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Sports shorts
May/June 2009
Senior gymnast Alina Liao went out
in style at her final USA Intercollegiate National Championships, in New Haven.
When the events ended on April 11, Liao was named Outstanding Senior Gymnast, having won the all-around and the bars competition. Prior to the
Intercollegiates, Liao won the Ivy Classic and the ECAC Championships.
Helen Resor, senior defenseman for
the women's hockey team, won a gold medal as part of Team USA at the IIHF
Women's World Championship on April 12 in Finland: the U.S. beat Canada, 4-1.
Resor is no stranger to the medals platform in international play. She and Team
USA won gold in the 2005 world championships and silver in 2007. In the 2006
Olympics, Resor and Team USA won the bronze.
The men's hockey team didn't quite
make the NCAA "Frozen Four" national championship (see "Speed Demons") in Washington,
DC, but senior goalie Alec Richards and women's team forward Crysti Howser '09
were selected to compete in an all-star event called the Frozen Four Skills
Competition. Richards and Howser represented the East, which beat West rivals,
16-8, on April 10.
On April 10, Yale and Harvard men
and women put aside their differences to join forces in track and field. The
Elis and Cantabs, in the 42nd edition of a biennnial meet that started in 1894,
battled a team made up of athletes from Oxford and Cambridge. The Yale-Harvard
men lost, and the women won; the combined teams beat their English rivals. 
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