It’s mid-September and that means the back-to-school grind is now upon us. And just as classes are starting to ramp up, Harvard athletics is in full swing as well, and some of Harvard’s top athletes are grinding it out in competition. But what were the best-of-the-best playing like in high school, before they became collegiate sports stars? Here’s a look at how some of the top Harvard athletes fared before embarking on their Crimson careers.
Brent Suter '12, shown here while playing for the Crimson, pitched three innings to earn a save for the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers.
In a new weekly feature, The Crimson will be tracking the successes (and potential failures) of some of Harvard’s most successful graduates not to use their Harvard degrees. While a tour through professional sports is not exactly a who’s who of Harvard alumni, a few athletes have taken their game to the next level. From Jeremy Lin to Ryan Fitzpatrick, the Crimson maintains a presence outside of the labs and law offices of the world.
Well, it’s that time of year again. School is back in session, fall is in the air, Harvard’s fall sports teams are kicking off and beginning Ivy League play, and the handful of Crimson alumni making it in the big leagues are getting busy.
As Harvard wound down for the summer, some of its bigger basketball names were just getting started with an offseason full of travel, new cities, and new jerseys. Crimson players showed off their talents for teams ranging from Great Britain to the Dallas Mavericks, playing in three different nations along the way. Here are The Back Page’s top travel-centric basketball moments of the summer.
Sophomore defensive tackle Jack Dittmer celebrates after intercepting a Patrick Witt pass in the Harvard football team’s annual contest against Yale. The Crimson routed the Bulldogs 45-7 in the 128th playing of The Game.
Fire up the grill, start up your games of cornhole, and get tailgating because it’s officially football season in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It might be hard to remember because we don’t treat our quarterbacks like this, but yes, Harvard has a football team. A pretty dang good football team if we do say so ourselves.
All right, so maybe we’re getting ahead of ourselves after one game. On Saturday, the No. 24 football team won its home opener against the Toreros from the University of San Diego. The Crimson boasts a 1-0 record, which is more than the highly touted Arkansas Razorbacks can say for themselves.
The jury is still out as to whether that means Harvard could take on Arkansas, but we’re going to enjoy this win. To commemorate the first victory of the year, we’ve compiled our favorite tweets of the week from some Harvard football players.
With two Ferreira brothers, Andrew (left) and Ethan, on the roster this year, the Harvard baseball team enters the 2012 campaign in search of retribution for a dismal 9-36 season.
Andrew Ferreira, who is currently playing in the Minnesota Twins organization after being drafted this summer, had more on his plate last season than just being a sophomore captain of the Harvard baseball team.
After missing a season with an arm injury, the pitcher bounced back well, beginning his year as the designated hitter for the Crimson. The human evolutionary biology concentrator had three strikeouts in Harvard’s victory over Yale this past spring, but the real highlight of Ferreira’s 2012 season has got to be his famous starring role in a music video. If anything could launch a career, “Call Me Maybe” is it. Honestly, who can forget those dance moves?
