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Academic Integration and Competitive Excellence in Division I Athletics
2015-16 Year in Review
harvard Football News 2016
The women’s volleyball earned its first trip to the NCAA tournament after capturing its second-consecutive Ivy title. The Crimson took the first set from
eventual national champion Nebraska in the opening round.
Harvard is a beacon in the realm of collegiate athletics,
and for the third-consecutive year, the Crimson captured
double-digit Ivy League championships with 10. The
Class of 2016 consistently rewrote the record books,
collecting 45 All-America honors, 42 Ancient Eight titles,
and six team and individual national championships in
addition to receiving numerous all-conference and allacademic
honors.
The success began at Harvard Stadium, where the football
team posted a 9-1 overall record and 6-1 mark against
conference opponents en route to a program-first third Ivy
League championship in a row. Senior quarterback Scott
Hosch was honored with the Asa. S. Bushnell Cup, and the
program took down archrival Yale for the ninth-straight
time, 38-19, in the 132nd playing of “The Game.”
For the second-consecutive season the women’s
volleyball team ended the season atop the Ivy standings,
and the team advanced to its first NCAA tournament in
program history. Going 15-11 overall and 10-4 over the Ivy
League slate, the Crimson took the first set from No. 4
Nebraska, 25-22, before falling in four sets to the eventual
national champion.
The men’s and women’s soccer programs combined for
10 Ivy wins, as each team placed second in the conference
table. The men’s water polo team, meanwhile, eclipsed the
20-win threshold for the second-straight year, and was
one of 16 Harvard teams to appear in the national rankings
over the course of the year.
Reaching the zenith of their respective sports, the
Crimson saw both a team and an individual win a
national championship during the winter season. The
women’s squash team secured its second-consecutive
national championship and fourth in the past five years
after running the table with a perfect 13-0 record.
Sophomore Alyssa Mehta and freshmen Kayley Leonard
and Sabrina Sobhy picked up first team All-America
nods to lead the program.
On the strip, meanwhile, junior Adrienne Jarocki fenced
to her second-career NCAA championship in the saber.
Nearly untouchable, Jarocki was the top seed entering the
bracket stage with a plus-56 indicator, and she finished
off her final two opponents with scores of 15-9 and 15-
10 to earn the crown. The fencing teams combined for
a quartet of All-America accolades and finished seventh
overall at the event.
The Hobey Baker Award made its way to Harvard
for the fourth time in program history, as men’s hockey
senior Jimmy Vesey lifted the trophy as the nation’s most
outstanding player. A two-time All-American, Vesey left
Harvard as one of only five skaters in program history to
tally 80 career goals. The men’s hockey program celebrated
its first Ivy League title since 2006 and advanced to the
NCAA tournament for the second-consecutive season.
Elsewhere on the ice, senior Emerance Maschmeyer
shattered the women’s hockey program record for career
saves with 2,548 stops, and in the spring was named the
top goaltender at the IIHF World Championships. On the
hardwood, the women’s basketball team advanced to
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