<p>Women's tennis has an incoming class of stars.</p>
<pre><code> "Tennisrecruiting.net a website that follows and ranks junior players throughout their high school careers recently published a ranking of the top recruiting classes for Division-I schools and ranked the new class of Tigers at No. 2. Princeton was behind Notre Dame the defending Big East champions.
Each of Princeton's recruits was ranked among the nations' most-sought after players. Saiontz, Huah, and Ashley, were ranked fourth, 30th, and 39th respectively.
Ranked as the fourth recruit in the nation and the top in Florida, Saiontz is the highest-ranked of the freshman. Currently a senior at the Ransom Everglades School in Miami, Fla., Saiontz will come to Princeton with a wealth of junior tennis experience.
Siaontz's extensive background made her a highly sought-after player. No. 1 Stanford, No. 12 Duke and No. 18 Harvard all expressed strong interest in obtaining her tennis skills. The child of two Harvard alumni, many assumed Saiontz would be moving to Cambridge this fall.
Saiontz defied expecations and applied Early Decision to Princeton."
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<p>"HARVARD CLAIMS WOMEN'S TENNIS TITLE
4/26/2006 </p>
<p>The No. 17 Harvard women's tennis team cruised to a 6-1 win over Dartmouth Tuesday afternoon at the Boss Tennis Center to close out the regular season at 18-6, 7-0 Ivy. Dartmouth drops to 5-15, 1-6 Ivy with the loss. The Crimson dominated in league action, rolling to its fourth-straight perfect Ivy season, defeating opponents by a combined score of 44-5.</p>
<p>The win gives the Crimson its 17th title in program history and the accompanying automatic berth into the NCAA tournament. The 2006 NCAA Division I men's & women's selection announcements will take place on Wednesday, May 3 on ESPNews. The women's announcement will begin at approximately 8:45 p.m. Eastern Time."</p>
<p>actually, a more "strategic" application would have been one that took advantage of both harvard's heavily inflated SCEA acceptance rate <em>and</em> the young lady's double-legacy status there. not that there's any reason for suspecting such "strategery" - nearly all athletic recruits, after all, apply early and enjoy a relatively separate admissions procedure there. also, "old" is abbreviated just "ol.'" "ole,'" by virtue of its final apostrophe, indicates the omission of one or more letters, when one has been simply changed. finally, a simple "congratulations" would have sufficed, instead of combined attacks on the young lady's qualifications and motivations, future school, and future team.</p>
<p>I made no "attack" on the young lady's "qualifications, ole man!</p>
<p>Her jockette standing is well established - although I know nothing of her academic achievements.</p>
<p>Nor did I "attack" her future school - Princeton is a fine school, and I have never said otherwise.</p>
<p>The Princeton women's tennis team is, admittedly, mediocre ... as I am sure you will agree. Perhaps expending a few high draft choices on some "blue chippers" will turn things around!</p>
<p>you implied it, evidently stung by her passing over of your beloved harvard and at a loss for an explanation of her choice of princeton. and let's not get into allegations of "oleness," unless you want our respective claims to the title laid bare here. i doubt you do.</p>
<p>Byerly--Since you obviously have time on your hands, maybe you should consider going back to the Harvard board and saying something about the Kaavya Viswanathan scandal--I notice that since you started the thread entitled "A Fairy Tale Debut" you have been unbelievably quiet about the subject of Ms. Viswanathan's "internalizing" and unconscious plagiarism (as a commentator mentioned today, perhaps she sleep-wrote the offending passages in an ambien-induced fog). I have no doubt that had she been a Princeton student, you would have found a way to make some pointed, yet of course totally non-biased remark about the subject.</p>
<p>When I think about Harvard girl's tennis (which, I must confess, isn't very often!) I assume that the odds are about 2 out of 3 that they will emerge as Ivy champs as usual.</p>
<p>With no intention of intruding on your argument, I would like to say to Byerly that he is paying no attention to his own advice. </p>
<p>Byerly, youve repeatedly chastised others for attacking your alma mater, Harvard, instead of simply providing interesting information supportive of their own favorite schools. Yet it seems that when posters do just what youve recommended, you characterize their posts as bragging posts. I suspect that you would not characterize your own frequent posts on the Harvard board containing laudatory articles about Harvard as bragging posts. </p>
<p>Lets be consistent now. You dont need to respond to every favorable post on another colleges boards with a response intended to counter it. I like your advice about accentuating the positive. You really should try to follow it.</p>
<p>To call attention to similar achievements by students (or would-be students) at other schools in no way lessens the achievements of current or future Tigers or Tigresses, or constitutes, as scottie mistakenly sees it, an "attack" on the achievers, but merely adds a 3-dimensional quality to the picture!</p>
<p>Byerly, the de facto Scott McClellan of Harvard...smarter and more articulate to be sure, with a much better client, but still self-marginalized via unwavering adherence to the party line, notwithstanding the facts.</p>
<p>Unfortunately not everyone can be as accomplished and distinguished as you, "Diamond T" ....</p>
<p>How impressive that, as you tell us, you attend an "elite prep school whose rival is Andover" from which "20+ students were accepted into Princeton, including myself."</p>
<p>the tigers' top recruit, incoming freshman melissa saiontz, could take over the national no. 1 ranking after her strong recent showing in the national clay court championships.</p>