The March 28 issue of Sports Illustrated includes sophomore trackwoman Meredith Rainey in the Faces in the Crowd section, a feature that recognizes amateur athletes for their performances. Rainey's 53:89 time in the 400-meter race at the Heptagonals Track and Field Championships last week broke the mark set by Columbia's Heather Ruddock (55:45).

This is the third time members of the Harvard athletic community have been featured in the magazine this year. The magazine covered Harvard's Ivy League Championship football victory over Yale, and it did a feature on Harvard's freshman basketball star Ralph James last month.

Ranked

Harvard currently has three teams ranked in national polls. The Harvard men's lacrosse team is ranked seventh, the women's water polo team is ranked 10th and the women's tennis team is ranked 24th.

The laxmen moved up to number seven from 15 after defeating 1987 NCAA runner-up Cornell, 7-6.

Now There Are Two

Judith Davidson was named Athletic Director at Central Connecticut this week. She is only the second woman to head a Division I men's and women program. Duquesne's Eileen Livingston is the other. There are several women that oversee Division I women's athletic departments.

Other Sporting News

MIT Sophomore Yvonne Grierson set an NCAA Division III record in the 100-yard butterfly last Friday. Her winning time of 56:18 broke the previous national record by more than half a second. This marked MIT's first ever national record in swimming.

You'da Thunk...

The Boston College lacrosse team showed up to play the Harvard squad wearing Astro Turf shoes rather than cleats.

The Eagles' turf shoes would have been more effective in its own carpeted stadium, rather than for the grass surface of Ohiri Field.

As Boston College was slip-sliding along the natural surface, it was also slip-sliding away on the scoreboard. Harvard won easily, 9-2.

The Cornell men's polo team lost 20-10 to Virginia in the final of the 65th Annual Intercollegiate Polo Championship. It would have been Cornell's first national polo title in 22 years. Oh, darn.

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