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Co-captains Mallory Stewart '98, left, and Brindisi Chan '97 led the Harvard women's fencing team to an 11-1 record overall and a 5-1 mark in the Ivy League, good for a second-place finish. TIM MORSE |
Men's Basketball
With a 71-47 blowout of Brown, the Harvard men's basketball team (17-9, 10-4 Ivy) closed out their most successful season in half a century. Not since the 19-3 NCAA tournament team of 1945-46 has a Harvard squad posted so good a record, which earned a share of second place in the Ivy League standings. Harvard finished especially well, winning 11 of its last 14 games; a 76-67 overtime win took down the University of Pennsylvania for the first time in six years.
Senior Kyle Snowden, a unanimous First Team All-Ivy choice, finished his hoop career as Harvard's all-time rebounding leader (908) and places sixth on the all-time scoring list with 1,429 points. He led the team in scoring with a 16.4 points per game average and also was the Ivy League's top rebounder for the second time, with an average of 9.7 per contest.
Men's and Women's Squash
Invincibility continues. With identical 13-0 records, the Harvard women's and men's squash teams recorded, respectively, their sixth and seventh consecutive national championships this winter. The women have now won 52 straight matches, the men 80. Head coach Bill Doyle has guided both teams to national team and Ivy titles in each of his five years at the helm, where he has amassed a surreal 135-1 record so far. (The lone loss, by 5-4 to Princeton, occurred at the 1993 Potter Trophy tournament.)
The women topped off their season at the Howe Cup tournament, where they pulled out a clutch 5-4 win over archrival Princeton, just as they had done two weeks earlier in a regular season match. Depth paid off; Harvard lost the top four matches but won numbers five through nine. The climax was a thrilling marathon at number five, where Lucy Cummings '97 rallied from a 2-1 deficit to win for herself and her team.
On the men's side, Daniel Ezra '98 went 12-1 at number one and was runner-up to Trinity's Marcus Cowie for the national singles championship. Joel Kirch '98 had a perfect 13-0 season at number two.
Men's and Women's Swimming
The men's swimming and diving team (13-1, 8-1 EISL) bagged its second straight Eastern championship, winning four of seven events on the final day at the big meet in Princeton, N.J. Harvard topped the 10-college field with a total of 838.5 points, well ahead of second-place Princeton's 701.5. Crimson swimmers won 11 of the meet's 21 events. Head coach Mike Chasson, whose aquamen took home their fifth Eastern title in six years, was voted Eastern Coach of the Year.
Sophomore Greg Wriede won the 400-meter individual medley and got seconds in the 200-meter backstroke and 200-meter individual medley to lead Harvard scorers. The 400-meter freestyle relay team of Mike Kiedel, Alex Kurmakov, Bryon Butts, and Eric Matuszak set school, Eastern, and pool records in Princeton with their time of 2:57.97.
Wriede was one of eight Crimson swimmers who went to the NCAA championships at the University of Minnesota at the end of March. There, the aquamen placed eighteenth, a respectable but perhaps disappointing finish for a team so deep in talent.
The women swimmers (7-4) finished fourth at the Easterns. Diver Kara Miller '97, second in the one-meter and third in the three-meter dives, made First Team All-Ivy. Team coach Maura Costin Scalise '80 is retiring after 13 seasons at the helm with a record of 105-20. She led the women to seven Ivy and four Eastern titles.
Men's and Women's Hockey
After an up-and-down season, the men's hockey team (11-18-3, 9-11-2 ECAC) advanced to the ECAC tournament quarterfinals by beating St. Lawrence, 4-2, before falling, 4-1, to eventual champion Cornell. Freshman goalie J.R. Prestifilippo became the first Harvard player named ECAC Rookie of the Year since that award was created in 1981. He set a school record with 844 saves in 31 appearances in the net.
The women's hockey team (10-18, 6-16 ECAC) finished well with four wins in its last five games, but just missed a spot in the ECAC tournament.
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