Students in Service and Leadership at Harvard

Harvard Football: Story of Us

The Harvard Football team is home to ~120 young men and graduates about 30 players a year. The bond and familial feel on the team is something that is hard to describe. As a team, we spend at the very least 30 hours a week together whether that be practice, lifts, film, travel, meetings, haging out, etc. This fosters for a commiunity that is super tight knit and close, where everyone is friends and gets along with eachother. 



Through this time dedicated to the sport of football, we learn many valuable lessons that prepares us for life. We deal with the rigor of this academic institution, while also competing at a high level of division 1 football. Such skills developed are time management, conflict resolution, worth ethic, among many others. 

One thing that makes our team so valuable are the bonds that are created during your time on the team. The locker room is like a melting pot in the sense that it doesn't matter your background, what you believe in, race, or anything else, we all get along with eachother and we are all one unit. This makes for a special type of community, and I genuinely enjoy every minute around the guys and in the locker room. 



A typical Tuesday in season looks as follows: 
6:00 - 8:00 lift 
9:00 - 1:45 class 
2:00 - 3:30 meeetings 
4:00 - 6:00 practice 
6:30 - 7:30 dinner 
7:30 - ? Homework 

Our schedule is typically very strenuous, but it teaches you from early on the importance of timr management. If we're late to any of these meetings, we face reprecussions. If our grades drop too low, we face reprecusions. If we slack off in practice or lift, again, we face reprecussions. Football is beautiful in that sense. Everything we do, we face the consequences, good or bad. 

The team is close, and with the good and the bad that comes with the program, we stick together and hang out all of the time. I have definitely made some of my closest friends thrrough this team. All of my roomates are football guys, I travel with the football guys, and I hang out with them every weekend. There is a special bond within the football team that is unmatched by probably any other organization on campus, and because of that, I really enjoyed doing this project. 









While we gain great valuable lessons and graduate so many great young men, we do not have a system in place that lets us capture the full capabilities and posibilities of the both the alumni base, as well as the skills developed. This is why I focused on this problem within the Harvard football team, and aim to help mitigate some of the issues. 

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