Sophomore pitcher Rachel Brown has made quite the name for herself in her two years on the Ivy softball circuit. On Sunday, she put another feather in her already-decorated cap when she pitched a no-hitter for the second-consecutive weekend.
You can read all about Brown’s performance—which garnered her Athlete of the Week honors from The Crimson’s sports staff—here. But in the meantime, The Back Page spoke with Brown and her teammates, and here’s what they had to say about the standout sophomore.
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The Harvard baseball and softball teams showed their muscle at the plate on Saturday, racking up 36 runs in four games, but the squads also put their strongest muscle on display: the heart.
Softball and baseball teamed up over the weekend to sponsor Friends of Jaclyn Day, an event focused on increasing awareness of pediatric brain tumors through FOJ—an organization that pairs collegiate and high school teams with children suffering from cancer.
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While most Harvard students are busy writing papers and taking midterms, only wishing they could be somewhere else, freshman field hockey standout Kim Goh has been playing field hockey under the Argentinean sun and exploring the streets of Buenos Aires.
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Just two weeks ago, it was spring break and, in between generous servings of pasta and gelato, the women's soccer team was competing against Italian teams and watching David Beckham get injured in the AC Milan v. Chievo game. Shouts of “Tira, tira!” (the Italian word for “shoot”) and raucous cries of “Mamma Mia!” are still ringing in my head.
Upon our arrival back in the States, we were faced with a rude awakening: only two games left until the spring season is over. And after this past Friday, we’re down to one.
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“Where it began/ I can’t begin to know when…”
It only takes a few notes of Neil Diamond’s classic for any Boston Red Sox fan—or any baseball fan, for that matter—to instantly recognize "Sweet Caroline," the song that’s become the anthem for America’s pastime in Beantown.
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