The winningest coach in the history of Division I women's hockey, Harvard's Katey Stone was named the head coach of the 2014 U.S. Women's Hockey Olympic Team on Friday. She becomes the first woman to ever hold that post.
Though the Summer Olympics are just around the corner, one Harvard affiliate is already making big news with regards to the 2014 Winter Games.
At USA Hockey's 75th Anniversary Gala on Friday, Crimson women’s hockey coach Katey Stone was named the head coach for the 2014 U.S. Women’s Olympic Hockey Team. Stone, already the head coach of the U.S. women’s national squad, will become the first female leader of Team USA in Olympic history during the games in Sochi, Russia.
The Olympics will present a new challenge for Stone, who has already led teams to victories in the International Ice Hockey Federation Women’s World Championships, the IIHF Twelve Nations Cup, and the Four Nations Cup during the course of her prestigious career.
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Harvard's games against Brown, Penn, Yale, and Bucknell will be televised next season.
The Harvard football team opened its 2011 Ivy League season with a 24-7 victory over Brown on a rainy Friday night at Harvard Stadium. And in 2012, by tradition, the Crimson will again kick off its Ancient Eight campaign against the Bears, though this time in Providence, R.I.
Yet there’s an additional way this year’s contest against Brown will be different than the 2011 matchup: It will be available to a national television audience.
Harvard’s game against the Bears is one of four Crimson football contests televised this season following NBC Sports Network’s deal with the Ivy League in early May. In the agreement, the NBC Sports Network—formerly known as “Versus”—earned rights to televise Ivy League men’s basketball, and men’s lacrosse games while increasing its football coverage within the conference.
In 2012, the network will show Harvard’s games against Brown, Penn, and Yale—the latter two contests were televised last year, too—while CBS College Sports Network sublicensed the Crimson’s Oct. 13 contest against Bucknell.
In addition to Harvard’s games, four other Ivy football contests will be televised throughout the year. Yale and Penn will appear in three televised contests each, while every Ivy school except for Columbia—which finished 1-9 last season—will play in at least one.
Rising sophomore Temi Fagbenle (far right) is the youngest of 12 players on Great Britain's Olympic women's basketball team.
Despite not having the opportunity to play during her freshman year due to NCAA eligibility rules, Harvard women's basketball’s Temi Fagbenle may soon get to compete on an even bigger stage—the 2012 London Olympics.
Fagbenle, a rising sophomore, has officially made it through the first two rounds of eliminations for Great Britain’s national team, placing her in a field of now only 14 players. Only two more players will be cut before the final roster is released on June 22.
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Just nine days after top-tier basketball recruit Stephen Domingo chose Georgetown, another hot prospect has taken himself off the market. Earlier today, point guard Nigel Williams-Goss announced his decision to play college basketball for Washington via Twitter.
The No. 57 recruit in the class of 2013 according to ESPN and the No. 39 player in the class of 2013 according to Rivals, Williams-Goss' final five included Harvard, Washington, Oklahoma, UNLV, and UCLA. In the end, the point guard said that his choice came down to the Huskies and the Crimson.
“Over the last year, the two standouts were Washington and Harvard,” Williams-Goss wrote in a blog post for Recruiting Spotlight. “I can honestly say the thing I love most about both programs are the coaching staffs. I knew either way I couldn’t go wrong and I would be in great hands at either location.”
Despite ultimately deciding to sign with the Huskies, Williams-Goss cited the Crimson’s recent success on the court as a major pull in Harvard’s direction.
“While some questioned my love for Harvard due to their athletics, I do believe their program is on the up rise,” the rising senior at Findlay Prep wrote. “This was evident last season with them being ranked in the top-25 nationally for multiple weeks and making the NCAA tournament. Obviously the academics are second to none and the connections are invaluable.”
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As the NBA playoffs wrap up, the spotlight is returning to Jeremy Lin '10, whose breakout sophomore season thrust him onto the national stage.
As the NBA season comes to a close, the rumors surrounding this summer’s free agents are just beginning to heat up. It’s no different for Jeremy Lin ’10.
When the New York Knicks signed Lin in December of 2011, the expiration date of the contract was the end of the 2011-12 season. And since his team was eliminated after a first-round loss to the Miami Heat, reports about Lin’s future in New York have been numerous and wide-ranging.
While much of the media has written about the possibility of two-time MVP Steve Nash heading to the Big Apple, Knicks General Manager Glen Grunwald shot down that possibility on Friday afternoon.
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