Harvard Crimson Blogs

Senior Reflections: Looking Back on the Harvard Experience

2012-01-03T13:46:00.000-08:00

This video, produced in June, 2011, was one of the first productions our athletic department has done, centering on the student-athlete experience at Harvard. We are now tasking ourselves with getting all Harvard athletes on camera or paper to discuss their time here. Go Crimson!

Senior Perspective: Softball's Melissa Schellberg

2012-01-03T13:42:00.000-08:00

While we keep you waiting in anticipation for our new lineup of bloggers, lets take a look back at some of our favorite student-athletes. This one is from 2010 and features a year-end post by former softball player Melissa Schellberg, who currently works for the department in the Harvard Varsity Club. She is one of our favorites!

Senior Perspective: Softball's Melissa Schellberg

On a warm day in late April 2007, I walked up to the plate against Dartmouth pitcher Angela Megaw in what seemed like one of the longest weekends of my life. Entering the weekend, Harvard softball led the Ivy League North Division and only needed two wins against the Big Green to clinch the division title and head to the first ever Ivy League Championship. After a wild Saturday of play, our team had one win under our belt and one game to be completed at a later date, due to rain. One win against Dartmouth that Tuesday extended our season. Two wins would guarantee that the first championship series ever would be held in Cambridge. We ended up losing the first game that day, 3-2. So there we were, in the midst of game two that afternoon, in a battle for first place. Dartmouth scored first, but we quickly pushed back. Later in the game, then-freshman Lauren Murphy slammed one of her many home runs that season over the left-center fence, this time making it a grand slam. But Dartmouth wouldn’t go down without a fight, again jumping ahead of us 8-7. It was late in the game and to tell you the truth, we were flat out nervous. But that year was special, and we knew we would be driving back to Cambridge with a division title.
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A Look Back: Senior Perspectives 2010

2012-01-03T13:35:00.000-08:00

While we keep you waiting in anticipation for our new lineup of bloggers, lets take a look back at some of our favorite student-athletes. This one is from 2010 and features a year-end post by former football captain Carl Ehrlich, who currently writes for our football gameday magazine.

Senior Perspective: Football's Carl Ehlrich

Growing up, millions of people dream of attending Harvard. I was not one of them. From the moment Harvard started recruiting me, I knew I wasn’t going there. Harvard, I thought, stood for everything I was opposed to. Elitism. Pocket protectors. Tweed jackets.

My junior year in high school, Harvard started recruiting me. When they sent me letters, I responded with the appropriate information, but did so only as a formality. Really, behind closed doors, I would laugh with my buddies about the idea of me at Harvard. Despite being a hard-working student and a disciplined athlete, my friends and I decided I wasn’t nearly polished enough for the 02138. A bull would’ve been a better fit in a china shop.

A year later, with two months left before signing day, I was still undecided on my college choice and still equally as opposed to choosing Harvard. I had been to Yale three times and couldn’t see myself in New Haven. Two hours from my house, I made five visits to Princeton, but something didn’t fit there. The whole time, despite having expressed little interest, Harvard kept recruiting me.

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Welcome to Harvard Crimson Blogs!

2012-01-03T13:29:00.000-08:00

Well, how about this? We have Twitter. We have Facebook. Of course we have the ever-popular GoCrimson.com. Now, thanks to the blogosphere, the Harvard Athletic Department is re-instituting its blogs. Several years ago, student-athlete blogs from our beloved Crimson were the most popular segment of our website. Now, we welcome the blogs back with other contributors from fans, alumni and athletic department staff members. Stay tuned for more information!