{"id":682258,"date":"2010-03-04T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/?p=39244"},"modified":"2010-03-04T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:00:12","slug":"undefeated-and-national-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/682258","title":{"rendered":"Undefeated, and national champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_mcePaste\">\n<p>Perfection is never easy to achieve, but the No. 1-ranked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocrimson.com\/sports\/wsquash\/index\">Harvard women\u2019s squash team<\/a> surely made it look that way.<\/p>\n<p>After decimating No. 8 Williams on Feb. 26, 9-0, in the opening round of the College Squash Association\u2019s (CSA) Team Championships at Yale, and then pounding No. 5 Yale, 7-2, on Feb. 27 in the semifinal match, the Crimson cruised to perfection in the championship final with a 6-3 victory over No. 3 Penn. The Crimson complete the season with an undefeated 11-0 record.<\/p>\n<p>The championship is the Crimson\u2019s 12th in program history, and their first since 2001. It is also the first national team championship at Harvard since 2006 (in fencing).<\/p>\n<p>Last February, the Crimson fell to back-to-back champion Princeton in the national title game, 5-4.<\/p>\n<p>In the win, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocrimson.com\/sports\/wsquash\/2009-10\/bios\/gemmell_laura\">Laura Gemmell<\/a> &#8216;13, who won in three straight sets, improved to 11-0 on the year and has taken over the top spot in the country. Gemmell and a number of Crimson players will compete in the CSA Individual Championships in Hartford, Conn., March 5-7.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perfection is never easy to achieve, but the No. 1-ranked Harvard women\u2019s squash team surely made it look that way. After decimating No. 8 Williams on Feb. 26, 9-0, in the opening round of the College Squash Association\u2019s (CSA) Team Championships at Yale, and then pounding No. 5 Yale, 7-2, on Feb. 27 in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2651,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Rua","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2651"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}