Former SU rower prepares for 2020 Olympics after COVID-19 canceled Games
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Harriet Taylor (left) and Shannon McCann served as co-captains of Syracuse women s rowing team during their senior season.
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A day after Harriet Taylor received confirmation that she was heading to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as a part of Great Britain’s rowing team, her Olympic dreams came to a halt. As COVID-19 spread internationally, the Games were postponed and her qualification was voided.
Dismissed from Olympic training, Taylor spent the next seven months training by herself. She eventually rejoined her teammates at the training centers and withstood the same months of competition that she underwent a year prior. She qualified for the Games again as planned.
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Published: 5/14/2021 8:42:30 PM
AMHERST It was a year marked by both a global pandemic and an ice hockey national championship, and both got plenty of references at the noon commencement ceremony for graduates of the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Friday one of four held during the day as the traditional mass graduation ceremony was broken up into smaller events to accommodate pandemic safety protocols.
“This past year has reaffirmed for me how truly special our UMass Amherst community is,” said UMass Amherst Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy. “How through all the interruptions, inconveniences, and absolute unfairness, our collective empathy still reigns.”
The noon ceremony, like the other three, was held outdoors at McGuirk Alumni Stadium in sunny weather, with the graduating students sitting in chairs on the field and loved ones watching from the stands. Graduating were students of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the College of Humanities and Fine
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