a whatever.’’ “Whatever” includes goal—a gold medal,’’ she says, “but the word game Taboo: Lauren we don’t have a personal agenda in McAuliffe ’04 remembers an end- this. I’m going to go back to Har- less round played at the back of vard and be just as happy as I was the team bus because Stone re- before I left. We’re here because fused to quit until her team was we want this to be the best expe- winning. The teams Stone put to- rience these women have ever had gether for bowling competitions in their lives and, hopefully, we’ll always won, too. help them get what they want.’’ vbarbara matson Katey Stone (shown above at the Edge Sports Center in Bedford, Massachusetts) diagrams a play Barbara Matson ’75 is a freelance writer for her athletes.