Fun and Games
In the fourth-floor gym of the gleaming Malkin Athletic Center (MAC), four co-ed teams square off for their House intramural volleyball matchups. This particular evening, the schedule pits Adams against Dunster, curtained off from Kirkland and Dudley on the adjacent court. These are A-League games, and the intensity is—audible.
Frisbie and Mead Honor Harvard Athletic Tradition
On the gridiron, Richard D. Frisbie ’71, JD ’74 was a talented, hardnosed cornerback, “one of the best players in the league…as tough as they come,” according to his backfield coach. Frisbie was also an All-Ivy Harvard lacrosse midfielder who captained the Crimson his senior year.
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The coyote never moves. On the dock, at the base of Weld Boathouse’s frost-slick ramps, the decoy stands sentry in a far corner, keeping the geese at bay. Several yards away, young women gingerly carry sleek racing shells to the river.
Historic Women’s Head Coaching Endowments
For the first time in the storied history of Harvard athletics, a women’s head coaching position has been endowed, thanks to the extraordinary generosity of Harvard alumni. Indeed, Harvard is celebrating its first two such endowments.
An Olympian Education
Harvard University: bastion of academic and intellectual achievement; center of educational excellence; leader in the arts and sciences…Olympic powerhouse?
At the nation’s oldest institution of higher learning, the extraordinary scholarship of its students and faculty has often overshadowed the University’s history as an Olympic proving ground.
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