Riding a four game losing streak, the Harvard men’s hockey team (4-7-1, 3-5 ECAC) will be happy to have one of its key offensive contributors back in the lineup.
Freshman Jimmy Vesey was missing in action the past few weeks for the Crimson. The forward was busy helping USA’s U20 national team win gold in the 2013 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. On Saturday, the U.S. topped defending champion Sweden, 3-1, in the gold medal match. The victory was the first for an American squad since 2010 and a marked improvement over last year’s seventh place finish.
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After his team blew an 18-point lead to St. Mary’s less than a week ago, men’s basketball coach Tommy Amaker probably wasn’t counting his chickens, even heading into halftime with a 43-21 lead over Rice at Lavietes on Saturday night.
But when the final buzzer sounded and the scoreboard showed a 92-62 advantage for the home team, the Virginia native notched something that had just slipped from his grasp on New Year’s eve: his 100th career win as a Harvard coach, a record reached only by three other Crimson leaders.
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Christine Clark’s passing 1000-point milestone and impressive play won the junior guard on the women’s basketball team the first Athlete of the Week honors of the new year, but several other athletes rang in 2013 with their own stellar performances, earning them recognition by The Back Page.
Jonah Travis, Men’s Basketball
Two days after notching nine points to help his team pull off an upset against Cal, the sophomore forward doubled his scoring average on the season against St. Mary’s, netting 19 points on 8-of-10 shooting to tie his career high. Although Harvard would drop the game, 70-69, after holding the upper hand for all but the final second, Travis’s performance helped the Crimson extend its lead to as large as 18 in the first half. The Minnesota native also tallied 10 points and four rebounds in Harvard’s rout of Rice, 92-62.
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Harvard’s football season may be long over, but the awards keep coming for quarterback Colton Chapple. The senior was named the recipient of the 2012 CFPA Quarterback Award, an honor given annually to the nation’s top FCS quarterback.
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While the Crimson’s football season came to a close in November with a victory over Yale, senior tight end Kyle Juszczyk will suit up once again in a couple weeks, having accepted an invitation to play in the 2013 Senior Bowl. The event, which pits the nation’s top senior prospects against each other in a pre-draft showdown, will be held Jan. 26 at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama.
Juszczyk declined prior invitations to play in both the CDS All-Star Game and the East-West Shrine Game, both of which are also held in January.
Juszczyk was a key piece of the Crimson’s offense for all four of his years at Harvard. As a freshman, he appeared in all of the Crimson’s contests, recording 11 catches for 124 yards. Juszczyk was named honorable mention All-Ivy League the following year.
But his last two seasons for Harvard were particularly impressive. As a junior, Juszczyk recorded a league-best 37 receptions for 512 yards and was the recipient of the College Football Performance Award as the FCS’s best tight end. The two-time All-American finished his senior season with a team-high 52 receptions for 706 yards, including a season-best 15 catches and 192 yards in the Crimson’s contest against Princeton. Juszczyk averaged a team-best 70.6 yards per game and led the Harvard offense with eight touchdown receptions.
The Senior Bowl, which pits North against South, gives NFL coaches and executives the opportunity to watch the nation’s top prospects in action. Annually, 800 NFL coaches and general managers scout the practices and game, with entire NFL coaching staffs at the helm on both sides of the field. This year, head coach Dennis Allen and his Oakland Raiders staff will coach the North squad, while Detroit Lions head coach Jim Schwartz and his assistants will lead the South.
The Senior Bowl will be televised by NFL Network. Kickoff is set for 4:00pm EST.
