{"id":334998,"date":"2010-02-18T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/?p=37918"},"modified":"2010-02-18T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T15:00:08","slug":"women%e2%80%99s-squash-wins-17-ivy-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/334998","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s squash wins 17 Ivy title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The No. 1-ranked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocrimson.com\/sports\/wsquash\/index\">Harvard women\u2019s squash team<\/a> clinched their 17th Ivy League title on Saturday (Feb. 13) with a 7-2 victory over No. 5 Yale, and, after finishing the season with a perfect 9-0 (6-0 Ivy League) record, there is no doubt that college squash\u2019s best team resides in Cambridge.<\/p>\n<p>Although the road to perfection appears to have been an easy one (the Crimson\u2019s closest victory was a 6-3 win over Princeton), Harvard\u2019s schedule couldn\u2019t have been any tougher. Each of their nine wins were against top-10 teams \u2014 their most impressive being a 7-2 road win at Trinity.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the Ivy League title, Harvard\u2019s first since 2006, the Crimson also receives the Barhite Award, presented to the team with the best dual match record in the nation. It is the 11th time in program history Harvard has won the award, which dates back to 1986.<\/p>\n<p>The Crimson will take the court again Feb. 26-28 in search of their 12th College Squash Association National Team Championship when they travel to New Haven, Conn. Last year, Harvard came one win shy of No. 12, falling to two-time champion Princeton in the national final, 5-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The No. 1-ranked Harvard women\u2019s squash team clinched their 17th Ivy League title on Saturday (Feb. 13) with a 7-2 victory over No. 5 Yale, and, after finishing the season with a perfect 9-0 (6-0 Ivy League) record, there is no doubt that college squash\u2019s best team resides in Cambridge. Although the road to perfection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}