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The Ivy Feature
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The Battle Continues
Yale women's hockey player Mandi Schwartz, her parents Carol and Rick, and her fiancée Kaylem Prefontaine have been in Seattle since last week in preparation for a cord blood transplant on August 26 to treat her leukemia. The procedure will take place at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, which partners with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Ivies Invest in Urban Education
For four Ivy League athletes, the recovery begins. That's because Trey Peacock, Adrian Colarusso, Jessie Rhee and Brittney Smith spent several days designing and preparing leadership curriculum for at-risk high school students from Indianapolis, followed by two intensive and exhausting weeks of implementing the program while also serving in mentorship and advisory roles for the students.
Become A Hero
As Yale women’s ice hockey player Mandi Schwartz continues to battle leukemia, efforts to find her a matching marrow or cord blood donor have intensified. With help from some former Bulldogs, those efforts have expanded to include everything from hockey tournaments in Canada to the World’s Largest Baby Shower in Atlanta.
A House Divided
On the eve of the 75th Ivy League Outdoor Heps, comes a compelling five-part story from Brett Hoover of HepsTrack.com, chronicling the social, racial and political tensions surrounding the 1970 Outdoor Heps in New Haven. Click inside to read the fascinating piece.
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The Ivy League boasted 53 student-athletes named to the 2010 Division I Men’s and Women’s All-Academic Track & Field teams announced by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).
Joakim Flygh, who has been to the NCAA Tournament in five of the last six seasons as an assistant coach at Harvard and Minnesota-Duluth, has been named Yale's head women's ice hockey coach. 
Five players with Ivy League ties helped the U.S. men’s lacrosse national team claim gold at the 2010 Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) World Championship at the University of Manchester in Manchester, England. 
Princeton freshman Conor McCullough won gold and set the championship record in the men's hammer throw, becoming Team USA's first individual gold medalist at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Moncton, N.B.
The 2010 preseason accolades for Ivy League football have been pouring over the past few weeks as five Ivy players have received All-America honors so far.