Ivy Leaguer Is Intense Enough for Two Sports
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John Baumann is among the Ivy League leaders with 15.0 points and 6.4 rebounds a game and as a pitcher for Columbia, he led the Lions in strikeouts and complete games last season.
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Strolling between classes at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., Blake Ross looks like any other bleary-eyed sophomore. Few would guess that the laptop-carrying
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BC High and St. John's Prep showed yesterday that they share more than a nickname. These Eagles are both loaded with talent.
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When Casey Capello made the decision to transfer from Notre Dame of Hingham to Archbishop Williams for her junior year, an influential factor was having the opportunity to play for a state championship.
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In a perfect world, last night's encounter between Boston College and Penn State at Alumni Stadium would have been a marquee matchup of elite Eastern teams, a showcase for a regional league.
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Anthony Grant is perhaps the hottest young coach in college basketball. There is speculation that he will be a candidate for an upcoming job opening at South Carolina.
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Whitney Shean, a Globe All-Scholastic for field hockey while at Medfield High School and the Tri-Valley League MVP for that sport in 2001 and 2002, is now a sophomore at Northeastern University, where she played a key role in the field hockey team's advance to the NCAA Division 1 Tournament this fall.
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Andrew Brecher, a three-sport athlete at Needham High School, is now a sophomore at Harvard University, where he is a backup offensive tackle on the varsity football team.
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Yefim Bronfman juggles the demands of a busy career.
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Freshman Justina Langone has been a two-sport varsity star for Latin Academy this winter. She's a swimmer and she is a goaltender on the hockey team. The problem, according to the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association rulebook, is she's doing both sports at once.
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As sports becomes a measure of success in America, young athletes are training ever harder.
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Her impact has been immediate and promising. Just 13 games into her college basketball career at the University of New Hampshire, Denise Beliveau (inset at right) is not playing like a true freshman. The former Framingham High star, a gifted player at both ends of the floor, has made a rather smooth transition to the college game.
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Pat McDermott passed for 209 yards and two touchdowns as Penn defeated Columbia, 14-3, in Philadelphia yesterday. The victory was the 17th straight in Ivy League play for the Quakers (4-1, 2-0), tying their own league record set during the 1993-95 seasons.
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Brigham Young, more than any other team in the field, seems to have the maturity to handle the pressure of the N.C.A.A. tournament.
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Some athletes are predisposed, genetically hard-wired, to draw attention, one way or another.
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Cornell Coach Steve Donahue allowed a reporter and photographer an all-access look at a weekend trip in the Ivy League, offering a window into a rare practice in college sports.
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Twenty-one points is a big deficit, but 30 minutes is a lot of time. Harvard faced these circumstances at halftime on Saturday at Brown and prevailed for a 35-34 victory in the Ivy League opener for both teams.