Four Crimson Student-Athletes Make Academic All-District At-Large First
Team
Anderson, Bassi, Cromwell, Cross honored
*May 25, 2006*
2006 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Men's At-Large Teams
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2006 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Women's At-Large Teams
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*CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - * Four Harvard student-athletes have been voted to
the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District at-large first teams, tying
for the most selections of any school in any division and district in
the country. Senior tennis player Melissa Anderson
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junior swimmer Noelle Bassi
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and sophomore fencer Emily Cross
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were voted to the District 1 University Division women's team by members
of the College Sports Information Directors of America. Senior swimmer
David Cromwell
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represented Harvard on the men's team.
All four student-athletes advance to the ESPN The Magazine Academic
All-America ballot. Harvard's three selections to the women's team also
matches the national high for any school.
Anderson, Harvard's all-time leader in wins, brings a combined singles
and doubles record of 192-59 into Thursday's NCAA Championships
first-round doubles match. She and doubles partner Elsa O'Riain
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are 32-6 this season and ranked No. 3 in the nation. A government
concentrator from Sydney, Australia, Anderson is ranked 92nd in the
country in singles with a 21-3 record in dual matches. She was selected
to the All-Ivy League first team in doubles and the second team in singles.
Bassi was the 2006 Ivy League Championships Swimmer of the Meet and
earned her second straight All-America honor with a 14th-place finish in
the 200-yard butterfly at the NCAA Championships. In addition to the 200
fly, the psychology concentrator also won the 400 individual medley and
placed second in the 500 freestyle at Ivies. Bassi, a Franklin Lakes,
N.J., native ,holds Harvard records in all three events.
Cross earned the bronze medal in foil to lead Harvard to its first NCAA
fencing championship in 2006. She is a two-time World Junior champion,
first team All-American and first team All-Ivy selection and
concentrates in biology. Cross, a New York City native, was the only
sophomore chosen to the women's District 1 first team.
Cromwell, placed fourth in the 100 and 200 backstrokes to earn a
20th-place finish for Harvard at the NCAA Championships and tally the
sixth and seventh All-America honors of his distinguished career. For
the second time in three years, he shared the Moriarty Award as the top
point-scorer at the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League
Championships, as he won both backstrokes. Cromwell hails from Missoula,
Mont., and will graduate with a degree in history.
All four Crimson honorees led their teams to league titles this season.
Anderson's women's tennis team and Cross's fencing team took Ivy League
championships with unblemished league records. Bassi and the women's
swimming team put together their second straight 10-0 year and took the
Ivy dual meet championship. Cromwell and his men's teammates tied
Princeton for the EISL dual meet crown.
Five of the 10 selections to the women's first team and four of the 10
picks on the men's side were Ivy Leaguers. With track and field
selections still left to be announced, Harvard has had a league-high 12
student-athletes chosen for the various ESPN The Magazine Academic
All-District teams in 2005-06.
