our team has been blessed with the opportunity to know and learn from these incredible women , receive their unconditional support , and form with them some of the strongest friendships on this campus .
we are these women ’s soccer team .
as if we were n’t surprised men had spoken of us inappropriately .
last month , the crimson published a story about the 2012 men ’s soccer team , which produced an explicit document evaluating freshmen recruits on the women ’s team on their perceived sexual appeal , prompting current and former members of the cross country team to discuss their own prior practices .
the harvard men ’s cross country team produced yearly spreadsheets about members of the women ’s team , sometimes writing “ sexually explicit ” comments about them , according to team correspondence obtained by the crimson .
on monday , october 24 , the crimson published a story detailing a “ scouting report ” written by members of the 2012 men ’s soccer team regarding incoming female recruits on the women ’s soccer team .
in return , we hurt them with the things we said , in the form of the inappropriate scouting reports , and with the things we did not say , in the form of our dishonesty toward them , and for that we are very sorry .
when first notified of this “ scouting report ” each of us responded with surprise and confusion , but ultimately brushed off the news as if it did n’t really matter .
yet as the media has taken advantage of the harvard name once updated : november 6 , 2016 , at 12:06 a.m.