Every spring, Harvard honors its top scholar-athletes at the Senior Letterwinners’ Dinner. This year’s crew of eleven award winners featured two of our very own:
Trevor Petach took home the John P. Reardon award, which recognizes the senior varsity male athlete who best exemplifies the qualities of excellent scholarship, character, leadership and athletic ability. We’re happy that the greater Harvard athletic community recognized what we on the ski team already knew. We’ll miss Trevor’s scientific approach to skiing (not that the team seems to go lacking in this department… the coaches can recall their days on the team with lab rat Greg who talked often about the chemical properties of wax and was known to make jokes about peptides that everyone somehow found funny), but Trevor’s three rules of physics will continue to be part of our approach to encouraging aggressive downhill skiing. (Once we recall what the third rule is.)
Trevor, utilizing the physics of the pink headband
Katie Coil was the female recipient of the Francis H. Burr Scholarship, which holds the distinction of being the oldest of all the athletic awards at Harvard. It recognizes “all-around excellence,” another characterization with which we agree. We missed Katie’s enthusiasm and passion for skiing this season, but at the awards ceremony, her legendary squat prowess was highlighted among her many accomplishments and will continue to set the bar, so to speak.
Katie, with Trevor and Audrey at the awards dinner
Also during the ceremony, a dramatic and inspiring recap of the winter sports season recognized the roles that Chris Kinner and Tess Wood played in stepping up the level of Harvard Skiing in their four years and referenced Audrey Mangan‘s role in making the women’s nordic team “a national powerhouse.” Duly noted.
 Chris |
 Tess |
 Audrey |
